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Northern Lights? In MY backyard?
This past Friday, we got to witness an incredible light show outside. We’ve been seeing massive X-class solar flares from a massive sunspot complex the width of 17 Earths, and one even…
Category: nerd
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Eclipsed, or Three-and-a-half minutes in Totality
From the first time I heard about the total solar eclipse coming to a large swath of North America in 2024, I knew I wanted to be in the path of totality.…
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What even are Hobbits?
Hobbits are not mentioned in Tolkien’s creation myth, the Ainulindalë published as part of The Silmarillion. So what are they and where did they come from?
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This is Halloween! This is Halloween!
I unabashedly love Halloween. Always have. When I was in high school, we lived in an absolutely perfect trick-or-treating neighborhood – a bunch of quiet streets with tons of kids. We’d come…
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Rebel Badge Update
I’ve been working on a lot of badges since I last posted about this, and since then I’ve taken a pottery class (and signed up for another one), traveled to New Zealand…
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Hairstyles of the (not)rich and (not)famous
I’ve had a LOT of hairstyles over the years. From ultra long down to my butt in 6th grade to that time I cut my own hair in high school to pixie…
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What’s the deal with the three Elven rings of power?
Cue Seinfeld joke here. But seriously, we know that the Elves have three rings of power, and that they’ve been wearing and using them for a while. Why weren’t they affected like…
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Who was Celebrimbor, anyway?
Celebrimbor was one of the greatest of the Elven smiths, save only maybe for his grandpappy Fëanor (dick). But who was he, really?