To everyone born on 29th February... Since you can't have a proper #birthday this year, I wish you A Very Merry #Unbirthday!
Space News
OneWeb suffered an embarrassing 36 hour outage over the new year due to a "silly" fault
OneWeb, the Eutelsat-run LEO mobile and data satellite constellation, lost connectivity due 2024 being... a leap year!
Read more: https://spacenews.com/eutelsat-resolves-oneweb-leap-year-software-glitch-after-two-day-outage/
@natejung is SILO dropping in on go or is it weekly? I'll be waiting for the entire season before subbing.
As for what I'm playing, I picked up #LeapYear and #MindOverMagnet last night so I'm going to jump into one of those after taking a few days off any games.
Here’s a great explanation of leap year, Gregorian calendar, and the days of the week by Neil deGrasse Tyson on the latest StarTalk podcast episode.
I guess it’s Olympics time again. And election year here. And leap year. I think that’s a conspiracy that they all fall together each time.
And the levels from the Boomerang Fu Just Desserts DLC were co-designed by Daniel Linssen, who recently released #LeapYear
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2951770/Leap_Year/
EDIT: fixed (for now) - thanks to everyone for all the help!
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I guess I'll put this out there since now I've met @guffo who's having the same issue.
My work laptop is Windows 10 and after Leap Day this year, my Teams shows meetings a day ahead for some reason on the calendar, but with the correct date on the meeting itself. Nearly missed a meeting Monday, but luckily since the day itself is correct on the meeting, it notified me and I noticed it. All the meetings still just show on the wrong day - a full day ahead.
Tried restarting Teams, the whole machine, nothing. Can find NOTHING about it online anywhere. Any ideas to fix are welcome, or anyone else dealing with this, or anyone else who wants to talk about how shitty Teams is.
"Over the course of centuries, a calendar with no leap years would eventually become totally out of sync with the seasons as we know them."
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/02/world/leap-year-meaning-explained-dg-scn/
Can you imagine anything -- ANYTHING -- even remotely more annoying and painful than being on this cruise with these people, listening to their endless, "LOOK AT ME, I'M ONLY 8 YEARS OLD!!! HAHAHA!!! AIYEEEE!!!" etc. ?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2024/02/28/leap-day-party-birthday-leapling/
A lovely thread on Hacker News on this question:
"Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?"
Happy #LeapYear #LeapDay
Keisai Eisen 渓斉英泉 (1790-1848)
Woodblock prints, kakemono-e, Edo, 1830s-40s:
1.. Carp leaping up a waterfall.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1906-1220-0-311
2. Courtesan parading in kimono patterned with leaping carp.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1906-1220-0-312
British Museum collection
#JapaneseArt
Happy #LeapYear #LeapDay
Stanton Macdonald-Wright (American, 1890-1973)
An old pond a #frog leaps in, the sound of water (Basho), from the Haiga Portfolio, 1965-66
woodblock print on mulberry paper
SAAM 2020.66.1.1:
https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/old-pond-frog-leaps-sound-water-basho-haiga-portfolio-117878
Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso (Portuguese, I887-1918)
The Leap of the Rabbit, 1911
oil on canvas, 49.9 × 60.8 cm
Spotted on display at Art Institute Chicago.
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/8999/the-leap-of-the-rabbit
Wow, March the first. Finally.
I sure am glad that yesterday didn't really exist and all those things I said aren't real.
Today's top ten tag trends:
10: #rarediseaseday
9: #thursdayfivelist
8: #thursday
7: #Schaltjahr
6: #Rootstech
5: #throwbackthursday
4: #leapyear
3: #hottakejubilee
2: #LeapDay
1: #criminalasongorpoem
And now I think I'll leap back into bed. See you in another four years.
The tide was low this morning. As the full moon slips away.