Random Rants

[mclaincausey]

@Graeme:

The Eastern states of Australia are nominally in the same timezone. However, New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania use daylight savings time, whilst Queensland does not.

So for six months a year, there is a one hour difference between these states. :o

That’s like AZ here, they just left Mountain for Pacific and will rejoin us in the Fall. One of those policy decisions that makes life a pain in the ass whether or not you’ve bought in to it.

DST was genius when we were burning whale oil at night but asinine now.

[Matt]

So they’re Springing Backwards and Falling Forwards?  That seems like a very AZ thing to do.

[mclaincausey]

It really does, but it is we who left them I guess, and Pacific took our place.

Luckily I don't care enough to go all Kanye over it.

[steelworker]

and start putting the date first and the month second like the civilized world.
of course if we were civilized we wouldn't spell it with a z

[mclaincausey]

There I think we’re better than the civilized.

Nobody gets dates right. Should be YYYY-MM-DD. Then you get implicit sorting if you have a list and it goes consistently from large to small at least month followed by day gets the indexing from large to small logically.

[Matt]

That’s enough with your spreadsheet nerdgasm.

[popvulture]

@Matt:

So they’re Springing Backwards and Falling Forwards?  That seems like a very AZ thing to do.

slow clap

[mclaincausey]

Well shit… Maybe there's hope after all.

and @Matt more about organizing files in my case

[louisbosco]

@Matt:

Fucking Daylight Savings.

won't someone think about the confused cows.. 

[popvulture]

@mclaincausey:

Well shit… Maybe there's hope after all.

and @Matt more about organizing files in my case

Dammit I read about this yesterday but I naively thought that since it'd passed the senate, it'd already gone through the house. And not til 2023? Faaaaaack. So, one more fall back and spring forward left… bloody hell.

[goosehd]

My oldest is reading and asking questions regarding puberty…I’m drinking rum and ginger…

Damn they grow up fast!!!

[Matt]

Thank god I have girls.  My wife handles all that nonsense.  She told my oldest last year when she was 9.  I stayed far away.

[goosehd]

@Matt Girls too.  Mom is handling some, but I’m trying to help…I think??  Just being there, letting her know things are normal and to ask when she has questions.

No doubt, one of the toughest things I have dealt with…

[Matt]

Fortunately my oldest is super bitchy so she’s not really into talking to me about that stuff.  8).

I’m pretty attentive and supportive as dads go but I run from that girl puberty stuff like it’s a wild fire.

[Stuart.T]

Doesn't bother me. Our son turns 7 soon and I've already explained sex, sexual attraction, conception, and why my wife and I had IVF to conceive him. Neither of us was freaked out, he asked some really interesting questions, and now when other kids in his class want to play mummies and daddies in class, he says no thanks 

[goosehd]

Youngest has tested positive for Covid (Rapid Test), oldest just vomited, and my wife and I both have headaches/scratchy throats…

[neph93]

@goosehd:

Youngest has tested positive for Covid (Rapid Test), oldest just vomited, and my wife and I both have headaches/scratchy throats…

It’s on… sounds like a good thing if you all get it at once. Otherwise it drags out. Wishing you all a mild illness and speedy recovery.

[mclaincausey]

sigh

Less a rant than defeated sorrow for the current and future state of affairs. When discussing the merits of a dry climate here, I present a pretty major downside. My wife is in Santa Fe and I plan on taking our daughter down there to join her for Mother's Day this weekend if there isn't too much PM2.5 in the atmosphere. Fire season has barely started by historical standards, but look at this:

[popvulture]

Seems they're so frequent, they're getting casual with the names. "Smoke Stack Lightning."

[steelworker]

and west to California and north to Washington and as you say it's early on