Flecks of… Gray?

In honor of Swivel going live, I decided to undertake a project graphing the sunrise and sunset times in both Montreal and Saskatoon to compare them (I threw the equator in for fun too). I actually learned a few interesting things that I had never known before.

Sunset:

Sunrise:

Although the real Montreal time is the yellow one, I also made up one (the red one) to show how we would be if we didn’t have DST. Here are the interesting things that I learned while poring over these graphs:

1. Assuming that the equator and all time zones centered around the equator are ‘normal’ time zones and those that are off centered are some sort of saving time zone; Saskatoon is in a constant DST mode! You can see that it is not centered around the equator time (as is the non-DST Montreal time).
   
2. The date when the sun changes from rising later to earlier (Jan 2nd) does not correspond exactly with the day the sunset changes from setting earlier to later (Dec 10th) which also does not correspond exactly with the date when the amount of sun time changes from being shorter to longer (Winter Solstice – Dec 22nd). Solstice is in the middle of the two other dates though so that makes sense. Same funny behavior at the Summer Solstice.
   
3. I had just not thought about this one too much but I never understood exactly how DST works – this chart helped me to visualize it so I know what’s going on. So, in summer, DST lets us sleep one more dark hour in the morning and get an extra hour at night to play at the beach – fun!
   

OK, I think that’s all I learned for now. Source data for these graphs came from time and date.

I had mentioned previously about how I had run into my very favorite food critic on an airplane trip from San Francisco to Montreal – now she’s having a book signing for her brand new book next weekend, below is the invite from the store…

Bon Appetit Cookbooks is excited to host an EXCLUSIVE EVENT with talented author and The Gazette columnist, Sarah Musgrave.


Montreal Resto-À-Go-Go: 200 Cheap and Fun Places to Eat and Drink in Montreal.

Saturday, December 16th @ 5:00pm

Bon Appetit Cookbooks

388 Victoria Avenue

Admission is $16.95 and includes a signed copy of the book and tasty hors d’oeurves.


To reserve your ticket, please call 514-369-2002, or e-mail us at bonappetitcookbooks at bellnet dot ca.

It’s not every day you get to re-meet a celebrity (well, a celebrity in our minds at least!) – we’re so there!

Another link for those who want to rid themselves of the tube (substituted of course for those other series of tubes) – there’s tv-links! I checked it out a little bit and it does try to cover more tv shows and it does so a little less thoroughly than bleenks but it does have a ton of stuff to waste your time on.

Thanks Neisha for the link!

Ok, so I enjoyed the other Halo videogames quite a bit – here’s the new trailer from teamxbox for the third one coming out. I’m not so sure what it all means but it does look pretty cool!

Today, my friend Luke, stumped me on a Seinfeld quote. I was a bit taken back but it was from the ninth season so I don’t feel too bad, here’s the context with Luke’s specific quote in bold

Jerry: Hey, so Sophie gave me the “It’s me” on the phone today.

Elaine: “It’s me?” Isn’t it a little premature?

Jerry: I thought so.

Elaine: Hah. She’s not a “me”. I’m a “me”.

George: I’m against all “it’s me”‘s. So self-absorbed and egotistical, it’s like those hip musicians with their complicated shoes.

To even things out, I let him know that it was actually Denise Richards as the subject of the cleavage-poke. That makes us even at 1-1.