Yay for awesome, msbelle!

I answer to anyone looking at a piece of paper and making K sounds.

Me too, with L. If I'm in a hurry I just respond to, "How do you pronounce that?" with, "Lee-Otch-Ko. Second syllable rhymes with crotch." Mortifies the husband, but people seldom forget, and they do more often with scotch or botch.

Of course if I'm not in a hurry it's fun to sit and watch and let them puzzle through it several times on their own. A mild, kinder sort of torture.

In the 1920s, Stegosaurus had the ability to fly like a hang glider

Back in the steaming Jurassic time, the Stegosaurus was the weird and titanic flying squirrel of its age. With its huge plates placed alternately on each side of its back it could depress these to form planes that buoyed it in a swift rush from elevation to elevation, or that like the old gliders from which the aeroplane was evolved, lifted up the body under the driving impetus of the enormous hind legs carrying it in flight for hundreds of feet, a weird spectacle, indeed, if man could have seen it, must have been the soarings of these monsters. But many thousands of years had still to pass before even the hairy ancestors of man could evolve.

Of course, the Stegosaurus could not fly like the birds. Even if the reptile had flapped its plates ever so swiftly it could not have risen above the ground by their means alone. It had, nevertheless, partial command of the air and so is entitled to be considered the father of all heavier-than-air machines.

If I'm in a hurry I just respond to, "How do you pronounce that?" with, "Lee-Otch-Ko. Second syllable rhymes with crotch."

Bwahahaha! Along the sames lines, when Pete has to spell out our last name to someone, he says, "That's "v" as in "victor". So the first time he heard me spell it out for someone and say, "That's "v" as in "vampire", his crankyface was EPIC.

I miss looming Pete.

Today CJ is spending a shift at one of the local fire departments, I think he is there from 7am to 7pm. Now that he has passed probation in ARP, he can do this at least once a month but this is his first time. I can't wait for him to get home and share all he got to do.

Does anyone know how long the Transit of Venus lasts? The observatory here says it starts at 6:04, and obviously sunset ends things, but that's not until past 8:30 right now. It's pretty darn cloudy and I'm wondering if we'll have any chance at all.

Does anyone know how long the Transit of Venus lasts?

Four or five hours, IIRC.

eta:

Observers in North America see Venus on June 5 around 6:04 p.m. EDT until sunset. The entire transit lasts over six hours.

Is there a droid app you can use to watch the venus transit?

Okay, so if the cloud cover clears up some by 7pm we still get plenty of transit. Sun sets at 8:40. (Go team weather.com for having quarter-hour predictions for the next 4 hours. Things should get better, although not perfect, between 6:45 and 7pm.)

So, it starts in a few minutes? Shoul I go outside? Would I see anything, or do I need something? (I'm at UCLA)

Apparently Venus is kind of little, so it's better through a telescope. And of course, don't look directly at the sun. But you can safely view using your phone camera I think.

Nasa is webcasting from Hawaii: [link]