I'm on a movie spree lately. With the fortnightly core screenings, EU Film Festival and Japanese Film Festival happening almost end-to-end, I feel torn. In the past two weeks, I've watched Scoop, Offside, Robocon, and A Class to Remember II and IV. I might review them if I find time.
I just had my third driving lesson. Driving a manual transmission car for the first time, I became a total n00b despite accruing more than 10 lessons on an auto-transmission car. I thought I did pretty well in the first half of the hour when I managed to keep count of the times my engine went dead due to improper clutch motions, but that was not to be... Well, it's been a while since I drove.
Reminder to myself: I need to find a local vendor for solar filters, specifically the Baader Astrosolar filter. Mercury will transit the Sun on the morning of 9 November. I may go on leave/off that day, but then again... maybe there's no need to. The transit begins before sunrise and ends at 8:08 am local time. I could arrive at office early to observe the event from inside the office. I'd then need to do some homework - confirm that the Sun will not be obstructed by buildings, check that the image quality is acceptable even through the glass window pane, estimate if I need to use a higher magnification (Mercury's angular size is about 10"), blah. Besides the mercenery benefit of saving myself a day's leave, observing from the office also makes a great outreach opportunity :)
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