I’ve been blessed in my life to have become friends with some absolutely brilliant people. James, or “The Colonel” as he used to write as, is an honest-to-god rocket scientist. We met in our mid-teens through a mutual friend and rented a place together during graduate school. He was in my wedding. He created the first The Daily Limit for me and kept it running through my technical ineptitude, even after he moved to Houston in order to work for NASA.

He created his own blog a while back called The Houston Chronicles which resides on my blogroll even though it was nearly dead for months at a time. Had we not all been scared for him as he rode out a hurricane I doubt if I would ever had mentioned it at all. Anyway, he reworked everything and has returned to blogging with occasional enthusiasm. Yesterday he gave us an introspective look at how he sees the future of NASA, Project Constellation, and the value of his own skill set. It’s well written and worth a look even if you’ve never met him, but for those of you out there who know James it’s even more thought provoking. Check it out here.