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crypticsatellite [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 5:43:12 PM  
Tuesday!
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 8:42:21 PM  
Tuesday doesn't start until 8:45 p.m. EST.
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 8:46:46 PM  
Tuesday!
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 8:58:49 PM  
I've been thinking of a new time zone thing.  Instead of 24 simultaneous times around the world, and indeed it will become quaint after a few centuries in outer space.  Have one time, like Unix time, say at some leap second, at some point in space, where Greenwich, England is, starts the New Universal Time.  (and place)  New Universal Linear Spacetime,

oh,

and then,

Everybody has their own local meridian time.  Your cell phone tells you what that is, all based on NULS, So, for instance if it is important to you to eat lunch at noon, for instance, your noon will be like, right where you are, man. not the same as 1/24 of the planet east of you.
 
crypticsatellite [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 9:02:19 PM  

IronTom: I've been thinking of a new time zone thing.  Instead of 24 simultaneous times around the world, and indeed it will become quaint after a few centuries in outer space.  Have one time, like Unix time, say at some leap second, at some point in space, where Greenwich, England is, starts the New Universal Time.  (and place)  New Universal Linear Spacetime,

oh,

and then,

Everybody has their own local meridian time.  Your cell phone tells you what that is, all based on NULS, So, for instance if it is important to you to eat lunch at noon, for instance, your noon will be like, right where you are, man. not the same as 1/24 of the planet east of you.


That does sound simpler.
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 9:03:14 PM  
I was just kidding about Tuesday not starting until 8:45.  It starts at Midnight in an array of timezones, one hour or so apart, so Tuesday lasts about 48 hours, with it really being Tuesday everywhere in the world in the middle part.
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 9:04:42 PM  

crypticsatellite: IronTom: I've been thinking of a new time zone thing.  Instead of 24 simultaneous times around the world, and indeed it will become quaint after a few centuries in outer space.  Have one time, like Unix time, say at some leap second, at some point in space, where Greenwich, England is, starts the New Universal Time.  (and place)  New Universal Linear Spacetime,

oh,

and then,

Everybody has their own local meridian time.  Your cell phone tells you what that is, all based on NULS, So, for instance if it is important to you to eat lunch at noon, for instance, your noon will be like, right where you are, man. not the same as 1/24 of the planet east of you.

That does sound simpler.


And you could sell a metric buttload of new products, clocks, Local Meridian Cookbooks.
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 9:07:27 PM  
When did your water come back on?
 
crypticsatellite [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 9:22:07 PM  

IronTom: When did your water come back on?


Well, it turns out they had to replace the pump, which is 200' down in the ground. $3000.

And then, I had to go through a multi-day process of purging the system before I could turn on the water to the house proper. So, I run the water for 15 minutes, then turn if off for 15 minutes. All. DayS. Long. Every now and then, I had to fill a bucket with the water and then wait for it to settle and then slowly pour it off and look for minute iron particles (looks like black sand), which would wreak havoc if allow into the house. I do have a rather hardcore filtration system, but I didn't want to overwhelm it. So, I didn't turn the water on to the house until Sunday.

But wait! There's more!

As part of the process of replacing the pump, they send down chlorine pellets to kill off any introduced bacteria. This can take a week to leave the system, so still on bottled water.

But! Working showers and toilets make up for it.

Also, it seems that BoA has decided in my favor in my fraud case against the Evil Computer Desk people.
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 9:28:08 PM  

crypticsatellite: IronTom: When did your water come back on?

Well, it turns out they had to replace the pump, which is 200' down in the ground. $3000.

And then, I had to go through a multi-day process of purging the system before I could turn on the water to the house proper. So, I run the water for 15 minutes, then turn if off for 15 minutes. All. DayS. Long. Every now and then, I had to fill a bucket with the water and then wait for it to settle and then slowly pour it off and look for minute iron particles (looks like black sand), which would wreak havoc if allow into the house. I do have a rather hardcore filtration system, but I didn't want to overwhelm it. So, I didn't turn the water on to the house until Sunday.

But wait! There's more!

As part of the process of replacing the pump, they send down chlorine pellets to kill off any introduced bacteria. This can take a week to leave the system, so still on bottled water.

