TFTD - Take the Path With Heart
“Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can’t lose if your heart is in your work, but you can’t win if your heart is not in it.” — Carlos Casteneda
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Sept. 19th - International Talk Like A Pirate Day
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html Arrrrgh! Avast, ye bilge rats, I’m already shipshape. Call me Captain Bess Flint, me hearties! Additionally, I draw your attention to the Pirate Name site: http://www.piratequiz.com/ My pirate name is: Captain Bess Flint Even though there’s no legal rank on a pirate ship, everyone recognizes you’re the one in charge. Like the rock flint, you’re hard and sharp. But, also like flint, you’re easily chipped, and sparky. Arr! Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com. part of the fidius.org network
A Bear of Very Little Brain
“When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain and you think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.” – AA Milne, “ The House at Pooh Corner ”
dDaylight/dt
The Autumnal equinox is in a couple of weeks, and during this time the days are getting shorter at the fastest rate they will all year, with the biggest change right on the day of the equinox. This graph is intended to compare the rate of change of the number of hours of daylight at two times during the year. At the Summer Solstice, light blue, there are a few days when the length of the daylight changes very little. But at the Autumnal Equinox, shown in dark green, the slope is very steep, showing that the amount of sunlight we get in a day is falling quickly. This has great implications for anyone with SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder). I used Juergen Giesen’s Daylight Applet to generate the numbers and graphed them in Excel. Update 10/28/2006: Juergen has since added a graphing function to his Daylight Applet. Do go take a look at it. Thanks to Saheli Datta for adding a blue dimension to the topic.