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 1QmXJW-0006NC-1b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:36:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3EC0421C50F; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:35:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0830F21C505 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:33:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83C7F1B401C for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:33:55 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -4.979 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.979 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.620, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-4] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id rLDOZPsAucaz for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:33:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F0791B401B for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:33:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QmXH5-0006iN-GK for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:33:43 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-176-234.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.176.234]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:33:43 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-176-234.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:33:43 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: IRC active time? Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:33:22 -0700 Message-ID: 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-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-176-234.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110705 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 2f91d636d6c4f9de169c2f621b7a39b4 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...