{"id":2526,"date":"2025-04-30T23:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T06:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=2526"},"modified":"2025-04-30T23:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T06:02:09","slug":"housekeeping-and-miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=2526","title":{"rendered":"Housekeeping and miscellany&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/HousekeepingRobot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"107\" \/>Just a quick update on some blog maintenance and cool finds for space elevator enthusiasts!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve finally finished clearing out all of the sidebar dead links &#8211; there were so many, sigh. In the future, I&#8217;ll be working on adding back a few of the more noteworthy ones via the Wayback machine as time permits. If you spot any still-broken links on the sidebar, or if you have suggestions for notable links to include, please let me know in a comment or an email to <a href=\"mailto:ted@spaceelevatorblog.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ted [at] spaceelevatorblog.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL44D294A0FE8E90A5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a> I want to highlight is in the Space Elevator Humor section. Four comedians (Louis Katz, Chris Garcia, Alex Koll &amp; Sean Keane) created 40 short (about 1 minute long, each) comedy sketches of four passengers in an Elevator &#8211; to Space. These were created some 15 years ago and were posted on Vimeo. They disappeared and I thought they were lost but then I found them on YouTube. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL44D294A0FE8E90A5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sidebar link<\/a> is to the Playlist. They really are funny (IMHO of course) and well worth a visit. It&#8217;s hard to pick a favorite, but I&#8217;m particularly fond of this one.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elevator To: Space - Episode 12\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S7knx2LjFvc?list=PL44D294A0FE8E90A5\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And finally, I received a comment from Chris Hibbert who informed me that he has updated the information on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Space_elevator_competitions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia Space Elevator Competitions pag<\/a>e (which I didn&#8217;t know existed). Thanks Chris! I&#8217;ve added this link to the Reference Sites section on the sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick update on some blog maintenance and cool finds for space elevator enthusiasts! I&#8217;ve finally finished clearing out all of the sidebar dead links &#8211; there were so many, sigh. In the future, I&#8217;ll be working on adding back a few of the more noteworthy ones via the Wayback machine as time permits. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2526"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2534,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions\/2534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}