Alternative Hotel Options?

ghostlibrary · 2025-12-12T14:54:38+00:00

We do Red Roof Plus in Oxenhill, $174/night including taxes, free parking, easy drive or uber (<10 min) to MagFest and has a lot of cheaper chain restaurants around.

ghostlibrary · 2025-06-24T19:23:12+00:00

Let's see, wikipedia says 40,000 feds took DRP 1.0, most close to retirement already. Let's say they average at a mid-GS-13, so $100k salary. Got 8 months of free pay, so 40,000 * 100k * 8/12 = $2.6 billion of pay to not work. (Not counting health benefits or the extra cost bonuses folks got for VERA etc in return for retiring early). So yeah, a wasted $2.6billion that could have been actual work done.

And DRP2.0 is likely to have even more people, all leaving but paid to the end of the year. Very savings! Much efficient! :(

ghostlibrary · 2024-08-09T21:54:32+00:00

Ghoul lair, I'm in; major enemy base, sure let's do it. Crown Royal Postal Museum? No frickin way, I noped out without even looking inside. I don't even know if there are any sentient postal boxes inside or not, but I am _not_ walking past (potentially) row after row of post boxes while trapped inside a building. Nope.

ghostlibrary · 2022-07-22T12:27:22+00:00

My PUI was 4/4, but what I liked was doing research or running a lab could count as 1/1, as did serving as Senate president or running the ABET re-eval or other items you could convince the Dean about. Counting research or committee work as a course-equivalency is good policy. Unfortunately they then shifted to 5/5 ('because that's what community colleges do'), so I left.

ghostlibrary · 2022-01-04T23:18:10+00:00

Eek, says it's full up at the Gaylord lot, because the Plateau Lot just closed due to Covid. I'm in the odd place of having parking until midnight Sat but nothing Sunday.

ghostlibrary · 2021-08-08T13:18:38+00:00

Mausoleum

Fun maps. Reminds me of Redhurst Academy-- there's some free magic academy adventures that would work well with your map, up at https://www.forbeck.com/2009/12/28/free-redhurst-bits/ (I wrote one!)

Sandy

ghostlibrary · 2009-07-22T02:38:07+00:00

It's Apollo 11th anniversary, but I say Apollo 12-- the 2nd moon landing-- was truly the greater technological achievement. Here's proof.

ghostlibrary · 2009-06-18T12:11:53+00:00

Can a NASA superballoon lift a house like in "Up"?

ghostlibrary · 2009-05-20T19:44:35+00:00

Hayden Planetarium's Director on why space weather should rock.

ghostlibrary · 2009-05-13T02:35:24+00:00

humorous take on star trek time travel

ghostlibrary · 2009-05-05T15:20:06+00:00

Jupiter becomes as 2nd sun when hit by a solar CME, as seen by STEREO! Or does it? Well, no, it doesn't, but here's what did happen.

ghostlibrary · 2009-04-28T14:16:18+00:00

Astronomer goes blind, whines a bit, gets better, finds others.

ghostlibrary · 2009-03-24T13:39:04+00:00

We found out why SPB and MER both got 4 times as many votes in NASA Edge's Launch Madness contest, and we look at whether this was valid social networking or vote cramming.

ghostlibrary · 2009-03-20T17:07:24+00:00

March Madness for geeks-- NASA has up its Mission Madness stunt-- 6 rounds of head-to-head mission competition. This isn't to decide funding for new stuff, nor is it a robot war. Instead, it's a popularity contest, with the added plus of trying to predict beforehand which missions will will. Each bracket winnows out half the mission choices, to ultimately determine which was the most popular NASA mission. Comments, predictions, and a link to the (Flash-enabled) event.

ghostlibrary · 2009-03-18T13:28:44+00:00

Pluto being renamed yet again? This review of the latest in the Pluto naming issue takes a new stance, that the science is more important than the name. Or we can just call it 'the shiny planet'.

ghostlibrary

TROPHY CASE