December 21, 2006

Steevil Laughed.

From highly-respected NASA rocket scientist Steevil, this article, and the comment, "ignorance of astronomy is a terrible thing."

In fairness to the stone-fondling goobs in the story, I will note that my Architectural Treasures of Europe calender up on the wall beside my desk does say that today is the solstice. (I won't mention that my desk calendar has it right.)

In any event, I am sad that there is no reference in the article to the monument being in danger of being crushed by a dwarf.

Posted by Terry Oglesby at December 21, 2006 10:25 AM
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Actually, 0022 GMT Friday is 1922 (7:22 pm) EST, 1822 (6:22 pm) CST today, so your Architectural Treasures calendar might be OK.

The goobs were still wrong, since GMT IS local time where they are.

My Seven Seas calendar doesn't mention the solstice at all, but does seem to have Christmas Day and Boxing Day correct.

Posted by: steevil (Dr Weevil's bro Steve) at December 21, 2006 02:21 PM

And to prove that Dr Weevil doesn't have the monopoly on pedentry, here's the Naval Observatory's list of astronomical events:
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/
Note that UT (Universal Time) and GMT are pretty much the same thing.

Posted by: steevil (Dr Weevil's bro Steve) at December 21, 2006 02:33 PM

I go by my own time, which is generally "awake/asleep."

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at December 21, 2006 02:44 PM

If you say so. I have two times - hockey season and not hockey season.

(Though on a micro level there's always lunchtime /not lunchtime.)

Posted by: skinnydan at December 21, 2006 03:03 PM

Thankfully, I don't have that problem because it's ALWAYS football season. And lunchtime.

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at December 21, 2006 03:07 PM