efaardvark
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So there's this gadget in the mall down the hill a bit from my office. It consists of 3 poles, atop which sit 3 arrows. The arrows have an LED matrix on the side that displays names of random stars, planets, and spacecraft. The poles spin around their long axis, and the arrows can spin as well, allowing the arrows to point at the named celestial body. Every 30 seconds or so the name changes, and the arrows on their poles do a little whirl which ends up with the arrow pointing in the direction of the celestial body currently displayed thereon. Kind of a mechanical performance-art thing.
Today I happened to be wearing my InSight hat (I have many hats
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(my cap ==>
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I got into the cap habit because my commute is straight into the sun both on the way to and from work and that sun visor thingy in cars always just annoys me without being terribly useful. The visor on a cap I'm wearing is easily positioned while driving so it works a lot better for me. (The other part of it is I'm also nearsighted, so I need glasses for driving, but I'm too cheap to get 2 sets of prescription glasses, one sun- for sunny days and one normal for not-sun.
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