Ти ж хотів землі цієї, tож тепер змішайся з нею

[sovay]

I was not up for baking a cake from scratch tonight, but we had so much poppy seed paste left over that I poked around on the internet until I found a recipe which did not require me to do much more than already have frozen puff pastry, sour cherry jam, and confectioner's sugar on hand. What it did not give me was any hint of the intended size of the finished pastries, hence some experimentation on my part which seems to have made no difference to which ones retained the majority of their filling and which ones eviscerated themselves like sea cucumbers in the baking. Would make some changes, but would make again. There were no survivors.



And that was how I observed the confluence of Saint Patrick's Day and Purim, after eating corned beef and hamantashn.

I seem to feel strongly that if we are going to stop seesawing our circadian rhythms across the year, I don't understand the push for the permanent adoption of daylight savings time as opposed to its abolition in favor of standard time. It isn't sun-based. It was originally a wartime measure. This same move lasted less than a year when it was tried in the '70's. And I do not look forward to winter mornings under DST.

I am glad to know people who are translating poems out of Ukraine.

Comments

Re: why DST

[ironymaiden]

I don't actually understand what Florida - Marco Rubio sponsored the bill - will really get from this besides not doing a time change... although maybe they're far enough south that they never have dark mornings at all? I grew up in Pennsylvania and it was dim in December when i was on my way to school but never full dark. my first Seattle winter was a shock. (FWIW, I went down a little latitude rabbit hole. the difference in latitude between Boston and Seattle is equal to the difference between Richmond VA and Boston. Seattle is up near the northern border of Maine.)

Re: why DST

[sovay]

I don't actually understand what Florida - Marco Rubio sponsored the bill - will really get from this besides not doing a time change... although maybe they're far enough south that they never have dark mornings at all?

It's possible—the last time I was in Florida was ten years ago, but it actually was in December and I am trying to remember what the light was like, other than a lot of it. I don't understand why one of my state senators was such a major proponent. The fragment of daylight that we are going to get at the end of the day in winter does not seem an adequate tradeoff to me for the extra dark at the start: I have to assume Ed Markey feels differently. I am nocturnal by nature and have a sleep cycle that will not benefit from further disconnection from the progression of daylight. I would rather have noon when the sun is actually highest, even when that isn't very high at all.

Seattle is up near the northern border of Maine.

I didn't know you were in Seattle, but I figured there could be as much as seven degrees between us—for reasons relating to radio astronomy, I have the latitude of Boston engraved in my brain along with the frequency of the hydrogen line. And you're at the western edge of your time zone and we're at the eastern, which also makes a difference. The real problem is that our planet has axial tilt. I just don't feel like this is going to help.