chart with moon distances (perigee and apogee) for your location: www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/distance.html You can also find upcoming eclipses: www.timeanddate.com/eclipse and other fun random things to temporarily entertain yourself with: www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html
Overheard in LACMA: conversation between child (~10 yrs old?) and parent Child: Are we almost done? Parent: Yes it looks like we are. Child: There are millions of pictures. Why would people paint so many pictures? It’s a fair question.
“We are all prisoners of our prose style” — David Brooks of The New York Times as stated during a story on Hillary Clinton’s recent interview with the Atlantic, All Things Considered, August 15, 2014 a quick Google search shows … Continue reading
solar calendars: the Roman calendar became the Julian calendar became the Gregorian calendar (composed of 97 leap years every 400 years) lunar calendars: such as the Chinese calendar (not, in fact, the official calendar of China), the Mayan calendar (with its five … Continue reading
Once upon a time in the early 2000s, I went to buy a concert ticket from my local, neighborhood, chain CD store. The clerk was taken aback by how far in advance I was buying a ticket for whatever band … Continue reading
