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Trivial Pursuits => History => Topic started by: linnea on November 04, 2007, 03:34:11 am
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Damn, it's that time already. I need to set the clocks.
Any of you party people have big plans for your extra hour? Sleep?
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Writing, sleeping.
Looking at pornography that I'm not into but is fascinating in the fact that other people are into it.
Y'know. The usual late-Saturday-night stuff.
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Working on my NaNoWriMo novel. I am 2500 words behind for the day, and I was hoping to be ahead by this point, since I'm going to lose at least three full days this month ( Thanksgiving and [hopefully] two days of drunken debauchery in Western Massachusetts ).
In related news, I got an Aerobie Aeropress coffee/espresso maker and love it to death. It makes very tasty coffee, which will aid in the delivery of the precious caffeine.
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What sort of idea does someone use for a Nanowrimo idea, anyway?
What sort of idea works for a 180 page plot to be written in a month?
It has taken me over five weeks to write seventy pages, for fuck's friggin, and its gonna end up three hundred pages at least.
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I am currently using up my extra hour deciding whether to order takeout or just mix up some gross rice-n-spaghetti sauce. I'm leaning towards the takeout.
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I've always felt that the concept of resetting the clocks for Daylight Savings Time is supreme hubris on our part. It seems to me it would be much more reasonable to change the hours we do things, so that, for instance, work hours would be 8 to 4 during the summer.
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All it means here is getting up earlier. If the kids woke up at 8 AM Saturday, they're up at 7 AM today.
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I upgraded this server to PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0.25, then spent another hour trying to figure out why the pdo_mysql.so extension wasn't loading.
And it's Daylight Saving Time. No s.
WE TALKED ABOUT THIS
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I upgraded this server to PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0.25, then spent another hour trying to figure out why the pdo_mysql.so extension wasn't loading.
And it's Daylight Saving Time. No s.
WE TALKED ABOUT THIS
I think that the vernacular has changed usage, because I always thought it was Daylight Savings.
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Yeah, I was in the midst of upgrading to the latest version.
It should be okay now.
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In my head I constantly and repeatedly reminded people that "daylight savings" makes no grammatical sense. I can't spell worth a damn so I know it's a bit hypocritical but this is one of the things that just bugs the crap out of me.
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Wait... I have always understood it as "Daylight Saving's Time." Sorry.
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Wait... I have always understood it as "Daylight Saving's Time." Sorry.
No. We are saving Daylight, which is singular, not plural or possessive. All legislation reflects this spelling and grammar construction.
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Wait... I have always understood it as "Daylight Saving's Time." Sorry.
Oh Inev. I'm so disappointed in you. You need to speak with Professor Bob. (http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif)
"Saving's???".
Is it a contraction? Nope.
Is it possessive? Nope.
Sigh.
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man, I ain't about to let legislation how to speak my own damn language.
no, see, I always understood it as a possesive. It is the time of daylight saving.
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Never put assunder what I believe is the proper grammar of Daylightes' Savings of Time.
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man, I ain't about to let legislation how to speak my own damn language.
no, see, I always understood it as a possesive. It is the time of daylight saving.
Well that's incorrect, but "daylight savings" is perfectly acceptable - just as the bank allows one to have monetary savings, so does adjusting the clock allow one to have daylight savings.
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It caused me to get hungrier an hour "earlier" and to re-calibrate the time difference between here and Mumbai. It really is a big screwup when the rest of the goddamn world uses a civilized clock and we're fiddling with extra hours here and there. To make things worse, Mumbai is all the way in goddamn INDIA and apparently they use the metric system to tell time because they're +5:30 off GMT. How in the HELL did they get offset by 30 minutes instead of being even hours like EVERYBODY ELSE?!?
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Someone was probably looking at local noon and realized the sun wasn't quite perfectly at the apex of its daily arc, and his anal-retentiveness wouldn't let him sleep until he badgered the government into offsetting the clock. I think there's someplace in Australia that is offset by 15 minute increments as well. Due to History.
Edit: Yay: (http://www.timegenie.com/state.time/auwa/) Memory does not fail me, today.
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There's someplace up in Canada that's off by 30 minutes.
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There's someplace up in Canada that's off by 30 minutes.
That would be Newfoundland. They're off on a lot of things.
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Please, people, no Newfie jokes here. We're better than that.
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Please, people, no Newfie jokes here. We're better than that.
