I picked this up from Andrew Wheeler at The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent.:
What to do: post the first sentence of the first post from each calendar month of this year, with links.
So here is the year that was, in Hassenpfefferland (I took the liberty of including the post title, since sometimes that’s part of the first sentence, and anyway, it was the easiest way of including links):
January:
Happy New Year!
And that’s all I have to say today! (Well, probably.)
February:
Hassenpfeffer is aggregated!
No, that’s not a mis-remembered lyric from the opening of Laverne and Shirley (those of you of a certain age will understand the reference; those of you too young to get it–well, you’re not missing much).
March:
Fore!
Russian astronauts plan to hit a golf ball into orbit from the International Space Station.
April:
Photo of the Day: Orchid Up Close
May:
The first sentence I wrote today was…
OK, our villain is a giant alien spacecraft.
June:
Send yourself into orbit…
…or at least your picture, in Bigelow Aerospace‘s test inflatable space module, launching later this year.
July:
Practical? No. Expensive? Yes.
But man, does this magnetic floating bed look cool!
August:
Photo of the (Yester)Day: The Sharper(ner) Image
More photos here.
September:
Original Star Trek gets a digital makeover
All 79 episodes of the original series of Star Trek are being digitally enhanced, with improved special effects, spaceships and alien landscapes and re-mastered sound: you’ll even be able to watch them in high definition.
October:
Just in time for Hallowe’en:
“Stellar vampires unmasked.”
November:
Antimatter: not just for powering warp drives any more
Turns out it also kills cancer.
December:
Old sci-fi movies got it right!
It used to be a staple of B-movie science fiction involving travel in outer space or landing on another planet: the meteor shower, rocks flying through space and threatening our heroes with explosive decompression (see yesterday’s post!) or worse.
