The Ranting Room

 

I wanted to resurrect this long forgotten thread to have a rant for no other reason than the cathartic release that a well timed and perfectly pitched rant can attain, then, (after much musing and furrowing of brow), came to the reluctant conclusion that I couldn't raise the energy to find something worthwhile to rant about. Everyone just seems so intense and so fraught at the moment that I can't find the motivation to join in and have a damn good moan about things that are so evidently important that we waste hours on end fretting and whining about yet are so impotently incapable of doing anything practical or constructive in fixing. We seem to have reached that point of social and economic evolution where we've become ineffectual at everything except complaining about things that we have absolutely no influence on.

So, this helicopter was moving some containers from one place to another. Here's a picture of the helicopter, o'er the local mall, moving back!

What a stupid scoop o'f$%ks on planet Earth! They couldn't do this in the afternoon, could they?! "This is a mockery," said my mother.

EDIT: 7:14am. The chopper quit bothering us.

 

Are those trees in the foreground?

We get a lot of stars up here in the northern part of Denmark. All you have to do, is venture out beyond the little communities and swoop a huge glistening serpent of light appears on the sky screen. I didn't get anything close to that back when I lived in Copenhagen.

Yeah well, we can all hope eh? I have a lot of things I'd really like to do one day, seeing the neon light sea of jellyfish in Fiji, climb Kilimanjaro, trip to Goa - all that and the list is loooong. I truly hope some of it happens one day. Main problem is finance though. I'm too fond of music...

I made the mistake of getting too ambitious too soon - the bigger and more complicated the telescope the less you'll use it because it's such a faff getting it out and setting it up. I use a small pair of binos more than my small telescope and I use my small telescope more than my larger newtonian reflector. A small spec of light 40 light years away still looks like a small spec of light when magnified 400 times and the Orion nebula looks like a tiny smudge on every amateur telescope no matter how much you spend. Unfortunately we're spoilt by quality professional photographs, Hubble and the wonders of Sci-Fi cgi images so our expectations can be bigger than the reality of what we can achieve in our own backyards with a $300 telescope.

 

What I should have bought first was a good pair of astronomical binoculars.

 

 

...what I meant was...

 

 

  "What I should have bought first was a ucking good pair of astronomical binoculars!"  

My bad.

Or let me rephrase that: I'd like to see the people who dress up children in those Little Miss Perfect contests to be paraded out on the street and receive a good public violation by a series of enraged and horny giraffes.