On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:07:13PM -0500, Andrew Brown wrote:
> certainly there are characteristics that affect when people are born
> (yes, there are a lot less people with a birthday of february 29), but
> do you have any hard data that suggests the spread of birthdays over
> days of the year is sharply slanted in any direction?

Guess what happens when a hurricane or serious ice/snow storm hits
and knocks out power (and other sources of entertainment).
-- 
"A method for inducing cats to exercise consists of directing a beam of
invisible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus onto the floor ...
in the vicinity of the cat, then moving the laser ... in an irregular way
fascinating to cats,..." -- US patent 5443036, "Method of exercising a cat"