Secrets of the City

Yeah, next time I set the post date to April 20th at 4:20 PM, I’ll use the previous year.

It’s nice out? I’ve been cooped up in the office all day. A walk around Calhoun is implied after work.

Oops…

A walk around Calhoun after work is implied.

I for one have celebrated by putting away my wool pants and turtlenecks. And my tweed jackets with leather elbow patches and monocle.

Also, I’ve decided to stop being a cold weather wussy and have started to bike to work again.

So there. That’s a week’s fun: less wool and more exercise.

43 by my thermometer.

Not that nice out

Clouding up, too.

Heard a lot of wind, too.

maybe it’s a nice day on Mt. Curve

It’s nice out. Nice enough that you can go out with a coat and not be too cold, but not so warm that you sweat. Of course, I start to sweat when it gets above 55, so maybe I’m not a good barometer of such things.

I never put away my monocle.

even these colder semi-sunny March days remind me why I hate the skyways. 1pm today it was really nice out and nary a soul was out on Nicollet Mall

it was 35 last time I was out of my office. and It did feel like it, and a little too windy for my taste.

you guys are spring happy without the spring!!

The Rat likes the Skyways

Well it is the first day of spring.
The sun passed over the equator on the prime meridian earlier this morning GMT.

Outside…what is that? How do you see this “outside” from where you work? Is it online? I do not know “outside”.

Sweet. It’ll be just like 1820 again. I hope I ride next to a hobo! We can all sing folk songs.

I got cold riding the bike into work. There was a headwind, I was late, and I was cold — even though I was fully windproofed, unlike yesterday. Dropping into downtown from Summit at 35MPH wasn’t so much fun as it was bone-chilling.

Next thread will be best places to sit outside and smoke and drink. Deluded people sunning themselves like Russians in the 50 degree weather.

Well I spent the afternoon cleaning crap out of the mud-pit cleverly masquerading as my backyard. Two dump trips and I’m still not finished!

The sun and fresh air were a lovely change of venue though, and made me less annoyed by the mud.

The Rat doesn’t like this early Daylight Savings Time, either. Matter of fact, he doesn’t like Daylight Savings Time at all. Ought to be abolished.

It’s not the real time.

Kwatt,

Thanks for the link. It’s nice to see that some good might come of this 2008 GOP Convention.

You mean aside from our nominations, I assume.

Kwatt says “real time” should be abolished and the daylight savings time should be put in its place. It’s stupid that the sun sets at before 5 p.m. in the winter. Who cares if it’s dark an hour later in the morning. It’s the morning. Nobody cares. Besides, time is just a device invented by man that is used to measure change, so we can do with it whatever we want. It’s ours.

Does Greenwich Mean Time Change? Why should the rest of the time zones. It’s not stupid that it gets dark in the winter. It’s the way things are. It’s the seasons.

There’s no reason to deke around with the time. Changing it for the sake of changing it.

A guy wrote a book about the history of daylight savings time. It was a bloody mess at the beginning. States had several different time zones. No one knew when trains were arriving or leaving.

It wasn’t about farmers, either. It was about getting people out to the damned stores at night.

God Bless Arizona.

Oh my stars, I just had the craziest day. I went downtown for a job interview and walked both inside and outside of Block E. No one mugged, pestered, or assaulted me. I was both relieved and disappointed at the same time.
That is all.

Do skyways remind the rat of the little plastic tubes of his youth?

I’m with you on daylight savings time though.

I thought it was about pushing daylight later into the day so that we wouldn’t have to use as much energy, because we are more likely to be consuming energy later in the day.

Grenich Mean, time zones, states, it’s all make believe! None of it is real! We invented it and we can change it if we want, and we should! Just imagine the affect it would have on people with Seasonal Affective Disorder if the sun were still shining when they get off work at 5 or 5:30 in December. (That is not sarcasm, either.)

God Bless Arizona.

I always found driving through Indiana a pain because it had two different time zones AND I wasn’t sure whether they’d switched to DST yet. I believe they have it now. At least that was the impression I was given when I drove through there this weekend…

Do skyways remind the rat of the little plastic tubes of his youth?

