Michael McKean

If parts of your head start producing actual peaches, then you should start to worry. - Akiva

Are you kidding? That would be sweet! - Michael McKean

Literally! - Akiva

Peaches for free! - Michael McKean

Party at Michaels! - Steve C, Team Marina

I could seriously do without seeing the urologist. - Michael McKean

"For all its similarities to Earth -- clouds that pour rain (albeit liquid methane not liquid water) onto the surface producing lakes and rivers, vast dune fields in desert-like regions, plus a smoggy orange atmosphere that looks like Los Angeles's during fire season -- Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is generally "a very bland place, weatherwise," says Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology." - Michael McKean

Michael, are you on Google Reader? I'd like to add you there. :-) - Absentee

Yup. mhmckean at gmail dot com - Michael McKean

"A brother asked a hermit, “If I oversleep and miss the time for prayer, I hesitate to keep the rule of prayer. I am embarassed and do not want the brothers to hear me praying.” The hermit gave him this advice: “If you sleep late, get up and shut your door and windows. Then pray your psalms. Both day and night belong to God. You will glorify God whatever time it is.”" - Michael McKean

If you take advantage of this offer right now, not only will I give you 20 lbs, I'll throw in another 20 lbs at no addentional charge to you! - Akiva

Well, now that I think about it, I'll settle for 20 lbs of $100 bills. - Michael McKean

Yep - overcast/rainy - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

Between the passing clouds and nearby light pollution I saw nothing. Maybe I can catch a few tonight. - Michael McKean

I'm not either, though I wish I had some cold beer right now... - FFing Enigma

A lonely (but tasty) beer with dinner. Hot tea soon. :) - Adrian

For me it's when i feel they are worthy of sharing personal information. Not every friend is worthy. Fighting cancer since 96 has taught me that most people don't want to know what's truly going on in your life. "How are you?" is just a salutation - Duane @PreppyDude Myers

I'd like to get it over as soon as possible, but I kinda feel like I'm playing the sympathy card. Anyway, it certainly beats becoming attached to someone only to be crushed later on. - Michael McKean

=) So glad to hear it, Michael! I know chemo is pretty much a craptacular experience, but it sounds like you're staying strong and upbeat. - FFing Enigma

Great to hear, Michael! - Micah

sounds great =) - Gtp19

Glad you're feeling good, Michael! - LB ❤s FF, esp. YOU

"One of the main theories of how our Moon formed involves a violent cosmic collision between two planets. Astronomers have only been able to hypothesize what this collision was like, but now they have a better idea of what would ensue after such an event. With its infrared eyes the Spitzer Space Telescope has found the aftermath a collision between two planets, and what it shows is brutal. "This collision had to be huge and incredibly high-speed for rock to have been vaporized and melted," said Carey M. Lisse of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, "This is a really rare and short-lived event, critical in the formation of Earth-like planets and moons. We're lucky to have witnessed one not long after it happened."" - Michael McKean

Excellent so far! :) - Michael McKean

I hope we will be able to follow your recovery wherever ff ends up. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

Oh! and congrats on the speedy interval between diagnosis and treatment - quick action is the key. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

100% agree. Hope you're feeling well today Michael. - Steve C, Team Marina

Perspective. It's a rare thing at the moment. - Ha3rvey (on hiatus)

True, but it's still sad to contemplate. - John (bird whisperer)

Yeah, it's a bit bothersome, but I'll wait to see what happens before getting all bent out of shape. - Michael McKean

"There are many wonderful spiritual stories to be found in the lives of the saints and elders. Many people, having read such stories, easily develop expectations that such things as visions and ecstasies are normative for the spiritual life. They are indeed, not normative, but quite the opposite. Such experiences, though occasionally genuine, are far more often born out of our own imaginations and delusions or even demonic deceit. Orthodox writings on the spiritual life (such as St. Ignatius Brianchaninov’s The Arena) are abundantly clear about this." - Michael McKean

I wish breakfast would be made an attractive woman who brings it to me in bed, but then never gets eaten because ... Um ... more important things come up - RAPatton

Likewise. I've found that fully-cooked bacon you can buy in stores now helps a lot though :) - Andrew Badera

Um, if "recent developments" means "diagnosis," yeah. You need to get on that. Hope all is well! - LB ❤s FF, esp. YOU

"According to AAVSO Special Notice #164 just sent, there is a possible nova candidate in Sagittarius. It was discovered by Koichi Nishiyama, Kurume, Fukuoka-ken, Japan, and Fujio Kabashima, Miyaki-cho, Saga-ken, Japan, at unfiltered magnitude 7.7 on two 60-second frames taken Aug. 6.494 and 6.495 UT. They confirmed the discovery on five frames taken around Aug. 6.494." - Michael McKean

"You've all heard me talk about watching the Moon occult a bright star. That's when we get a great example of stellar parallax from our Earthly viewpoint! But did you know that there are several other heavenly bodies that can cause an occultation that's easy to view through an amateur telescope if you just know when and where to look? Then let's take this opportunity to check it out…" - Michael McKean

"The world's most powerful particle smasher will restart in November at just half the energy the machine was designed to reach. But even at this level, the Large Hadron Collider has the potential to uncover exotic new physics, such as signs of hidden extra dimensions, physicists say." - Michael McKean

"Radar imaging at NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar on June 12 and 14, 2009, revealed that near-Earth asteroid 1994 CC is a triple system. Asteroid 1994 CC encountered Earth within 2.52 million kilometers (1.56 million miles) on June 10." - Michael McKean

you sniff some radioactive crack? - MicahBear78

Close! - Michael McKean

I'll add that to my list sentences I never expected to hear. Also, congratulations! :-) - Ordinarybug Heather

Work it! - RAPatton

"Physicists at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) in Vienna and Innsbruck, Austria, have created an interaction between light and a micromechanical resonator that is strong enough to transfer quantum effects. This is an important step towards quantum physics experiments in the macroscopic domain. They report about their result in the latest issue of the scientific journal Nature." - Michael McKean

Wow; spooky action at a distance is rather amazing - RAPatton

"An eclipse of the moon occured overnight, but despite some hoopla on the Internet, it was not visible to backyard skywatchers." - Michael McKean

"Back in 1996, astronomers discovered a strange object in the asteroid belt. They decided it was either a "lost" comet or an icy asteroid, as it ejected dust like a comet but had an orbit like an asteroid. No one had ever seen anything like the object, called 133P. Ever since it was found, astronomers have wondered if it was just an oddity — one of a kind. We now know it is not, and the discovery of more of these half asteroids/half comets means there is a new class of objects in our solar system." - Michael McKean