How I Wish You Were Here
Speaking of eclipses ...
Though an eclipse is something you can predict far in advance, I tend to be absolutely horrible at planning things, so even though I've had 26 years lead time on this, we were only two weeks out, and I still hadn't ordered any eclipse glasses. I could have made it a point to hold onto the glasses I got at the last minute in 2017, I guess, but they tend to be flimsy little paper things, and it's too easy to tear them up to justify trying to keep track of them in a move. But I figured I could probably pick a few pairs up from the Adler Planetarium downtown, so I told Robin I was going to go do that, and Robin said, "Oo! The Adler's been doing a Pink Floyd show that's going away after this weekend, so we should go see that!" I've never really cared for Pink Floyd -- I never did any of those drugs, and I don't like songs that end in guitar solos lasting seven years -- but Pink Floyd was a huge part of Robin's youth, and I do like planetarium shows, so we went.
The theme of the show was Dark Side of the Moon, and they were playing all the songs off that album accompanied by projections of images from the Solar System. A planetarium display isn't as fancy as an IMAX, though, so it kind of loses something in the modern era of advanced projection technology. But it is very big, and it wraps around you so that once you get into it, you feel immersed. The show took us through a bunch of places that I use in my science fiction writings, so I recognized most of them. (We flew through an ice canyon on Europa!) Robin wasn't as impressed with the imagery, but she liked the music.
This picture is the screen saver they project while you're getting seated before the start of the planetarium show, and they tell you specifically to take a picture now because you can't later. You can see the laser pointer from the planetarium guy pointing out specific craters, even though most people who go to a Pink Floyd show at a planetarium don't care about that.
Editor's Note: I chose the title of this particular photograph for two reasons.
1. "Wish You Were Here" is one of only two Pink Floyd songs I really like, and is in fact one of the best pop songs of the last 50 years. It needs a second verse.
2. My use of this song title will make Robin's eye twitch, because it's off a completely different album than "Dark Side of the Moon."
How I Wish You Were Here
Speaking of eclipses ...
Though an eclipse is something you can predict far in advance, I tend to be absolutely horrible at planning things, so even though I've had 26 years lead time on this, we were only two weeks out, and I still hadn't ordered any eclipse glasses. I could have made it a point to hold onto the glasses I got at the last minute in 2017, I guess, but they tend to be flimsy little paper things, and it's too easy to tear them up to justify trying to keep track of them in a move. But I figured I could probably pick a few pairs up from the Adler Planetarium downtown, so I told Robin I was going to go do that, and Robin said, "Oo! The Adler's been doing a Pink Floyd show that's going away after this weekend, so we should go see that!" I've never really cared for Pink Floyd -- I never did any of those drugs, and I don't like songs that end in guitar solos lasting seven years -- but Pink Floyd was a huge part of Robin's youth, and I do like planetarium shows, so we went.
The theme of the show was Dark Side of the Moon, and they were playing all the songs off that album accompanied by projections of images from the Solar System. A planetarium display isn't as fancy as an IMAX, though, so it kind of loses something in the modern era of advanced projection technology. But it is very big, and it wraps around you so that once you get into it, you feel immersed. The show took us through a bunch of places that I use in my science fiction writings, so I recognized most of them. (We flew through an ice canyon on Europa!) Robin wasn't as impressed with the imagery, but she liked the music.
This picture is the screen saver they project while you're getting seated before the start of the planetarium show, and they tell you specifically to take a picture now because you can't later. You can see the laser pointer from the planetarium guy pointing out specific craters, even though most people who go to a Pink Floyd show at a planetarium don't care about that.
Editor's Note: I chose the title of this particular photograph for two reasons.
1. "Wish You Were Here" is one of only two Pink Floyd songs I really like, and is in fact one of the best pop songs of the last 50 years. It needs a second verse.
2. My use of this song title will make Robin's eye twitch, because it's off a completely different album than "Dark Side of the Moon."