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@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Fortunately, [Alek](https://awestover.github.io/skyspace/) said he was going to
Yes, Zumba, not totality. So a few months ago, Alek tried to recruit me to join a Zumba class, and I wasn't interested at all but decided just to go once. Well, it turned out to be a lot of fun, probably because Alek and some other friends were there. Doing Zumba with strangers would be kind of awkward. Anyways, one of the Zumba songs was, well, it took me a long time to find the right song, since there are a lot of songs with names similar to "Sun Goes Down" and some of the results were pretty weird songs. It's [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i4EjGKwEVw). I guess the sun wasn't really going down since it was just being blocked by the moon, but we tried Zumba-ing on a riverbank with lots of branches on the ground, so it wasn't too successful but still lots of fun.
Then, it was silent and totality actually happened, and then a bunch of people cheered annoyingly. And yeah, basically someone broke the sky. Imagine it's dusk, but there's no sunset and toasty colors. It just looks like a sterile sky, but right in the middle there's a black circle with a ring of white light around it. It's like straight out of a sci-fi book or something. Sadly, I don't have any good pictures since eclipses are hard to photograph with phone cameras. I'm a bit disappointed that I didn't see [shadow bands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_bands) unlike in 2017. It was also cloudy just as [xkcd 2915](https://xkcd.com/2915/) predicted, but Randall is also from Boston so I'm guessing we probably went to similar places to see the eclipse.
Then, it was silent and totality actually happened, and then a bunch of people cheered annoyingly. And yeah, basically someone broke the sky. Imagine it's dusk, but there's no sunset and toasty colors. It just looks like a sterile sky, but right in the middle there's a black circle with a ring of white light around it. It's like straight out of a sci-fi book or something. Sadly, I don't have any good pictures since eclipses are hard to photograph with phone cameras (I did get a photo with Venus in it though). I'm a bit disappointed that I didn't see [shadow bands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_bands) unlike in 2017. It was also cloudy just as [xkcd 2915](https://xkcd.com/2915/) predicted, but Randall is also from Boston so I'm guessing we probably went to similar places to see the eclipse.
Interesting sidenote: a fascinating [article](https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-ancient-art-of-eclipse-prediction-became-an-exact-science-20240405/) about the history of eclipse prediction (solar eclipses, not LLM assistance in a certain Java IDE).