I concur, a derail is safe after the date.

I have nothing to add but always feel like I'm learning something!

That's why I love this damn board... a discussion wishing each other happy Independence Day turns into a discussion of varied theories relating to light over distances. It's like that time we derailed into a discussion of feminine bathing rituals.

By the way, here's the parent page for the one where I think you got your quotes about red shift.

Two things scare me about that:

1) This is a page put together by a professor at the University of North Carolina. Even if he is writing outside of his field (no education in biology, physics, or cosmology) it is pretty bad.

2) This is a Web page owned by a professor of computer science. Hopefully the fact that it was apparently coded in 1994 isn't indicative of the currency of his teaching.

Disneyland's fireworks were fantastic .... but, alas, nothing as spectacular or mindblowing as last year's.


This was simply the second best 4th fireworks I've seen .... and too bad such a great show had to fall as ultimately disappointing to me.


Oh well, at least I don't have to keep coming back for as long as they will do "that" again. They didn't do it again.




But 'Ratatouille" was great, and the pyro was fantastic, and dinner was nice, and seeing friends is good. A quite happyish fourth of july.

Thanks for talking me into coming out for that!

We spent the day off roading in Big Bear. We explored the gold trail and took lot's of photos where my daughter is frowning. (she didn't want to go for various I-am-12-years-old reasons.) Oh well.

After exploring and a picnic, we came home and declared: It's Hot!

Spent the next few hours trying to stay cool and finally went to bed. But not to sleep so at 9 when the fireworks went boom-BOOM we sat by the upstairs bedroom window and watched all the fireworks from Corona high. Great show! And the end?! Wow! Flashing, sparkling, lit up the sky, wow!

Good day. Except for the grumpy 12 year old part. She eventually, sort of, came around. Sort of.

Dear god, rainbow horizontal rules?!?! That alone is enough to discredit anything that man says.

Thankfully, they didn't here me playing it. I had a DJ gig last night (I've been playing the same 4th of July party for 7 years) and they will complain like crazy if I don't play PTBAA during the fireworks (we can see both the Laguna Beach and Newport Beach fireworks from this location).

And kids will lie down in the cereal aisle and throw a fit if you deny them their preferred sugary cereal.

But sometimes you have to be the adult and hold firmly to "no." It's for their own good Kevy.

The people who live a few houses down from the party I was at last night accidentally lit some of their front yard shrubbery on fire with fireworks (at least, I'm assuming it was an accident). Is it wrong of me to have found it hysterical?