Today is the shortest day of the year, though for a man condemned to keeping a cycling website interesting in the absence of actual news it could be considered one of the longest.
It’s also the conclusion of the annual Festival of Zappadan, which as all good Zappatistas know runs from the date of Frank Zappa’s death (Dec. 4) through the day of his birth (Dec. 21). Thanks and a honk from the Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny to Fried Green al-Qaedas for emceeing this year’s festivities. Burnt weeny sandwiches in lumpy gravy for everyone! But stay the hell away from that yellow snow.
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I know this is an ad for maybe the worst beer ever made, but I still love this commercial.
Riding through the snow, on a two wheeled open sleigh …
Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr!
For you scientifically minded out there, I find it interesting that the shortest day of the year is also one of the fastest … in terms of the Earth’s orbital velocity. (The actual slowest and fastest days lag behind the solstice by about two weeks, making Jan 3rd the fastest and July 4th the slowest.)
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/HBASE/Kepler.html
Fastest in terms of the trip around the sun, anyway. Yeah, lets get it over with.