Cancer

Mum is now in Kingfisher ward in Mount Gould which means I can walk there.
And house guests made me dinner which was nice

... I already knew my faith is weak.  

Your attitude is confirmed when you name the spreadsheet that is your answer key "Lab3s--t".

Walter Jones is wearing a Sounders logo on 5th Quarter tonight.  

The play-by-play was fine, but the color guy ... has all the insight of a 15-year-old trying to talk and look down someone's blouse at the same time.

This should be in the fortune cookie thread.

"May random factors operate in your favor."

Barking back at the dog in the car in the other lane confuses the driver more than the dog.  
 
The dog will, however be disappointed at being stood up the next afternoon.

It was 44 years ago today that the Edmund Fitzgerald was being loaded with 26,000 tons of iron ore, prepped for what would become her doomed final voyage.

Stop complicating things!!!!!
 

His last significant hit.  I bought the 45 of this when it came out.

Mother told me, yes, she told me
That I'd meet girls like you
She also told me, "Stay away
You'll never know what you'll catch"
But just the other day I heard
Of a soldier's falling off
Some Indonesian junk
That's going round Mommy's all right
Daddy's all right
They just seem a little weird
Surrender
Surrender
But don't give yourself away
Hey, heeeeeey Father says, "Your mother's right
She's really up on things
Before we married, Mommy served
In the WACS in the Philippines”
Now, I had heard the WACs recruited
Old maids for the war
But mommy isn't one of those
I've known her all these years Mommy's all right
Daddy's all right
They just seem a little weird
Surrender
Surrender
But don't give yourself away
Hey, heeeeeey Whatever happened to all this season's
Losers of the year?
Every time I got to thinking
Where'd they disappear?
And when I woke up, Mom and Dad
Are rolling on the couch
Rolling in numbers, rock and rollin'
Got my KISS records out Mommy's all right
Daddy's all right
They just seem a little weird
Surrender
Surrender
But don't give yourself away
Hey, heeeeeey Away
Away Surrender
Surrender
But don't give yourself away
Surrender
Surrender
But don't give yourself away

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice, there is.

You went out in pubic wearing that?

Brighton... It's like Santa Cruz, only colder. 

Monday morning (US time) there is a transit of Mercury.  Where I am, it will be in progress at sunrise and continue until about 10AM.
 
Transits of Mercury are problematic.  The angular size of Mercury is too small for you to be able to see it with the unaided eye.  But this event is Mercury passing in the front of the Sun from our point of view.  Put those together and that means that in order to see it, you need to stare at the Sun through a telescope, which I DO NOT RECOMMEND.
 
(Never look at the Sun through any magnifying or light-collecting apparatus, unless it's been set up by a professional.  Even then, make the pro look first before you try it.)
 
There are several ways to see this event safely, but it takes significant safety precautions and continuous attention.  This can be done, but if you haven't done it before, you are taking an unwarranted risk.  I have been in the dome with a telescope pointed at the Sun, when the heat melted the cement in the eyepiece and parts of the lens fell on the floor.  Fortunately, no one was looking through it at the time.  If you're really interested in this event, see if a local museum or educational institution is hosting a viewing session for it; those are much more likely to have the requisite equipment and expertise.
 
Transits of Mercury are uncommon (very roughly several years to a decade between them), but occur much more often than the less-than-once-a-lifetime frequency that transits of Venus have.  The next transit of Mercury after Monday is in 2032.

I don't think I've seen that one before, at least in that format.  That's an infrared image, and at first my guess was Jupiter and its rings.
 
Finally found it: a groundbased (!!) image of Uranus, 2.2 micron band, from the Keck on Mauna Kea, taken 2004.

Get the gatorade cooler and chase it down!!!

Re: A Thread for Random Mooings
 
Moo! G-d yes! Moo!

Re: A Thread for Random Mooings
 
I think Cancer has ate some tainted beef.
 
Warning! Mad Scientist on the hoof!