Lurching forward

[SadieKate]

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.

Ooh, wonder if there is a Gadget for "Word of the Day."

[maillotpois]

I am not yet gibbous.

However, I am suddenly taken with the visual image of waxing gibbons. Now that would be VERY time consuming.

[Xrayted]

If you ever do that MP, I insist on pics!

[lph]

re: learning to drive: I got my drivers licence recently, so last year at about this time I was spending a Sunday every now and then lurching around the large parking lot at our local IKEA, with my very patient dh as instructor. I was starting to tell a story at work about how it was kind of funny seeing this huge parking lot with me and several other newbie drivers creeping around, and a colleague burst out "Full of "rabbits" hopping around, huh?" Just thought that was a perfect description

You can subscribe to "Word of the Day" by e-mail. I forget how you do it, but they have some really great ones! Certainly gibbous!

[maillotpois]

This is gonna get moved to the WOTOGC section...

[Zen]

On the other hand, gibbous can just mean "more than half but less than fully illuminated" which could be me.

Me too!
What a great word.
Gibbous gibberish.

However, I am suddenly taken with the visual image of waxing gibbons. Now that would be VERY time consuming.

Yeah, it's the shaving part that really takes so long.

[SadieKate]

Oy, talk about gibberish.

I want to think even less about waning gibbons.

[iowagrad]

Ooh, wonder if there is a Gadget for "Word of the Day."

I have the word of the day from dictionary.com on my Google homepage. There are some good ones there...my favorite so far is "maladroit," meaning "inept"