“And seriously, where are you going to go?”

Answer:  Here.
Please stow hot beverages safely before departing.

(Via:  Tam)

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England tries becoming Indiana

Time addicts such as Fuzzy Curmudgeon Nathan may find this report on events across the pond of interest:

Hey Britain, steel yourself for Double Summer Time.  This is the Coalition’s latest wheeze to boost tourism/save energy/cut road deaths by making our evenings lighter later.  More specifically they’re considering changing from GMT to GMT+1 in the winter, and from GMT+1 to GMT+2 in the summer.  This doesn’t increase the amount of daylight we have, that's physically impossible, but it does shift more of the available daylight past breakfast to a time when you're actually awake.  In June Double Summer Time would mean it’d stay light until roughly 11pm, but conversely in late December the sun wouldn’t rise anywhere in Britain before 9am.  [Links in original. -O.G.]

In essence, the United Kingdom’s government wants to replicate should-be-CST Indiana by bumping its clocks ahead to match... Warsaw?

This is astronomically perverse. The sun takes precisely one hour to travel through 15 degrees of longitude, but the longitudes of Belfast and Warsaw are nearly 30 degrees apart.  We’d be joining a CET timezone that’s twice as wide as it ought to be, with the sun taking two hours to travel from one side to the other rather than just one.

...except that being further north, the effect would be even greater than it is in Indy.

•Sunrise (winter):  There’d be five (yes five) months of the year when the sun rises later than 8am, and two months when it rises later than 9am  (ugh, that’d be miserable)
•Sunrise (summer):  There’d only be one month of the year when the sun rises before 6am  (hurrah, this minimises the amount of wasted daylight while most people are asleep)
•Sunset (winter):  There’d be only three months of the year when the sun sets before 6pm, and just one when it sets before 5pm  (hurrah, that’d be great)
•Sunset (summer):  There’d be four months of the year when the sun sets later than 9pm, and two months when it sets later than 10pm  (hurrah if you're outdoors) (boo if you’re trying to get to sleep)

And what’s worse, if “London time” is actually to be an hour ahead of Greenwich, when do you celebrate New Years?  (Snappy answer:  Twice.)

Given the other important things presently going on in the world, the cynic in me suggests that the...erm...timing of Coalition’s focus on this issue may be an attempt at an “Hey, look, squirrels!” distraction for the British electorate.

Given that DG’s post already has 40-some comments, one fears they’ve succeeded.


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Surrounded!

 

We have a “rain changing to 2-5" of snow” forecast for central Indiana, then temps. back into the 50s by Sunday.  Well, maybe it’ll keep the Democrats away.

UPDATE (110225 17:23):  Roberta has a report.

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Get ’cher tickets!

It's blogmeet time again!

Monon Food Company is at 6420 Cornell Ave. Indianapolis, IN 46220. Right next to the Monon Trail.  Brunch menu runs until 3:00, so brunchers may want to arrive earlier.

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Mitch blows it...

but then...

If you know your goals and if your beliefs are strong, you don’t stumble over what you’re saying.  Every day Mitch sounds more and more like George Bush, and less and less like Ronald Reagan.

Daniels sure does seem to have to clarify a lot of things after-the-fact.
- Andy, in AOS sidebar

Daniels’s other problem is he persists in playing Charlie Brown to the Democrats’ Lucy.  If he hasn’t learned by now– after two terms dealing with Pat Bauer as House Democrat leader– he’ll never learn, and the top of the Republican ticket is no place for somebody who thinks he’s playing ping-pong when the Democrats are playing Rollerball.

Oh well, I really never thought he was all that interested in being president in the first place.

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“Was an actual leopard involved with those shoes, and if so, did she shoot it herself?”

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92 reasons for *NOT* donating to the National Republican Congressional Committee

And here they are:
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The ice man (reluctantly) goeth

After nearly a week of above-freezing temperatures, the snow and ice is almost gone... ...just in time for “rain changing to snow” on Sunday.

Winter’s not over yet; it just wants you to think it is...

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Blogger continiues its descent into lameness

Now it’s requiring cookies to read comments.

(Pssst... I know a service that works without ’em!)

LATER:  You can get around it by viewing the individual post pages, but whatta drag...

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Spot the difference

Associated Press:

AOL to Buy Huffington Post News Site for $315M^[1]

Ace of Spades HQ:

What’s the going rate for an asylum full of crazies these days anyway?

Just to make things clear, I wouldn’t call Instapundit a “news site,” either, even though Glenn’s news-to-snark ratio beats Arianna’s Gang by a mile or so...

For the AP link, HT to anonymous in Roberta’s comments.
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