I get it. However, my proposal would actually slow time. We would age half as quickly. Although my diatribes could have the effect of slowing time, everyone would still age as the current rate. This was a giving gesture to humanity and all you can do is take a cheap shot. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />


Just to be clear, I would not seek China's input on this idea. Just like I would not have gone to the United Nations (which BTW, Donovan in his song "Riki Tiki Tavi" declared that the United Nations isn't really organized; I used a different term: impotent) on Iraq, Iran or NK or in the future, Syria, Cuba and Venezuela.

Todd,

I also see a significant problem with your one hour day. The whole basis for your idea is so that the USA cannot be cheated out of its God-given right to watch Desperate Housewives first (which I totally agree with BTW). The problem is far worse than you imagine. I get Desperate Housewives via satellite. I understand that DH is currently in season 3 in the USA but we are just now seeing the 4th episode of season 1. Since the signal travels from Hollywood to the satellites at the speed of light and is reflected and bounced back to my satellite dish at the same velocity, for this (more or less) two year delay to occur, the satellites must be in geosynchronous orbits located approximately one light-year from earth. My solution has been to download them from iTunes so I can get them almost immediately. I guess iTunes uses satellites in lower orbits or else subsea fiber optic cables. Dunno and don't care.

The result of my iTunes downloads, however, is that I can clearly see that an episode of DH lasts about 43 minutes and 57 seconds. [Fortunately iTunes leaves out the commercials]. So what this means is that if you have a one hour day and a 20 minute work day, there would not be enough time left over to watch DH after work. The only viable solution I can think of is that the USA would have to adopt the french working hours which would be reduced to a mere 11 minutes per day if everything is ratioed correctly. This would even leave time left over for SF after DH is over and maybe even a minute or two for sleep.

Problem I still haven't figured out though is when we would have time to take baths. Once again, maybe the french already have the solution for that too. Just don't take a bath!

Thanks for the link to the potter in N.C. Todd. No, I've not heard of him but N.C. is full of potters. Tell you what though, I'd LOVE to get the prices he charges for his work. Maybe another few years & I will. He has a fabulous red glaze. Red is one of the hardest colors to get.

Your slowing time idea? You did it just so you & Pio & booka could talk numbers didn't you? Pio got to talk about optic cables so he's happy.

Thank you stph.

So, how's the elections coming along? Any results? I've got to check it out, see if there have been any upsets.

But remember, under the new system, everything would be subject to shrinkage. Everything. Instead of 43'-53", it would be 1/24th of that or less than two minutes. Relativity is very difficult to understand.


And when you take August off, it would only be 30 hours long.


I previously posted the math for this: 1/24 * 120 = 5 minutes.


If the average bath is 12 minutes, in the New World Order, it would only be 30 second. Still wouldn't help the French however.

Nah. Too easy.

Nams,

I read an article in a local magazine today which discussed potters in Georgia and in the Southeast. I had never thought about it, but we sit on a huge supply of clay here so it is no surprise that potters would flourish in this area. A potter's museum just opened in North Georgia and the name Lanier Meadors was mentioned. Apparently he was the quite the potter turning out works that bore interesting faces. I could find nothing about him on the web except the site I linked for you and it is a brief mention. Oh yeah, the original potters in this areas were Indians. Some nice work has been found and are displayed in the museum.

Hams? Since you're talking about pottery I'll run with it. Wait, maybe there has already been shrinkage....Interestingly there is shrinkage in pottery.

Have you heard of the Mad Potter of Biloxi (sp)? Can't think of his name but he had a zillion kids & made millions of pots that didn't sell. He stored them & years after he died they sold. His family did get some money from his work after all. He made interesting pots (irregular shapes, the clay doing what clay will do in some cases) with very colorful glazes which at the time weren't fashionable. He cultivated his image as a mad potter by looking sort of outlandish, had a crazy moustache.

Larousse, I'm sorry to hear xbf turned into a disappointment. Maybe it's the addiction talking? Either way, not attractive.

I had a boyfriend once who borrowed $50 then disappeared. He called me many months later saying "hi" as if we'd just spoken. I honestly didn't recognise his voice. Once I figured out who it was I asked if he had my $50 & that was the end of it. I'm guessing he called hoping I'd invite him over for...well who knows...but really after he stole $50 I'm supposed to want him? Pah leeeze. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Hi nams,

Sorry about butchering your name.

Link is to the Mad Potter. No less than Frank Gehry is designing a museum dedicated to his work.

Mad Potter

Okay I just lost interest.

One day I was watching Discovery channel and saw a program on the making of toilets start to finish. Before the toilets were fired, they were huge! Interestingly, as I understand it, they test the efficiency of a toilet's flush using bags of peanut butter. That should work.

In the Middle East and Asia, they don't use toilets. Oh, maybe I already mentioned that. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

Since it is kind of quiet, can we play the "Let's Make Stef Cry" game again? I'll take "Wayward Husbands" for $200, Alex. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Not surprising considering that France has cornered the market on toilets.

I thought when someone took advantage of you in Mexico you told him: "¡Qué te vayas a la chingada!

It is interesting how we have this amazing ability to blame all our problems on someone else. My particular problems, for example, are caused by aliens who abducted me once and placed a mind control device inside my head and now manipulate me from outer space. Not much I can do about it really.

booka,

I truly hope that your W does not let her lawyer convince her to reneg on your agreement. So the 401K's are a push. That's good news. Your retirement is where I see things potentially breaking down. I agree you need to try to protect that as best you can. If she (via her lawyer) does decide to go after that, think of creative ways. Rather than taking a significantly reduced cash value now, maybe she would consider a deferred payment that would benefit you both. It is just an idea. Maybe she will stay with your agreed plan. Hope so. If you are truly committed to D, I think the faster you can get it done, the better off you will be. The less face time she has with her lawyer, the better for everyone.

Okay, this 'splains things. Earlier you said a relay satellite positioned a light year from Earth is responsible for the DH delay. I submit it is actually the aliens who are a light year away.

When you flush your "bags of peanut butter" down the water closet, apparently, that also takes two years. I can just see the aliens: how can we increase the velocity of light. And, hey, they are a light year away.

What do they use? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

[color:"green"] I wish I could tell him to go and ch... but I don't think he'll get the semantinc value. Besides his mom is a very nice lady.
His daughter writes to me from time to time. I'm trying to let her go smoothtly and cause no further drama in her life. [/color]

I have a hard time 'geting it' understanding this suden change of personality. Was it always there or is his addiction? Hard to tell. I start to understand how difficult it's to understand, lol. If I was special to him why he couldn't protect me and us from his addiction? I know, because he's an addict. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
He tries to make me react by saying that to pay me back he needs to work and to work he needs to be calm and to be calm he needs to talk to me. If I loved him as I said I did I would talk to him. I don't answer anymore.

Did I said the plumber came yesterday? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> He changed the valves and pipes of the bathroom.

Well I don't know how to do it but I can say for a fact that telling the light that it looks just fine like it is, that it doesn't need to go try on other quantum states, that color looks great on it, that it already has no mass so doesn't look fat, that it is already radiant so doesn't need any more make up and telling it to hurry up because you are already late simply will NOT work!

so larousse, in a nutshell, it is all your fault that you can't get your money back. That seems pretty simple.

They do use toilets, just not as we know them.

I've already discussed this too.

Did he bend over Larousse?

Is he a plumber?