What the heck kind of Californian are you, anyway? In the two times I’ve been to California, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a turn signal flashing.

Maybe nobody was making turns

The Mayan calendar is based on cycles – the latest(in the long count) will end in 2012, however if they hadn’t been wiped out by a devastating drought they probably would have bothered creating a cycle after this one. This all has to do with a wonderful cosmic event called precession when the solar plane and galactic plane align. On dawn of the winter solstice in 2012 the sun will emerge right in the middle of the milky way (the large dark band anyone can see at night)… This has to do with the ecliptic of the sun and how we’re oriented in our galaxy. There are tons of websites and books explaining this in detail – it’s fun stuff.

While kooks and weirded out hippies have taken to pushing all kinds of wacky shit into the Mayan calendars it really is based in hard science. It’s quite wonderful to think that people so long ago could come up with something so complicated and accurate. Precession happens once every 28,000 years or so and the Mayans figured out just when it would occur. Brilliant stuff.

Anyway, I’ll be in Palenque on dec. 21st 2012(assuming I’m still alive) just in case something cool happens.

1. I would like to read more, I used to be a 3 book a week kinda person, now I am lucky if I read that many in a year.

2. Have for the most part. I watch Arrested Development (good stuff) and occasionally Scrubs, but I find most sitcoms about as funny as penile cancer.

3. Will disregard until I actually get a license.

4. Indeed just recently re-registered since we moved. Always have been and always will be registered independant.

5. I find this one hard to believe. (I crack myself up)