AstroCal – February 2025 February 1 finds us 41 days away from the shortest daylight / longest night we experience on the December 21 Winter Solstice. Temperatures and weather patterns lag behind the official onset of winter that begins when we have the least amount of sunshine falling on our latitude. The Earth […]
There are plenty of rock stars out there who climb to the top of their profession by being outrageous, bombastic, colorful, and sometimes, just plain weird. Sure, there has to be enough talent on board for one to write and/or perform music, but it seems like some are trying a little too hard to […]
Listening to the opening lines of The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, it struck me that it has been fifty years since I began my semester long stint student teaching. Okay, so it was ‘fifty years ago this month’ and not ‘today’, but it still got me thinking about what I took away […]
The Van Halen brothers were really into George Orwell when they were working on the album listed in the title above. Don’t recognize it? They originally wanted to call it Animal Farm but settled for 1984 instead. It was a product of Ed’s new home studio he dubbed 5150. According to Ed’s brother (and […]
Both Chinese and Greek philosophers are given credit for the origins of the old saying, “The wheels of justice turn slowly.” Sun Tzu’s version is often quoted (“Wheels of justice grind slow but grind fine”). Greek biographer Plutarch’s claim is based on his paraphrasing an ancient Greek proverb when he said, “Thus, I do […]