Author Archives: Nik Bronder

NASA: Against the odds, Winging it.

What’s Space travel without a little alcohol and sabotage?

NASA has released two reports that claim Astronauts on more than one occasion were drunk before liftoff and that recently a computer was sabotaged. Awesome.

Aviation Week & Space Technology reported on its Web site that a special panel studying astronaut health found that on two occasions, astronauts were allowed to fly after flight surgeons and other astronauts warned they were so drunk they posed a safety risk.

The independent panel also found “heavy use of alcohol” before launch — within the standard 12-hour “bottle-to-throttle” rule, the magazine reported.

What is “Bottle-to-throttle”? I’m going to start using this term and make sure it takes. Whenever I’m in a hurry: “Let’s go, the game is starting. Bottle-to-throttle.”

This whole episode just proves there is no reason for a man space program. These guys don’t even fly the ‘ship’ they just sit on top of the rocket.

Bottle-to-throttle.

First Pork Loin in 2 Years.

Yesterday I decided to perform a test run with regards to grilling a pork loin. Granted this was probably the first pork loin I’ve grilled in nearly two years I think it came out pretty well. You can always do better but I think we had the right amount of Sweet Baby Ray’s, maybe the timing was off but all and all it was pretty damn good.

* Note: More photographs on Flickr.

World's Largest Block Party.

Yesterday afternoon Julie and I met up with Dom and Kelly at Old St. Pats for the World’s Largest Block Party. Of course the headliner for this even just so happened to be Rusted Root. I tried post the video for Send Me On My Way but of course the record company doesn’t allow that (not to mention I just figured out how to technically do it). But I digress, here’ a link to the video.

The block party setup was pretty good, for $35 you got entry, 5 beers and access to the highest concentration of portable toilets the world has ever seen. The food was good, Rusted Root was fabulous, there was a hint of 1996 in the air. The word on the street was that Rusted Root once made it onto a mix tape created by legendary music critic Myles Tersnak.

After seeing Rusted Root up close and personal we headed out to find a bar. The first place we stopped was the photo above. As you can see I’m not really pleased. The reason for my displeasure would be that we didn’t meet the dress code to enter. I must confess that something like this was bound to happen to me sooner rather than later but I didn’t expect it from that guy behind me in the photo.

I didn’t want to drink there anyways so we ended up at Jaks Tap to end the evening. The rest of the photographs are on Flickr.