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My not so “Super” Moon
Over the weekend there was a bunch of hoopla over the “Super Moon”. While it’s true it’s the biggest full Moon of the year, it really isn’t that much bigger. Visually you can’t even tell the difference People thought it look huge, but that was mostly because they don’t look up very often and see the full Moon every month. All the hype bugged me, but it really shouldn’t have. I guess anything that gets people to look up is a good thing.
Amateur astronomer’s hate full Moons. They are super bright and wash out most of the sky making it harder or impossible to see other objects. It’s also the worst time to photograph the moon. When it’s full you don’t get any shadows and can’t see much detail in the craters.
Here are a few pictures I took of the gibbous Moon last week. You can see more detail in the craters on the side of the Moon that’s shaded. Near the terminator—the line the separates night from day—is always the best place to see crater detail, and you can see on the other side of the Moon very little crater detail is visible. I prefer a crescent Moon, but sometime you have to take what you can get when the clouds are gone.
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5 myths about GMO and what you need to worry about GMO
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How to Dominate at Monopoly Using Basic Math
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Remember 1990
This video brought back a lot of memories. 1990 was a big year in my childhood. It was the year my family and I moved. I was a sophomore in high school and had to leave all my friends and start over. I made new friends, but nothing like my friends from my old home town. To this day, the best friends I have now I’ve known since 1st grade.
The music of 1990 was horrible too. That’s probably part of the reason why I learned to hate mainstream music. It got better latter into the 90s, but 1990 sucked. Best new artist Milli Vanilli? WTF?
via laughingsquid
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Die Antwoord – “Cookie Thumper”
I’m not a fan of Die Antwoord’s music, but they always have interesting videos.
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Are you donating to one of America’s worst charities?
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This Atheist Supports Mike Huckabee! Let’s Go To Mars!
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“”Everyone Says It So it Must Be True:” The Pseudoscience Quiz”
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Back to the keyboard
Hello blog. It seems like forever since I last posted. I’ve just been enjoying some time away from the keyboard. Enjoying the couple nice days we are having before the mosquitoes take over. Enjoying some good books in my hammock, and got our garden planted. It’s been seven years since we have had a garden. We had one at our old house, but didn’t really have a good spot at this one until I tore out a little rock garden that was looking a little rough. I also built a permanent fence around the garden.
I think it looks much better than a chicken wire fence.
Now we just need some heat so things start to grow.
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Allison Weiss’s video for “Making It Up”
I’m a big fan of Allison Weiss. Today she released her video for “Making It Up”. I love it.
