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I get that ‘equi-nox’ = ‘equal night’, but what we all really want to know is who’s this Vernon chap it’s named after?
Postscript (5 hours later): OK, so, the Internet is weird. Someone on Twitter has just thanked me for the above crappy joke, which he immediately used as the inspiration for a short story.
Apparently, nobody could agree what colour they should be.
Like a belligerent Trump supporter in Washington D.C., this week’s #FallFriday was a total no-brainer.
Guardian: Terrawatch: the South Atlantic Anomaly – a growing weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field
Researchers have been studying this area for clues as to when the magnetic field might flip entirely
I think I might be about to flip entirely, too. Can we at least wait until Trump is gone and the pandemic is over?
BBC: Tanya Roberts, Bond girl and Charlie's Angel, dies at 65
US actress Tanya Roberts, best known for her roles in Bond film A View to a Kill and the final season of Charlie’s Angels, has died aged 65. Her death was announced by her friend and agent Mike Pingel, who called her “the sweetest person you’d ever meet”.
Tanya Roberts was one of my teenage pin-ups.
Makes me feel kind of old.
Magnificent-looking bird.
Postscript:
BBC: Tanya Roberts: Bond girl and Charlie's Angel still alive, agent says
Pretty sure something very similar happened in season 5 of Charlie’s Angels.
Post-postscript:
It wasn’t to be…
Guardian: Tanya Roberts, Bond girl and Charlie's Angel, dies day after premature announcement
So that was 2020. What a shit year! Brexit and a rampant virus wreaking havoc across the world (same thing, really). Least said about it the better.
On the plus side, I took some more photos. So here’s my tenth annual video slideshow review of the year:
(Click the arrows bottom-right next to the word Vimeo to view the slideshow in full-screen mode.)
Consistent as ever, as in the previous nine years, this year’s slideshow contains 97 photos.
Once again, I composed the ambient pap backing track. It is called Igneous Rock:
See also: All of my yearly nutshell videos