If you Google for “it disturbs my Wa”, my site is the only one listed in the results. This seriously disturbs my Wa.
BRB
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Last day of winter
Winter, in its final twitchings of death, has dropped a chilly, overcast day on us. Even so, the sun peeks through a ragged hole in the grey firmament, as if to reassure the damp city-dwellers with their dogs, children, and grande café lattés, that the vernal equinox arrives tomorrow, bringing cheer and green and drying the sidewalks and streets and dogs and children, but not the lattés.
It’s times like this when, in spite of winter’s hacking death rattle, a watery sunlight warms the sides of homes and buildings and the scalps of balding men, and people smile at each other without provocation and are prone to humming “Here Comes the Sun” at length while they go for jogs across still-squishy soccer fields, because their minds are on the equinox and the renewal of spring and not at all on how the mud is seeping into their 300-dollar running shoes.
For my part, I’ll take long walks past the daffodils, irises, and the other ones — the little purple and yellow ones that I always forget the name of — and appreciate the lively crop of algae on the roof of my car that signals that the frost is truly gone, because tomorrow… tomorrow, spring will kick winter’s cold, wet ass.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Unlike some bloggers, I don’t have time to redo my CSS for the day, so I hope this will suffice:
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Scientists find way to block out sun
Astronomers have discovered a planetoid beyond the orbit of Pluto, more than eight billion miles from the sun. It’s the largest object to be discovered in our own solar system since Pluto was discovered in 1930.
At more than 8 billion miles from the sun, the temperature on Sedna never gets above minus 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
“The sun appears so small from that distance that you could completely block it out with the head of a pin,” said Mike Brown, an astronomer at California Institute of Technology, who led the research team.
I hate to nit-pick, but I believe you can block out the sun with the head of a pin on Earth too. You just have to hold the pin right in front of your eye. Or inside it.