Sunday, December 03, 2006

If This Isn't For You, Feel Free to Disregard It

a) Disambiguating Gemini:

Castor is on the side of Capella; Pollux is on the side of Procyon. Easy, no? Capella's the main star in Auriga, the Charioteer, that's way up high and we haven't really gotten to yet. Procyon's in the Little Dog, which looks even less like a dog than the Big Dog. (But both look way more like dogs than The Hunting Dogs look like a whole group of them, but that's another season's constellations.)

[I really shouldn't do my observations and attempts at astrophotography (cursèd low batteries) without shoes on, though. Woo for Alphard in Hydra, though. Next step: using the winter hexagon to locate things outside of the winter hexagon!]

b) My 'Complete Saki' lies, unfortunately.

Ah well. One can't have everything, even in massive omnibus editions. "A Shot in the Dark" and the Clovis story are about the only semi-spectacular ones, in that order.

7 comments:

notroberttowne said...

I would like to sincerely thank Mr. John Woo for teaching us all about the Gemini twins in his seminal work of educational cinema, Face Off.

Anonymous said...

now that was a parallax I could get behind!..I got nothin'.....

- Jesse

Andrew said...

Peach? I could eat a peach for hours...

Anonymous said...

The Complete Poems of William Butler Yeats is missing...90 poems.
- Communist Nate in Michigan

Oh, and I now know the words to Hail to the Victors. I am keeping my eyes out for attractive Michigan State girls...

Anonymous said...

can we eat garlic and make out??

Anonymous said...

I'm still alive - that's it

Plaid Avenger said...

Merry Christmas!