Yes, it's that day that comes but once every four years.On the TV news this morning, they interviewed a man whose birthday was on 29th of February and it seems that many in the same situation consider themselves as 'Februarians'.
How quaint.
This apparently has drawbacks when you try to celebrate with a drink when you reach 21, although only in the United States.
The man was from Vancouver and seemed confused by this. The confusion arose because he was holidaying in San Fransisco which clearly makes you think you are American. TV Steve was equally confused, the age at which you can legally drink here in BC is 19, but Steve thought it was 18.
Anyway, the upshot is that you may or may not be a Februarian, but you legally reach drinking age on 1st March.
On the news today, we watched Prince Harry putting his foot in it. Great that he's happy to be serving his country in Afghanistan, not so great to say he doesn't like England. Almost as big a gaffe as Obama's Mrs. saying she was proud of her country for the first time ever.
Interestingly, an eco-terrorism suspect has been extradited from Canada to the U.S. Who knew that Bush's land even recognised eco-terrorism as a bad thing?
Well the answer is green and ethical Oregon.
Of course, BC approved the extradition in 2005, but the bad boy didn't think it was fair, after all, he had been found guilty of all kinds of crimes in Canada too.
I find it rather compelling that members of the SETI institute, who have found, well, almost nothing over the years that they have been watching and waiting for aliens to contact us, instead of deciding to call it a day, are debating whether maybe their goalposts are in the wrong place.
Consider, these are all highly intelligent women and men, many from the field of science, who are so convinced that there is something out there, that they don't draw the conclusion that they were wrong, but rather that they are doing the wrong thing.
And if we did contact something or someone, it wouldn't be a moment too soon. Writing in today's Guardian, environmental soothsayer James Lovelock describes our attempts to reverse global warming as 're-arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic'. It's too late and we should instead be planning how we're going to survive when the catastrophe happens.
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Gary Peters, in Post No. 36 above, quotes Sir James Lovelock’s interview in the Guardian on Saturday — March 1, 3008 — and it is a must-read:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2008/mar/01/scien ceofclimatechange.climatechange
He says he writing a new book now, too. To fill us in on what comes next. I don’t know if I have told anyone here this, but last month I sent some images of my polar cities concept to Dr Lovelock by email, and he wrote back the next day, saying: “Thanks for showing me those images. It may very happen and soon.”
I know Dr Lovelock has not been knighted yet by the Queen and maybe never will be, so he is not actually a “Sir” as I kiddingly wrote above, but he certainly should be honored that way. Sir James Lovelock. Yes. Has a good ring to it.
His interview in Saturday’s Guardian will knock your socks off. NSFW. But a very important interview. Read it and weep. (And then get back to work again, doing what you can to try to mitigate the impacts of climate change on this unsuspecting Earth that has been so kind to us for so many years as to give us a home for many many generations now. Soldier on, all who know that global warming is for real!)
— Posted by Danny Bloom
Thank you Dan.
I think it was this same article I was referring to, just that when I am reading the 1st of March's Guardian it's still 29th February here.
I also agree that it's still worth carrying on doing what we can in the hope that we can still make a difference.
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