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The caption on this icon is the abreviation for:
Joy -- Joy drives the gears of the Cosmic Clock; she calls flowers from their buds, and stars from the ether, guiding the planets beyond the reach of our telescopes.*
'Cause let's face it. I'd have had to use a really small font to fit all that in...
Okay. So today is the day we Americans change our clocks to "Daylight Savings Time" -- three weeks ahead of our "normal" schedule (which was 2 weeks ahead of the time switch I grew up with, most of my life). And this was Bush's and the Republican Congress's "Big Energy Conservation Plan for the Future!!!!"
...
Kind of reminds me of a fourth-grader, who completes a three-page essay by writing in Really Big Letters...
I never liked Daylight Savings Time, anyway, because while it's in effect, the sun is out of Zenith at Noon... And that's just ...wrong, somehow.
Mercbants and retailers like DST, because it gives folks more daylight to go shopping in, after they leave the office, during the summery, vacation-oriented, seasons of late spring through early autumn. But really. Someone should've reminded Bush that it does not actually create more daylight -- especally since, this year, we're turning our clocks ahead before the equinox. That means a lot of people will be waking up in the dark when they didn't used to. How much do you want to bet that, over the next ten days, people will turn the lights on when they get up, and in their rush to get to work on time, forget to turn them off again when they leave the house -- leaving them burning all day long?
Also, it means that our culture is knocked yet a couple of more notches out of sync with the cycles of the seasons and of nature... And we need that like we need a bullet through our temples...
Still, for that Cosmic Clock, Joy is in charge...
*from the first published version of Fredriech von Schiller's Ode to Joy, translated by Babelfish, retranslated by yours truly.
Joy -- Joy drives the gears of the Cosmic Clock; she calls flowers from their buds, and stars from the ether, guiding the planets beyond the reach of our telescopes.*
'Cause let's face it. I'd have had to use a really small font to fit all that in...
Okay. So today is the day we Americans change our clocks to "Daylight Savings Time" -- three weeks ahead of our "normal" schedule (which was 2 weeks ahead of the time switch I grew up with, most of my life). And this was Bush's and the Republican Congress's "Big Energy Conservation Plan for the Future!!!!"
...
Kind of reminds me of a fourth-grader, who completes a three-page essay by writing in Really Big Letters...
I never liked Daylight Savings Time, anyway, because while it's in effect, the sun is out of Zenith at Noon... And that's just ...wrong, somehow.
Mercbants and retailers like DST, because it gives folks more daylight to go shopping in, after they leave the office, during the summery, vacation-oriented, seasons of late spring through early autumn. But really. Someone should've reminded Bush that it does not actually create more daylight -- especally since, this year, we're turning our clocks ahead before the equinox. That means a lot of people will be waking up in the dark when they didn't used to. How much do you want to bet that, over the next ten days, people will turn the lights on when they get up, and in their rush to get to work on time, forget to turn them off again when they leave the house -- leaving them burning all day long?
Also, it means that our culture is knocked yet a couple of more notches out of sync with the cycles of the seasons and of nature... And we need that like we need a bullet through our temples...
Still, for that Cosmic Clock, Joy is in charge...
*from the first published version of Fredriech von Schiller's Ode to Joy, translated by Babelfish, retranslated by yours truly.
