Prettiest Place

I used to love going to Sylvan Grove Theater on the UW campus when I was in college. Looks like a good place for a wedding.

Love Agent Can Fly

Guest6703: sum say i can fly
Love Agent: I think I can too.

Scarecrow

Ryan helped me make this scarecrow in the yard last night to guard the corn. While he looks totally awesome in this photo, as is, soon the corn will overtake him since he's only 4 feet tall. Lucky for him, he's getting a new backbone tonight!

Best Toy Store Ever

I went to Top Ten Toys up on Greenwood & 85th today looking for a squirt gun. I couldn't find any. When I asked, they told me their delightfully forward-thinking policy: "We have a non-violence policy in the toys we carry, so we don't carry any toy guns, bows and arrows or swords."

I thought, "You're right! I don't need to promote violence, even if it is just with squirt guns." Instead, I bought something WAY better.

What is BlogThis! ? - Blogger Help

What an easy way to blog! "BlogThis! is an easy way to make a blog post without visiting blogger.com. Once you add the BlogThis! link to your browser's toolbar, blogging will be a snap. Or rather, a click. Clicking BlogThis! creates a mini-interface to Blogger prepopulated with a link to the web page you are visiting, as well as any text you have highlighted on that page. Add additional text if you wish and then publish or post from within BlogThis!"

RIP, Venetia Phair - Thank you for Pluto

This news comes a bit late, but nonetheless sad. On April 30 of this year, 90 year-old Venetia Phair, the girl who named Pluto, died. We have her to thank for much of America's warm feelings towards this dwarf planet.

According to the New York Times, "On March 14, 1930, the day newspapers reported that the long-suspected “trans-Neptunian body” had been photographed for the first time, she proposed to her well-connected grandfather that it be named Pluto, after the Roman god of the underworld.

"And so it was."

I came across this news on the web site of my favorite store, the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Company.

My Palm Pre Review on YouTube!

Thanks for the inspiration, Mister Rogers and Jim Henson!

Transmit to the Planet Mike

Your transmissions to the Planet Mike will be sent via the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

Michael Bowers
Follow me on Twitter: @theplanetmike
Email: theplanetmike@gmail.com
Phone: 206.251.4961
Coordinates: New Seattle, WA, The Planet Mike

About Michael L. Bowers

I'm 30 years old and currently work as the Science Interpretation Coordinator at Pacific Science Center. I've worked at Pacific Science Center for twelve years, doing everything from live science demonstrations and planetarium shows to leading teen volunteers to developing interactive curriculum for the Discovering the Dead Sea Exhibit of 2006. I'm a graduate of the University of Washington with a BA in Anthropology.

I grew up in Shoreline, Washington, just north of Seattle. I moved into Seattle's city limits for college. There, I learned the joys of personal freedom in the form of public transportation and apartment living. After living for several years happily in Seattle, one day I found myself on the other side of the galaxy on a distant and alien (but oddly familiar) planet.

In my free time, I enjoy hanging out with friends, playing the lap steel guitar, writing, salsa dancing, playing improv games, and painting with oils and acrylics.

I like:

• Using wrenches to tighten things
  
• Eating raspberries off the vine
  
• Thick molding
  
• The smell of sawdust
  
• When people scratch my head
  
• Learning
  
• Reading outside cafes on overcast days
  
• Brick apartment buildings
  
• Programming artificial intelligence
  
• Trying new foods
  
• Going to local theater
  
• Taking naps
  
• Dandelions
  

I dislike:

• Auto-formatting in MS Word
  
• Song-playing cell phones
  
• Getting nails clipped
  
• When the sheet separates from the blanket in the night and I become tangled in it
  
• When a room is too cold, especially at night
  
• Car alarms
  
• Off center sandwich bread or meats
  
• When there's a ramp on one curb but not across the street or at the other end of the block
  
• TV remotes with buttons that don't work
  
• When people carefully capture bugs in their homes and then kill them
  
• Burnt toast without butter
  
• Sunglasses
  

Nuclear Fallout Man

5/2/07

Gm Nuclear Fallout Man
Cm Breaking out the old tin can
Dm Your duct tape cape and your combat shoes
Cm Just might save you from unhappy news Gm

Nuclear Fallout Guy
With that big blast shield covering your eyes
How come you show no fear
Even though I know the end is near?

Cm Nuclear Fallout Man
Dm Nuclear Fallout Man
Cm Nuclear Fallout Man Gm

Nuclear Fallout Man
You stayed when everyone ran
Tell me what should I do
When I know my time is through

Nuclear Fallout Man
Nuclear Fallout Man
Nuclear Fallout Man

Nuclear Fallout Guy
I'm pretty sure we're all going to die
I'll leave you some cookies and a mug of tea
If until that day, you let me be

Nuclear Fallout Man
Nuclear Fallout Man
Nuclear Fallout Man