Watching awesome Hellboy II animated Golden Army backstory video. Hmmmmmm Hellboy II. http://ping.fm/DuTwy

New week and another sweaty day in the library

Fridays I start at 7:30am instead of the 11:30am of the rest of the week. It makes my brain melt.

What I have been doing lately.

more cat

They're cute and funny! When alone at the circulation desk, lolcats and icanhascheezburger.com are your furry friends.

New Year's questions answered

Being well known as a self-described Mr.Knowitall means I get asked a lot of questions. The answers I give can be divided into three categories: the correct answer if I know it, an answer I make up to keep my Knowitall membership card, and the things that I can't make up a plausible answer for. So, here are some answers to my lovely girlfriends questions during a recent holiday road trip.

The start of the year on January 1st goes back to the Romans. This was carried forward in the reorganization of Roman dating which became the Julian calendar in 45 BC. Jan 1st was New Year's Day in all of the Roman empire and later all of christendom. Even though the first of January was New Year's Day, some countries continued using other dates to roll over the year. England celebrated Jan 1st, but did not change it's year number until March 25. England officially changed this in 1752, with its adoption of the Gregorian calendar.

The Chinese New Year is not a fixed date but a celebration starting on the first day of the first lunar month through the 15th (15th of the Gregorian month, usually January or February).

Metamodel

Found this site via Boing Boing. Site is in Japanese, but many of the model boxes have some English on them. This model of an injection molding machine was both contemplative and so very meta.

Back with a link

Nice collection of links to punk album downloads. Most seem to be working too.