Hilarious, scientific and thought-provoking. Anyone interested in Leap Week?
This was my calendar in 2011.
I wrote about what I thought was a seriously dumb idea back near the end of 2011. Some college professors were advocating a new calendar because “every year, everybody has to redo everything.” I know, it’s so hard.
When a writing group I belong to, agreed to rewrite an old post as a project, I looked at this one. It hadn’t been seen by many people and the subject still bothers me. I don’t want to repeat what I said in 2011, but I am restating my most serious objections, and I am correcting a few errors that I made.
Despite being originally published in Scientific American, I was pretty sure these professors and their cockamamie idea would have succumbed to a serious lack of interest by now. Contrary to my assumption, these guys are still at it. They’re still…
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Thanks so much for reblogging this. You’re the best!
I want leap week. But as a teacher, I would always get it off so I may be biased.
I only want it if it’s a paid week of work without having to use vacation days. A holiday, in other words.
Maybe they could declare it an international public holiday.
I’ll go for that.
I meant OFF work.
That’s the only way I want a leap week, if I get paid and if I don’t ave to go to work. But, I want an Xtr week’s pay.
SOLD! 🙂