lmao.. did I seriously just get rick rolled on a newton?! "urge to kill... rising..." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701281/quotes?item=qt0321279 On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au>wrote:

Yeah, and I (and the rest of our Grove) kept sunreturn vigil the night of the 21st. But it seemed a bit declasse to snark at a (presumably) well-intentioned well-wisher about how Newtonsday/Christmas isn't the Solstice, especially since there's a sense in which Christmas (both religious and secular) is a Solstice observance (and Newtonsday is a mutation of it), even though it's no longer done on the solstice. (Doing it exactly on the solstice doesn't matter all that much for now-common purposes anyway.) Perhaps I should have put more effort into finding a way to mention it that didn't sound snarky.... /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B