AliceTheOwl Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Re: The Last Word Well, they did order the wrong textbook . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Re: The Last Word Precisely. So in the absence of whiskey, I'll have another cup of coffee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Re: The Last Word Does that help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Re: The Last Word It provides sensory input along other channels, so it serves as distraction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Re: The Last Word Ah. Coffee just makes me jittery and anxious if I'm already annoyed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Re: The Last Word I haven't noticed that effect on me. It'll affect my sleeping if I have late in the day, but before noon it's not an issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Re: The Last Word Yeah, it'll do that, too. But if I'm already feeling anxious or upset, coffee doesn't help. Of course, not-coffee doesn't help, either; then I'm just tired and cranky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Re: The Last Word Hmm, if I'm going to have some before lecture, I'd better go get it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Re: The Last Word I should have mine now, too. That before-noon thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Re: The Last Word High noon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Re: The Last Word Not here. It's more like 0840. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Re: The Last Word . . . You're ten hours behind me?! I thought that was in the Pacific . . . You on daylight saving time yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Re: The Last Word Yeah, most of the US went Daylight 2-3 weeks back. The appearance of the annual flaming-against-Daylight-Time thread is a clue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Re: The Last Word . . . I missed that one. The Union switched this sunday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Re: The Last Word The weirdest thing about the DST-being-pushed-forward thing was that Josh and I were going to do something special for our anniversary (March 24th) at the exact time we got married. But the light levels were all wrong, so neither of us could pinpoint whether our wedding started at 5 or 6 PM. ("It was darker than this, wasn't it?") Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Re: The Last Word For things like that, the best thing is to convert both events' times to Universal Time. If you want to be really anal about it, convert both to Heliocentric Julian Date, and choose which are different by an integer number of tropical years (though the length of the tropical year (1) is not an integral number days or minutes or seconds, and ( changes slowly with time. Needless to say, true synchonicity is not trivial to attain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Re: The Last Word No, certainly not. I've sometimes heard it proposed that we all go by the same time, globally, and just do things at different times. So, for instance, in my time zone, sunrise would be at 2 PM, or something, and I'd work at 4 PM. If light levels became a problem, that would shift to 4:30 or 5, or back to 3:30 or 3. It would make keeping time across time zones a lot easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Re: The Last Word Humans do have a circadian rhythm mechanism that synchs up with daylight, and has subtle physiological effects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Re: The Last Word Well, yes, but there's no reason to say that "daylight" always means 6 AM. It seems so arbitrary, anyway. Why not 12 AM? 12 PM, so noon can be 6? Those numbers only mean what we think they do because we've assigned them a certain value. That value can be changed without altering one's circadian rhythms even slightly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Re: The Last Word Well, that's true, but people resist changing that sort of convention, which is why we don't call the month Thermidor except in a very limited historical context. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Re: The Last Word Which month is that? This also explains the resistance to metric. Does that mean we should stop trying? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Re: The Last Word It's only USers who fight metric. Just like it's pretty much only USers who cling to Creationism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Re: The Last Word Yes, well. Resistance to change is no reason to stop advocating for change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Re: The Last Word Change is BAD! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Re: The Last Word Is not. It's perfectly natural. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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