From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QmXay-0002Aq-ST for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:54:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE22321C572; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:53:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E11A21C149 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:49:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyh22 with SMTP id 22so115195wyh.40 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:49:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=RT+jojba+KLuQM/E7PRGbhYda1cpLOapR33BHx2Eywc=; b=UuB97gL6p4tjQDkkWtSLt9Osy8ju+ZjaFNqxckypF64yjYdJU8crg0WyGM3KljDT9P 5YmleeX3etnqelhIqHTR4+FnmQ5Qp+wKll6IRRSVSvDsk/MlfLNvJgRA2CPpqp4grOMu eNbfohH/ZLHlBiu41CR4KX+k5MKvy9Z86E1oc= Received: by 10.227.132.66 with SMTP id a2mr586674wbt.81.1311886190203; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:49:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-55.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.55]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n18sm1163719wbh.23.2011.07.28.13.49.48 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:49:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: IRC active time? Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:49:10 +0200 Message-ID: <2867196.F4Ur85cDia@nazgul> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.0 (Linux/2.6.39-ck-r1; KDE/4.7.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 428c1529b692a656fcfac92d83b5727b On Thursday, 28 July 2011 13:33:22 walt did opine thusly: > On 07/27/2011 10:19 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:23 PM, walt wrote: > >> On 07/26/2011 06:07 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > >>> Anyone here knows at what time the Gentoo IRC channels are > >>> usually active? > >>> > >>> In UTC, if possible :) > >>> > >>> (Still can't wrap my head around USA time zone codes) > >> > >> I'd like to commission a survey of, say, MS, google, and > >> Oracle, to see who is wearing a wrist-watch, and who isn't -- > >> and then sort them by job description. > >> > >> I predict that the ones with no wrist-watch are the one who > >> are....well, I'll wait for the survey to be done before I > >> announce my prediction.> > > /me wonders where you are going with this... > > Downhill fast, probably :) Back in the day before cellphones, you > needed to look a clock or wrist-watch to know what time it is. > > Back then I was surrounded by genuine programmer geeks, and I > noticed that none of them wore a wrist-watch. I asked one of the > geeks why he didn't have a watch and he replied "Why would I want > to know what time it is? I can tell what time it is by how fast > the mainframe responds when I hit carriage return." > > Another one showed up on most days wearing mis-matched socks. When > asked why he did this he replied, "Why? Does it matter?" > > Well, I still can't answer his question... I've got a bunch of those of my own :-) Q: Alan, why do you wear those great big motorcycle boots and protective trousers all day in the office, even to meetings? A: It's cold. Q: What are your working hours? A: 12 per day on average. No guarantees on *which* 12 Q: Holy shit, I can't believe you just sent that mail to ALL users. Legal will be all over us now having hissy fits. Have you got a god complex or something???? A: [beams with genuine pride] why, thank you! I reckon my head is just wired different to most folks -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com