Cancer

Quiberon Bay

Hmm. The next RPG character I have may need to be named Dunning Kruger. He might look too much like Groo, though.

There is a remarkable surplus of lawyers nation-wide in any event. It's kind of the Doritos of professions: Crunch all you want, we'll make more.

Oh, that. Don't worry about that. Isn't it written in the rules that teams west of Oklahoma need not apply, unless they are based in metropolitan areas with populations of ten million or greater?

Hilo, Hawaii

Do they toss cookies instead?

(suppress X-rated references) Atlantic Ocean

Is that Stephen Wright either the English or the Scottish footballer?

(more of the same) Scarlet

Olive drab

I don't think anyone realized that transits of Venus (which are naked-eye observable, but very rare: sort of a pair of 'em separated by 8 years, then a ~120-year gap until the next one) existed until Halley, IIRC, predicted them in the 1600s. Transits of Mercury are rather more common, but it takes a telescope to see those. Transits of Earth as seen from Mars do occur, but those are separated in time by multiple centuries. Assuming you can see the Moon from Mars (more on this below), the Earth & Moon are far enough apart that it would be obvious that Earth has a companion. Earth's disk is bigger than that of the Moon by a factor of 7.35 (comparing areas of circles there), and Earth's albedo is about 2.5 times larger, but clouds are brighest, land next brightest, and ocean darkest, so its apparent brightness would depend on weather and what part of Earth was facing you at the time. The Moon is smaller and darker but its surface is much closer to uniform in its reflection properties. I could find a reference stating that Earth gets about as bright as apparent magnitude -2.5 as seen from Mars, but wasn't able to find a statement about the Moon's apparent magnitude; depending on how all that gangs together the Moon may or may not be naked-eye bright from Mars. I think details are going to matter, and I was being very fast and sloppy in this estimating. Another influence is whether the Moon is at elongation or not at the time the Martians were looking; I think maximum elongation would put the separation of Earth and Moon at about 0.08 degrees, which you can see if your eyes are good. Whether you could make out faint Moon that close to bright Earth is more a visual perception question, and I can't answer that one. (I gave all this some thought last time I was building a FRPG world and thinking about making astrological influences matter.)

Found, on an NFL fanblog of all things.

Lavender (I seem to be in a purple mood today)

"With tongue."

To get real-time data on bright transients

Annularity made landfall about 15 minutes back. And, we got another sucker hole with a sightline from kitty-corner across the street, with roughly 2/3 coverage. It only gets up to about 80% here.

"Never defrost your fridge with a hammer."

amethyst

My apologies to Denver fans, it's worse than you could have imagined

First contact of the Moon's shadow on Earth of today's eclipse happened as I typed this. Sucky weather here on the West Coast, though. EDIT: 40 minutes later, thanks to a sucker hole in the clouds and driving down to the high school parking lot to avoid trees, and my formidable array of eclipse glasses, saw it at about 20% eclipsed.

The only hazard that befell us on Halloween was when bigger kids would prey on smaller kids who were out late, stealing their loot after roughing them up a bit. Oh, and the Halloween evening when it dropped 4 inches of snow on the trickertreeters ... the only non-trace snowfall that autumn/winter.