But! Working showers and toilets make up for it.

Also, it seems that BoA has decided in my favor in my fraud case against the Evil Computer Desk people.


So life is returning to normal now.  I'm really glad about the victory over the Evil Computer Desk people.

You have a pump 200' down into the ground.  What else do you have 200' down into the ground?  Mmm?  Templar artifacts?
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 9:29:28 PM  
That smoke was only a 2 on the Woogie Boogie scale.
 
ecmoRandomNumbers [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-01-25 9:39:26 PM  

crypticsatellite: IronTom: When did your water come back on?

Well, it turns out they had to replace the pump, which is 200' down in the ground. $3000.

And then, I had to go through a multi-day process of purging the system before I could turn on the water to the house proper. So, I run the water for 15 minutes, then turn if off for 15 minutes. All. DayS. Long. Every now and then, I had to fill a bucket with the water and then wait for it to settle and then slowly pour it off and look for minute iron particles (looks like black sand), which would wreak havoc if allow into the house. I do have a rather hardcore filtration system, but I didn't want to overwhelm it. So, I didn't turn the water on to the house until Sunday.

But wait! There's more!

As part of the process of replacing the pump, they send down chlorine pellets to kill off any introduced bacteria. This can take a week to leave the system, so still on bottled water.

But! Working showers and toilets make up for it.

Also, it seems that BoA has decided in my favor in my fraud case against the Evil Computer Desk people.


Hooray!
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 9:49:23 PM  
Tuesday is 45 hours long:

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IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 9:53:53 PM  
In the EST It is Tuesday all over the world at 6:00 p.m. EST to 6:59.99999 p.m.
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 9:54:46 PM  
Not sure what that would be in AZ time.
 
crypticsatellite [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 9:57:26 PM  

IronTom: In the EST It is Tuesday all over the world at 6:00 p.m. EST to 6:59.99999 p.m.


If everyone took that one hour to watch the first episode of "Cosmos," the world would be a better place.
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 9:59:16 PM  
So, I finished 100% of the Ecmo song, time aligning the 7-part vocals for the 100 bars, and put it in the standard location.  There are a few things to update, then check for any highly-out-of-pitch notes, then add in the big bass drum, and gong, maybe more guitar, and then mix it, so that it all balances, or Orffs, as the case may be.
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 10:02:46 PM  

crypticsatellite: IronTom: In the EST It is Tuesday all over the world at 6:00 p.m. EST to 6:59.99999 p.m.

If everyone took that one hour to watch the first episode of "Cosmos," the world would be a better place.


Yes, It is like a resonance field.  The one hour of world unity per day.
 
crypticsatellite [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 10:04:51 PM  

IronTom: crypticsatellite: IronTom: In the EST It is Tuesday all over the world at 6:00 p.m. EST to 6:59.99999 p.m.

If everyone took that one hour to watch the first episode of "Cosmos," the world would be a better place.

Yes, It is like a resonance field.  The one hour of world unity per day.


Some might have to wake up early.
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 10:09:25 PM  

crypticsatellite: IronTom: In the EST It is Tuesday all over the world at 6:00 p.m. EST to 6:59.99999 p.m.

If everyone took that one hour to watch the first episode of "Cosmos," the world would be a better place.


Oh, wouldn't that be awesome?  Yes!!!  So when we kick off the LUFS or whatever it is, NULS, We all fly to Greenwich, since if people are ever going to figure out how to go back in time, you know that they would go back to 0:000 NULS, which takes place at Greenwich England at the next leapsecond, June 30, 2022.
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 10:10:13 PM  

crypticsatellite: IronTom: crypticsatellite: IronTom: In the EST It is Tuesday all over the world at 6:00 p.m. EST to 6:59.99999 p.m.

If everyone took that one hour to watch the first episode of "Cosmos," the world would be a better place.

Yes, It is like a resonance field.  The one hour of world unity per day.

Some might have to wake up early.


It's a happening.  Could do it on June 30,2022.
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 10:14:20 PM  

crypticsatellite: IronTom: crypticsatellite: IronTom: In the EST It is Tuesday all over the world at 6:00 p.m. EST to 6:59.99999 p.m.

