[ale] [OT] Googlian Calendar

[Jay Lozier]

+1 about the holidays

Going with beer, why not start with Pasteur's development of
pasteurization which I heard was developed to preserve beer not milk.
Louis being a good Alsatian was apparently a beer drinker.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Subject: Re: [ale] [OT] Googlian Calendar
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:39:46 -0400

I much prefer a truly momentous occasion in human history to mark a new
calendar epoch, The year of the first moon landing should be Year 0. The
start of the year should be either the aphelion or perihelion point. 


Go then for a 12 month calendar of 30 days each plus 5 international
holidays separating the 4 quarters, first and last day of the year plus
one between each of the other three. On leap year, we get an extra
holiday at the opposite helial event.


Also there should be free beer on all those international holidays. For
the people who live where alcohol is illegal, you will have an incentive
to move someplace better.



On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Sid Lane <jakes.dad at gmail.com> wrote: 

        being in an interfaith marriage my frighteningly precocious
        daughter recently asked me why we have two New Years as well as
        how we can go from the year 2013 in January to 5774 a couple of
        weeks ago which got me to thinking that Google’s 15th birthday
        today seems like the perfect opportunity to separate that most
        deeply rooted of all church/state violations: the Gregorian
        Calendar! what does that have to do with Google? glad you asked!
        let me answer in three parts:
        
        1. any calendar requires an epoch (this is self-evident)
        2. most (if not all) alternatives’ epochs are tied to respective
        religion’s creation stories (still violating separation just in
        different flavors)
        3. name a more secularly significant event than google
        launching*
        
        think about it - how often do you wonder: “how did the world
        work before Google?” when Googling obscure error messages or
        edge case symptoms we often quip at work: “isn’t it weird to
        think there was a time when you used to have to actually KNOW
        stuff?”. the fact that “Googling”, the present tense of the verb
        “to Google”, is recognized by spell check (at least mine) just
        underscores my point (though admittedly I’ve yet to see a full
        conjugation)! honestly, I am convinced that Google is the new
        library of Alexandria and when they eventually crash it will
        plunge humanity into another dark age though that’s a topic for
        another time…
        
        anyway, in conclusion I encourage everyone to write your
        congress critter (enclosing the obligatory campaign contribution
        - another topic for another time), MP, Ayatollah (well, maybe
        not him), etc to petition that September 27, 2013 be
        internationally recognized as 15.000, the 0th day of the 15th**
        year A.G. (Anno Googli). at a minimum I hope we can get formal
        adoption from the Pastafarians…
        
        Happy New Year!
        
        *which can be identified with any precision - I’m not keen on a
        Kelvin calendar based on a big bang SWAG, not to mention the
        relativistic effects get really nasty as you approach absolute
        zero (though an argument can be made that does seem appropriate
        given what quantum mechanics does approaching 0K temp).
        
        **unlike Pope Gregory Googlers are smart enough to realize that
        days and years should start with ZERO instead of one! not to
        mention that we don’t even need a B.G.! we just go negative -
        September 26, 1998 becomes -1.364 (though this admittedly
        requires signed variables). we can figure out the subdivisions
        (“months”, “weeks”, etc) later but it seems like an opportunity
        to standardize & bring sanity while we’re at it!
        
        
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