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February 18-29, 2008
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| Friday, February 29, 2008 permalink
Years are like drop-frame time code. They are a technically inelegant way of charting temporal movement. There are slightly fewer than 365.25 days in a year and it’s hard to carpe all of those diems which equal vigor when you get days thrown in all willy-nilly. It’s not as easy as adding one day every 4 years. If the potential leap-year is divisible by 100 (like 1900) it isn’t a leap year unless it is also divisible by 400 (like 2000), in which case it is. I would be more upset at the H&R blockhead responsible for this birds nest of an equation if its purpose was not to keep Easter (the #1 day for rabbits) in sync with the vernal equinox. By Gregorian chance, we stopped by Yankee Pier:
... on the last day of their crab festival (it began on February 1st and is Done-geness today.) We split a crab roll:
... and a lobster roll ($19.95 each): |
