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Happy Free Day!

It’s February 29, an odd little bonus day to brighten your winter. It reminds me of an episode of Pete & Pete, in which Little Pete spends Daylight Savings Day attempting a great time-traveling experiment. Daylight Savings Day is only a free hour, and then even that is taken away from us later on in the year. Today, you get an entire day — free of temporal charge — to travel through time, contemplate the nature of the universe, or just go have a drink. I’ll be doing all those things tonight at the Pharyngula party in Cambridge, MA. What are you doing? See the Skepchick calendar for inspiration, after the jump.

Rebecca Watson

Rebecca is a writer, speaker, YouTube personality, and unrepentant science nerd. In addition to founding and continuing to run Skepchick, she hosts Quiz-o-Tron, a monthly science-themed quiz show and podcast that pits comedians against nerds. There is an asteroid named in her honor. Twitter @rebeccawatson Mastodon mstdn.social/@rebeccawatson Instagram @actuallyrebeccawatson TikTok @actuallyrebeccawatson YouTube @rebeccawatson BlueSky @rebeccawatson.bsky.social

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8 Comments

  1. Going out drinking and thinking beats staying home and getting Dwight Eisenhower stuck up my nose. (I know, that was a different episode…)

  2. “It’s February 29, an odd little bonus day to brighten your winter. It reminds me of an episode of Pete & Pete, in which Little Pete spends Daylight Savings Day attempting a great time-traveling experiment.”

    Good thing I ate plenty of riboflavin yesterday. :)

  3. We should be careful while traveling through time. I have it from a reliable source that paradox free time travel is not, in fact, consequence free.

  4. My dumb, indecisive self is still uncertain about tonight’s Pharygulafest. I get the impression it’s going to be quite a crowd, with which I’m not sure I feel like dealing. Also, as I discussed with Joshua in New York, I’m not exactly an orthadox Pharyguloid and I’ve lately tended to avoid reading/posting comments there (even though I read the blog at least a couple times a day) because I feel they’ve developed an annoying sort of “in-group” tendency there. Maybe I’m over-sensitive, or maybe I’m just not “in” :-P

    At any rate, anyone have an estimate as to how many are expected tonight?

  5. Unless you live in Arizona where there is no daylight savings. Instead we just get confused as to what time to call relatives in their respective states.

  6. That reminds me of the JREF forum a few years back. At some point, everybody thought they were out of the loop, and not part of the in-crowd.

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