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« Reply #5850 on: February 08, 2012, 11:24:49 AM » |
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Wouldn't a metric week be 10 days? How will that help the students who used 3, 5, and 8 days?
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« Reply #5851 on: February 08, 2012, 01:27:45 PM » |
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At the risk of outing myself...
Every time, I catch a glance of the clock out of the corner of my eye, and completely freak out that it is not the time I thought it was, until I remember that it's the decimal clock.
We have an ornate clock tower on campus, whose clock is never set to the right time. (My guess is that this is common enough that I am not, in fact, outing myself.) For years, it would give me a start every time I noticed the clock face, but at least now everyone but the new students has figured out that it's a random number generator. |
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« Reply #5852 on: February 08, 2012, 04:10:41 PM » |
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At the risk of outing myself...
Every time, I catch a glance of the clock out of the corner of my eye, and completely freak out that it is not the time I thought it was, until I remember that it's the decimal clock.
We have an ornate clock tower on campus, whose clock is never set to the right time. (My guess is that this is common enough that I am not, in fact, outing myself.) For years, it would give me a start every time I noticed the clock face, but at least now everyone but the new students has figured out that it's a random number generator. Clearly you are not at my university. Three of our four clock faces are always right. It's not always the same three though. |
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Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things... Mark Twain
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« Reply #5853 on: February 09, 2012, 11:46:31 AM » |
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At the risk of outing myself...
Every time, I catch a glance of the clock out of the corner of my eye, and completely freak out that it is not the time I thought it was, until I remember that it's the decimal clock.
We have an ornate clock tower on campus, whose clock is never set to the right time. (My guess is that this is common enough that I am not, in fact, outing myself.) For years, it would give me a start every time I noticed the clock face, but at least now everyone but the new students has figured out that it's a random number generator. At my grad school, the school song is sung to the tune of "Lead On O King Eternal." Every morning at 8, there were carillons that sounded from 8 to 8:10. The last song was the school song, so if you had an 8:10 class, hearing that song meant that you were about to be late for class. One day in church, as people were walking in, the organist played "Lead On O King Eternal." Every student started running. It was madness. |
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« Reply #5854 on: February 09, 2012, 07:18:39 PM » |
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I think we should all go on Martian time. |
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« Reply #5856 on: February 10, 2012, 10:44:48 AM » |
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What I found incredibly troubling about the article was how many people said it was impossible to do. We can make clocks that run on a 12 or 24 hour cycle but no other???? There is nothing magical about the time system we use. Apparently, the design of the first clock was handed down by the gods. No doubt finding the right sized gears and figuring out which weights worked was challenging. But impossible???
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« Reply #5857 on: February 10, 2012, 12:20:19 PM » |
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In thinking about this today, I think I want to be on lunar time. The moon rotates on a 24-hour-50-minute day (exactly its revolutionary period, by the way), and it seems to fit my circadian rhythms better than the 24-hour day does. |
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« Reply #5858 on: February 10, 2012, 12:27:03 PM » |
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In thinking about this today, I think I want to be on lunar time. The moon rotates on a 24-hour-50-minute day (exactly its revolutionary period, by the way), and it seems to fit my circadian rhythms better than the 24-hour day does. I recall reading, many years ago, about an experiment to determine peoples' "natural" sleep cycles. They took volunteers and enclosed them in a cave in which there was no hint of time from the external world. They had food, exercised, did certain prescribed tasks, and then slept when they were tired. It turned out that most people seem to run on a "day" that's longer than 24 hours when there is no sunlight or other indicator of the real (outer-world) time. On-topically: A student came by to ask about a few problems, and asked what would be on the quiz today. I don't remember saying that there would be a quiz today! I don't think the class wanted one, anyway. |
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« Reply #5859 on: February 10, 2012, 12:29:49 PM » |
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In thinking about this today, I think I want to be on lunar time. The moon rotates on a 24-hour-50-minute day (exactly its revolutionary period, by the way), and it seems to fit my circadian rhythms better than the 24-hour day does. I recall reading, many years ago, about an experiment to determine peoples' "natural" sleep cycles. They took volunteers and enclosed them in a cave in which there was no hint of time from the external world. They had food, exercised, did certain prescribed tasks, and then slept when they were tired. It turned out that most people seem to run on a "day" that's longer than 24 hours when there is no sunlight or other indicator of the real (outer-world) time. On-topically: A student came by to ask about a few problems, and asked what would be on the quiz today. I don't remember saying that there would be a quiz today! I don't think the class wanted one, anyway. But there is now! How did they do, Conjy? |
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« Reply #5860 on: February 10, 2012, 12:35:14 PM » |
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I know, I'm getting old and soft. I didn't give them a quiz. Mostly, of course, I didn't want to grade it, and I'm a little behind in other work. I turned in my annual review notebook on Wednesday, and had fallen behind while preparing all the goodies that go into it.
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Unfortunately, I think conjugate gives good advice.
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« Reply #5861 on: February 10, 2012, 06:37:19 PM » |
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I recall reading, many years ago, about an experiment to determine peoples' "natural" sleep cycles. They took volunteers and enclosed them in a cave in which there was no hint of time from the external world. They had food, exercised, did certain prescribed tasks, and then slept when they were tired. It turned out that most people seem to run on a "day" that's longer than 24 hours when there is no sunlight or other indicator of the real (outer-world) time.
Siffre, Michael (1975) "Six months alone in a cave." National Geographic 147 (3), 426-435. (I was a little kid when I read this. I remember thinking how great it would be to spend six months in a cave without any sisters.) |
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« Reply #5862 on: February 10, 2012, 10:44:48 PM » |
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In thinking about this today, I think I want to be on lunar time. The moon rotates on a 24-hour-50-minute day (exactly its revolutionary period, by the way), and it seems to fit my circadian rhythms better than the 24-hour day does. It's probably just a phase you're going through. |
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« Reply #5863 on: February 11, 2012, 01:17:53 AM » |
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In thinking about this today, I think I want to be on lunar time. The moon rotates on a 24-hour-50-minute day (exactly its revolutionary period, by the way), and it seems to fit my circadian rhythms better than the 24-hour day does. It's probably just a phase you're going through. <groan> Good one, GH! |
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« Reply #5864 on: February 13, 2012, 10:47:20 PM » |
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