Trivialities

[flemmings]

We are going to have a holiday in February. Finally. Unless he changes his mind. As it is we have a holiday the second weekend in October, then nothing for two and a half months until the end of December, then nothing for three months or more until whenever Easter happens, anywhere from the end of March to the middle of April. So yeah- Family Day. Which is fine by me. A free Monday in February is a free Monday in February.

Also saw mauvecloud xsmoonshine's twirling ballerina on a computer that works. To my surprise she went clockwise, and only clockwise. Stopped periodically but then continued clockwise. I'm not a right-brain type naturally. What I am, I think, is someone who cracked two vertebrae 25 years ago, lost strength in her right arm, and unconsciously transferred a bunch of functions to her left. This explains why I'm also so clumsy these days.

I'm also in a pissy mood, as were all the tinies at work today. Since *they* aren't going through menopause I'll assume a malign astrological conjunction. Hope it goes away soon, whatever.

Comments

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

I am fully in favour of a holiday in February! We have a 'family day' and it is very welcome.

Hmm.. she only goes counter-clockwise for me. XD

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

I guess one of the upsides of living in a multifaith multicultural country is that we have a public holiday for all the major holy days there are... Eid (fitri and adha), Diwali(deepavali), Good Friday and Christmas, Chinese New year, the normal New Year and National Day! And generally they tend to be dispersed quite nicely through the year! Depending on the calendar.

We've had days clash because of the different calendars that are followed but it makes interesting celebrations!


I couldn't make that girl go anti-clockwise at all. Although some are able to do both...but my head hurt after awhile! had to stop staring at it! But damn it was cool!


aww ...I can sympathise with pissy moods entirely!!! *hugs*
...and they are not fun so I do hope yours goes away.

*love n stuffs*

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

...and then I blinked and then it's going the other way (anti-clockwise)... aaand then she slows down for a few frames and lo and behold she is going clockwise again!

Aaargh! Heh I think that just broke the brain ... *goes off to look at it some more*

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

She went determinedly clockwise as my husband oohed and ahed and watched her switch back and forth. Finally she went counter for me, then stopped and went back to clockwise.

Apparently it has something to do with not being able to judge depth properly in the image.

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

I sit corrected! If I concentrate on the foot that pivots I can flip her direction of spin.
COOL!

[mikeneko.livejournal.com]

Amused/envious to see a government going out of its way to give holidays rather than exhorting everyone to work harder, lazy bums.

Eh. As I'd said to them both, that thingie only goes one direction and no other. Attempting to pull this reversal trick won me nothing but a headache. Linking it to brain orientation strikes me as rather silly pseudoscience, though.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

It was originally posted by absenceofmind, who's convinced through experimentation that the article has gotten it mixed up ^^; - the vast majority of engineers see it clockwise, the vast majority of can't-do-math-ers see it counter-clockwise, with a sizeable proportion of switchers.

[mauvecloud.livejournal.com]

You and I, the hard-wired Counters. (Knowing how the thing works does not make it easier for me to see it going the other way either.)

Yup, nothing to do with brained-ness:
http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php?p=27

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I love living in a multicultural city. I would love living in a city that was *officially* multiculture. As it is, I get a bit squirmy about Christmas as official holiday (pace the most recent fandom blowup, not that squirmy because Christmas is for all intents and purposes a non-faith event these days, celebrated exactly as it is in Japan.) But Good Friday? Squirms. You'd think they could at least rename it.

Like, we need a winter holiday, they could give us Chinese new year. Except they wnated a late february one since most people (not me) get depressed in February.