Just saw a partial (Chicago) (with eclipse glasses), but it was cool. A neighbor came out also and I thought we were going to share a moment…but he just began mowing his lawn. I mean, I guess that’s not wrong to do, necessarily, but…not even a moment to appreciate a natural event? Seemed strange.
Up in the western suburbs we had an unusual way to see the 90 percent eclipse.
My daughter was sitting near a window at home moving her iPhone around, using the sun’s reflected light off the phone’s surface as a way to taunt our cat. As he chased the light, we discovered that reflection was also a perfect showing of the partial eclipse featuring the sliver of the sun around the circle of darkness.
So we got a chance to experience the effect and didn’t have to take the Trump approach and stare up at it!
My office quietly shut itself down for about a half hour thanks to the eclipse. I wish I would have known how many of my coworkers wanted to watch it as I would have pushed for a work-picnic day.
- TheInvisibleMan - Monday, Apr 8, 24 @ 1:19 pm:
Right on the centerline in Bloomfield Indiana.
Perfectly sunny and almost 80f.
- Gravitas - Monday, Apr 8, 24 @ 1:57 pm:
Time to read “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” by Mark Twain. It includes an earlier eclipse.
- H-W - Monday, Apr 8, 24 @ 2:09 pm:
Just goes to show politics is a state of mind that can be undone by science.
- Wensicia - Monday, Apr 8, 24 @ 2:23 pm:
Kinda cool, The Drive played the entire ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ album with the title song during totality.
- TinyDancer(FKASue) - Monday, Apr 8, 24 @ 2:24 pm:
Eclipse eclipsed by Biden visit?
- Give Us Barabbas - Monday, Apr 8, 24 @ 3:01 pm:
There’s a little lack spot on the sun today…
But momma; that’s where the fun is.
Cold-hearted orb, that rules the night; removes the colors from our sight.
Red is gray, and yellow, white.
But we decide which is right…
And which is an illusion.
- Leslie K - Monday, Apr 8, 24 @ 3:22 pm:
Just saw a partial (Chicago) (with eclipse glasses), but it was cool. A neighbor came out also and I thought we were going to share a moment…but he just began mowing his lawn. I mean, I guess that’s not wrong to do, necessarily, but…not even a moment to appreciate a natural event? Seemed strange.
- Norseman - Monday, Apr 8, 24 @ 3:25 pm:
Relaxing time viewing partial at Cahokia Mounds.
- Thomas Paine - Monday, Apr 8, 24 @ 3:33 pm:
Atleast LilRascal is consistent.
I can’t stand the anti-vaxxers that complain about migrant outbreaks.
- jackmac - Monday, Apr 8, 24 @ 4:14 pm:
Up in the western suburbs we had an unusual way to see the 90 percent eclipse.
My daughter was sitting near a window at home moving her iPhone around, using the sun’s reflected light off the phone’s surface as a way to taunt our cat. As he chased the light, we discovered that reflection was also a perfect showing of the partial eclipse featuring the sliver of the sun around the circle of darkness.
So we got a chance to experience the effect and didn’t have to take the Trump approach and stare up at it!
- Vote Quimby - Monday, Apr 8, 24 @ 4:49 pm:
Experienced full totality in Carterville exclamation point)
- Pot calling kettle - Monday, Apr 8, 24 @ 4:51 pm:
Marion, IL
“Not a cloud in the sky, got the sun in my eyes, and I won’t be surprised if it’s a dream”
- Gravitas - Monday, Apr 8, 24 @ 4:53 pm:
While it was only a partial eclipse in my little corner of the world, it was still a stone cold gas.
- Candy Dogood - Monday, Apr 8, 24 @ 5:35 pm:
SIU Carbondale really did a good job with the national media attention again this year.
- Give Us Barabbas - Monday, Apr 8, 24 @ 5:59 pm:
If you don’t go home to watch “Ladyhawke” tonight, I don’t want to know you…
- Blitz - Monday, Apr 8, 24 @ 6:00 pm:
My office quietly shut itself down for about a half hour thanks to the eclipse. I wish I would have known how many of my coworkers wanted to watch it as I would have pushed for a work-picnic day.
- Moose & Squirrel - Monday, Apr 8, 24 @ 8:39 pm:
The Darwin Awards & The Onion exist because of people like LilRascal.
Long live The Darwin Awards. Long live The Onion.