College. The mazes: Did a lot of internal testing for one B.F. Skinner. Learned a lot. I travel the Skyway once, I know it.

Muggers and aimless youth hate the Skyways.

Muggers and aimless youth hate the Skyways.

But musicians love ‘em.

You’re defining the term “musician” rather loosely in most cases.

Yeah, I’m allowing it to be self-defined by those “playing instruments”.

I’m been ready to grab a few by the throat and say: “Can you tune this sonofabitchin’ guitar before I bust it over your head!”

Penis in the Park this weekend at Loring Park.

Free for kids.

I walked through the cosmetics area of Macy’s on Nicollet and thought I was in a jungle… I’m so excited for the summer HEAT!!!

Kinda cold for that sort of thing, Raindog. Some sorry lookin’ specimens are in store for everyone.

Nice Strib Headline.

How about the re-design the St. Paul paper did on its website. I say: At least don’t make “Obituaries” the first item on the toolbar.

Come on people! It’s supposed to be 60 on Saturday! Yay for drinks on the deck! Yay for people I know who have decks!!!

After lurking for approximately a year, I’m coming out. As a registered user. This being an open thread, I’d like everyone to enjoy these sweet ass hair did’s. Makes me want to be a chemist. As for the weather, give it 3 days, springs still spranging.

It’s always difficult to come out, but congratulations on registering.

Since this thread is open: Why is there another Champs comment stuck at the top of the list of Latest comments on the home page? I know he didn’t mean to hijack the thread– but it’s driving me nuts!

hayyy guys

oh jason, because he dated them in the future, and for some reason the comment section on the frong page sorts by date/time instead of post ID or something similar.

He’s such an evil genius.

Come on people! It’s supposed to be 60 on Saturday! Yay for drinks on the deck! Yay for people I know who have decks!!!

I’ll be at work, where all the decks are closed.

Hey, Wayne, how about those guys solving that massive math problem. Does that make you wet?

Oh, come on… surely you can ditch work for the first day of 60 degree weather. Wait a second, I have to work too…

friday is supposed to be nice as well. could be a perfect time for a sick day.

ahaha, the lie group?

yeah, I blew it in my pants

Oh, come on… surely you can ditch work for the first day of 60 degree weather. Wait a second, I have to work too…

No, and it’s not by choice or my own fault. Well, maybe I can sneak in a morning bike ride or something.

Well, if you bike past Lyndale, I might spot you. I will be on the deck that has wireless at my friend’s place! YAY!

friday is supposed to be nice as well. could be a perfect time for a sick day.

This reminds me when I was a young girl of 26 and I used to ditch out for the CC Club on nice spring days. Then I’d stumble back to my apartment in a drunken haze. That was fun!

“real time” should be abolished and the daylight savings time should be put in its place — Agreed.

I always found driving through Indiana a pain because it had two different time zones AND I wasn’t sure whether they’d switched to DST yet. — No good reason to actually stop in Indiana anyway. Just drive through and remember that it’s Eastern time on one side and Central time on the other.

I will be on the deck that has wireless at my friend’s place! — Enjoying the wireless and sitting outdoors is the best.

I will go by Lyndale in the Greenway.

I just found at that Saturday is also Dilly Bar Day! Nevermind that it was supposed to be yesterday, but still. Hooray!

Dilly Bars go good with 60 degree weather, wireless internet, sitting on the deck and G &T’s.

If it doesn’t hit 60, I’m going to crawl out of my skin!!!

what bars?
do dilly bars serve alcohol?

Wait a minute… dilly bars were created in Minnesota?

Is that why it’s Dilly Bar day on Saturday?

Every year the representative from Albert Lea brings Dilly Bars on the first day of spring. It was supposed to be yesterday, but she announced today it will be Saturday. She’s new, so we’ll let her slide. What matters most is that we all get free Dilly Bars.

this is kind of a lame open thread, guys

Go do unit multipliers, geek boy, and leave the open thread to the adults.

Heh.

Bong Hits For Bachmann….

Dilly Bars go good with 60 degree weather, wireless internet, sitting on the deck and G &T’s.

That’s it. I’m playing hooky and hanging out with Christine.

Yesssss!!!!!

