Monday, December 21, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
The Temptation of Adam
“Oh Marie if you would stay then we could stick pins in the map of all the places where you thought that love would be found. But I would only need one pin to show where my heart's at, in a top-secret location three hundred feet under the ground. We could hold each other close and stay up every night, looking up into the dark like it's the night sky and pretend this giant missile is an old oak tree instead, and carve our name in hearts into the warhead.
Oh Marie there's something tells me things just won't work out above. That our love would live a half-life on the surface. So at night while you are sleeping I hold you closer just because as our time grows short I get a little nervous.
I think about the Big One, W.W.I.I.I. Would we ever really care the world had ended? You could hold me here forever like you're holding me tonight.
I look at that great big red button and I'm tempted.”
-- Josh Ritter, The Temptation of Adam
Oh Marie there's something tells me things just won't work out above. That our love would live a half-life on the surface. So at night while you are sleeping I hold you closer just because as our time grows short I get a little nervous.
I think about the Big One, W.W.I.I.I. Would we ever really care the world had ended? You could hold me here forever like you're holding me tonight.
I look at that great big red button and I'm tempted.”
-- Josh Ritter, The Temptation of Adam
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Bad Weather On the Horizon
http://cdn4.libsyn.com/astronomy/lunar_halo.JPG?nvb=20091205181701&nva=20091206182701&t=093b60331369045e802f5
"A Ring Around The Moon
The ring around the Moon is caused by the refraction of Moonlight (which of course is reflected sunlight) from ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. The shape of the ice crystals results in a focusing of the light into a ring. Since the ice crystals typically have the same shape, namely a hexagonal shape, the Moon ring is almost always the same size.
Less typical are the halos that may be produced by different angles in the crystals. They can create halos with an angle of 46 degrees."
"Moon Ring Weather Folklore
Folklore has it that a ring around the moon signifies bad weather is coming, and in many cases this may be true. So how can rings around the moon be a predictor of weather to come? The ice crystals that cover the halo signify high altitude, thin cirrus clouds that normally precede a warm front by one or two days. Typically, a warm front will be associated with a low pressure system which is commonly referred to as a storm.
It is believed that the number of stars within a moon halo indicate the number days before bad weather will arrive. Give it a try the next time you observe a moon halo."
http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moonring/
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