Hey, it’s been a minute since I’ve been around, but I just had to poke my head in for this one:

Initiative.

Wyclef Jean is reportedly running for president of his native Haiti. AllHipHop’s exclusive source tells them that the official announcement should come about on Thursday, August 5th. I think this is a great boon for the people of Haiti, because nobody seems to care more about Haiti in the public eye then my man Wyclef. And who else would you want running a country except the person(s) that cares the most about it?

It’s also great because, I mean, there are a lot of potential revolutionary things to come out of a Wyclef presidency. Terms are five years there, and a president can serve up to two terms, so that’s a potential 10 years of  Mr. Jean running ish. A lot can be changed in 10 years. That the man has built a fortune in his lifetime is no small matter either, since Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the developing world. Making money commerce is something that would be great for him to have oversight of (indirectly, by way of good treasury and commerce appointments of course).

All I can say is hopefully he fixes the education and healthcare first.

FYI: Still waiting for a window for me to work on the next strip. Be patient. Me too!

Okay! Well…as it’s that time of the week [as of yesterday], I’m primed to hit y’all with an official edition/rendition of the soon-to-be-famous Wanna-Know Wednesdays here at Earth Tones.

What we’re gonna do is take your input from previous polls, and compose a nice little blog that reflects what the popular consensus says. I don’t generally pander to the popular consensus, but here is about the only place I choose to make an exception. Because it’s MY SITE. (more…)

Just gimme three.5 minutes of your time…something to think about.

I’m big on the ‘what if’s in everything. Recently, thinking about our format of months and years, it occurred to me that our Georgian calendar system is flawed, and that a lunar system would make more sense.

If the moon’s cycle is ~28 days (in its sidereal orbit), that’s a good round four weeks per month. Add in the fact that we observe a leap day every four years…do some calculations…and you come out to roughly 13 months per lunar year. So why don’t we observe the calendar as it corresponds to the lunar cycle?

Heck if I know…but because we keep discovering more and more about human history and the planet’s history every day, it’s hard for anyone to say what year it’d be even if we could all agree on the same calendar (because we all don’t). The strangest thing of all, however, is our perception of time and our reliance on it to be a progressive society. We constantly use 2000 as a marking point for why we need to advance technologically. If calendars worked such that we were still in the 1900’s, would we be trying as hard to advance in certain fields?

That’s not where I was trying to go with the monologue, but the point is that we may not be when we think we are, and we probably shouldn’t rely on that when to drive us forward in history…

…cause if you use 13 28-day months per year, just from 45 BC, we’d currently be in 1896 instead of 2009. I’m just sayin.

This post brought to you by all of the sci-fi video games and movies I’ve watched that have a new calendar system. And by the letter ‘G’.