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[luckytroll]

Grunpy because of my injured hip.

Got the fiddle out after a long hiatus in the closet. Playeed a bit but I am soo rusty.

Tuned about, and discovered a few new keys that scream Klezmer - moody, wintery, the blues of a wandering people caught in the snow.

I am keen for spring. Keen for my hip (ITB? Bursitis?) to heal up. I want to bike around, run about.

Running out of time. Schol continues to be interesting. Studying spectral classes of stars lately. If you see coal-black patches of the night sky, where no stars live, its probably a star nursery. Who knows what kids may see peeking out through the blackness in a couple thousand years.

Tired. But it hurts more to lay down than to sit down. This is going to make resing difficult.

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[kiwano.livejournal.com]

If you see coal-black patches of the night sky, where no stars live, its probably a star nursery. Who knows what kids may see peeking out through the blackness in a couple thousand years.

Well, for sufficiently large values of "couple thousand" (like 10-50 million, assuming the nebular theory of star formation is correct), no?

[kiwano.livejournal.com]

BTW, you might want to friend dancer_flight, he sails with me, and got a good chunk of the way through an astronomy PhD before he got sick of trying to get FORTRAN to use a C library for his research (as well as some administrative and political problems in his department), and decided to just seek some employment instead.

I don't think he's on LJ, but Stefan Mochnacki is also a (past liveaboard) sailor, and astrophysicist. If you're in Toronto in the right part of the Summer, and willing to crew for me at an Alberg 30 regatta, I could very easily introduce you.

[luckytroll.livejournal.com]

I was thinking more along the lines of stars being revealed in the areas, once formed - rather than the stars actually forming before our eyes. It takes a long time for the formation, but less so for the shock waves after to clear the debris, and even less if that process is already underway - but true, it probably is a good bit more than a couple thousand.