jumpin at shadows.

how we doing today? i pass VLA's near every day. this one happens to be off of astropix. for the unfamiliar, it is a daily astronomy related picture website. i tend to go as often as i can. oh, a VLA is a very large array. array of satellites. the ones i happen across are in vernon, nj. and their purpose is for all manner of things, i assume. i saw some big fuckers in alaska, when i went. still paying for that. but yeah, this astropix brought something to my attention the other day. yesterday. yesterdays astropix really got my attention. it was a vid of the surface of the sun taken by the japanese hinode satellite. im pretty much in love with soho, its in my bookmarks under blogs. but soho is aging, and nasa runs all sorts of blurs over the photos, because there is something they either dont want you to see, or they are being selfish with the higher resolution photos. either way, what you see on that site, and what the equipment is capable of, is a very large rift (capable and current). i wish i knew why. but you see this hinode business. when they posted this i wish they had a channel on tv i could just tune into. oh, you can find that video here, by the way.

im getting really into the sun. i get up early to see it come up on the horizon. i study what the changing light conditions do to the appearance of the clouds. i buy these powerful magnets and run hypotheticals and conditions on them. to me it does not get much better. magnets people, magnets. magnetosphere? i really dont know. but i have this video i borrowed from derek called solar max. what a ride this sucker is.

speaking of rides, or lack there of, i got to retry the fountain experience. to me, this is an enjoyable film, if only slightly. i just cant help but feeling there could be more. the story could have moved in a direction it did not. i left feeling just a little cheated, or something. maybe this is how i feel, maybe i feel that im on the level with the content here; to me, it is approachable. therefore there are things id like to think i know which are rich in lore and legend to take and pull this sucker up and over the top. there was too much cheese. these days a movie has to have some sort of romantic plot line. basically it has to have a plot line. maybe i felt a documentary would have suited this topic a little better?

its hard to grasp what im feeling. which is the reason i traded away two of the superstar names i was so in love with on my fantasy hockey team. todd bertuzzi and peter forsberg now belong to de best. i set up a condition i thought was fair and probably ended up ripping myself off. gotta look forward tho. and yall really dont care. do you care that every time a dry leaf blows in front of my car i think its a critter which results in me swerving all over the road and an elevated heart rate? it has happened so many times youd think id be over it. its happened repeated seasons. yet no matter what i take the bait and bite. speaking of sympathy for critters, i lost isaac yesterday. its kinda sad. i liked that bird. maybe ill catch up with you later, isaac.

so yeah, if youre looking for something new to listen to try out the gotan project, i got lunatico and i really like it.