Aurora Alert
"A coronal mass ejection (CME) hurled into space by a solar explosion on April 6th is heading in the general direction of Earth. Sky watchers should be alert for auroras when it arrives, probably during the early hours of April 8th UT (for North Americans, that means during the night of April 7th).
Earth is already skirting through a solar wind stream flowing from a coronal hole on the sun. Because of this, geomagnetic storms and auroras are likely, off and on, for the next few days. The best displays will be at high latitudes--e.g., Canada and Alaska. When the incoming CME arrives, auroras could descend to lower latitudes, too..."
7 Nisan 2004 Çarşamba
5 Nisan 2004 Pazartesi
Cobain, 10 Years Later
I used to turn on the radio and every one in a while just get slapped in the ears with a song that made me go WOW.
It's been a long time. The last time it happened was in 1991. I's seen this blue album cover of a naked baby and didn't know what the big deal was.
Then I HEARD it.
Here we are now, entertain us.
It was impossible to make the radio go loud enough.
Suddenly the gawdawful hairmetal bands were dropping like flies, choking on their own hairspray. Suddenly something REAL was in the air.
Fifteen years too late, America has its punk rock hereo, its Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious all in one.
I was driving back from Wisconsin today, in my minivan with the I GUESS I WAS PUNK ONCE bumper sticker, playing Bleach and Nevermind.
Kurt Cobain put every bit of himself into those songs. Then when he had nothing left, when he debuted and number one and destoryes the meaning of the word "alternative," when the pain in his heart and his stomach and his soul got to be too much, he ended it.
Or so he thought.
Because when you make music that alive, even a bullet in the brain can't kill you. When you make a song as incredible as Teen Spirit, you live forever.
I used to turn on the radio and every one in a while just get slapped in the ears with a song that made me go WOW.
It's been a long time. The last time it happened was in 1991. I's seen this blue album cover of a naked baby and didn't know what the big deal was.
Then I HEARD it.
Here we are now, entertain us.
It was impossible to make the radio go loud enough.
Suddenly the gawdawful hairmetal bands were dropping like flies, choking on their own hairspray. Suddenly something REAL was in the air.
Fifteen years too late, America has its punk rock hereo, its Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious all in one.
I was driving back from Wisconsin today, in my minivan with the I GUESS I WAS PUNK ONCE bumper sticker, playing Bleach and Nevermind.
Kurt Cobain put every bit of himself into those songs. Then when he had nothing left, when he debuted and number one and destoryes the meaning of the word "alternative," when the pain in his heart and his stomach and his soul got to be too much, he ended it.
Or so he thought.
Because when you make music that alive, even a bullet in the brain can't kill you. When you make a song as incredible as Teen Spirit, you live forever.
Dylan Appearing in Victoria's Secret Ads
Don't worry. The 62-year-old Dylan keeps his clothes on.
"What would you rather have Bob Dylan selling, ladies' underwear or cat food?"
Consult this site for a long series of punchlines...
Don't worry. The 62-year-old Dylan keeps his clothes on.
"What would you rather have Bob Dylan selling, ladies' underwear or cat food?"
Consult this site for a long series of punchlines...
1 Nisan 2004 Perşembe
Space Geek Report
Clear skies again tonight and I topped my previous feat by viewing the ancient astronomical perfecta all in the telescope:
Mercury rapidly disappearing into the sunset
Venus as high and bright as it ever gets, en route to the June 8 transit, passing right by the Pleiades for a couple days (got them both in the same field of view)
Mars, much much faded from the glory of last summer
Jupiter, with three Galilean moons on one side and one on the other
Saturn, with the air still enough for me to maybe make out the rings (my eyes are getting worse!)
The Moon at waxing gibbous, with really nice relief on the big craters of the southern hemisphere
Then I topped the ancients an hour later by checking out a space station pass.
The scientific evidence from these observations is that I'm a bigger space geek than I thought.
Clear skies again tonight and I topped my previous feat by viewing the ancient astronomical perfecta all in the telescope:
Then I topped the ancients an hour later by checking out a space station pass.
The scientific evidence from these observations is that I'm a bigger space geek than I thought.
Tragic News
THE future is bleak for redheads.
Red hair, say scientists in a report by the Oxford Hair Foundation, is in retreat because a maximum of just 4% of the world's population carry the gene.
Dr. John Gray said black and brown haired people are wiping out the red hair gene.
"The way things are going red hair will either be extremely rare or extinct by the end of the century."
Well, it's not my fault, since I certainly haven't contributed any of my DNA to any redheads...
THE future is bleak for redheads.
Red hair, say scientists in a report by the Oxford Hair Foundation, is in retreat because a maximum of just 4% of the world's population carry the gene.
Dr. John Gray said black and brown haired people are wiping out the red hair gene.
"The way things are going red hair will either be extremely rare or extinct by the end of the century."
Well, it's not my fault, since I certainly haven't contributed any of my DNA to any redheads...
Herseth leads in poll
A big lead for the Most Attractive Woman In American Politics:
With two months remaining in the campaign for South Dakota's U.S. House seat, Democrat Stephanie Herseth has maintained a healthy lead over Republican Larry Diedrich.
Herseth leads Diedrich 53 percent to 37 percent, according to a poll of 501 likely voters conducted last weekend by Zogby International. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percent. 8 percent are undecided.
48 percent said they were unfamiliar with Diedrich, who has not run for a statewide office before. Twelve percent were unfamiliar with Herseth, who ran unsuccessfully against Republican Bill Janklow in 2002...
A big lead for the Most Attractive Woman In American Politics:
With two months remaining in the campaign for South Dakota's U.S. House seat, Democrat Stephanie Herseth has maintained a healthy lead over Republican Larry Diedrich.
Herseth leads Diedrich 53 percent to 37 percent, according to a poll of 501 likely voters conducted last weekend by Zogby International. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percent. 8 percent are undecided.
48 percent said they were unfamiliar with Diedrich, who has not run for a statewide office before. Twelve percent were unfamiliar with Herseth, who ran unsuccessfully against Republican Bill Janklow in 2002...
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