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Total Eclipse (of the fart?)
Uriel
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I'm in the path.
What dark forces should I summon to do my bidding?
Some kind of ghoulies?
What dark forces should I summon to do my bidding?
Some kind of ghoulies?
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We have like 5 simultaneous events that we're helping with tomorrow, and are supposedly expecting ~15,000 visitors or so on campus
Also there is currently a ~40% chance of thunderstorms during the early afternoon, and oh god that would be so funny
I’m 2 miles south of the totality line wah wah….gonna try to sneak up the back roads into the country and hopefully avoid the traffic on 71- they’re telling people to pack a days worth of food and blankets and clothes anticipating the highway will just be blocked for the whole day due to having about 5x cars for every car’s worth of pavement
My dad knows a guy who has like...a summer home condo in northern Arkansas that he's letting us stay in for just the cleaning fee. We're the only people in the building right now and if that forecast proves true we hit the bullseye. Fingers crossed.
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Fart.
I briefly considered the idea of including the text
"Turn around, butt holes" in my op
Instead I settled on a ghoulies reference because they'll get you in the end
man when this finally happens tomorrow it's going to be so fuckkin sweet
Totally did the thing like "is that dust on my sensor?" and moved my camera around. Nope, the spot stayed in the same place on the sun
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I'm more looking forward to this, myself
Damn, these damage pictures are impressive.
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It's still pretty clear out so hopefully that stays relatively true
I'm going to have to stake out a spot on the hill near the apartments this afternoon
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I mean I guess it's kinda neat if you happen to be in the path.
But people driving hours just so they can watch it get dim for a few minutes...
meh.
Being under totality is a much different experience than it just gets dim for a few minutes. Seeing the corona under the total eclipse is special.
Ehhhhhhh....
Is it, though?
Perhaps I just have an underdeveloped sense of awe.
I've never seen a total myself and the last one in 17 was just a partial in my area and was still pretty impressive IMO even though it mostly just got dim.
I'm sorry that you feel that way. From the outside it just looks like you're trying to be negative about an experience people find exciting.
You sound like my siblings calling the Grand Canyon a hole in the ground.
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It's also something that is for a limited time. The moon is drifting further away and eventually totals won't happen.
Not within OUR lifetimes or anything, but when talking the age of the planet
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It seems like it's a little of that, but it could also be what they said: they don't have much of a sense of awe or wonder. The Grand Canyon is just a hole in the ground, the pyramids are just piles of rock, an emotional cinematic masterpiece is just a film, etc. Maybe it's not their fault and it's just how they are, maybe they're unconsciously contrarian, etc. I wouldn't immediately chalk it up to them being a Negative Nancy getting their jollies from shitting on our excitement, but it could just be genuine confusion as to what the big deal is (though the end result is the same, with them raining on our parade)
Actually, upon further research, I am two-three blocks away from the totality line.
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Dear Satan.....
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Warby Parker set up an automated thing on their phone lines just for that. I was going to see if they had any pairs left (lolnope), but I'll be doing the thing with a strainer instead. We're only getting 35% or so coverage in this part of California.