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February 26, 2014
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Why don't you go to this:

http://www.mountainx.com/artic.....ime-events

and report back. It is out of my budget, but some of those topics sound really intriguing.

February 27, 2014
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Heck for a $100 many many of those seminars would really be a lot of fun! thanks, nice link!!! (I can see why the Moodies played there now)

February 27, 2014
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Curses! I missed that part about the $99 deal! 'Til now, I only knew about the $1000 passes that included lodging and transpo to and from the airport.

The Moodies played there?????

February 27, 2014
9:40 am
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Well they were in Asheville a few years ago yes? They used to have Moogs. Or Mike did, and I think Justin bought one too, when they first came out commercially.

February 27, 2014
8:55 pm
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They were here on a Sunday, and I think the Moog factory was closed. They probably drove past it on the Interstate, though. They stayed and played within a few miles of it. More likely, Moog came to them. The city's police chief and economic development director were at the concert and really dug it. I have to be nice to them, now.

BTW, I ran into somebody who used to work at ESJ's parent company. She has no idea what happened to the inventory but thinks surely nobody would have burnt it. One day, I will get you a space weather edition.

February 28, 2014
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Sounds nice............... I run across that stuff periodically, I take Discover magazine........ I plan to go through and thin all these Nat Geos around here too, and will be on the look out for them. Speaking of which, can you see Northern Lights tonight? We're too cloudy here, but I guess there was recently a pretty big flare.

February 28, 2014
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I have never seen an aurora, much to my dismay. The closest I came was that thingy in Oakland.

Some of the best photographers of northern lights contributed to that great space weather issue, though. Imagine my horror when I discovered all these beautiful pictures were merely time-lapse. There was another guy who did some cool time-lapse art with Tesla coils. You can check out his work here:

http://tesladownunder.com/tesl.....sparks.htm

I liked the photo of him with a halo. When's your birthday? Maybe you should enjoy the entire set of back issues. We had to go out of business because the post office was making more off the publications than we were, and after they took their rake, we would have been operating at a loss if I hadn't been picking up the postage. To remain independent, we were forbidden by the founder to solicit ads or grants, and once he made that great journey into the cosmos, the powers that be'd cut off all means he had arranged to transfer money to the organization, including severing ties to the parent organization. All work henceforth had to be conducted on a volunteer basis after hours, when good scientists sleep and expensive computer software was locked up for the night.

It was a beautiful arrangement while it lasted.

February 28, 2014
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You are a good shrink, luna. The blood is starting to circulate, rousing interest in resuming the alchemy. Of course, if I were a real alchemist, I wouldn't let on that I had any interest in the art, would I? Or, did I just say that to make you really think I was an alchemist, and so on, and so on.

February 28, 2014
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I've been sitting in the middle of the perfect storm, whining while not realizing the greatest commodity of all was all around. Meanwhile, I've been going to all these concerts and hearing every night:

1. There's none so blind as those who cannot see.
2. They've got tiiiiiiiiii-iiiiiiiiiiiiiii-iiiiiiiiiiiiime.

Me happy.

February 28, 2014
7:27 pm
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Hey if you have any fun magazines you don't want, throw them in the car and come to Arizona. Not too many now, the objective at my house is to thin it out! I *think* I saw the aurora one night very late, my cat and I went outside bundled up in my anorak. Poor little Moe, he was shivering. But the sky had a greenish glow to it.... very nice. None of those curtain thingies.

That light up we saw was probably a transformer blowing in the wind.

Magazines have got to have financial support or they wither away, that's a fact.

February 28, 2014
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Online would be cheap. We could resume the work and save the postage. There are a ton of legal considerations, but you have inspired me to get cracking. Even if it didn't turn a profit, it would make me feel like I was contributing to the human race again. What does this have to do with the Moody Blues?

I'd love to pack the car with a complete set, but it would probably double the gas mileage. Arizona is calling my name . . . . . .

