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ol' 2long - I saw it man - and you didn't! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="images/icons/tongue.gif" /> Got to work early so I could see the sunrise from the 14th floor. Used a black negative for a filter and caught the last hour or so. Best part was when some thin clouds rolled by and I could drop the filter - it showed up better then. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="images/icons/tongue.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="images/icons/tongue.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="images/icons/tongue.gif" /> WAT <small>[ June 08, 2004, 07:01 AM: Message edited by: worthatry ]</small>
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Yep!
We have the Maroon Layer out here 2day. I suppose I could have driven up the hill and gee whizzed it from there, but work was so much more enticing I couldn't see myself doing that.
I've got one more chance in 8 years, then I'll have 2 live 2 be 164 for the next one.
...maybe if I eat right?...
-ol' 2long
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Ya gotta help me with the "Maroon Layer." Don't know what that is. Our crabs turn more rusty red than maroon when you steam 'em.
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They call it the "marine layer" officially, but I get claustrophobic when I can't see the stars at night, hence the rename.
keep looking up!
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2Long needs a brain MRI...
He's talkin bout the ~marine layer~...
fog that rolls in off the Pacific and the stars cannot be seen....
Los Angeles weather people call this...
June gloom.
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I didn't even try the Venus thing - drizzly drizzly and MORE drizzly here in GA this morning.
HOWEVER...
I did go to Cincinnati for a graduation over the weekend and I got to experience the Cicadas first hand!
That oughta be worth *something*.
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turtlehead:
YES! It's worth something!
...as is staying at a Holiday Inn Express or saving a ton of money on your car insurance...
How much money does it take 2 make a ton? Even in pennies, that's gotta be a lot.
-ol' 2long
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Speaking of cicadas, I forgot to mention that as I was looking at Venus in front of the sun, a cicada flew between me and the sun/Venus - a cicada transit? (To be truthful, this probably happened several times as the clumsy oafs are flying everywhere.)
So, 2long, you can figure this out - when was the last time a lving person observed a combination Venusian/17 year Brood X cicada transit?
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WAT: Check out Google's logo 2day! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="images/icons/cool.gif" /> -ol' 2long
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Cool! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="images/icons/cool.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="images/icons/cool.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="images/icons/cool.gif" />
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Sheesh - I read all about the event, but on MSN it said that people in California would not be able to see it.
I am a star and universe nut. This is probably too much ancient history for you all, but I got addicted way back when my dad took us out at night to see the Russian satellite, Sputnik.
I love Carl Sagan's books. I have a telescope, and look at all of the skies every night.
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WAT, I saw it on TV, does that count????
It was amazing!!!!
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I'm sure it does! It DID look a lot better on CNN.
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"> Check out Google's logo 2day!
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">They changed it already.
What was it? Tell! Tell!
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It was cool. They replaced one of the "o's" in Google with a sun and a black dot.
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