The Longest Thread Ever!

[Jetée]

the sun comes down on me... (and melts away)

[BadNick]

Thank you for your confidence. It makes it all the easier to post here. I shall look for my tutu.

[carrot glace]

tutu? am i missing something?

hello

[BadNick]

why? did you loose your tutu?

[carrot glace]

maybe, did I need one? I can not remember ever owning one, but I think I could get one if it was needed.

[BadNick]

get one and then we can be two tutu's, too twirling to tunes

[Jetée]

knickety-knack...


(contradictions)

[BadNick]

Originally Posted by Jetée

...knickety-knack...

Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

[Ourcrazymodern?]

What Internet Explorer can't do
boggles the mind if beyond what it can do,
& it sounds like a rap song.

[BadNick]

This time it almost worked. It opened but now it says the video is private.

Perhaps one of my boys has T.I.'s "I'm Back" so I'll get their advice.

[Jetée]

I saw it once, and then again --



what could it be? (my 'C' button is slightly not adhering; on topic: something in Utility may have been altered to the way in which images are affixed. Do you notice it?)

[Zooksport2]

Bundy Bear!

[BadNick]

I visitied my mom earlier today. She sends her regards to all you you. She's 88 years old this year and still getting around pretty well. In a couple weeks I'll take her to the Philadelphia Flower Show as I usually do every year.

[Jetée]

I guess it's just the one instance (there is definitely a little dustmite under my 'C').

Is it Lenten season yet?

[Ourcrazymodern?]

(24/4)-1=5

For Lent, I'm giving this up:
Conjecture deserves extrapolation.
(I don't give anything up.)

"...oh, she went through a brief liberal period, when life had really hurt her. When she became comfortable again she conservatived up."

[jewels]

I still remember last year's photos from the flower show!

OCM, sometimes you just have to ...

YouTube - GOT TO GIVE IT UP - MARVIN GAYE (1977)

YouTube - GOT TO GIVE IT UP - MARVIN GAYE (1977)

[Jetée]

Oh... is there a word to describe this current state of dilapidated enlightenment?


(Oh... I shouldn't have gone and experienced The Sunset Limited; once was enough, twice beat me down.)


-- (to note: in my opinion, over the course of the last 50-odd years, and over many different mediums and re-imaginings, the three most depressing short-form / longform works of fictional character protagonist's are, succinctly so: Ditko / Lee's The Amazing Spiderman (Peter Parker), Schulz's Peanuts (Charlie Brown), & McCarthy's The Sunset Limited (White /- Professor))


What/who do you find quite absymally-draining, when contemplatng the eternal (futile?) struggle in which we too often attribute to life? (Is Odysseus one of the forefathers of all our woes, you think? Hmm.. The Bible has countless stories of tragedies and moral recountings - a true "Black & White" conflict of ideals.)

[BadNick]

My thumbs are already starting to get greenish, possibly because I just joined the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, partly because I get free tickets to the flower show plus a couple other nice little goodies. I'm starting to be quite the Society member now...I think this makes 4 Societies!

---------- Post added at 11:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:22 PM ----------

Originally Posted by Jetée

...What/who do you find quite absymally-draining, when contemplatng the eternal (futile?) struggle in which we too often attribute to life?...

I must have lucked out since for the most part I'm enjoying the ride ...not that there have been no struggles, but hey, that's imperfect life. I don't even expect perfection ...that seems futile.

[Jetée]

Well, I'm going to make like this visual feature and ... (get caught up)

How quickly can you come up with a pun?

How quickly can you come up with a pun?

[Ourcrazymodern?]

(2x4)-(4x2)=0

Doing x instead of y
without the knowing why you do so
is totally natural.

[BadNick]

Thanks, Ocm?, that makes me feel so quadratic. I have two answers to every question.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Two answers to the question
of our current dearth of transcendence
would seem to be in order:

If we could halve the diff'rence
of versus the monstrously popular
the shine would be off of it.

