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Googley-ness
Wednesday, April 18, 2007I updated google alerts yesterday...I'd only put in my normal work a day name, rather than my full name that I write with, and so I didn't know how much my articles and reviews are re-posted, etc. I also forgot, completely, that I had interviewed Samuel R. Donaldson I also put in Blue Moon as an alert, and found this pair of very cool articles from online archived Sky and Telescope. One debunks the idea that a blue moon is the second moon in a month, but rather, cites a complicated system that was created by a Farmer's Almanac: "At last we have the "Maine rule" for Blue Moons: Seasonal Moon names are assigned near the spring equinox in accordance with the ecclesiastical rules for determining the dates of Easter and Lent. The beginnings of summer, fall, and winter are determined by the dynamical mean Sun. When a season contains four full Moons, the third is called a Blue Moon." The Second concentrates one concentrates on fact and fantasy and is rather cool, citing times in history when the moon was, actually, blue. Today, Ying is in (That's not her real-real name, either, but that's what she calls herself when she leaves voice mail for me) and typing on a huge Templar book that we're transcribing to put online for the rather cool ORB project. (Online Reference Book for medieval Studies.) I really enjoy having her here, she is intense, but the more I get to know her, the more I understand it. We are both drinking Monkey King Jasmine Green tea from Numi, and it's rather lovely. It smells wonderful, and I find it hard to resist the romantic nature of the words on the package: "I shall be a cloud, you the moon, and this our tea..." In case you wonder if there's a tea I don't like, I am not sure I'm overly impressed by anything in the Bentley tea box i bought a few months back. There's a weakness in the flavour I can't identify, though their wrapper for the Earl Grey (which looks like this tin...wow, i wish i liked their Earl Grey, I really, really desire this tin...is very pretty. And look, ma. I actually made the links pretty. Now to go make certificates for the honors dinner... PS...yes, the site is grey and not very blue, but I'll change it with a universal template for Blue moon. Just right now, I really love the banner... Permalink Cindy scribed this at 9:17 AM 0 comments |