Rhonda Faye saves the weekend

The weekend was a bit odd, with all the hyperactivity created by weather forecasters mixed with sunshine and a little rain. Did you see that poor guy The Weather Channel dispatched to Plaquemines Parish for the ENTIRE weekend. Just him, a lone shrimp boat and a basket of blue crabs. And why didn’t somebody tell…

Karen fizzles, apps shine

I admit that my iPad is chock full of weather apps, one more colorful and animated than the next. Intellicast’s alerts beeped me awake very early this morning, making more out of Karen than the shrinking storm now seems to deserve. But we want our weather news to be current, don’t we? At the Southern…

Stennis-tested engines deliver the goods

You may have missed this bit of space news over the weekend, what with the Ted Cruz show and all. Orbital Sciences Corp. and NASA celebrated the successful rendezvous of the unmanned Cygnus cargo spacecraft with the International Space Center. Orbital Sciences launched Cygnus with its Antares rocket Sept. 18 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility…