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Santa Paula, CA
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239 ft
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Updated: 6:58 AM PDT on May 21, 2013
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APRSWXNET Santa Paula CA US
Santa Paula, CA
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RAWS ANACAPA ISLAND CA US
Port Hueneme, CA
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Updated: 6:23 AM PDT on May 21, 2013
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LowerCal – at least you can save yourself the trouble of updating the cool rain graphs!
“In Woodland Hills I can have overcast most of the morning and still get hotter than Fresno”
That's because they are each in a bowl. With a lid. ;)
Thanks for the Jay link. Fascinating little critters.
Now I must confess that, while I have seen Jays harassing hawks and crows and such, what I actually saw on the day I commented about that behavior was a mockingbird. I put “Jay” in as a short placeholder and was too lazy to change it. Whatever. It's a bird. LOL
Bogon – you'd think I'd be far enough away from the Pacific that I wouldn't have to deal with beach weather. Ah, well. I do appreciate the marine layer after a long hot spell. It's just that … we can't seem to put together a long hot spell! Maybe this summer.
bf – Happy to see you :) I stopped by your blog last night to watch the radar for a few minutes. Yikes.
Yes, it counts – mockingbirds will dive-bomb anything. My sister bought her son a BB gun when he was just four with the intent that he would one day destroy any mockingbird that came near. She had had multiple very bad experiences, you see. The boy never did shoot a bird with that gun, ftr.
I'll go with mystical or magical or, really, whatever anyone wants, when talking about love :)
Hope OK weather has calmed and you are having a wonderful May Day :)
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Hope everyone is having a wonderful May Day!
I am playing hooky from my away-from-the-computer-ish work, obviously, and must return to it. *sigh*
Oh, it's gray, fyi.
round a pole.
Okay, not me dancing here but great music.
The snowpack provides about a third of the entire state's water and is a significant part of many Southern California communities' supply. However...
The City of Santa Paula's source of water is 100 percent
groundwater, pumped from the Santa Paula Basin.
The basin is made up of hundreds of feet of sands and
gravels deposited in the Santa Clara Valley and the mouth
of the Santa Paula Canyon, which contains millions of
gallons of water between the sand and gravel particles. The
Santa Paula Basin extends from the Hallock Drive area on
the east to the Wells Road area on the west.
The death of facts in an age of 'truthiness' | 89.3 KPCC
Are you getting technical on us again???
I hope May brings a lot of flowers and gentle sunshine your way.
Interesting that Santa Paula's water is all from the ground. I wonder if the water table isn't gradually going down as increasing population makes increasing demands? That was certainly the case where I grew up. Our well started at 230 feet deep, then had to be redrilled to 380 and then to 520 before we moved away, as more and more people moved into the neighborhood.
The wiki describes a conflation of two mythologies along with free association across at least two etymologies. I ended my reading thinking, "That doesn't make sense!" But then I smacked myself in the forehead realizing, "It's mythology; it doesn't have to make sense."
The fertility thing doesn't make much sense either, but that doesn't bother most people, because it's fun. Best not think too hard about it. :o)
Hope your week is going well!
Having some weirdness with wu - blog list not updating properly - so am leaving a comment to see if that fixes it.
Either way, BBL, I think!
ETA: Well, it fixed my blog, which now says 9 comments where it did say 7 - not having noticed mush's cute bunnies - but almost everyone else's are still wrong. No time to fiddle with it - please let me know if this is a problem for others so that I can know where to look when I do have time. kthx
May started out rather gray, but the sun has broken through the last few days. I can take it in the morning, as long as I get a bit of sunshine later on.
I just hope it stays back long enough for us to see the super moon tomorrow night. We'll have the boys for an over nighter, but it'll be too late to have them up to see it.
I like the words you have for our upcoming spring/summer weather. I'll have to write those down. Next weekend, on Friday, we're heading up to USC for our nieces graduation. Then on Saturday we're headed to the beach on the SB Naval Weapons Station for a graduation party. I warned her way back when she reserved it that she's taking her chances for beach weather in May. It could be iffy. She said it doesn't matter, we'll have fun anyway.....youth! But she's right!
Sometimes I wish that I led a life that could justifiably use Peer Gynt as the soundtrack.
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So many Hulks, so little time. LOL funny if you know who the Hulk is and read the #s.
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Happy Belated Star Wars Day! May the Fourth be with you.
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Thanks to Bogon and mush for easing my mind about the blog weirdness. Glad they sorted it out!
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Thanks to all for stopping by and keeping the blog spiffy while I've been mostly away from this computer :)
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I've had the creeping crud all week. I'm tired of people shying away like I've got infectious Tuberculosis every time I cough. I mean, everyone else has had it, and that deep cough has become the background noise in all public spaces, so we should all be used to it. I suppose everyone else got the Tb response, as well.
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gg – Weeeeee back atcha! That was fun :)
But do you have the docs' okay to pole dance? Not to mention spouse's? ;)
LC -
#3 – shhhhhh!!! They'll all come here if They know that! LOL
I learned about our amazing water source from a fireman who explained that they don't have to worry about running out of water when fighting fires. Good to know! That is an issue for some areas during fire season, as you know.
He also pointed out that if there were a tsunami or major earthquake or other disaster that disrupted services down there on the Oxnard plain, all those people would come here. Eek.
#4 – nice that some folks are noticing that. There is also an article in the May/June Utne Reader on the topic of truth. Repetition is the key.
Last week I ran into a friend/colleague at his mom's house and he said that he didn't even know if Obama is an American citizen. His mom and I (and another friend there) went over the facts and he accepted them, though mainly on the strength of his trust in the three of us. Here's the thing – I, personally, have had this discussion with him four times in the last four years. His mother tells me she's been over it with him many times. He always seems to accept the truth. Yet, he continually “forgets” what he learns in these conversations. Why? Well, he works in a shop that has AM talk radio blaring all day, every day, and they just keep repeating lie after lie and that's enough to undo reality.
Human brains aren't all that good at some things.
BC -
#5 – :) Many flowers, many sunshines since Friday.
I don't think we're at great risk of losing our water in that way, mainly because there are building/population limits in place (at the moment, anyway), so I don't expect a large increase in usage. Also, this river valley is near the mouth of a huge watershed.
Now, down on the Oxnard Plain they are destroying their groundwater. It's mainly for agriculture/industrial use, I think, and has not been well conserved until recently. Some years ago I read about salt water intrusion (from that ocean out there on the edge of the plain) becoming a very real threat to agriculture. I haven't followed those events, though, since I don't live down there anymore, lol
#12 – love the mashup :) Too funny and pretty well done, too. It was fun seeing so many seasons of Trek used in one video – the hairstyles of Worf, lol
Bogon -
#6 - "It's mythology; it doesn't have to make sense." That's the spirit!
To be fair to etymologists everywhere, it may be that May has a better historical record than that offered by the pfft but I was way too lazy to go looking for it.
#10 - I sure wish the WU developers would bring back the functionality of the classic wu blog list. For one thing, nuwuvu made it that much more difficult to figure out if something was wrong the other day. Before I switched browsers I was using wuclassic for blog reading and nuwuvu for weather in a separate tab. I guess I could still do that.
TTTNG? Pretty good :)
mush! - bunnies! Too cute and perfect symbols of Spring … and the quintessential symbol of fertility!
Karen – oh, yes. I know! Hope you've had a chance to recuperate a bit :)
The sun finally showed up here on Friday and the weekend has been glorious. Yesterday, even I did not need a sweatshirt, even being sick, even in Ventura. Wait, that might have been because I'm sick, now that I think on it. Well, anyway, the weather's been very nice.
The moon was beautiful last night, for sure. Can I tell that it's 14% larger than at apogee? Nope. Does it matter? Nope. :)
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Okay, I'm sleepy now. I can't believe how long this stupid cold is hanging on and how much it is dragging me down. I actually wrote most of this comment on Friday night but couldn't stay focused. Tried to knit, instead … and knit the same four inches three times because of dumb mistakes.
Was going to complete and post this yesterday, but … decided to go to the bookstore. Bought a knitting book. May need an intervention soon. Don't worry – pretty sure some friends are on it.
Yep. Nap time for me.
Here – have some cool science-y thing to read: zombie ant fungus hyperparasite
and a dance with the troll princess -
Also answers the "What happened to my career plans?" question for some adults, lol
Articles in the NYTimes that I read today:
TBN being looked at for tax fraud, or, "Tell me again why religious organizations don't pay taxes."
Krugman on recent developments in Europe.
Online privacy, or lack thereof.
Gee, that's good to know, huh?
I did read through a privacy statement just yesterday at Code Year that sounds good. But, I never believe them, anyway, lol.
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I'm just killing time. My fever is back, my brain is still scrambled, and I have stuff to do later so need to conserve energy. Reading is easier than writing, lol
Going out into the sun now in hopes it burns off the fever. Unfortunately, it isn't quite that hot out there, but, it is nice.
Hope wu'all's day is nice, too :)
Feel better soon!
I explained my knitting progress on my new blog.
We are having a world of problems with our new Dell computer. It will not connect to the internet!! We have 3 other computer devices and they all connect just fine. For two week Mr. P has had to deal with Dell's tech staff. I think he about ready to blow!!! Now finally we are in contact with the highest division of the tech department (whatever that is) and it seems (hopefully) that the problem will either by solved or they will take the thing back. No joy in Mudville today :((
I still don't know what I'm going to do when I grow up.
Sometimes I do really liek my job.
Hope you get to feeling better. Haven't found a Dalek picture yet that says; EXPECTORATE! ;-D
So - let's have art day!!!
Animal sculptures from woodchips!
Man, I can only dream of that level of OCD.
Chain link lace!
[click "English" (unless you prefer the Dutch); click "Projects"; then click on each item on the list - and don't miss clicking the thumbnails to the right for other views]
Feeling better - thank you so much for your well wishes!
Hope to be back tonight ... or tomorrow :)
Weather is on again, off again. Today was glorious. Went to our niece's graduation ceremony at USC and was actually pretty happy that it was overcast. Then the sun came out and it got hot. Thankfully that was about the time we went home. Sun was out here too! Yahoo.
Hope that keeps up tomorrow for her beach party.
Sorry you aren't feeling well. There's something just wrong about having a cold during spring or summer, they should be reserved for winter only!
Oh, well.
Thanks for the advice. I think you're right - tylenol helped more with the fever but ibuprofen helped more with the aches.
calpoppy - you should have bought a Systemax!
Hope Dell works with you with minimal hassles!
Glad you have knitting to keep you occupied :)
Bogon - ditto. Well, one option is to just keep bouncing around, trying new things, lol
gg - LOL The Daleks could do with some expectorating - they always sound like something is stuck in their throats.
I sincerely hope there is a link here to further cement your reputation at work ;)
Karen - happy to hear the USC trip went well! I was thinking of you and how you weren't looking forward to the drive downtown.
Must have been fun to watch your niece finish up such an accomplishment :) Do hope you get continued good weather for the party - but you'll have a good time, either way!
I agree with you and calpoppy - this is not the time for colds! Especially when I am the very last person to get it, and I avoided getting sick all winter! Not fair!!! lol
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It's okay. It's been a lesson in humility. I was kinda rough on a few people that I thought were overstating their illness, because about half the people I know got over it quickly ... not me and, I now realize, not all those people I was mean to. Not mean, but, you know. Less than supportive. Ah, well.
It's all over but the cough, now.
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Nothing fun to post today. Big working day and it ain't over, yet! That's okay, too :)
Having said all this, 8oz OJ, plus a good multivitamin or two a day, helps a lot in keeping me from getting a cold in the first place, IMO! :)
Good grief! I think I wrote a book, lol!
Don't you go out and over do it and get a relapse. Be good to yourself, okay?
We've got some glorious weather in the as-good-as-it-gets category this weekend, so I'm going to try out my new long-handled grass clipper.
We thought after all of this we would hate this computer but it is really quite fast and we do like windows 7.
I hope that cough is finally getting better, take care and have a good work week!!!
Ylee - I can't take either antihistamines or decongestants - they make me crazy - so stick with fluids and ache/fever-killers. I wonder if everyone pays attention to how they feel and how long a cold lasts on various OTC meds.
Also, that's not a book. This comment, like most of mine, will be a book, LOL!
BC - look who's telling who not to over-do it! ;)
How'd that nifty clipper work out?
WTS - the nice thing about a deep cough that lasts awhile is that it really trims up the waistline! Hey, what can I say? I'm a bright-sider by nature :)
That is an amazing bloom on your willow! Great capture of the colors and it reminds me of a tie-dye shirt I have, lol. Your pic is now on my HD for screensaver rotation!
I wonder if I could grow one of those in a pot ... they take a long while to get really big, don't they? Hmmm...
calpoppy - Hurray for a working computer! Man, that's a pain in the neck having to deal with customer service on a brand new machine >:(
I spoke with a very professional Indian woman about a problem with my internet connection a few months ago ... she was very through and fixed the problem but didn't tell me what was wrong. She hung up on me!
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Couple of things to drop by -
Washington State has a large outbreak of Whooping Cough (Pertussis), following the year-to-year trend across the country. Read about why - it isn't just a matter of the anti-vax whackos.
Get your TDaP shot, pronto.
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I may have linked this before but re-read it this morning. This subject is in the news more and more -
The Bizarre Calculus of Emergency Room Charges
- and has relevance to all medical charges, not just ERs.
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In Stockton, CA, some churches have found the solution to all of society's ills. That brief article has a line which perfectly summarizes why it is so difficult to effect real change in this country.
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It's a big election year. Some might remember that, in 2008, many of us took the political compass test and found it valuable. It's still around and I took it again this morning. Really fun and quick to do.
I'm linking to the test page where it says to read the homepage first but ... I remember back then that the recommendation was to take the test first so that you won't be influenced by the introductory info. Do as you like, of course, but I wanted to make it easy for you to go straight to the test, if you want.
Post your graph or your numbers here if you want to - we had fun last time even with just a relative few folks participating.
I saved a copy of my graph along with a copy of the "Crowd Chart" which compares my position with this year's crop or presidential candidates. No wonder I'm even less thrilled than usual this time around, LOL
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Oh, yeah - weather is fine :)
Crazy about those invests so early, isn't it? I didn't think EPac would get such an early start, anyway. Perhaps there will be spinners to watch this summer ... hopefully just churning up the sea.
Happy Monday :)
I did not know how near until my "new" avatar showed up.
It is really cool here, I mean cool like in not hot, LOL! It surprised me, I guess I wasn't following along with the weather like I should be.
Computer problems arise again, as now we can't get the computer to acknowledge the third monitor, back to tech support this time a different company! Mr. P isn't a gamer well maybe he is, he is involved in the stock market! LOL!
I had issues with some of the "questions". The only options are Agree/Disagree. Sometimes I found myself sitting on the fence wishing for "Don't know" or "Don't care". Sometimes I could see different ways to interpret the language, such that my answer might have changed depending on how you read it. There were times when I clicked "Disagree" just because I didn't like the tone of the statement. Rephrase it or qualify it, and it might sound okay.
The FAQ attempts to explain some of the reasoning behind the test. There was one item that specifically addressed one of my problematic questions; after reading it I was no better off. Taking the test without reading the introduction seems to be as good a way to proceed as any.
gg - LOL at your new avatar! Too funny - and I saw the explanation in your blog along with the pics of Syd the camera killer :)
No doubt those folks can and do help sometimes. Any time you get a group of people together to work towards a common goal good things can happen! Bad things, too, but, you know. It's about the goal and the leadership, not the organization.
calpoppy - oh, bummer about the computer! How do you have 3 monitors in your tiny place? Are they on the ceiling?!?! LOL
My arm hurt for over a week, too, when I got that shot. Also it was all crinkly sounding. Weird! I think there was air trapped under the skin (ew!).
Nice that you've got a nice day - I know you'll take advantage of it!
Bogon - yeah there were some questions I'd have liked to have a "neutral" option but, I guess, that would defeat the purpose.
Thanks for playing and sharing your thoughts on the test!
I was looking back at the blog where I originally posted that test - it was in my blog of June 9, 2008, titled "Disappointed?" - and thinking it would be fun to make up a crowd chart of those results and a new one for this year, if folks want to share. Problem is, a couple of people from then are permabanned (so I don't have their results) and some results ended up on other people's blogs (and I'm not searching through all of them!). Even a handful would be interesting, though.
The test shows me to be more extreme now than I was then. Not surprised by that, LOL
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There is some sadness in looking back through old blogs :(
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I am so behind schedule today it ain't even funny. Well, someone might be laughing, but, not me!
Have a great day, WU!
Peace to all!!!!
Me in 2012
... pretty much sitting with the Dalai Lama now but just a little more libertarian. Maybe I'll be the Dalai Lama in my next life... no, wait, he'll be Dalai Lama in his next life too. (J/K, sp.)
I've shifted significantly from 2008. In 2008 I was already one of the most radical (furthest from the center) of anyone willing to publish their chart/score so I'd probably beat all of them this year.
I didn't have to agonize over "agree" or "disagree" in this year's questions like I did in 2008. I did mull over "Strongly" or not on some questions.
(BTW using the Pythagorean Theorem I compute my "radical" score as 8.94. Can anyone beat that? LOL)
California's new "Top Two Primary" system may require a little explanation for some. Every California voter can vote for any candidate for any office except President [and the party's central committee] regardless of party preference (voter's or candidate's). The "Top Two" candidates, regardless of party preference, move on to the General Election. NPP voters like me use an NPP ballot or can request a particular party['s crossover] ballot if that party has decided to allow it.
[Modifications in brackets.]
A relative Maggie Thatcher to you guys, but a lot closer to the Dalai Lama than Obama! :)
I'm surprised that Obama is so close to the GOP candidates; I think of the Who's song Don't Get Fooled Again "Come Meet the new Boss, same as the Old Boss". ;-)
Hope you're having a good weekend!
I figured the Republicans that would rather let our Country go to heck in a hand-basket than vote for "Democratic" solutions, would have to vote for the same solution under Romney.
Basically it was a decision based on getting the Country to go forward a bit. Now that I am learning about Romneys character, forget it. We already had unscrupulous bullies in office and to make money for their buddies, illegally invaded another country. I'm guessing years from now historians will call the Iraqi war one of the greatest tactical blunders in modern history.
I'm thinking of having bumper stickers made up in a language that they understand here in the South.
Obama Got Osama
Mission Accomplished
Anyone interested?
Stephen King: Tax Me, for F@%&%u2019s Sake! - The Daily Beast
Ever hear of "Do as I say, not as I do."? }-]
Hmmmm.... Looks like I'm the farthest left of anyone showing test results so far. I'm surprised, based on comments I've seen here in the past.
As with many political polls, I suppose this has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 4% as I, too, had trouble deciding if I strongly agree/disagree or just average agree/disagree on several questions. When in doubt, I didn't go with "strongly". I figure if I had to think about it, it wasn't all that strong.
I think this is a much better political test than the world's smallest political quiz found at lp.org, which just says I'm a left liberal. I much prefer being called a liberal libertarian. Thanks for sharing this one!
GG: Another way to get the country (or at least Congress) to go forward a bit is to get back a Democratic majority in both houses. And I like your bumper sticker idea. Good 'un!
(and he didn't even make us look at him in an overly tight flight suit.)
heehee :)
See, that's part of what's sad about looking back at that 2008 blog – people were still talking to each other then - hanging out in each others blogs and arguing but communicating. It was nice and I learned a lot. Ah, well. No doubt my own fault.
Thanks to all who have posted while I've been off wandering - calpoppy, Karen, gg, Bogon, LowerCal, Ylee, Briarcraft - it's great when I can pop in here and find friends have been hanging out :)
Since so much time has passed I think I'll skip responding to everyone here and instead try to get to your blogs.
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gg - oh, gosh, that video is hilarious. And your bumper sticker is great – you could get that made up at one of those online stores, I'm sure!
LC - Thanks for the info and links! We've got some interesting challenges in Cali this election.
Also, you got me beat - I'm at 8.75 :)
Ylee - You fit right in!
Yeah, some of us knew that Obama was heading up there with the other guys way back before the last presidential election. Some folks, on the other hand, still thinks he's a Progressive, despite the evidence. Odd, isn't it?
BC - “Do as I say … “ was my grandfather's favorite saying. My mother still cringes every time she hears it, LOL
You're right about needing Congress to get anything done. As voters we need to consider national issues, as well as local issues, when voting for our national representatives.
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Hey, did anyone notice the persistent cloud on satellite all day Wednesday? The weather guys did! This is from yesterday morning's (3/24/12) discussion:
“By the way...some of you probably noticed a standing lenticular cloud
(looks like a flying saucer) parked over the Mojave Desert through
the entire day yesterday. This was a good detector that strong
northwest winds aloft were blowing as it formed on the leeward side
of the tehachapee mountains. It actually formed Tuesday night and
finally dissolved around 1 am this morning. It lasted an unusually
long time. Its no coincidence that strong winds were occurring
across the region while this cloud appeared.”
Two wuphotogs snapped pics but each used a different location. If you look at the wunderphotos layer on the wundermap for 3/23 you will see one to the northeast (mojavedesertrat's, I think) and another to the southwest of the actual cloud. Wish I'd thought to get a screencap of the visible satellite.
