As some of you may know from other posts (and I understand if you ignored 'em), I recently changed my email, and due to that changed my home page to iGoogle. I've been having fun with all the Gadgets.
One of those is the Almanac which gives Official and Civil Sunrise/Sunset, amount of sunlight, length of day, etc. One day will be 1 min longer than the previous and another day will be 3 mins longer. So I have this image of the earth lurching around on its axis. Sort of like someone newly learning to drive and can't quite smoothly accelerate. Go, stop, really go, panic, repeat . . . and all the passengers get pushed backward and fall forward, over and over and over. Maybe that is why we have periodic setbacks in our lives; it's merely the world accelerating too fast for us at that moment in time.
Then today's lunar phase is waxing gibbous. I love it. When was the last time you saw the word "gibbous" on a daily basis? It is mostly used to describe the moon, but it can also mean having a hump or humpbacked. Made me wonder about maillotpois. How much swelling in her wing bone area? Is she gibbous also?
On the other hand, gibbous can just mean "more than half but less than fully illuminated" which could be me.:p
Ooh, wonder if there is a Gadget for "Word of the Day."
