tim’s pix wishlist

  • OP:CC- “out of control, a discography of the 1990’s”
  • ‘TDIE- “i’ve never trusted a revolutionary that was afraid to dance and a bunch of other stuff”‘
  • Ghost Mice-“the debt of the dead”
  • ‘JAPANTHER “wolfenswan”

locus: stansifer’s

this place might have cool electronics components or stuff to build wifi antennas

Stansifer Radio Co.
1805 S Walnut St,
Bloomington, IN 47401
(812) 336-6339

sherri’s lyrics for oh susquehanna!

the place behind my house where i hiked and
climbed and played
where i ditched this noisy century or just hid out
from the decade
m/i homes thought it could stand to be updated
forced it all into a grid til it looked like the funny
pages
with every trace of life, it seems, confined
within a frame
the faces move from day to day but the strips
all look the same
and the punchlines are resoundingly unfunny
to those trapped in the architecture of easy
money

and i feel that this can all come to no good
the kids who populate these cul-de-sacs will
never know what stood
beneath their cookie-cutter houses, the fields
and streams and woods,
they’ll sit and cars and wait for mom to drive
them away from this boring neighborhood…

PhysOrg: The best meteor shower of 2004 peaks on Dec. 13th

PhysOrg: The best meteor shower of 2004 peaks on Dec. 13th: “Make hot cocoa. Bundle up. Tell your friends: the best meteor shower of 2004 is about to peak on a long cold December night.
It’s the Geminids. The best time to look is Monday night, Dec. 13th. Sky watchers who stay outside for a few hours around midnight can expect to see dozens to hundreds of ‘shooting stars.'”

Update 2004-12-13:
this post on slashdot suggests: “If you have an old-type film camera, put it on top of a tripod and set it to Bulb mode (in most cameras marked as B). If it is really old, take the battery out, they will function without any power (Mitra, I love these old Prakticas and Zenits). Point it towards gemini or zenith, if you don’t know where gemini is. Leave it for 15-20 minutes running, aperture around f/2-3. Move to a new frame after the period is finished. The chances are you will capture more than a couple of shots. if you leave it pointed to Gemini, the shots will be more spectacular.”

another article says: “The Geminids get their name from the constellation of Gemini, the Twins. On the night of this shower’s maximum, the meteors will appear to emanate from a spot in the sky near the bright star Castor in Gemini.”

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the sky fell open crazy this morning, full of pinks and purples, glaring like a mall airbrush kiosk. but because this was somehow and effect of the atmosphere or maybe the frigid cold, and not of pigment or chemical, it is beautiful.