watch out! this won’t be my homepage forever, but for now i am trying out writing this like a diary...
are you ready...
here we gooooooooooo!!!
the year is nearly ending and i am sat on the sofa listening to beat happening, brownies in the oven, while aphie makes orange garlands as christmas gifts. it’s all very twee and domestic and i am really quite happy. christmas and the end of year gooch tends to send me into a spiral from lack of routine lack of energy too much socialising, lots of feelings, enforced nostalgia and so on
a lot of these things, were, however, not on my extensive agenda of last year’s new years resolutions (apart from the MA)
well
There is a nameless mood abroad in the world today, a feeling in the blood of more than a few people, an expectation of worse things to come, a readiness to riot, a mistrust of everything one reveres.
OLD MANX SAILOR I wonder whether those jolly lads bethink them of what they are dancing over. I’ll dance over your grave, I will- that’s the bitterest threat of your night-women, that beat head-winds round corners. O Christ! to think of the green navies and the green-skulled crews! Well, well; belike the whole world’s a ball, as you scholars have it; and so ‘tis right to make one ballroom of it. Dance on, lads, you’re young; I was once.
The heliosphere is the magnetosphere, astrosphere, and outermost atmospheric layer of the Sun. It takes the shape of a vast, tailed bubble-like region of space. In plasma physics terms, it is the cavity formed by the Sun in the surrounding interstellar medium. The "bubble" of the heliosphere is continuously "inflated" by plasma originating from the Sun, known as the solar wind. Outside the heliosphere, this solar plasma gives way to the interstellar plasma permeating the Milky Way. As part of the interplanetary magnetic field, the heliosphere shields the Solar System from significant amounts of cosmic ionizing radiation; uncharged gamma rays are, however, not affected.[1] Its name was likely coined by Alexander J. Dessler, who is credited with the first use of the word in the scientific literature in 1967.[2] The scientific study of the heliosphere is heliophysics, which includes space weather and space climate.