2into44=22

[Jetée]

Originally Posted by BadNick

I must have lucked out since for the most part I'm enjoying the ride ...not that there have been no struggles, but hey, that's imperfect life. I don't even expect perfection ...that seems futile.

Would you allow me speak about my childhood?

Would you allow me speak about my childhood?

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Speaking of childhood,
too highly so can't be done,
it's impossible!

(24/4)-2=4

[BadNick]

For some reason I found it difficult to not watch the whole film clip even though I don't know French. The end reminded me driving from North Jersey to Watkins Glen in a Citroen SM back in the early '70's to watch the U.S. Grand Prix. It was a very cool car.

[Jetée]

Just to keep this ill-scoring game of disjointed dialogues going, an excerpt from my newly-revived TLTE!-webnote:

[BadNick]

hmmm. I see elipses, triangles, circles, symetry. I'm sure there's more I didn't see yet.

[Jetée]

I'm unaware of any tri-formed polygons [in the previous, above image]. In which panel did you notice some?

[BadNick]

top center, I see some triangular forms and spaces. Spaces have feelings, too, you know.

[Ourcrazymodern?]

"Spaces have feelings,"
they all have some triangles,
except lower right.

2+(4/4)=3+0

[BadNick]

in space the space between us is almost nothing

[cruisinmags]

going to take a while to achieve!

[BadNick]

yes, but with your help we can do anything...try to stay unbanned next time

[BadNick]

OBSERVING BLOG by Tony Flanders

See Venus in Broad Daylight!

If it's clear at dawn on Monday and Tuesday, February 28th and March 1st, you can see one of nature's loveliest sights — Venus near the thin crescent Moon.



Look southeast before sunrise to spot the waning Moon and Venus. These scenes are drawn for the middle of North America. European observers: move each Moon symbol a quarter of the way toward the one for the previous date. For clarity, the Moon is shown three times actual size.

Thoughtful readers looking at the chart at right might have two questions. First, if the Moon is above Venus on Monday and below it on Tuesday, it must be very near it some time in between. When will this close approach happen, and where will it be visible?

Second, just how long into dawn will you be able to see this scene? The Moon is often visible during broad daylight. Is that true of Venus, too?

Let's answer the second question first. Yes, Venus is indeed visible to the unaided eye during broad daylight, assuming that the air is reasonably free of haze. In fact, it's startlingly easy to see — but equally hard to find. It's just a tiny pinprick of light amid the vast sea of blue sky. Even after you succeed in finding Venus, it's very easy to lose sight of it if you glance away for a moment.

For this reason, by far your easiest chance to observe Venus during the day is when it happens to be near the Moon — a much easier object to find. And that will happen twice for observers in the Americas: on Monday and again on Tuesday.

There's one way to be absolutely sure of observing Venus after the Sun has risen, but it requires a lot of time and patience. Go out a half hour before sunrise, when Venus is blindingly obvious, and track its position until the Sun rises, and even after. The way to do this is to periodically look down from Venus to the horizon, and see what landmark lies directly below it. Then it's relatively easy to relocate Venus by scanning upward from that landmark.



In these daylight scenes, the Moon is shown its actual apparent size relative to the distance between it and Venus. Venus is shown bright here for clarity, but appears much fainter against the bright daytime sky. Binoculars are not necessary to see either the Moon or Venus, but they're extremely helpful.

If you don't want to hang around outside for 45 minutes on a chilly late-winter morning, your second-best bet is to look when the Moon and Venus are due south and at their highest, which happens around 9 a.m. these mornings. Bring binoculars, because even the Moon is none too easy to spot during the day when it's a thin crescent.

Once you've located the Moon, use your binoculars to scan carefully to the left on Monday morning, using the February 28th diagram to tell you how far to scan. Most 7× to 10× binoculars actually have a field of view a bit bigger than what's shown, but the outer edge of the field is often a little hard to see.



