Little Bits of Cheese

Little Bits of Cheese

  • November 19, 2022

    Even if Twitter survives, I want to try a different path. Likely I’d stick around if the communities I’m in outside of tech stay.

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  • July 1, 2022

    Central Texas man puts life savings into buying virtual property

    Buying property is a big investment, but some people are investing in virtual properties.

    Source: Central Texas man puts life savings into buying virtual property

    Sigh. I mean, sure.

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  • June 24, 2022

    Calendar idea by a Paulist

    https://archive.ph/20121214163159/http://personal.ecu.edu/mccartyr/Searle.html

    Rethinking the calendar is pretty interesting.


    A Possible Calendar


    By George M. Searle, C.S.P
    The Catholic World
    (Nov. 1, 1905), p. 239.



    Rev. George Mary Searle
    1839-1918

    A NEW plan for the arrangement of the calendar has lately, according to the papers, been proposed by M. Flammarion. The object, apparently, was to avoid the present shifting of the days of the week over those of the month; and it was to be accomplished by having an extra day—or two days for leap years—which would not count as week days at all. Sunday, for instance, might be made the 1st of January; obviously Saturday would then be the next 30th of December; the 31st would not be considered a week day at all, and Sunday would again begin the next year.

    The fatal objection to this plan, for both Christians and Jews, would be that the week days, particularly the Saturdays and Sundays, would no longer be those determined by the regular succession of the weeks; they simply would not be the real week days at all.

    But it is possible to accomplish the object intended without encountering this difficulty. Let us suppose the regular year to consist of 52 weeks or 364 days; and let every fifth year have 53 weeks of 371 days. This extra or intercalary week might be put in at any time of the year which would be most convenient, and might be celebrated as a holiday time, or in some other special way. Of course it would be most natural to take the years ending in 0 or 5, such as 1910, 1915, etc., to have 371 days.

    This would, however, make the average year rather too long; since four times 364 is 1,456, to which adding 317, we have 1,827, and dividing by 5, we have for the average 365.4. But if we make the century and mid-century year, 1900, 1950, 2000, etc., to have 364 days, and also add one more of 364 days, such as 1975, 2375, etc., in every 400 years, we shall have in 400 years 329 of 364 days and 71 of 371 days; the total will be 146,097 days in 400 years, which is exactly what the Gregorian Calendar gives.

    It is true that the displacement of any particular day from its average or mean place in the season would be, on this plan, as much as three and a half days, instead of only half a day, as at present; but that seems of little consequence, as the seasonal change in that time is really imperceptible to people in general, and astronomers could easily become accustomed to it.

    If we reduce the normal year to 364 days by dropping out the 28th of February, as would seem most natural, and make Sunday the 1st of January, we should have, of course, New Year’s Day and Christmas always on Sunday; the secular celebration could be on the Monday following. Decoration Day and the Fourth of July would always occur on Monday, which would be for us an obvious advantage. The intercalary week would most naturally occur between April and May, as May 1 would always fall on Sunday.

    It needs hardly to be said that this calendar is not proposed seriously; with any idea, that is to say, of its actual adoption; the difficulties are too considerable, and the advantages not sufficient to warrant any such expectation. But it certainly would be an advantage in some ways to have a year in which every day of every month had its fixed day of the week to fall on. It would dispose of the whole matter of perpetual calendars for the future. Easter would always fall on the 27th of March, or the 3d, 10th, 17th, 24th of April; its calculation might perhaps be easier than at present.

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  • January 17, 2022

    Doing baby steps into operational research. I’m at the phase where doing a simple linear programming problem doesn’t give me a pretty answer so I’m questioning everything about life.

    College
    mba
  • December 28, 2021

    Writers’ Block

    I wanted to write something today on my Real Site™ but alas, didn’t want to go to the effort of putting together that made sense.

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  • December 22, 2021

    New Shirts

    I’ve come to admit that I’m a big guy. I’ve always been a larger guy, but I’ve been slowly gaining weight over the past few years so I needed to adjust my wardrobe up to the next size.

    I’ve been seeing all of these ads for Fresh Clean Tees and True Classic which my demographic well. “Dad bod” blah blah blah.

    In the end, they don’t fit still and made me feel worse—even the shirts that are supposed to help men look better look like shit on me.

    Back to Ebbets Field Flannels for me, I suppose. They hug my gut more than I’d want, but at least I don’t feel like the wind is going to catch my shirt like a parasail when I hold my arms out to the side.

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  • November 12, 2021

    Soup

    My kid is turning three on Saturday. In our family, the birthday person can choose any meal for their birthday. What does my 2-year-old pick?

    Soup.

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  • November 10, 2021

    Cars

    Since the weekend, I figured out how to replace a side mirror on the Transit and change a battery in a Town and Country.

    This is as close to being a mechanic I’ve ever been.

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  • November 9, 2021

    Running Them Off

    Mental health professionals are hard to find. Too hard.

    Had a psych NP throughout most of the pandemic. She moves out of state this past summer so passed to another in the practice. He told me today he’s leaving the state and time to figure out if I go to yet someone else in the practice or find someone new.

    This is after being suggested to re-add a therapist to my support team, do the research, find one that sounds great, contact them via their website and get a response back that they’re not taking new clients. Sigh. Then put that on your contact form?

    Also, with telehealth, the rules that disallow providers from serving across state lines need to go away. Really no need to require a mental health professional reside in the same state as the client with today’s tech.

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  • November 3, 2021

    Scheduled

    We scheduled COVID vaccines for our four middle kids that are now eligible under the new 5-11 year old authorization.

    It feels so close to the end. Just the littlest one without a vaccine and the one least impacted by any precautions we may continue to take with her.

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