I've looked, and all traces of Flat Gorby are now gone. But I did find several things in this photo taken recently of Clay Anderson as he uses a computer in the Lab module. Just above his head are two penguin toys. So I guess someone up there is a Linux user.

Of greater interest is this book which seems to have appeared when Anderson came aboard: "Book of Answers: The New York Public Library Telephone Reference Service's Most Unusual and Entertaing Questions".

According to the Library Journal: "What do NYPL librarians do with the most popular, peculiar, and humorous questions asked over a 20-year period? Find the answers, organize them into 27 subject areas, compile a 1300-term index, and publish it all in a book, of course. The result has enough whos, whens, wheres, whats, and whys to drive even the most dedicated trivia buff mad."

So, since this book was flown (at considerable expense) I guess Clay Anderson is expecting to be stumped by reporters (or students) during on-orbit interviews about topics that probably have nothing to do with space ... assuming we reporters (and students) don't have this book too, of course. Otherwise, I have to guess that living in outer space must be really boring if this is what you take along for reading material!

Reader Comments: "Regarding your last commentary at http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1227 - Clay has a daily trivia quiz that he does with MCC-Houston and (I think) the POCC at Goddard for fun. Apparently that's where he gets his questions from."

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