Wednesday, December 26, 2007

A very naughty breadbasket.

To those I missed saying it to, Happy Christmas (feel free to replace the last word with whatever holiday you feel like).

Every Christmas Eve NORAD tracks Santa's progress around the world. I used to listen to the radio and TV updates religiously as a kid. NORAD has decided to go virtual and created a web applet that does the same thing, but interactive. Monday night my cousin's kids were very serious about checking where Santa was. They got VERY excited when he made it to the Eastern Coast, though I don't remember what city it was.

In any case the map showed him skipping Algeria completely, which I found interesting. Interesting enough that I searched backwards to see where else he skipped. Apparently Iraq doesn't have any kids worth bringing presents to. Same went for Mongolia, Manitoba, Egypt, Mozambique, plus some others.

The strangest part was that he skipped 5 US states. North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas & Oklahoma. What the hell did the Midwest do to piss of Santa?

1 comment:

Roland Deschain said...

Um...maybe with all the ice storms down there and with them not being able to get power back on...Santa can't see where to land at? Since it was all dark he just missed the place?

I've got nothing.

If he's judging solely by nice/naughty, he should have skipped California, Washington DC, Florida, and Duke. ;-)