OT - Solar Eclipse plans

... but for god's sake, don't ruin your phone camera, especially on the really high-end. Put a filter over the lens if you're going to be taking pictures. It's not going to be a good picture unfiltered anyway. And super small.

Better advice: just experience it with your own (ISO-certified filtered) eyes and don't miss it by watching your screen.

EDIT: there's a mix of advice on web about this, but I asked an engineer who actually works on the iPhone camera. He said filter that pup. 

I love how you could see 99.5% of it, but you wanted the whole show so that you travelled to gain the other 0.5%.  Seriously, that's awesome. 

I have a busy afternoon at work, but I'm sure I'll find the time to at least walk outside for a few to check out what everything at ground level looks like.  I don't have any of the glasses, so I'm going to have to wait until photos online to get a good look at it.

Where can I get the shades?  7-11 selling them?

...in that I will be on a flight right around the time of the eclipse, above the clouds with an unobstructed view, but I didn't get a pair of glasses.

First world problems.

I am going to strip naked. Cover myself in sea salt. Then I am going drink absinth and pray to mother Gaia for protection. I will then take my ceremonial blade Blackfyre and commit Seppuku. 

Guys, I fucked up today warning my son about staring at the son and now he is afraid to even be in the daylight during the solar eclipse.  I feel terrible; I wanted to leave a strong fear in him but not like this...

parenting is hard.

Hey, it's free kool-aid and I like the way tinfoil feels on my skin. Until then, I'll be shooting the eclipse with a camera rig I built for the occasion, hopefully not frying the camera. See you on zeta ritculi.

about a 40 mile drive south to the "zone of the totality" - will make that in the AM.  

Projected to be partly cloudy/partly sunny across Nebraska tomorrow - cross the fingers.

I work at a college so they are going to do a viewing on the quad. Some of the scientists will have glasses, pinhole cameras, and a telescope set up to project the image onto a screen (or something like that--I'm in the Humanities so I don't really understand all this stuff). We're only 60% coverage, but apparently for the 2024 eclipse we'll be pretty close to totality (upper New England).

I live in Oregon, right on the totality path. I'm going to work, but taking like an early hour lunch break to hang out on the patio behind the office starting around 9:45.

I'm in St. Louis for totality, debating how far and in what direction I may drive because of clouds. I've got two kids and no other adults on the trip with me... so probably we'll just hit the park and hope that the sky is clear here.

I don't have any glasses but I already have a dangerous compulsion to get a quick look anyway. I'm in Evanston and I read we have an 87% eclipse.