Leaplings
Happy Birthday to all you Leaplings!
Leaplings are people born on February 29. Since that date only occurs in a leap year, I can only imagine the confusion as a kid trying to figure out why you are so special to be born on such a day.
Happy Birthday David Moore. I only remember your birthday because you're a leapling. I haven't seen you in probably 20 years, or is that 5 leap years? Have no idea what's up in your life, but I remember that you are a leapling. So happy birthday to an old youth group and high school friend. I think you turn 11 this year?
Thinking about leap years made me wonder how the other few minutes of difference between the actual solar year and our calendar year are gonna work out. You know, those pesky minutes that are leftovers, that don't get compensated for by adding a day to the calendar every four years.
Somebody has done some SERIOUS calculating.
In fact, many different cultures have widely varying ways of dealing with this solar v. calendar phenomenon.
Check out wikipedia's article on leap years. It'll blow your mind.
And have an extra piece of birthday cake in honor of the 200,000 or so leaplings in America today. (Maybe I'll just add an extra quarter-of-a-piece of cake to mine every four years. Wait, that won't work! Man, I'm glad it's not up to me to figure this one out!)
Leaplings are cool.
Leaplings are people born on February 29. Since that date only occurs in a leap year, I can only imagine the confusion as a kid trying to figure out why you are so special to be born on such a day.Happy Birthday David Moore. I only remember your birthday because you're a leapling. I haven't seen you in probably 20 years, or is that 5 leap years? Have no idea what's up in your life, but I remember that you are a leapling. So happy birthday to an old youth group and high school friend. I think you turn 11 this year?
Thinking about leap years made me wonder how the other few minutes of difference between the actual solar year and our calendar year are gonna work out. You know, those pesky minutes that are leftovers, that don't get compensated for by adding a day to the calendar every four years.
Somebody has done some SERIOUS calculating.
In fact, many different cultures have widely varying ways of dealing with this solar v. calendar phenomenon.
Check out wikipedia's article on leap years. It'll blow your mind.
And have an extra piece of birthday cake in honor of the 200,000 or so leaplings in America today. (Maybe I'll just add an extra quarter-of-a-piece of cake to mine every four years. Wait, that won't work! Man, I'm glad it's not up to me to figure this one out!)
Leaplings are cool.
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9:56 AM