There have been an unusual number of small earthquakes up and down CA the last several days. I felt two of the four that were nearby. After that rash of big eq's south down the coastal faults … spooky.
That lenticular cloud mentioned above was pretty much right on top of an area hit with a 3.6 mag eq. on Monday.
These things happen, of course.
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Happy Towel Day!
Hope you all remembered to carry your towel today … and every day! ;)
It is also Glorious Revolution Day, for Discworld fans!
"Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard-Boiled Egg!"
I don't actually remember this from the books but haven't read them all yet.
Speaking of books ...
Over at Whatever, a Big Idea entry from Kim Stanley Robinson about his new novel, 2312. I will read that book.
Whilst investigating that one, I found out that David Brin has a new novel, Existence. This one is squee-inducing. I found Brin through a recommendation by a clerk at Waldenbooks decades ago (yes, decades) and, while I don't think he's the bestest writer ever, I never miss a novel. I am very happy :) While we're talking about him … Brin has a fun article in Science 2.0 today - From Towel Day To SpaceX And Transparency Grenades.
Of course, Scalzi has Redshirts out, which I suppose I must read before I run across too many spoilers.
Just finished reading The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, which I bought a few years ago on a whim (honestly don't know why I picked it up) and without realizing that it was an international best seller (over 7 million copies? That's insane!). Now I have read it and highly recommend it. Major magic in those pages and I expect it will stick with me for a very long time.
That may be enough bookishness for right now ;)
Anyway, I'm kind of worded out, which is one reason I haven't been around here.
I didn't even tell you about my eclipse experience! I went to Goleta because the Santa Barbara astronomy club was there and they are really nice people. I saw it through a nifty shoebox (among other devices) that I would like to make – ideally before the Venus transit, but, we'll see. I think he said he was using a telescope filter affixed to the box. Does that make sense, LC? (See how I trust that LC will eventually find this question buried here? That's wufriendship, that is ;) )
I got a picture of shadow crescents and that's about it. I also got some pics of a walk to the cliffs but they haven't been dealt with, yet, and may never make it to wu, lol
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Ah, Friday afternoon before a holiday weekend … the possibilities seem endless, don't they?
Unless you've already made plans, of course ;)
Have a great weekend!
The telescope filter only makes sense if you're looking through the filter and using the box to shade your head and eyes.
For projecting an image cut a square out of one end of a box and tape foil over it. A pinhole through foil will have nice clean edges and project a sharper image. Tape some white paper on the inside of the other end of the box as your projection screen. A longer box gives a bigger image. You can test the sharpness of the image by examining sunspots until the date of the Venus transit, June 5/6 (June 5 for the Americas).
In book news - I'm 43% of the way through the second book of the Hunger Games trilogy, lol. ;^)
Someone at the event in Goleta showed up with a very long (like 6 feet) box with foil on one end - he was having some trouble aiming it properly and I didn't stick around to see the results. Um, if the projection screen is inside the box, how do you see it? Also, where do I find a six-foot long box? LOL
I made a pinhole thingy using a business card, a ballpoint pen, and a sheet of paper for the projection - not at all sharp but not bad. My other favorites from the club were the two projections using cameras and 'scopes onto screens - got the enlargement without having to squint through an eyepiece. Problem there was that the Earth kept turning!
I'd forgotten that KEYT news was there and they were talking to the guy who said (not on camera - I overheard him elsewhere) he used a filter meant for telescopes in his shoebox ... so I checked this morning and there is video of him and his box and a photo of it, too. It really gave a great view of the sun and folks were using cameras to zoom through that filter. I wonder if it is prohibitively expensive.
Alas, I did not make it into any video or photos ;)
Are you enjoying the books? I caved and read all three of the Hunger Games books a short while ago. It's hard to resist something that got so big and popular, lol
In fact, I have sitting next to me The Golden Compass, which I have resisted all these years ... I hope I like it.
calpoppy - I was thinking you'd be able to see that cloud - on satellite it was huge!
Yeah, the wind ... again. I mean, I know it's always windy in certain places but it seems like it has been excessive more often than usual. I was in Ventura late yesterday afternoon and wished I had my video camera. The wind was whipping like crazy - much worse than here in SP and really bad even for there - on video it would have looked like a tropical storm with the palm trees and such.
Well, I'm going to Ventura later today and don't know what the wind will be like but will take the camera, just in case, and might try for the beach as there is a coastal flood warning. It's cold there, though, so I might not, LOL
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