We're going back to our astronomical explorations -- kind of -- for a post. Every once in a while I'll take a stab at the Eagle's "Hotel California" on my guitar. Knowing this and knowing I'm a (very) amateur astronomer some friends sent me this from Youtube.
I always found great comfort in the night sky and even mid-winter, midnight cold didn't stop me from setting up my telescope and roaming the still, clear cosmos. I remember setting up my telescope in the living room one day, aiming it at the setting sun through our big picture window and using screens and mirrors to project the sun's image on the wall. I explained to my mother that the sun didn't have "pimples", those brown blotches were sunspots, and her squealing and holding her apron up to her face when a commercial jet flew in front of the sun and slowly migrated across our living room wall.
"Wave, ma. Maybe they'll wave back."
She raised her hand for just a second before her head snapped from the wall to me and she laughed. I still have that telescope. Several others and still that one. Even fashioned my own mirror at one point.
Enjoy.
Please contact NextStage for information regarding presentations and trainings on this and other topics.
Links for this post:
- Other Triquatrotriticale posts
- Know How Someone Is Thinking in 10 Seconds or Less Half-day training at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC, 13 June 08
- New Communications Forum 2008, 22-25 April 08 at The Vineyard Creek Inn & Spa, Sonoma County CA
- San Francisco Emetrics Marketing Optimzation Summit, 4-7 May 08
- International Communication Association's Communicating for Social Impact, the 58th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association at Le Centre Sheraton Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 22-26, 2008
- SUNY Marketing Professionals Conference at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC, 11-13 June 08
Sign up for the NextStage Irregular, our very irregular, definitely frequency-wise and probably topic-wise newsletter.
