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:

Forgetful Dalek

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.

So, I had a job interview this morning, and it went well! One thing I am kind of confused about: it's a faculty position, and as such governed by the AAUP contract, and it's a 180-day position. I have never worked any place where librarians were in this situation and I'm not sure what it means. Anybody know? A) is the salary quoted in the job ad pro-rated and reduced based on 180-day only, or is the salary in the job ad for the 180 days? B) Okay, they're moving to 3 15-week semesters a year, which is 225 days. How am I supposed to work only 180 days and actually get the job done? As a librarian I am used to being at work all the time, whether school is in session or not. Do they expect me to just work unpaid extra days for coverage? The way they explained it, you just "work it out" but that seems like a lot of days discrepancy to work out.

I am not sure about the days, but we have faculty on "9 month" positions that teach year round, supposedly only work the equivalent of nine months throughout the year. In practice it seems a bit like they work full time 12 months a year, and get paid less.