In these daylight scenes, the Moon is shown its actual apparent size relative to the distance between it and Venus.

The closest approach between Venus and the Moon takes place when the Moon is below the horizon for the Americas. But it's a fine sight from eastern and central Asia, as shown in the March 1st diagram. By the time the Moon rises in the Americas on Tuesday morning, it's already well to the left of Venus. This is a second opportunity to spot Venus during daylight hours, but it's a bit tougher than on Monday because the Moon's phase has shrunk from roughly 15% to 10%, making it significantly harder to spot in the blue day sky.

Posted by Tony Flanders, February 25, 2011

[Jetée]

It seems you REALLY might like that "Stars & Space" topic to be a virtual reality, soon rather than later, eh, BadNick?

I don't know where I'm going, doing, or even trying to accomplish these past few weeks. I've been so tangled and tired and taxed. Hm.
(I don't even have the latent energy to post thrice a a visit anymore, not even mentioning the fact I have around 20 times the number of "dailies" threads that just linger in my absence.)

If you haven't found the impetus to start the new arcadium for pictures, notes & articles relating to the celestial bodies as of yet, and if you'd truly to contribute to one if it were to exist, I just simply ask: where would the best location be, in your opinion, for its nature, topicality and participation? (in my mind, the first three choices that bubble forth are in the Playground, right HERE - tho it might get buried on a daily basis due to all the games, or perhaps in Knowledge and How-To)

[Ourcrazymodern?]

Originally Posted by BadNick

...try to stay unbanned next time

as good advice goes, this is golden:
What does it take to get banned?

Stars in space
have other topics
orbiting.

[Jetée]

Tame Impala - Innerspeaker - Runway, Houses, City, Clouds

Tame Impala - Innerspeaker - Runway, Houses, City, Clouds

[carrot glace]

368 days since my last password change? Hate coming up with new passwords

[BadNick]

Originally Posted by Jetée

It seems you REALLY might like that "Stars & Space" topic to be a virtual reality, soon rather than later, eh, BadNick?
As I've hinted in some of my posts, I love astronomy, astro-physics, cosmology...sushi, cars, and other stuff, too.

...If you haven't found the impetus to start the new arcadium for pictures, notes & articles relating to the celestial bodies as of yet, and if you'd truly to contribute to one if it were to exist, I just simply ask: where would the best location be, in your opinion, for its nature, topicality and participation? (in my mind, the first three choices that bubble forth are in the Playground, right HERE - tho it might get buried on a daily basis due to all the games, or perhaps in Knowledge and How-To)

We don't have a specifically "science" section so as I consider the various section names we do have, I don't see any where it would fit better than right here. I don't think it would get buried because I'd post in it at least every other day, if not more frequently. If/when you start it, I'll try to make it a point to post in it every day.

Btw, yesterday I tried to download a half gigabyte picture of the moon that was released recently by "...The work of LROC's wide-angle camera, which provides surface context for those incredible narrow-angle shots, has largely gone unheralded … until now. This past week the team released a new mosaic of the Moon's near side taken entirely with wide-angle frames. Acquired during a two-week period in December, the 1,300 black-and-white frames create a full-disk mosaic measuring 24,000 pixels across. Gulp! But my laptop and/or connection hung up so I'll try again later. Here's a link to the source and below is a greatly reduced version of the photo:

SkyandTelescope.com - News Blog - A Half-Gigabyte View oftheMoon

[Jetée]

Man... that's out of this world big. (I've probably heard of larger images in size, but none that intrigue me as much as what you just spoke for.)

plus... even if/when you do download the thing, I'm not sure that Windows Picture Viewer is going to like opening up a 500+ MB file. Do you have a metric/ft/pixels converter handy? I'm sure it is easy enough to find with "pixel foot converter", but... I can't even comprehend how large in diameter it must be (say: wider than my village block?)