Well, they're perfectly lovely dogs
(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:PUg1tPspnj9s6M:http://www.newfoundlandpuppy.net/herk_jr_19m_for_newfie.jpg)
And handy for camping trips
(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:6hJyfHQc9UwYPM:http://www.cartingwithyourdog.com/gifs/snorriand2wheelcartwithnfldstyleharness.jpg)
Although I'd avoid taking them wilderness camping. Packing out that much poop would be a chore.
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And handy for camping trips
(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:6hJyfHQc9UwYPM:http://www.cartingwithyourdog.com/gifs/snorriand2wheelcartwithnfldstyleharness.jpg)
That is darling. So cute.
I know I've said this every year, but I hate the time changes, and for the past few years I've always been to some other time zone right before the change, which makes things even worse. I have an awesome internal clock, so I feel like I'm on another planet when my schedules gets shifted.
Speaking of Newfoundlanders, do check out the band Great Big Sea if you want some cheery East Coast music.
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When I went on my little West coast road trip, Arizona really fucked me up. We drove to the Grand Canyon, didn't know we were at the Grand Canyon, and drove back to Utah because that was the closest hotel with vacancy. Anyhow, we had to be out by 12, we thought it was 3, but it was 4, so by the time we got there I took an hour long shower it was almost pointless.
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When I went on my little West coast road trip, Arizona really fucked me up. We drove to the Grand Canyon, didn't know we were at the Grand Canyon, and drove back to Utah because that was the closest hotel with vacancy. Anyhow, we had to be out by 12, we thought it was 3, but it was 4, so by the time we got there I took an hour long shower it was almost pointless.
When Keith is fucked up, the state of Utah becomes a hotel - with vacancy. We should party some time, let my people talk to your people.
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In no relationship to this thread I posted a picture of me at "Little Grand Canyon" (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pmcd9/1906832543/)
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Well, it was dark.
Also, we will all be better off if Utah became a giant hotel.
Also, yeah, I got a buzz on.
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I'm still trying to figure out how he missed a hole visible from space.
If he was driving, then its probably a good thing. KH, goin' over the edge all Thelma and Louise style...
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Have you ever driven to the Grand Canyon at night? You are in a forest and then the road ends. How was I to know the road ending meant there was a big fuck*ng hole there?
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Paul, I will see your "Little Grand Canyon" and raise you "The Grand Canyon of the East."
http://www.bigfool.com/foolblog/archive/2004_05.htm#000141
OK, not really "raise."
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Paul, I will see your "Little Grand Canyon" and raise you "The Grand Canyon of the East."
http://www.bigfool.com/foolblog/archive/2004_05.htm#000141
OK, not really "raise."
dude that is bullshit, the Paterson falls rock anyones cock compared to that. and theyre in the middle of urban new jersey.
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I've always felt that the concept of resetting the clocks for Daylight Savings Time is supreme hubris on our part. It seems to me it would be much more reasonable to change the hours we do things, so that, for instance, work hours would be 8 to 4 during the summer.
And that's why I love being a teacher. My work hours are nil over the summer, from early June through the beginning of August. Aaah. I love it! Although my work weeks during the school year can easily be 60 hour workweeks (which is why I'd love to slowly garrote people who claim that "teachers do nothing!"). We work our asses off, people. All teaching 5 classes per day. 120 middle school kids, yo. But it's actually awesome. Most of the time.
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120 middle school kids, yo. But it's actually awesome. Most of the time.
You actually teach them? I thought the purpose of middle school was just a place to let them age until their brains catch up to their bodies. Middle school for me was the social pressure of high school without the interesting classes, plus a bunch of teachers instead of the single one from elementary days.
Plus being the foreign kid. Though I got my accent beaten out of me within 6 months I think.
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That's nice Carlos. I'm a fan of big holes in the ground.
dude that is bullshit, the Paterson falls rock anyones cock compared to that. and theyre in the middle of urban new jersey.
Yeah, but you don't have a picture so shut the fuck up.
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No, Texas, you shut the fuck up (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwMO1EI0WCs).
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We went white water rafting here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-TMT2-DPFU) last year.
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due to daylight savings time, suddenly I am walking back from class in the dark 3 days out of 5. This... makes me feel like my day is much longer than it actually is. my schedule is easy, but walking home in the dark makes it feel... long.
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due to daylight savings time, suddenly I am walking back from class in the dark 3 days out of 5. This... makes me feel like my day is much longer than it actually is. my schedule is easy, but walking home in the dark makes it feel... long.
Why are you talking about daylight sav.....
oh, never mind.