Wednesday, May 30, 2007

What I Accomplished Today

Locations west of the Greenwich Meridian will experience a blue moon this year in May. Locations on and east of the GM* will experience it in June.
*Auckland, New Zealand, as well as other locations on GMT +12, though east of the Greenwich Meridian, will experience it in July.

For more information, you may consult this table, courtesy of Obliquity:

City Time zone Full Moon 1 Full Moon 2 Full Moon 3 Full Moon 4
Places East of Greenwich
Auckland GMT + 12 hours May 2
22:09
June 1
13:04
July 1
01:49
July 30
12:48
Sydney GMT + 10 hours May 2
20:09
June 1
11:04
June 30
23:49
July 30
10:48
Tokyo GMT + 9 hours May 2
19:09
June 1
10:04
June 30
22:49
July 30
09:48
Moscow¹ GMT + 4 hours May 2
14:09
June 1
05:04
June 30
17:49
July 30
04:48
Riyadh GMT + 3 hours May 2
13:09
June 1
04:04
June 30
16:49
July 30
03:48
The Greenwich Meridian
London¹ GMT + 1 hour May 2
11:09
June 1
02:04
June 30
14:49
July 30
01:48
Places West of Greenwich
New York¹ GMT - 4 hours May 2
06:09
May 31
21:04
June 30
09:49
July 29
20:48
Chicago¹ GMT - 5 hours May 2
05:09
May 31
20:04
June 30
08:49
July 29
19:48
Los Angeles¹ GMT - 7 hours May 2
03:09
May 31
18:04
June 30
06:49
July 29
17:48
Anchorage, Alaska¹ GMT - 8 hours May 2
02:09
May 31
17:04
June 30
05:49
July 29
16:48
Hawaii GMT - 10 hours May 2
00:09
May 31
15:04
June 30
03:49
July 29
14:48
¹ These places observe daylight saving time in May, June and July.


Bonus points if you knew there was a blue moon this/next/next-next month.
Super extra bonus points if you remember the astronomical definition of obliquity.
Get Out Of My Head if, when you see "Greenwich", you think "sandwich" . . . . . . . . . (or "sammich").

Thursday, May 03, 2007

New Report Strategy

My most productive meeting yesterday was an impromptu brainstorming/bitching-and-venting session that arose between myself, D, and N, who heads the Build A Compliant Database project.

We concluded that we can gain significant speed and completion, while forfeiting an acceptable loss in accuracy, by running our summary numbers using numerology dice. Awesome!