Ace Hotel, Portland Ore.

Posted by ungraspiness Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:12:00 GMT

“Part of the Ace philosophy is to create an egalitarian atmosphere by bringing together creative types with tight budgets and more affluent travelers willing to trade down, as it were, in exchange for cool. (The hotel’s name is inspired by the card: the highest or lowest in the deck.)”

NY Times article

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Saturn's Hex

Posted by ungraspiness Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:12:00 GMT

An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA’s Cassini mission.

more here

According to some sources historically and symbolically Saturn is about limitation and boundaries and also strength. Along with this the hexagon has long been regarded as a perfect shape (not surprising seeing as 6 is the first perfect number ).

Also interesting is that 6 is the atomic number of carbon and apparently the day that God created man.

6 also is known to represent social consciousness—responsibility to others, adjustments, family, harmony, healing, counseling, teaching, education, truth, justice, domestic, reliability, tenacity, conservative, conscientiousness, and social balance.

We may be looking at society becoming stronger…

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One hot star

Posted by ungraspiness Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:21:00 GMT

“History shows that big sunspot cycles ‘ramp up’ faster than small ones,” he says. “I expect to see the first sunspots of the next cycle appear in late 2006 or 2007—and Solar Max to be underway by 2010 or 2011.”

Intense auroras to follow…

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