On 07/27/2011 10:19 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:23 PM, walt <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 07/26/2011 06:07 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >>> Anyone here knows at what time the Gentoo IRC channels are usually active? >>> >>> In UTC, if possible :) >>> >>> (Still can't wrap my head around USA time zone codes) >> >> I'd like to commission a survey of, say, MS, google, and Oracle, to see who >> is >> wearing a wrist-watch, and who isn't -- and then sort them by job >> description. >> >> I predict that the ones with no wrist-watch are the one who are....well, I'll >> wait for the survey to be done before I announce my prediction. >> > > /me wonders where you are going with this...
Downhill fast, probably :) Back in the day before cellphones, you needed to look a clock or wrist-watch to know what time it is. Back then I was surrounded by genuine programmer geeks, and I noticed that none of them wore a wrist-watch. I asked one of the geeks why he didn't have a watch and he replied "Why would I want to know what time it is? I can tell what time it is by how fast the mainframe responds when I hit carriage return." Another one showed up on most days wearing mis-matched socks. When asked why he did this he replied, "Why? Does it matter?" Well, I still can't answer his question...
