eclipse
yesterday's eclipse was pretty cool. it was like twilight showed up a few hours early. b made an eclipse viewer out of a plastic cup with a pinhole and a white piece of paper. i made one out of a long cardboard roll from long ago used and re-used wrapping paper. the image was pretty faint. so i put the screen inside a box to minimize the amount of ambient light and maximize contrast. it worked. i added a black garbage bag to block the remaining light. but it turns out that black garbage bags aren't very opaque at all. weird. anywho. it was good enough to show the sun was a tiny crescent. no ring of fire for us. we would have had to go a few hundred miles north to see that. ah well. maybe next may we'll find ourselves on a tropical island in the middle of the pacific. or in africa in november. or both. wouldn't that be nice?