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[Steve3007]

There's a partial solar eclipse reaching its maximum in about half an hour here. I've dusted off my old 2017 eclipse viewing glasses to have a look. Only 20% of the sun will be eclipsed, but it's still an excuse to stand in the carpark for a few minutes.

[Steve3007]

That was fun.

Does anybody here live in the far north of Canada?

[Sy Borg]

Ah, you've seen. I was going to say that I hoped your eclipse glasses were good quality or ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvvBOWI1-jY

[Steve3007]

Ah, you've seen. I was going to say that I hoped your eclipse glasses were good quality or ...

. Since I leant my eclipse glasses to everybody I work with so they could have a look, I hope so too. Otherwise we might have a localised Day of The Triffids type problem.

[Steve3007]

It's always been interesting that there seem to be so many blues and Motown type musicians who are/were blind. So much so that it's become a bit of a cliché.

If the Day of The Triffids ever does dawn at least the quality of the music won't suffer too much.