If everyone took that one hour to watch the first episode of "Cosmos," the world would be a better place.

Yes, It is like a resonance field.  The one hour of world unity per day.

Some might have to wake up early.


It is not an arbitrary time.  There may be some tomfoolery with Daylight Savings time, but that should be able to be avoided.  Hey, the next fixation point for the next 10,000 years.  The time and place where the next Tuesday will take place is pre-ordained, to a high likelihood.   A Tuesday is not an event.  It is a 45-hour fluent with fade-ins and fade-outs.
 
crypticsatellite [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 10:15:07 PM  
We're supposed to get another "bomb cyclone" and lots of snow this weekend.
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 10:17:33 PM  

crypticsatellite: We're supposed to get another "bomb cyclone" and lots of snow this weekend.


Damn good thing you got your water back on, and all the people have crawled out of the well.
 
crypticsatellite [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 10:20:44 PM  

IronTom: crypticsatellite: We're supposed to get another "bomb cyclone" and lots of snow this weekend.

Damn good thing you got your water back on, and all the people have crawled out of the well.


Yup.

I did find out that it takes a bucket of snow an unexpectedly long time to melt at room temperature.
 
ecmoRandomNumbers [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-01-25 10:22:47 PM  

IronTom: crypticsatellite: IronTom: crypticsatellite: IronTom: In the EST It is Tuesday all over the world at 6:00 p.m. EST to 6:59.99999 p.m.

If everyone took that one hour to watch the first episode of "Cosmos," the world would be a better place.

Yes, It is like a resonance field.  The one hour of world unity per day.

Some might have to wake up early.

It is not an arbitrary time.  There may be some tomfoolery with Daylight Savings time, but that should be able to be avoided.  Hey, the next fixation point for the next 10,000 years.  The time and place where the next Tuesday will take place is pre-ordained, to a high likelihood.   A Tuesday is not an event.  It is a 45-hour fluent with fade-ins and fade-outs.


This makes zero sense to me. Too much for my brain.
 
ecmoRandomNumbers [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-01-25 10:27:34 PM  

crypticsatellite: IronTom: crypticsatellite: We're supposed to get another "bomb cyclone" and lots of snow this weekend.

Damn good thing you got your water back on, and all the people have crawled out of the well.

Yup.

I did find out that it takes a bucket of snow an unexpectedly long time to melt at room temperature.


Surface area is important.
 
crypticsatellite [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 10:27:54 PM  

ecmoRandomNumbers: crypticsatellite: IronTom: crypticsatellite: We're supposed to get another "bomb cyclone" and lots of snow this weekend.

Damn good thing you got your water back on, and all the people have crawled out of the well.

Yup.

I did find out that it takes a bucket of snow an unexpectedly long time to melt at room temperature.

Surface area is important.


Yes.
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 10:28:13 PM  

crypticsatellite: IronTom: crypticsatellite: We're supposed to get another "bomb cyclone" and lots of snow this weekend.

Damn good thing you got your water back on, and all the people have crawled out of the well.

Yup.

I did find out that it takes a bucket of snow an unexpectedly long time to melt at room temperature.


Hahahahaha.  A data point.
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 10:41:07 PM  

ecmoRandomNumbers: IronTom: crypticsatellite: IronTom: crypticsatellite: IronTom: In the EST It is Tuesday all over the world at 6:00 p.m. EST to 6:59.99999 p.m.

If everyone took that one hour to watch the first episode of "Cosmos," the world would be a better place.

Yes, It is like a resonance field.  The one hour of world unity per day.

Some might have to wake up early.

It is not an arbitrary time.  There may be some tomfoolery with Daylight Savings time, but that should be able to be avoided.  Hey, the next fixation point for the next 10,000 years.  The time and place where the next Tuesday will take place is pre-ordained, to a high likelihood.   A Tuesday is not an event.  It is a 45-hour fluent with fade-ins and fade-outs.

This makes zero sense to me. Too much for my brain.


Tuesday is a 'fluent'  a period of time.

The world is not all Tuesday except for one hour.

The percentage of the world that is Tuesday is shown on the following graph.  Tuesday is a fuzzy concept.

