The Wheel never stops turning, it’s time to be somewhere else.

BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT: Need your input for a letter of support to Rob.

Smoke rises from a boiling world; the hour grows late as Denton rides to bankruptcy to save his company. Amid all the turmoil, politics, controversy, and uncertainty, you find yourself here. It can mean only one thing. You’re an io9er and that makes you mighty.

As The war machines lay quiet snuggled in their berths

A Spoil free, but possibly punful preview of Journey to Mars, The Red Planet, Apollo 42, the Martian

Sometimes Life’s greatest plans don’t pan out. This is a work in progress, but is meant as a semi-quiet place for folks needing a little drafting. You’ll never find a solution on the drawing board, but you may find the steps to find one.

I am the semi-proud (and possibly an escapee from the mental ward) owner of a Samsung Galaxy Note II. This is the phone of a poor engineer. It’s not as clumsy or random as an IPhone; but it’s an elegant tool for a more civilized age. However it’s an incomplete tool without the loving embrace of the Proporia leather…

Somehow, through some twist of malicious fate, I managed to scuttle my way out of the comment gray and I am now a semi-functional commenter on IO9, Gizmodo and a few others.

Since I just paid mine off, let me tell you about the best truck you’ll never have. It’s so awesome, you’ll beam with visible pride almost every moment you roll with Spartan style down the strip. The other moments you’ll be kindly telling neighbor’s that “Yes, I have a lawnmower, and no, I’m not doing your lawn. Its…