Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?

[oberth]

Anyway...

Just as we have a Kelvin scale for temperatures, I think we could have something similar for dates... So far we only have been able to date the Big Bang with a margin of error of fifty million years but it's not impossible that in a near future we could be able to pinpoint it more precisely, perhaps with great precision even. We could then have a calendar with only positive dates, just as there aren't negative Kelvin temperatures. Of course, it wouldn't be very practical as the current year would be something like 13,789,145,929!!


That would definitely take some getting used to.

would you want to define the moment of the big bang (thursday morning 7 minutes into the kojak rerun on tv5) as january 1st or would you come up with sth totally new?

 

[Discofan]

would you want to define the moment of the big bang (thursday morning 7 minutes into the kojak rerun on tv5) as january 1st or would you come up with sth totally new?

Definitely not! I mean a week of ten days!!! Waiting that long for the weekend to come!! It would be torture!

I think it's the reason why they abandoned it...

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Metric week? I guess they could do something like say 5day, 9day and 10day are your days off.

 

[oberth]

Metric week? I guess they could do something like say 5day, 9day and 10day are your days off.

no way in the late 18th century - they had one day in seven off and that one was dedicated to the lord

 

[oberth]

Definitely not! I mean a week of ten days!!! Waiting that long for the weekend to come!! It would be torture!

I think it's the reason why they abandoned it...

afaik the reason was the ten hours day - one decimal hour were 100 decimal minutes (144 of 'our' minutes)

 

[auntiehill]

I love Christmas, like freaking CRAZY love it, but I just discovered our area's easy-listening station is already playing Christmas music 24/7. It's November 7th. Even *I* think that's too early. They used to not start until Thanksgiving day, but now they've started on November SEVENTH. *shakes head*

But, on the other hand, I'm currently grooving to THIS, and quite happy about it.

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[Discofan]

The companies that make mattresses probably need people to try their new products. It has to be the easiest job in the world!!!

 

[cooleddie74]

It's kinda fun to look on IMDb and see your name listed. It's not much but it's rewarding to know your hard work helping to create things paid off.

 

[TribbleFeeder]

It's kinda fun to look on IMDb and see your name listed. It's not much but it's rewarding to know your hard work helping to create things paid off.

Eddie, I’m super impressed to know you. I hope you’re super impressed by yourself too. And not just for the jokes about masturbation. But for the orgy ones too.

 

[cooleddie74]

Well, I do get off eventually.

 

[auntiehill]

 

[Kai "the spy"]

How do you feel about forming an anarcho-syndicalist commune?

 

[oberth]

i really thought i knew them all - but just now i learned about a country i've never heard of - vanuatu - how i learned about it (graun)

 

[Discofan]

Laying a brick wall has a lot in common with making a cake with lots of cream on it. It takes more muscle but otherwise, you have the same kind of precision to put in your gestures otherwise the result will look like crap.

 

[oberth]

Laying a brick wall has a lot in common with making a cake with lots of cream on it. It takes more muscle but otherwise, you have the same kind of precision to put in your gestures otherwise the result will look like crap.

lots of cream to me sounds like the dude doing the plastering

 

[Discofan]

lots of cream to me sounds like the dude doing the plastering

You have to be very steady when you put the cement between the bricks. If it's slightly uneven then the wall looks like uneven teeth and you have to cover it up. But if like me you like a wall with visible bricks then you have to do a very good job.

 

[oberth]

You have to be very steady when you put the cement between the bricks. If it's slightly uneven then the wall looks like uneven teeth and you have to cover it up. But if like me you like a wall with visible bricks then you have to do a very good job.

as i am (among other things) a certified joiner i'd hire someone for that

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Wigs are just hairy hats.

 

[Sibyl]

Wigs are just hairy hats.

I like your thinking.

 

[Discofan]

It takes two to be co-dependant...