Calendar @ MindSay

Happy New Year -- commemorating a historical blunder

We have just started a New Year according to our common Gregorian calendar. The earth just completed going around the sun once. We have just seen 366 sunrises, since the last new Year's Day. There goes a story many of us have not heard of, or have forgotten. Early mathematicians who invented the science of "geometry" decided to divide a circle into 360 degrees. The word geometry itself is inspired from geo -- earth, metry-- measurements. They saw the earth going around the sun in some 360 days (according to their crude and primitive measurements).

Although, later this was proved wrong, we continue to stick to the 360 degrees rule of circles (each degree reminds us of one day in earth's annual excursion), a big blunder which the world has accepted since ages. So, every time we celebrate New Year, we must think of this historic blunder which we made several centuries ago.

Subsequent generations of mathematicians, corrected all this, giving rise to a bewildering variety of calendars. A good collection of calendar related information can be found at ::: http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud.htm

The science of geometry grew into the science of astronomy (now we start looking at the stars). We have now come to the stage when we can actually hope to visit these celestial bodies. All this started with a faulty premise of 360 degrees to a circle.

 partha

I was sent this calendar for 2008.  It lists Black people accomplishments thru out the year.

I did a search for it on the internet and posted the link here.

I have a favor to ask of th Mindsay Community.  I have been asked to supply some photos for a calendar of Texas nature/landscapes.  Anyway, I can submit up to six pictures, but I'm having a real hard time choosing ones that I think people would be willing to pay money to stare at for a month on a calendar.  I was hoping that you kind folks of Mindsay could help me out and peruse some of my photos, and help me to decide which to submit to the calendar project.  Here is a link to the Photography Sections on my website, if you all could email, post here, or post to the my website forum, your favorite one or two pictures, it would be a great help to me.

Thanks,
DRUNKEN OSO

stolen from bettiespaghetti! 

I Am :  woman
I Want : to go to Paris
I Have :  an empty martini glass in front of me
I Wish : my room would magically get clean
I Hate : alarm clocks and bad weather
I Fear :  fear
I Hear : the noisy neighbors
I Search : all day but I can't find where I put my calendar. yikes.
I Wonder : why people can't be more specific...
I Regret : nothing! (Non, je ne regrette rien!)
I Love :  widdle puppies (& Kittens too) Great now I sound like Elmira from Tiny Toons.
I Ache:  in my heart sometimes (aww....)
I Always :  am lazy, but sometimes I try to fight against it.
I Usually :  cuss out other drivers when I'm on the road.
I Am Not : about to compromise in the area of morality.
I Dance :  only when no one's looking or when everyone else is headbanging ;)
I Sing :  in the car to Charles Trenet & Francoise Hardy and sometimes manage to sing some lines, but not others.
I Never : appreciate people walking all over me.
I Rarely : eat tofu or soy.
I Cry : because I'm a baby.
I Am Not Always :  at the computer.
I Lose :  well I've already talked about my calendar. But I lose my keys sometimes, so that's why I have a backup!
I'm Confused : about love. Is it out there? Or what?
I Need : to clean my room.
I Should : clean my room.

Ok! I'm going to clean my room. Bye :)

Thought I'd get this in ASAP - the new preview page is now available at the storefront at http://www.lulu.com/imcheryl.  Thought I'd list the address both ways in case you want to bookmark it!

I hope you get a chance to check it out! the specific project address is; http://www.lulu.com/content/408696
which is also;  A Collection of Peaceful Reflections for 2007

I've posted at the storefront's blog that once sufficient calendars are sold I will begin to donate a minimum of $2 US from each sale to a non profit organization supporting and promoting peace worldwide.

I mentioned this to some friends of mine at our discussion forum; " I have to pay the mortgage & bills somehow so my intent to support myself through work such as this will open the way for further developments and certainly helps me see where I can go with other ideas!" (oh the wording of that could elicit the wrong sort of comments here with the MindSay bunch but what the heck!!!!)

Still more in the works, so keep posted on these projects - the sky's the limit if you ask me! (even though no one did ask! he he!)

And I do have an idea brewing for the new page design too- But - I'll keep that to myself until tomorrow - giving me an excuse for yet another entry that's not focused on current world affairs, politics or religion, though as always it will have a spiritual slant I'm sure! Hey, no apologies; it's in my blood and it's not a mental state I wish to disassociate myself from because it brings me a wonderful sense of the divine in all things in our world.

Reflecting Peacefully in my world and hoping others can be equally fortunate!
Peace = Salam = Pace = Shalom May we have Peace on earth! ;)