Posts filed under 'Holidays'
Valentine’s Day hilarity
Dave and I got each other: the exact same card, a bottle of champagne, a box of chocolates, and a goofy little gift. Proof that we have, in fact, become the same person.
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone.
1 comment February 14, 2009
Happy MLK Day!
“…And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Add comment January 19, 2009
Time added to NYE 2008
Just before midnight, official timekeepers will add one second to the atomic clocks around the world. So instead of 60 seconds for your New Year’s Eve smooch, you’ll get 61. According to Peter Whibberley, a senior research scientist at Britain’s National Physical Laboratory, due to the erratic rotation of the Earth:
“The difference between atomic time and Earth time has now built up to the point where it needs to be corrected, so this New Year’s Eve we will experience a rare 61 second minute at the very end of 2008 and revelers… will have an extra second to celebrate.”
So make the most of your extra second in 2008. Kiss longer, or take a slightly longer sip of champagne. You never know – maybe that one second will change your life.
Okay… probably not.
Add comment December 31, 2008
Tracking Santa’s sleigh
Want to see where Santa is? NORAD is keeping track to keep you and your kids in touch with Santa’s current location and where’s going next. You can even watch him on his route in 3D with Google Earth.
As I write this, he’s in Daru, Papua New Guinea…
Add comment December 24, 2008
My “must see” Christmas movies
These are the movies I have to watch around Christmas:
- A Christmas Story
- The Muppet Christmas Carol
- The Bishop’s Wife
- A Charlie Brown Christmas
- A Garfield Christmas Special
- Elf
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
- Home Alone
- Shrek the Halls
I have too many movies on this list, and not enough time in my life to watch them all. Stupid responsibilities.
4 comments December 22, 2008
The start of winter
[ Hinsdale, MA. 12/12/08. AP Photo/The Berkshire Eagle, Ben Garver]
[Bates College, Lewiston, ME. 12/12/08. AP Photo/Jose Leiva/Lewiston Sun Journal ]
Add comment December 21, 2008
Happy Holidays from Dunder Mifflin (and me)
Just ’cause they make me happy, and it’s holiday-ish.
Add comment December 20, 2008
