Four Moons In One

This morning around 6am Nashville got our peek at the super rare Super Blue Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse, which sounds like a bad energy drink flavor. This convergence of factors last happened 152 years ago.  I didn't get a picture of it, cell cameras never do celestial shots well, so here it is over New York instead.

What makes a Super Blue Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse? First we have the "super moon" which is when the moon is at its closest point to Earth and appears larger than usual in the sky. Then we have the "blue moon" which has nothing to do with color, it just means a second full moon in the same month which rarely happens. Next the "blood moon"which does refer to color. The sun's rays filtered through Earth's atmosphere during a lunar eclipse turn the moon a copper color. However depending on your area you don't see the eclipse, or only part of it, just the blood moon. And finally of course, the lunar eclipse itself, which is when the Earth comes between the Sun and the Moon.

Here in Nashville we only got about a half eclipse, but it was still cool to see.

Dirty Dancing

Just a normal Sunday around here, cleaning the house while Groot dances to Clutch.

Hello World

Mari just got back from Atlanta where she welcomed a new soul into the Greer (Ireland/Hulden/Christensen) Clan; Mackenzie. She was born on Monday the 22nd.

Cloud Sounds

But luckily (debatable perhaps) we live in a world of near instant gratification, so two days later I have a new set from a certain rain forest related store. The sound is just as amazing on these but what really hit me was how light and comfortable they are. Technology progresses and shrinks as always, these make my old set feel like head-mounted bricks.

Snapped

My beloved headphones broke after many years of use. I tried to superglue them back together but it was right on a flex point and wouldn't hold. They were some of the first high end gaming, multi-directional headphones and had pretty exceptional sound quality. Such is the cycle of things.

Building A Better Dog

Finished Watch Dogs 2 last night. It was much better than the first one, and their rendering of San Francisco was one of the prettiest and most well done settings I've seen in any game, but it still had plenty of flaws. The biggest one being the incongruity between the story and the gameplay. You play the role of a group of activist hackers taking on greed and violence propagated by evil corporations, and then turn around and mow down lots of guards on a mission. The direct contradiction kind of takes away from what was otherwise a good story.

Fill

There were so many people it spilled out and up the lawn of the Tennessee State Capitol building. It was awesome to see and be surrounded by so many people all united for a similar cause, and hopefully it invigorated the attendees and others to get out a do more...especially voting and getting others to vote!