“A guy wrote a book about the history of daylight savings time. It was a bloody mess at the beginning. States had several different time zones. No one knew when trains were arriving or leaving.“

Thanks to progress, and the advancement of our civilization, now we don’t know when airplanes are arriving or leaving. I think it’s cool to read some of the futurist writings, and imagine that, someday, I’ll be sitting around bitching about how my trip to the 1800’s Barbary Coast is three hours late.

We don’t know when airplanes are arriving or leaving anyway because we can’t keep a single form of long-distance travel on a reliable schedule in this country. Not buses, trains nor aeroplanes.

I hate to burst your bubble Bobby, but there is no 1800s Barbary Coast. There never was. There is just the Barbary Coast. You cannot break it up into segments via assigned numbers sequentially dating back to the birth of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. You may use such numbers as a reference point for yourself, but the Barbary Coast does not recognize such a number.

How dare you force your religion on it.

“You cannot break it up into segments via assigned numbers sequentially dating back to the birth of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. You may use such numbers as a reference point for yourself, but the Barbary Coast does not recognize such a number.“

As an apathetic agnostic (and, man, that’s about as unmotivated of a philosophical stance as you can find), I thought about what you said, and maybe you’re right, but I still just don’t care.

And, I had all their records, and there was no guy named Jesus Christ in Nazareth. Are you thinking of Rush or Aerosmith, or one of the other hair bands?

The universe is not a filmstrip. You cannot mark it at any given moment and someday return to that moment, because the moment does not exist. Whether or not Jesus Christ was from Nazareth, I think, is irrelevant.

“The universe is not a filmstrip. You cannot mark it at any given moment and someday return to that moment, because the moment does not exist.“

Well, it doesn’t exist now, sure, but that’s why I’m not trying to return to “now.” If I wanted to return to “now”, I’d still be on the train.

But your analogy is telling, in that it serves to highlight the limitation on your construct that’s holding you back. A filmstrip? Certainly not. But consider an 8-track tape . . .

Yes, a filmstrip. It does not have a recorded “snapshot” of any particular location and the changes that happen at that location. That is why you can’t point your train to the 1800s or any other “time”. To do so would require 1) that time exist and 2) that time can be flipped through like a filmstrip. If so, how far apart are the bookmarks? Every hour? Every minute? Second? Half-second? What happens to the “time” in between the bookmarks? Does it disappear, get dropped out like the way data gets dropped when you compress a digital file? If so, then you aren’t really in the original “time” are you? You are in a compressed copy of that time. If all these segments are compressed on top of each other, it would surely make “time” go faster, so eventually wouldn’t you catch up to the point at which you left “time” for “the past”? What happens then?

Or do we live in a “world” where individual bits of time flash before our eyes so quickly that we cannot percieve these flashes? Are they so fast that science cannot measure or even detect them? What if we can jump in between them? What is that called? Untime?

Future Man, you need to hijack the coding, and set the post date to April 21. Unless Matt gets in here and fixes this, we’ll be looking at champs’ stupid comment for the next month.

And frankly, if I were running this site, I’d consider banning people who screw around with the coding of the site. It’s an abuse of a pretty open environment we all have here. And not close to funny.

See, you’re still stuck in too limited of a view. No, life doesn’t proceed like “stillpicture/flip/stillpicture/flip/stillpicture/flip/stillpicture/”, but as streaming vid. Analog, not digital. No bookmarks needed, either, ‘cuz it’s all in the FAT sector, continuously indexed. Every instant an image and a simultaneous movement to the next instant, Heisenberg be damned. We all listened to tapes in our cars for years, thinking that we either listened in THEIR chosen order or we FF’ed or RW’ed and got to where we were driving before we ever even found our damn song, and then CDs opened us to the possibility of Random Access, and if we can have Random Access to our hair bands, we can have Random Access to time, too. It’s all the same principle. I mean, have you ever sat through a Geology 101 seminar? Don’t tell me you can’t make time longer.

That’s all I’m sayin’. Oh, and that I’m back, and the Ottomans say hi.

How do you go from ditching work to enjoy the weather to “the universe is not a filmstrip”?

“How do you go from ditching work to enjoy the weather to “the universe is not a filmstrip”?“

Chemically.