[SantaClaus]

Hypothetical for scientific types:

You walk outside at night and the star positions don't quite look right. Jupiter seems higher in the sky than you remember. Polaris seems lower.

HOW would you go about verifying/disproving that a pole shift had occurred?

Internet forums? Sextant and astronomy manuals? GPS receiver? Listen for the beying of packs of ravenous hounds from hell? Discuss...