I hope the imperial measurement system is the next thing to go.
Yah... I can't wait for 10 hour days with 100 days a year and 10, 10 day months or would it be 10 10 m-week m-months made up of 10 m-day m-weeks and 10 m-hour m-days? 10,000 m-hour-things a year? Each m-hour made up of 100 m-minutes and 100 m-seconds per m-minute? or 10,000 m-seconds per m-hour? I think that is roughly 52 old-minutes per m-hour so about 2 m-minutes per old-minute and about 1.6 old-second per m-minute? Is that 10^8 m-seconds per year? And a purist would probably insist on there being 10&10 m-seconds per year, though we could instead use m-msecs as our atomic unit of perception, though that would be 10^11 ? Or settle for m-centi-secs? I might barely be able to perceptually recognize things at that level since it is vaguely down near the frequencies where
I'm not sure how to get the sun and moon to sign up for all that. Or revert everything to sexigesimal instead... maybe add a finger on each hand to simplify the counting thing?
In the kitchen and with lumber and cordage I find halves and quarters and even eighths easier to work with than tenths. I get the convenience of metric for calculation with decimal number systems... but dividing things into halves and halves of halves and even thirds is a pretty compelling intuitive process. Sexigesimal (60) invokes 5ths as well which then supports/allows/extends the ability to divide by 2,3,5 or more elaborately 360 base with 3,4,5,6 divisors. I find that playing cards (solitaire and some rummy-like-games) as a child informed me in base 4 (suites) base 13 (ace-king) and therefore base 52 intuitions which ultimately spilled over into weeks of the moon(th) and moon(ths) of the year. Quartering the Moon and Sun cycle gives us intuitively compelling (registered on nature's evident rhythms) basis for 7-day weeks and 3 moon(th) Seasons of sorts. I've never experienced directly a lunar calendar but have friends who are Muslim who end up with a lunar-solar sense of annual scheduling. I think if I lived in a more temperate/equatorial geography, lunar/lunar-solar might be more obvious. Also if I lived more outside of a climate controlled house and did more night-time hunting/warring, the phases of the moon would be (yet) more evident/important.
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On Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 1:00 PM cody dooderson <[email protected]> wrote: For those of you who don't get all of your news from XKCD, https://xkcd.com/2594 . On Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 3:03 PM Gillian Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 5:34 PM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: On 3/15/22 3:29 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote: > Please pass > https://www.cnet.com/culture/senate-unanimously-passes-bill-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent/ > > I had to google that this wasn't early April fools, or that I was > misreading things. except they got it backwards? People who *like* getting up and going to work before the sun comes up should find a job where that is rewarded, or at least accepted... there are many. But how many folks want to walk into work from the parking lot in the dark at 8AM? I'm a bit of a purist, wanting the sun to be at "high noon" at noontime and the sunrise and sunset roughly symmetric around that moment. It is a tiny and ideological thing, so I get it that nobody else cares. Agreed that noon. 'high noon' is when the sun is at the top of the sky. And we have. Or at least probably have any number of simple tech fixes to get a lot of sunshine through the day for any given location. such that noon at *35° 41' 29.5584'' N and 105° 56' 39.0588'' W*. For Santa Fe, NM means that sensors and some kind of geo-location hack for clocks, computers etc know to make adjustments through out the year to make sure noon means the sun is pretty close to the top of the sky on a y axis for those coordinates. lol but I have a feeling words like: probabilities, statistically even, Y-axis, optimal, random, and simply give us enough F'n sunshine. For the white house would make to many peoples eyes glaze over. just getting to have one or the other is a pretty good solid step. Dynamic Time adjustments can come along shortly. What's kind of funny is Arizona has been quietly sitting around going we're working just fine, you don't need to...ok how long is this weirdness going to keep going. I wonder how many tongs got bitten on to not do a told you so. and how many more going to be pretty sore for quite a while if/when it passes. but... whatever... I have very few schedules enforced on me, and those that are are generally not as arbitrary as the MDT/DST differences. > Now it just needs to get passed the court jester and man who looks and > sounds like a constipated turtle: Mconnel. > > Gives me a little hope for UBI and a NHS. > I'd like to think that a unanimous decision like this might help break up some of the corrosion in the system keeping it locked up, but I think the GOP (goofy old party) has too much invested in things that the UBI and NHS would confront. LOL I like how you think. And alas, probably right. I googled how many places don't have a summer or winter clock: a lot don't. Is this graph right that Japan noped out of a summer and winter clock system? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_country so what I'm reading is two clocks is limited to only a few places and the rest of the globe is working pretty well with one type of clock? coolness! .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam <http://bit.ly/virtualfriam> un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam <http://bit.ly/virtualfriam> un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribehttp://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIChttp://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru presenthttps://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
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