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IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 10:43:28 PM  
Updated

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IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 10:45:49 PM  
I really haven't been calculating things enough lately, hey, I used the Quadrivium the other day,.
 
crypticsatellite [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 10:53:43 PM  
Was reading this:

https://bigthink.com/13-8/einstein-bohr-weirdness-quantum-mechanics
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 10:54:27 PM  
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See what you're missing Cryptic with all that pumpwork?  :)
 
crypticsatellite [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 10:54:44 PM  

IronTom: I really haven't been calculating things enough lately, hey, I used the Quadrivium the other day,.


I have mine beside my bed.
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 10:55:09 PM  
It is a multistep process to construct a pentagon, and I don't think I did it exactly right.
 
crypticsatellite [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 10:55:37 PM  

IronTom: [Fark user image 850x798]

See what you're missing Cryptic with all that pumpwork?  :)


Oooooh, whatcha doing?
 
crypticsatellite [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 10:56:09 PM  

IronTom: It is a multistep process to construct a pentagon, and I don't think I did it exactly right.


Ahhhhhh, gotcha!
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 11:02:39 PM  

crypticsatellite: IronTom: [Fark user image 850x798]

See what you're missing Cryptic with all that pumpwork?  :)

Oooooh, whatcha doing?


It is for Christmas lights, which burned out, and I have to replace them with some light strips of some sort.
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 11:08:40 PM  
Spyrock sounds like some 007 thing, Spyrocks are Forever...  Or a Sesame-Street-type show.
 
crypticsatellite [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 11:11:11 PM  
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/james-webb-hubble/
 
crypticsatellite [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 11:11:52 PM  

IronTom: Spyrock sounds like some 007 thing, Spyrocks are Forever...  Or a Sesame-Street-type show.


Oh, yeah. Like Fraggle Rock. Creepy.
 
crypticsatellite [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 11:16:20 PM  
It's "Shrek" again.
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 11:21:44 PM  

crypticsatellite: Was reading this:

https://bigthink.com/13-8/einstein-bohr-weirdness-quantum-mechanics


It seems like a different take on Schrödinger's cat, where you don't know what is going on in the cat box.  It seems like if there was a camera in the cat box, then there would be essentially no paradox, but maybe that's not the point.  Maybe they were unable to use the actual position of the electron mist and decided to create a level of smallness or speed, such that it is turtles all the way down from there, and that turtle is probability theory.
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 11:26:56 PM  
I'm drinking a hard cider that I brewed over the holidays.  It is appley, and pretty good, and I tried to order more but Mr.; Beer no longer sells hard cider brewing refills.  So I wanted to check the alcohol level, with a hydrometer, and went to one of those brew stores, and wound up getting a new bucket to brew hard cider in, and some other company has the apple concentrate now.  I love learning new things.  Mr. Beer was a good introduction, and this latest brew is a fine swan song to the end of an era, of me brewing hard cider with Mr. Beer.
 
crypticsatellite [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 11:31:57 PM  
Been having a strong cup of tea made from Egyptian Blue Lotus flowers before bed. Seems to have an effect on dreams.
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 11:32:04 PM  

crypticsatellite: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/james-webb-hubble/


They start out saying that Hubble saw less than 10% of the galaxies in the Universe.  in the Universe.
Even if it is 1/∞  % of the galaxies in the Universe, it is still less than 10%.
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 11:32:37 PM  

crypticsatellite: Been having a strong cup of tea made from Egyptian Blue Lotus flowers before bed. Seems to have an effect on dreams.


Oh man, I've been looking forward to trying that someday.  Does it smell good?
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 11:41:05 PM  

crypticsatellite: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/james-webb-hubble/


It is a great time, like before we got any of the pictures back from Voyager, or like landing on the Moon.  A great happening in space is in the offing, and we can only guess what it will look like.  I would like to zoom in on planets in the Horsehead Nebula: (without those Skylink satellites photobombing it).

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IronTom [TotalFark]
2022-01-25 11:42:46 PM  

crypticsatellite: Been having a strong cup of tea made from Egyptian Blue Lotus flowers before bed. Seems to have an effect on dreams.


Where did you get your lotus flowers, Effendi?
 
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