[ale] [OT] Googlian Calendar

Mon Sep 30 11:59:20 EDT 2013

They have the right idea!

We should have a party to come up with more party ideas. work should be
limited to one day a week at most. That will guarantee full employment :-)

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Aaron Ruscetta <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:

> While in Nepal I learned that they celebrate about 7 "New Year"
> anniversaries between the Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic and other
> traditions of religion, region or culture (e.g. the Tibetan calendar).
>
> Some of the new year celebrations had bookends that extended
> them into durations of a week or more.  With a little effort, I figured
> that one could realistically spend about half the year partying in
> honor of having another new year for partying.
>
> in peace
> aaron
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Scott Plante <splante at insightsys.com>
> wrote:
> > I hadn't replied because I took all this as a tongue-in-cheek suggestion.
> > Just in case you're serious, I'll have to say this is a really bad idea.
> > When under Bush, they just changed the Daylight Savings Time dates, it
> > caused a huge amount of work for us. They just changed the DST dates in
> > Israel and it again caused us to waste many, many needless hours of
> support,
> > and I'm not sure we're done with the fallout yet.  The amount of wasted
> > effort across the US and the World to deal with a change of this
> magnitude
> > in computer systems for so little (if any) benefit would be outrageous.
> >
> > Scott
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: "Sid Lane" <jakes.dad at gmail.com>
> > To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale at ale.org>
> > Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 1:20:44 PM
> > Subject: [ale] [OT] Googlian Calendar
> >
> >
> > 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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