I think it's unlikely I'm having the best years of my life right now, but I don't see any reason they couldn't start next week...I've liked pretty much all of my life except the parts with the distracting pain, so we'll see.
Saffron ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I'm driving a couple of hours north to catch the annular eclipse. Probably doing the pinhole thing to see it, is that effective for annular? I think I've only seen partials before.
We are way out of the zone, sadly, for the eclipse. But! I should look up whether the local observatory has any events this summer.
EDIT: They do! And they are awesome!
Probably doing the pinhole thing to see it, is that effective for annular?
Yes, I think so.
Cool sculpture.
Those are cool. I love the Schwinn Pigeon.
I remember a SF story in Analog back in the 70s/80s called "Jill the Giant Killer" where they used tac nukes to disrupt giant tornados. What a brave new world we used to live in.
We're under the annular path, but just barely. So we're throwing the telescope in the car and heading a bit north to one of our school locations, where we'll do pinhole stuff with the students, and then watch through the scope. (When lori told us it was happening on fb, we went out and bought the solar filter, which has been no end of fun already. Sunspots!)