<div dir="ltr"><div>They have the right idea!<br><br></div>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 :-)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Aaron Ruscetta <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arxaaron@gmail.com" target="_blank">arxaaron@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
While in Nepal I learned that they celebrate about 7 "New Year"<br>
anniversaries between the Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic and other<br>
traditions of religion, region or culture (e.g. the Tibetan calendar).<br>
<br>
Some of the new year celebrations had bookends that extended<br>
them into durations of a week or more. With a little effort, I figured<br>
that one could realistically spend about half the year partying in<br>
honor of having another new year for partying.<br>
<br>
in peace<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">aaron<br>
</font></span><div class="im HOEnZb"><br>
<br>
<br>
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Scott Plante <<a href="mailto:splante@insightsys.com">splante@insightsys.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> I hadn't replied because I took all this as a tongue-in-cheek suggestion.<br>
> Just in case you're serious, I'll have to say this is a really bad idea.<br>
> When under Bush, they just changed the Daylight Savings Time dates, it<br>
> caused a huge amount of work for us. They just changed the DST dates in<br>
> Israel and it again caused us to waste many, many needless hours of support,<br>
> and I'm not sure we're done with the fallout yet. The amount of wasted<br>
> effort across the US and the World to deal with a change of this magnitude<br>
> in computer systems for so little (if any) benefit would be outrageous.<br>
><br>
> Scott<br>
><br>
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> Subject: [ale] [OT] Googlian Calendar<br>
><br>
><br>
> being in an interfaith marriage my frighteningly precocious daughter<br>
> recently asked me why we have two New Years as well as how we can go from<br>
> the year 2013 in January to 5774 a couple of weeks ago which got me to<br>
> thinking that Google’s 15th birthday today seems like the perfect<br>
> opportunity to separate that most deeply rooted of all church/state<br>
> violations: the Gregorian Calendar! what does that have to do with Google?<br>
> glad you asked! let me answer in three parts:<br>
><br>
> 1. any calendar requires an epoch (this is self-evident)<br>
> 2. most (if not all) alternatives’ epochs are tied to respective religion’s<br>
> creation stories (still violating separation just in different flavors)<br>
> 3. name a more secularly significant event than google launching*<br>
><br>
> think about it - how often do you wonder: “how did the world work before<br>
> Google?” when Googling obscure error messages or edge case symptoms we often<br>
> quip at work: “isn’t it weird to think there was a time when you used to<br>
> have to actually KNOW stuff?”. the fact that “Googling”, the present tense<br>
> of the verb “to Google”, is recognized by spell check (at least mine) just<br>
> underscores my point (though admittedly I’ve yet to see a full conjugation)!<br>
> honestly, I am convinced that Google is the new library of Alexandria and<br>
> when they eventually crash it will plunge humanity into another dark age<br>
> though that’s a topic for another time…<br>
><br>
> anyway, in conclusion I encourage everyone to write your congress critter<br>
> (enclosing the obligatory campaign contribution - another topic for another<br>
> time), MP, Ayatollah (well, maybe not him), etc to petition that September<br>
> 27, 2013 be internationally recognized as 15.000, the 0th day of the 15th**<br>
> year A.G. (Anno Googli). at a minimum I hope we can get formal adoption from<br>
> the Pastafarians…<br>
><br>
> Happy New Year!<br>
><br>
> *which can be identified with any precision - I’m not keen on a Kelvin<br>
> calendar based on a big bang SWAG, not to mention the relativistic effects<br>
> get really nasty as you approach absolute zero (though an argument can be<br>
> made that does seem appropriate given what quantum mechanics does<br>
> approaching 0K temp).<br>
><br>
> **unlike Pope Gregory Googlers are smart enough to realize that days and<br>
> years should start with ZERO instead of one! not to mention that we don’t<br>
> even need a B.G.! we just go negative - September 26, 1998 becomes -1.364<br>
> (though this admittedly requires signed variables). we can figure out the<br>
> subdivisions (“months”, “weeks”, etc) later but it seems like an opportunity<br>
> to standardize & bring sanity while we’re at it!<br>
><br>
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