Behold, the eclipse!

The 2024 total eclipse is very near. It will be utterly amazing, or else it won’t. Everyone I’ve heard talk about the total eclipse in 2017 said it was amazing, but I don’t really expect people would talk about it if they were unimpressed.

So far I’ve only ever observed partial eclipses. Last time (2017) I didn’t value it highly, so made no plans for it. After hearing others talk about it, I regretted that I hadn’t put any effort into traveling a couple hours to the path.
This time around I wanted to go see the real thing… but no plans were made. (Curse my neurodiversity.) So I’m missing it again.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’ll be watching the partial eclipse from home, with genuine eclipse glasses I got from Warby Parker.

We’ll probably also make a cereal box pinhole viewer, because it’s easy and should be a good experience for the kids. We might also try punching holes in paper to spell out our names or something. That was a new idea brought up in this video I saw a couple weeks ago, by the channel SmarterEveryDay:

That video is targeting those who are in the path of totality, but also has several things to do for just a partial eclipse. (like the colander and the “sharp/fuzzy shadow” card)

If you just watched that and it inspired you get the eclipse app, these are the links to it:

• iOS
• Android

NOTE / BEWARE: The app is free, but charges $1.99 to load the eclipse data. Also, it works completely offline (as long as you had it load the data beforehand) so that it can work even in remote areas or in case society starts collapsing and the cell towers get overloaded.

I guess that’s all I have on that subject for now.
But I might as well leave you with another piece of related humor.