New Look for Arlington

It's a little bit difficult to stay on top of the news these days. It seems that this memorial pile of sculpture at Arlington National Cemetery, erected in 1914 as a sign of peace and North / South brotherhood, has been declared by the Biden regime to be a sign of oppression and racism that must be destroyed. 

Which means that they must be looking for a new sign of peace and North / South brotherhood, right? I have a suggestion. From North to South America, I think we can agree on this: Shakira. A new memorial to the internationally acclaimed entertainer has been installed in her home town of Barranquilla, Colombia. I bet for another 697 million Colombian Pesos, sculptor Yino Márquez would be willing to make a another copy for Washington, DC.

It will be a lasting memorial of peace, brotherhood, dance music, and hips that, unlike politicians, don't lie!

Passage of History

Did you know that Microsoft Excel can't do date calculations before January 1, 1900?  True.  Hasn't been updated since that's the way it was in the MS-DOS first release and original BASIC days.  It doesn't do the logical thing and convert the negative values to absolute values and blah blah blah.  It just gives you "##################" cells.  Weird.

Anyway to deal with the past you have to shift your earliest date to after 01/01/1900 and shift all your other dates forward accordingly, which can introduce errors because 2000  did  have a February 29 leap day but normally centuries do not.  If you're striving for precision, you'll have to come up with a C++ program or something.

This came up because last week I had a hunch that turned out to be sort of true.  The civil war was as long before World War II as we now are from World War II.  Roughly.

Actually, August 4 of 2022 will be (+/- a day?) as long after the attack on Pearl Harbor as the attack on Pearl Harbor was after the firing on Fort Sumter.