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On 07/27/2011 10:19 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:23 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On 07/26/2011 06:07 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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>>> Anyone here knows at what time the Gentoo IRC channels are usually active? |
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>>> In UTC, if possible :) |
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>>> (Still can't wrap my head around USA time zone codes) |
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>> I'd like to commission a survey of, say, MS, google, and Oracle, to see who is |
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>> wearing a wrist-watch, and who isn't -- and then sort them by job description. |
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>> I predict that the ones with no wrist-watch are the one who are....well, I'll |
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>> wait for the survey to be done before I announce my prediction. |
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> /me wonders where you are going with this... |
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Downhill fast, probably :) Back in the day before cellphones, you needed to |
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look a clock or wrist-watch to know what time it is. |
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Back then I was surrounded by genuine programmer geeks, and I noticed that none |
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of them wore a wrist-watch. I asked one of the geeks why he didn't have a watch |
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and he replied "Why would I want to know what time it is? I can tell what time |
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it is by how fast the mainframe responds when I hit carriage return." |
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Another one showed up on most days wearing mis-matched socks. When asked why |
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he did this he replied, "Why? Does it matter?" |
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Well, I still can't answer his question... |
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