Wow, it's less than a week before some people get to see Justin again. I shall be waiting longer, but I'm anxious. Maybe that is why I am feeling so good. Maybe it was those guys at church who caught me off-guard asking what they could do for me. I was too stymied to think of anything.

February 28, 2014
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Eeek don't bring them ALL just a couple, I'd love to see them but not sure I want to adopt all 10 boxes!!! I'm going to be up there for mileage too, taking these boxes of books to my brother. But it IS his birthday... sigh, if we don't get rain again tomorrow I'll clean out the garage and try to figure out how many boxes.

Why do garages always turn into messes less than a week after being cleaned???
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http://www.foxnews.com/science.....gibberish/

Today's lesson, boys and girls, is "The Jim Beam Method" years ago one of my professors showed up with an empty bottle of Jim Beam and told this story. When he was young, he and his friends were given a job by a high paying company to work up statistics for a helicopter development project, supposed to improve reaction time of pilots. So he and his friends rented a hotel room for the weekend, took a bunch of paper, pencils, and a large economy size bottle of Jim Beam into the room with them. On Monday they came out with an empty bottle, and a set of impressive statistics. They were widely quoted.

No one laughed. I was in the back of the room heaving with laughter, and trying to keep from shrieking out loud.

The bottom line, boys and girls: don't swallow the "facts" hook line and sinker. If it doesn't seem quite right to you, speak up, and do your homework in advance. I had history class yesterday, and told the kids the same. Don't be afraid to challenge the teacher on "facts" but be sure to do your research and have your references.

March 1, 2014
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As soon as I build that superluminal spaceship, I'll report back on the actual temperature of stars, pointing out flaws in our current chromatic methods, at least relative to those used on my spaceship.

. . . which reminds me of the great pickup line: Hey, Justin. Wanna ride in my spaceship?

March 1, 2014
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Superluminal............... I like it. Not used often enough in sci-fi.........

must dash, my luncheon dates for the weekend are filled, and now I have to fulfill them! Laugh

March 1, 2014
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Well, hi, luna. I see we are on this site at the same time. But since you are no doubt a believer in the widespread interpretations of One-Mug's theory of special relativity, you shall surely argue that the man speeding past you makes us here at different times.

The job demands some bookkeeping, so I shall dash, too. Me likes physics. Keep the cool posts coming.

March 2, 2014
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I enjoy physics too.......... we were doing this problem the other day in advanced math with the rotational speed of a bicycle, and you had to figure out the speed of the chain, and the inner sprocket.... involved pi and all that... I got about half way through it, and the class genius got up and did it right. They were nice to me, but it was plain my math skills have atrophied seriously. Advanced that is, I can still teach up through Algebra no problem.

More into theory these days and speculation. The concept of quanta in thought is still fascinating tho.

March 4, 2014
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Ok no chicken jokes.

Thought you'd find this interesting leslee. Of course it's pop science, but the objective here is to have fun and maybe put our cosmology on a level that fifth graders can understand....

http://www.foxnews.com/science.....icken-eye/

After reading it, it wasn't so mysterious, it reminds me of the color theory behind map making. You can't get away with just four colors in making a map, or two of them will eventually touch. You have to use five colors. I'll be darned if I can remember the name of the principle.

March 4, 2014
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I've heard of the Four Color Theorem, named after that great scientist, Sir Four Color. I suppose his cousin Five was more of a three-dimensional cartographer.

That was a cool article. I liked the illustration, too. Me wuv optics!

March 5, 2014
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Yeah see? Birds see more colors than we do. We only have two (or three) cones.... the red/green ones, and the blue/yellow ones. The third cell is a rod, which gives light/dark. So, to birds we are color blind. I do love the math in that tho.

My cousin is red/green color blind, and I'm always forgetting that........ poor guy, he covers well. Shhh. Oddly none of the women who are carriers for the gene have had children in our family. It might be dying out. Not like it slows anyone down.

March 5, 2014
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How do you know you're not colorblind and the carriers have not given birth to a nation of Blue Men?

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