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Showing posts with label WGN. Show all posts

Friday, July 11, 2014

The full moon this weekend


From the WGN Chicago's meteorologists FB page of Tom Skilling today:


Tom Skilling's photo.

It's the summer of the "super moon"--or what astronomers call "perigee moons". There are three of them on the way in the months ahead--the first Saturday morning at 6:25 am. Super moons occur when the moon is within 90% of perigee, in other words, within 90% of its closest pass to earth. Though not always easy to see, super moons can be up to 30% brighter and a bit larger than the conventional full moon. Saturday's full moon is known as the Full Buck Moon. NASA has put together a nice video on the "super moon" phenomenon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1KKpeW231Y&list=PL8F7BC3F1240213F5



Friday, November 12, 2010

Television: imitative, repetitive, umimaginative

Okay, Conan O'Brien's show is an empty, sad imitation of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, as I said the other day and last evening I discovered that "How I Met Your Mother" is a blatant, shallow, hollow attempt at repeating the success, such as it was, of "Friends".

Really, people.

You can do much better.

It reminds me of the old song:

"Blow up the TV..."


Think happy thoughts and have a great day and weekend.