Mar 16 2024 - Niagara Falls is Preparing for the Total Eclipse of the Sun

 

The Solar Eclipse is being billed as a "once in a lifetime event".  It has a name:  "Great North American Eclipse".   Have you chosen your viewing spot?  Supposedly upwards  of 1 million people have chosen Niagara Falls for the historic moment.  This will be the largest crowd Niagara Falls will see in its own history.  The Mayor is preparing for what is being billed as a "notable" location. It was in 1925 that the last full solar eclipse was viewable in Niagara Falls.  And the next one is 2144.  One can understand why so many people will go to Niagara Falls. TRhe raging sound and sight of the falls with the overhead spectacle. That's a lot of QEW traffic.  Will people stop on the highway when the solar eclipse starts to happen?  What will transpire?  Anyone anywhere east of Hamilton will be in the path of totality - the closest most accessible and best place to view the eclipse.   Actually, there are lots of places in the path of totality:   Belleville, Kingston and Cornwall.  Here's the interactive map to see the path.  And the advice about viewing? "If you’re in the path of totality when the moon blocks out 100 per cent of the sun’s light, you can take your protective glasses off during the two to three minutes of the total eclipse, but the CSA recommends wearing proper eye protection before and after. For those outside the path of totality, you must wear protective eyewear for the duration of the eclipse." I wonder what we thought of the total eclipse in times gone by.  What about this Flexify interpretation - thinking the world would go wonky with the Sun disappearing.

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Dec 27 - Christmas Past...Then What?

After Christmas, it is time for more humour.  Here's a site I saw when posting on Twitter for the Fantasy of Trees.  I had no idea there is a significant community contributing windshield notes left on cars.  The notes are creative and funny.  There are 2 threads in these notes.  The first is rude or profane language, and the second is passive aggressive intent.  Many have drawings that are well-done. BuzzFeed has the most diverse notes HERE. Pinterest's are HERE.   Continue on this path, and you will find you can purchase bad parking cards.  These are at wittyyeti - 18+ Bad Parking Cards, 5 designs 10 of each design (50 pack) for $15.99. Here is the product description - it follows the 2 principles:   SICK OF A**HOLES PARKING LIKE JERKS? Finally you can unleash your righteous anger with Witty Yeti’s funny parking notes. LIKE A FAKE PARKING TICKET BUT MEANER. Simply slip it under the windshield wiper, through the driver’s door window, or into the gas tank with some sugar...Editor’s Note: Definitely don’t do this. DEPUTIZE YOURSELF in the fight against bad parking. We can’t win without your help, soldier. There are people parking over the lines as we speak! SERVE THE PARKING GODS by distributing instant justice to the disrespectful idiots incapable of following the basic rules of parking lot decency. PRINTED ON THICK, CLASSY UV COATED PAPER for maximum revenge. Each pack comes with 50 cards, 10 copies of each joke. Wittyyeti is a site dedicated to these bad-language rude pranks.  Ship your friends an embarrassing box prank with names like BigAssDildos or MicroPenisCure. Prank stickers are HERE.  Everything is guaranteed rude and embarrassing. There's no need to pay for these things - especially since Christmas is now Past. Check out the free printable bad parking notes you can download at no expense.  Here is a sampling:     If you feel very strongly about bad parking and want to pursue this, the domain site name below is available for sale.  With the reach of the internet, there is so much that can be created in a day, a week, a month.  I wonder what is being created now and can entertain us by January 1st, 2019. Our image today is reflections on moving water.

Reflections Catch Fire

Reflections on Fire

Florida has so much water.  One looks out and sees the ocean, inland waterways, and small rivers and ponds beside the highway.  This water was inside at the Marine Aquarium with a little bit of reflecting light from the overhead neon signs.  I used the Topaz Glow filter to amplify it and electrify it.