What Is Time?
January 1, 2012 at 5:24 pm by errcorr
Is it the minutes, hours, days, weeks months,or space between us and the edge of the universe? Is it when the sun comes up, the sun goes down, the moon comes out and people dance all around? Is it relative to our thoughts? Can I make time my b*tch? Does it even exist? Eff. Who cares? All I know is that it’s not organized correctly. How many times have I thought, “Dome on! I don’t want to buy a new kittens in pajamas calendar every. damn. year!” Also, I’m tired of asking people what date it is, and when they respond with the word day, I have to say, “No, the number day.” Because that sounds so stupid.
Enter two guys who think we can do better than the Gregorian calendar. They’ve devised a new way to organize time in a more orderly fashion. The same dates would fall on the same days every year, and the months would all have thirty days and other ones would only have thirty and we’d skip the leap… yeah, it doesn’t matter. It’s not going to happen.
This is America, John Hopkins University Professors. We’re still bucking the metric system. That’s just because we don’t want to measure our flour in pints (that’s metric, right?). You want to change time? The fabric of existence? Riiiiight.
The best part? The comments section of the article on CNN is filled with folks saying the Docs ripped someone else off, or that they had the idea first.
Professors Henry and Hanke’s calendar is an almost direct copy of a calendar created years ago by University of Toronto professor Irv Bromberg, Symetry010. His previous effort at a calendar was similar, but this one differs only on which months are 31 days, and in that it starts on a Saturday rather than a Sunday. Just thought the world should know.
Rip off cough! That was me coughing the phrase ‘rip off’. How are you supposed to write that? Anywho, these guys stole an idea that will never come into action. Should have stuck with the plan to steal secrets from the sex doll industry. That would really help people.
Hope you’re having a happy new year! May it be filled with 28 day months and 31 day months and leaps!
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