I made the most of it by grabbed the HV terminal on a power right at Leapsecond and in that moment watched my whole life pass before me.
Thomas Knox > From: xe1...@amsat.org > To: time-nuts@febo.com > Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 11:05:55 -0500 > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] So, how did you spend your leapsecond? > > I was dinning at an Argentinean restaurant with my wife and some > friends of her. > > Armed with a 3G Internet equipped iPad and sharing the story with the > people at the table. Good food, good company and the opportunity to > shine publicly (at least for a leap second), explaining time keeping > to a table full of psychologists. A lonely engineering soul being > analyzed for sure by the phycological minds. > > Nice warm and rainy afternoon in Mexico City. > > Regards to you all, > > > > Edgardo Molina > XE1XUS > > > > > On Jul 1, 2012, at 10:27 AM, Chuck Harris wrote: > > > We spent our leapsecond reading books by kerosene lamp as the > > power failure continued... > > > > And, no, the power failure wasn't caused by the leapsecond, but > > rather a very strong thunderstorm that came roaring through parts > > of Maryland.... trees down everywhere. > > > > ... Well, unless Mother Nature is yet another that is offended > > by the shear lunacy of leapseconds. > > > > There are large numbers still without power even now. > > > > -Chuck Harris > > > > Mark Sims wrote: > >> > >> ? > >> _______________________________________________ > >> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > >> To unsubscribe, go to > >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > >> and follow the instructions there. > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > > To unsubscribe, go to > > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > > and follow the instructions there. > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.