Happy Vernal Equinox, everybody.

[Lionel Mandrake]

Today the sun is in the equatorial plane of the earth. The day and night are each about 12 hours long; they are approximately equal (hence the name 'equinox'). I say approximately because the atmosphere messes things up a bit, so that the day is actually a few minutes longer than the night.

Some would say that today is the first day of Spring - the time of year when many young animals are, if anything, even hornier than usual.

This is a serious matter. I trust that nobody will joke about it.

[RiffRandell]

1. My 11 year old son told me this today!

I was like, what? Then I figured it out. Jeepers--I felt stupid.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear Lionel Mandrake!

It certainly is a very serious matter.

Ahem.







Thanks for reminding us about the Equinox...

[pokerfan]

3. Anna's Lemma

[Lionel Mandrake]

5. The silly old Sun DECLINES

to stay on the equator for more than an instant.

Did Anna's lemma ever lead to a theorem?

[pokerfan]

9. I have an axiom

In just three short months the days will start getting shorter again.


Life... Don't talk to me about life.

[siligut]

4. I was just checking for solar flares

And the current Planetary K Index is a normal 2.

[Lionel Mandrake]

6. Whew! What a relief!

[olddots]

7. there used to be a Vernal Equinox parade in Santa Barbara Ca.

we took the kids one year it was very strange then I came up with the idea of a Harmonica Convention to be held at the harmonic convergence gathering .

[Lionel Mandrake]

13. What ever happened to the harmonic convergence?

Did someone spoil all he fun by pointing out that the harmonic series diverges?
1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + ... --->

[talkingmime]

10. Who's Vern and why does he get his own equinox? I want one too.

[lastlib]

11. Change your name to "Autumn", then you can have one!

.

[talkingmime]

12. Can't I just change it to "Zombie" and have my own personal apocolypse?