Fall

Total Solar Eclipse - Aug 21, 2017

The path cuts through Oregon, and I intend to be there.

http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2017-august-21

Addendum: You can find a more exacting map at this site.

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2017Aug21Tgoogle.html

I hope it's not cloudy. I'm heading to central Oregon to use the Cascades as a cloud deflector. Somewhere between Warm Spring and Madras on Highway 26 should do the job. 

Equinox - Fall - Yogi

What's better on the day of equal day and equal night than to dredge up a simply awful monster movie from 1970? It has monsters, imperiled teenagers, and a book of power. Sweet.  

Happy first day of Fall.

Sadly, however, we say goodbye to the immortal Yogi Berra who passed away today after 90 amazing years. I love Yogi's message to President Obama on this famous picture of Jackie Robinson stealing home on Berra in the World Series.

Ahhhh... Friday.

A little beauty.

A Brief History of Everything

Neil deGrasse Tyson needs less than nine minutes to spin science's creation myth. There is awesomeness. 

http://youtu.be/7KYTJ8tBoZ8

Mulitverse

I've long enjoyed playing with the idea of the multiverse. The basic idea is that there exists and infinite number of universes that represent all the various permutation and potential outcome that are possible. You can easily squeeze the notion or reincarnation or some manner of post-death experience into its theoretical constraints. It's a great topic for the end of evening when everyone has had enough to drink. All that being said, this particular aspect of the multiverse theory is particularly beguiling. 

...and it not Batman, who?