Oh yeah, brown AND male?? Trouble.
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.
le nubian, this is the correct link: [link]
FYI, if you want to try to catch the Venus thing today, there's some sort of app so that you can safely watch through your phone.
Boss and whole leadership team are off on a bus trip to the Texas plants. YAY. should be a quiet day for me to catch up on a bunch.
Right now I am taking a moment to unsubscribe from a dozen or so emails I constantly get. I have no time to travel and little money to buy, so all the offer emails are useless.
I think we may have a Dalek lurking here:
eta: Maybe it lurks in COMM: Tom Scola "Coffee On My Monitor Again" Aug 25, 2009 8:00:57 am PDT
(small pass given to the Quebecois accent, for vaguely nostalgic feels)
And as the name of a moon, right?
NASA is also doing a live webcast for those of us who are dubious about building our own viewing devices: [link]
Family-health ~ma, Cashmere!
My GPS cracks me up with Tchoupotoulas.
Honestly, though, the pinhole viewer instructions here is super easy and works great.
I've got an app that will let me mark the measurement as it enters, so we can do solar system measurements like in the old days...except you know, with gps and mobile phones.
The SO pointed out that although last time the transit happened, there would have been lots of pictures taken, but the time before, photography would have been pretty new! Kinda blowing my mind. Who knows what the imaging will be like in another century.