sputnik

What are your favorite French fries? I like Wendy’s. I prefer chocolate malts over shakes. I like them together but I never dip.

I don’t think I posted images from the huge May Aurora. Here are a few that I was able to get at a friend’s ranch closer to home. These large Aurora events are certainly mind blowing. For scale, that is a pretty big mountain range on the left and you can see the setting moon in the lower right horizon.

Thought I’d share a few images that I caught of the Aurora on Thursday night. It was overcast at home so I headed to our place further north. Very active sky and lasted several hours. In the first five images you can see the Big Dipper getting lower, toward the northern horizon, over a three hour timespan from around 10:30 pm to 1:30 am. The fifth image includes the Little Dipper (top center). The sixth image is the view looking west over the corrals toward the Rocky Mountain Front. The house on the property, seen in the last image, is the 120 year-old Great Northern Railway depot that was moved out here from town and restored. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

One of my all time favorite lyrics in context……. “Nothin’ ain’t worth nothin’, but it’s free”

Just got home from my eclipse chase. Planned on Texas but ended up in Bloomington, IN. Still processing my images but here is good sampling. Tap an image for better resolution.

Testing exposures for the April eclipse. Taken today through hazy skies. Taken two weeks ago

Very impressive collection! I only have a handful of Miles Davis albums. I didn’t see these two on your list.

Haven’t posted for a very long time. Time to dust things off.

……ice cream brain freeze

40 below zero and I found myself standing outside with a pot of boiling water.

The big clocks made me think of Dark Side of the Moon. Would’ve been incredible to listen to that in there.

Yeah, it cost him more than money but it sounds like he was willing to pay that price too according to the article. Drove his first wife to drinking, oldest estranged son wished him a slow death, and he simply alienated the rest. After he died, the whole shooting match was pieced out for fifteen cents on the dollar. Sad end to a sad story.

I lifted this post from another forum ( https://forums.thepaceline.net/showthread.php?t=303204 )but thought it might be of interest here. Not sure if this has ever been posted here - I did a quick forum search and found no history. The WAPO article is a cautionary tale. Hope the links work. Please pardon me if this is a repost. Ken Fritz. Approximately $1,000,000 USD. 27 years. A very custom 1,650 square foot addition to his house. 35,000 watt amplifiers. A 1,500 pound (680 kg) turntable with three arms. Three 10 foot main speakers, four 7 foot surround speakers, 24 subwoofers. Just one little excerpt - Quote: “He crafted by hand the three 10-foot speakers that loomed like alien monoliths at the head of the room, with the help of Paul Gibson, a former employee at his fiberglass company. Each 1,400-pound slab pulsed with 24 cone drivers for the deeper tones and 40 tweeters — 30 shooting into the room, 10 toward the crimson curtains draping the wall behind — to project the upper-range sounds.” Gift link. Possibly time limited. https://wapo.st/47ErwZI https://wapo.st/47ErwZI Video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4b2IOOhJmxw