After searching through several dozen 'live webcams' recording the venusian/solar transit, the two sites pointed to below are the only ones with fully acessable, easy to load, not crashed, nearly realtime displays.
Congratulations to COAA and to Klipsi for running excellent live shows!
There may be other good sites, I haven't found them yet.
Here, watch it live. (This is a fast connection, but updates only every ten minutes.)
Taken by Paparazzo del Cielo. Klipsi from Geneva at 2:28am MST.
Klipsi says it's boring, but just as compared with some of the other sky photography on the main site.
The transit of venus is about halfway over according to Centro de Observação Astronómica no Algarve in Portugal. (This site refreshes the image every minute.)
Speaking of 16 years olds with positioned caps, Poser 101 posts a song that starts to sound really good, then ends. Hey Zach, I wouldn't mind about 28 more minutes of that. (And no, I haven't forgotten you called my blog "pretty gay'" last year. Bite me, and not in a good way.)
From Mary Duenwald's New York Times article about presbyopia:
Because presbyopic eyes focus more easily at a distance, taller people, who have longer arms, may not need lenses as strong as shorter people do.
"Someone who's 6-4 can comfortably hold reading material at a greater distance," Dr. Maloney said.
A person who wants to figure out the right power should try on a pair or two and read a magazine or newspaper.
"If they're too strong, you'll have to hold the page uncomfortably close," he said. "And if they're too weak, you'll have to stretch your arms way out."
After finding the correct power, many people buy more than one pair, so that they can leave them at handy places around the house or in the glove compartment.
"You can also go the gold chain route, wear the chain around your neck," Dr. Maloney said. "But that marks you as being over 45."
Another strategy is to leave glasses on the nose and peer over the rims to see farther. "But that makes you look at least 60," Dr. Maloney said.
By 55 or 60, many people find that they need reading glasses in two strengths - one for the printed page and another for seeing the computer screen and other things at an intermediate distance.
"A 55-year-old who uses a 2.25 pair for reading might want a 1 or 1.25 pair for the computer," Dr. Maloney said.
Ha! I like the part about tall people not needing strong lenses - when you hold it further, the print gets smaller.
I used to slide readers down my nose, but in addition to the 'mean old man' look this imparts, I was always bending my head forward, resulting in a sore neck which made me mean. Now I wear them atop my head, like welding goggles or something. Then when I need them, I can just pull them down, read whatever I need, then flip 'em back up. My 27 year old friend suggested that I put them at a bit of an angle on my head to appear to be a bit of a rebel. Actually she said an old rebel.
Ok, so to get the Cheesy Rider look, just pull your glasses up onto the top of your head from the end of the right ear hook, leave it on your left ear. Let it sit on top your head like that, and you'll still look old, but you'll feel like a 16 year old with your baseball hat on sideways.
