Today I was looking through the various moon emojis showing different phases. Here they are in the emoji sorting order as displayed on MacOS/iOS*:
🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑🌒🌓🌔
And I noticed the various crescent, gibbous, and quarter moon emojis are all named as if viewed from the northern hemisphere. They’re completely wrong from a southern hemisphere point of view.
🌗 is named “last quarter moon”, but to me that’s a first quarter.
🌘 is named “waning crescent moon” but to me that’s a waxing crescent. And vice versa.
And the ordering is backwards. For me the progression of phases over time as viewed in the sky is as follows:
🌕🌔🌓🌒🌑🌘🌗🌖
Northern hemisphere assumptions in things are so insidious, and it’s really annoying. Pretty much everything that is ever designed or shown that depends on what hemisphere you’re in is presented as if the northern hemisphere is the default. And so it’s all messed up for people in the south.
( * I also checked the Unicode standard and in that the ordering of the moon phase emoji is given as:
🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘
So the same order cyclicly, but starting with the new moon. )
On other topics, today I did a 2.5k run, and clocked under 13 minutes again. But I still feel a bit out of form and need to run a few times a week for a bit to get my times back. I did some housework, cleaning the bathroom and shower and stuff. And spent much of the rest of the day writing Darths & Droids comics. I still need to produce 3 more before next Saturday to have enough buffered for my trip to Japan. At this time next week I’ll be at the airport!
New content today: