Contest: VOTE Misc. Avatar Contest: September Observances

[Kai "the spy"]

Vote for your three favorite entries:

@Marynator #1:

The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (September 8th)

@Marynator #2:

National Yoga Month

@Avro Arrow #1:

Day of the Programmer (September 13th)

@Avro Arrow #2

Star Trek Day (September 8th)

@Kai "the spy" #1

International Literacy Day (September 8th)

@Kai "the spy" #2

German Butterbrot Day (September 25th)

@auntiehill

Talk like a Pirate Day (September 19th)

@rhubarbodendron #1

German Day of the Zebra-Crossing (September 1st)

@rhubarbodendron #2

Japanese Chrysanthemum Festival (September 9th)

@Dimesdan #1

Oktoberfest (starting mid- to late September)

@Dimesdan #2

All-Ireland Hurling Final (traditionally early September)

 

[auntiehill]

Voted on this particular day.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

Happy Star Trek Day, everyone! For me it's mostly market day, laundry day and tomato-preserving day, though. And tidying up day, freezer cleaning day, quilt finishing day and a gazillion more. Mostly, it's weekends-are-always-too-short day *sigh*

 

[DimesDan]

Just to clarify, is the winner the person with highest votes for one entry or the combined votes of both of them? I'm guessing it's the former.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Just to clarify, is the winner the person with highest votes for one entry or the combined votes of both of them? I'm guessing it's the former.

Yes, that's how we've handled this in the past.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Sep 9: Voting Day! (Hmm... 9/9? That must be something special somehow...)

Here are the other days that I was considering entering while looking over that Wikipedia page helpfully provided by Kai "the spy"...

(Wait, alternates in a Misc contest? Do we even do that? Oh well....)

- Random Acts of Kindness Day (New Zealand) - Sep 1

- International Chocolate Day - Sep 13

- Software Freedom Day - Third Saturday / this year Sep 15

- Autumnal Equinox (or Vernal, for those of you south of the equator) - Variable / this year Sep 23 (UT)

- Maple Leaf Day (Canada) - Last Wednesday / This year Sep 26
(A day of such significant cultural importance to all Canadians everywhere, that reading the Wikipedia page was the first time I learned it existed.)

- National Coffee Day (multiple countries) - Sep 29

Well, that was a lot of work, so... wake me up when September ends!

 

[DimesDan]

Yes, that's how we've handled this in the past.

Grand.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

chocolate day would have been a certain winner, I dare say
That act of kindness day an excellent idea. It should be made a global holiday!

Some of my other favourites are:
14. September: National Quiet Day (GB)
21. September: International Zero Emissions Day & UNO International Day of Peace &World Gratitude Day
30. September: World Rivers Day (always on the last Sunday in September)
The river Danube has its own day, though Next year's will be cool as we'll start the the 4th international Danube survey . Scientists from 14 countries will sample the river all the way down to the Baltic Sea. I'm enlisted for 3 of the 5 German sites. YAY! =)

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Quick reminder, the poll closes on Mindfulness Day, so you still more than two days to vote.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

Looks like the majority of voters are keen readers I think you might want to start thinking of a topic for the next poll.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Looks like the majority of voters are keen readers

Or they're attracted to the fantasy of a little boy reading a book by his own will.

I think you might want to start thinking of a topic for the next poll.

*Groan* Yeahyeah.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

Is it so unusual today for children to read? I started reading at 3 and ever since I've never been without a book for more than 8 hours. And even though he's a legasthenic, my brother read every single Perry Rhodan booklet ever published (btw, do you happen to know someone who might be interested in PR first editions? Read and in no good condition, I'm afraid)

 

[DimesDan]

Is it so unusual today for children to read?

Nope. One suspects @Kai "the spy" was making a joke.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Is it so unusual today for children to read?

Why read when you can play a game on your tablet?

Of course, I'm kidding, as @Dimesdan correctly suspected. Although mocking an obvious trend.

I started reading at 3 and ever since I've never been without a book for more than 8 hours.

Well, yeah, but when you grew up (no offense), there wasn't so much competing media, certainly not as flashy and colorful as today's TV, YT, apps, etc.. I mean, my nephews actually watch those YT videos of other people playing video games. And even I rather listen to a podcast than read a blog.

And even though he's a legasthenic, my brother read every single Perry Rhodan booklet ever published (btw, do you happen to know someone who might be interested in PR first editions? Read and in no good condition, I'm afraid)

A legasthenic, and he still managed those 70+ pages per week? Impressive. Even I can't keep that up (well, I could, but it would mean not reading any other stuff).

I can ask around, I have some connections. There is a Star Trek Stammtisch here in Freiburg, as well as the SciFi-Stammtisch (which I actually founded myself). But to be quite honest, I'm pretty sure those who want those issues already have them, or would want them as collector's items (meaning good condition). I'll still ask around. There's still Ebay, too, with its own "Romanhefte"-section.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

Yep, I suggested ebay as well but he was hoping to be able to bulk-sell them at a price which truely is fictional. Frankly, I doubt he'll find any buyers at all. After all, they've all been republished in handy anthologies. Many of his booklets got damp as he stored them in a moist place so that imho he could only sell the well preserved ones, single, and at a maximum of half the price they originally cost.
Please only ask around if it's really and honestly no trouble.

LOL yes, I feel ancient: When I was a kid, colour TV was invented but not yet used in Germany (but at the cinema they had movies in colour). There was no internet, computers used magnetic tape, watches were mechanical and cars looked like this. Telephones had a round dial. We were allowed to stay up late and watch the first moon landing on TV. And I watched TOS when it first aired (every kid in my neighbourhood wanted to be Spock or Bones, nobody wanted to play Kirk LOL).
Food was different, too: yoghurt was totally unknown. Satsumas or Nectarines were unheard of. Milk came in tetra packs made of waxed paper. There were no fast food chains and the most exotic restaurant would have been an Italian.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Another idea for those PRs would be Sammlerecke, they might buy the bulk of it. But even then, they'd want to turn a profit themselves, so they wouldn't pay that much.

 

[Avro Arrow]

We were allowed to stay up late and watch the first moon landing on TV.

Technology today may be so much better, but this, this is pretty amazingly special. Sure, I've seen video of the moon landing, but I've only ever lived in a world where people had already been to the moon. I can only imagine what it must have been like to have been there, and to have experienced that moment when a human set foot on another astronomical body for the first time ever.

I had thought I might get to experience a similar feeling the first time a human set foot on Mars. I'm still waiting.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

Sammlerecke is a splendid idea! Thanks for the tip, Kai!

If mankind would finally stop all these wars, they'd have plenty of time and money to fly to Mars But I think we'll still see that landing, Avro I'd be more interested in a landing on Europa, though. I think the propability of native life there is higher.
The moon landing was interesting but I was too small back then to grasp the consequences. The image was rather grainy and I didn't understand the language but it was fun to see the astronauts hopping around. I felt very sorry for Collins who had to remain aboard the Apollo capsule. NASA should have let him take part in the next landing.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Right,. Poll closed.Yay.

Hold on ...

Just to clarify, is the winner the person with highest votes for one entry or the combined votes of both of them? I'm guessing it's the former.

Yes, that's how we've handled this in the past.

On second thought, let's go with the other idea. The combined votes one. Yeah, Let's do that. You know, for change. So this would make the winner ....

...


Alright, alright. I'll get to work.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

There, it's on.