Since we have a pretty popular "Complaint Thread", I thought it might be a good idea to start an "I Love It! Thread".

 

I'd like to begin with:

 

I love it when I make a big $500 or more purchase because of a sale or great deal and shortly afterward make enough back in sales to cover the costs and then some.

 

It helps with the buyer's guilt.

I see a $0 sticker on cars listed on Marketplace all the time -- that's cool because I know they're looking for an offer. But this genius stuck a "Free LEGO" sticker on his listing, then pulled the old bate and switch. I wasn't expecting anything, it just reminded me of the creepy van I've seen on BP that makes me laugh every time. You know he's getting some hate from the 'freebies' on Marketplace lol.

 

1 hour ago, cladner said:

just a prelude to disney pulling out of FL the way things are headed.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/18/disney-scraps-lake-nona-florida-campus.html

Probably the best thing for Florida.

 

The things you’ll find on EBay.

 

 

 

Happy Thanksgiving Brick Pickers!

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You must have ordered a Delorean.


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https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2024/where-when/

ETA: Added the stream

I thought it was pretty interesting that I was at 99%, and it wasn't really dark at all. Barely noticeable.

I was around 85%.  It looked like the sun was dimmed to 50% brightness

I was lucky enough to be in totality poolside at Stowe mountain lodge in Vermont while dj logic and g love rocked the village.  Once totality hit it was dark as 10 o’clock  and very very cold in the shadow of Mt Mansfield.  In totality  I could see the corona red curls popping out with naked eye no solar glasses   You could literally see the wave of dark and light coming over mountain.  99% and 100% were starkly different.  Very surreal with fresh snow, kids swimming and eclipse happening all at once. Shocking how little sunlight it takes to make it seem light on earth.  extreme fleeting nature of this once in a life experience left me feeling paper thin and completely whole at the same time.  Thank goodness my kids wanted to see to see it so bad.  Traffic back sucked bigly.

Dayton, OH here ... 100% totality. This was my second time, after seeing the full eclipse of 2017 near Bowling Green, KY.

Haven't had the time to do proper editing, but here is a timelapse sequence of the last 3 minutes before totality, and a few mins after. Also a shot of the eclipsed sun, but not sure if Tapatalk limitations give the inage enough resolution for you all to zoom in and see the moon obscuring the sun.

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Totality about 30min west of Columbus too. My friend took this picture and several others had pics like it. You can clearly see a solar flare.

Those are prominences, and most are much larger than our planet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_prominence

6 hours ago, brickvoyeur said:

Those are prominences, and most are much larger than our planet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_prominence

I was able to capture one in this picture just above the “diamond ring”  my pictures unfortunately were a little over exposed.  The event is so overwhelming that it’s hard to get everything right and still take it all in.

 

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The actual color of the prominence is a bright purple kind like the tips of the bolts inside a plasma ball

 

22 hours ago, iahawks550 said:

I thought it was pretty interesting that I was at 99%, and it wasn't really dark at all. Barely noticeable.

Yikes. You should have traveled the extra 1% for totality. Literally night and day difference. 

9 hours ago, Phil B said:

Dayton, OH here ... 100% totality. This was my second time, after seeing the full eclipse of 2017 near Bowling Green, KY.

Haven't had the time to do proper editing, but here is a timelapse sequence of the last 3 minutes before totality, and a few mins after. Also a shot of the eclipsed sun, but not sure if Tapatalk limitations give the inage enough resolution for you all to zoom in and see the moon obscuring the sun.

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We had similar cirrus clouds in Poplar Bluff which I think diminished some of the view of corona. Skies were clearer in 2017 and I seem to remember the corona being larger and more striking. Still an amazing experience.