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Monday, January 24th to be Worst Day of the Year
RonMcMahon writes "Dr. Arnalls from Cardiff University has crunched the numbers and has precisely determined that Monday, January 24th will be the worst day of the year.
For those of you who might be wondering, the formula to use when deciding what day to stay in bed is 1/8W+(D-d) 3/8xTQ MxNA.
The fact that the 24th happens to land on a Monday is purely coincidental."
Slashdot will be turned over to michael so he can post all political stories filled with his editorials.
what exactly do the letters stand for? what do i use for the variables?
I think he's over by about 4 days.
I think he forgot that it's an inauguration year, and that GW won.
Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the world. It's the only thing that ever has.
GPs say exercise and reading up on depression are ways to beat the blues.
All reading up on the topic does is make you realize that you exhibit more symptoms of depression than you thought. Realizing that you are depressed 90% of the time only spells deeper depression.
I suggest exercise, reading stuff OTHER than depression/illness related material (especially work related), and getting your ass outside.
Then today would be the worst day of the year... -18 in one day, ouch...
My first son is due to be born on Monday.
I hop it's not turning out to be the worst day ever.
--- Sigmentation Fault - Comments Dumped
Foul weather, debt, fading Christmas memories, failed resolutions and a lack of motivation conspire to depress, Cliff Arnalls found.
1. Slashdotters don't go outside.
2. Slashdotters live with parents, i.e. don't have debt.
3. Didn't have any special christmas memories, except maybe that promised X850 that failed to show up.
4. What resolutions?
5. What motivation?
In other words, going to be a normal day for me.
And it depresses you when you have to pay it off, you deserve it.
...the birthday of the Macintosh! Perhaps I should leave my computer off that day?
George Washington?
Looks like someone's got a case of the Mondays.
Better study harder that System Theory and Control course then :-)
Stefano
Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays...
The 24th is the worst day of the year.
I've just been on holiday to Australia for the last three weeks and Monday is when I go back to work.
Sigh...
My horoscope was very clear, I'm going to meet the woman of my life on Monday.
Je n'ai pas d'avenir Je n'ai qu'un destin Celui de n'être qu'un souvenir C'est pour demain
...and just as arbitrary:
worst=$today+1
I suggest exercise, reading stuff OTHER than depression/illness related material (especially work related), and getting your ass outside.
Seems like you need to take your own advice, buddy. :P I've been seeing far too many posts by you lately.
Go hug a tree - it will "boost your spirits" (from TFA)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_24
* 41 - Claudius is appointed Emperor of Rome after his nephew, Caligula, is assassinated.
* 1458 - Matthias I Corvinus becomes king of Hungary.
* 1679 - King Charles II of England disbands Parliament.
* 1742 - Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1848 - California gold rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento.
* 1859 - Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza under the name Romania (see December 1, 1918 for the final unification, Transylvania and other regions were still missing at this time).
* 1888 - Jacob L. Wortman patents the typewriter ribbon.
* 1908 - Robert Baden-Powell begins the Boy Scout movement.
* 1916 - In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax void.
* 1922 - Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie.
* 1924 - St. Petersburg, Russia is renamed Leningrad.
* 1936 - Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France
* 1943 - World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
* 1952 - Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada.
* 1962 - Brian Epstein signs to manage The Beatles.
* 1966 - An Air India Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mont Blanc, on the border between France and Italy, killing 117
* 1972 - Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese soldier, is discovered on Guam.
* 1982 - Super Bowl XVI: San Francisco 49ers defeat the Cincinnati Bengals, 26-21 in the first Super Bowl played north of the Mason-Dixon line
* 1984 - The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.
* 1986 - Voyager 2 passes within 50,679 miles of Uranus.
* 1987 - In Lebanon, gunmen kidnap Alann Steen, Jesse Turner, Robert Polhill and Mitheleshwar Singh.
* 1989 - Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida's electric chair.
* 1995 - The prosecution delivers its opening statement in the O. J. Simpson murder trial.
* 1996 - Polish Premier Jozef Oleksy resigns amid charge he spied for Moscow.
* 2001 - The last two of the Texas 7 are taken into custody in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
* 2002 - Enron Congressional hearings begin.
* 2002 - Terrorist suspect John Walker Lindh's hearing begins.
* 2002 - The United States Department of Justice indicts Robert Nicholas Angleton for conspiring to murder his wife, Doris Angleton, along with his brother Roger.
* 2003 - The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
Births
* 76 - Hadrian, Roman emperor (d. 138)
* 1712 - King Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1786)
* 1776 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, poet, composer, and painter (d. 1822)
* 1862 - Edith Wharton, writer (d. 1937)
* 1888 - Vicki Baum, writer (d. 1960)
* 1888 - Ernst Heinkel, aircraft designer (d. 1958)
* 1895 - Eugen Roth, lyricist and narrator (d. 1976)
* 1917 - Ernest Borgnine, actor
* 1918 - Oral Roberts, evangelist
* 1925 - Maria Tallchief, prima ballerina
* 1928 - Desmond Morris, anthropologist, writer
* 1934 - Stanisaw Grochowiak, Polish poet and dramatist (d. 1976)
* 1939 - Doug Kershaw, musician
* 1939 - Ray Stevens, country music musician
* 1943 - Sharon Tate, actress (d. 1969)
* 1944 - Neil Diamond, singer
* 1946 - Michael Ontkean, actor
* 1947 - Warren Zevon, American musician-songwriter (d. 2003)
* 1949 - John Belushi, actor (d. 1982)
* 1958 - Jools Holland, musician
* 1960 - Nastassja Kinski, actress
* 1968 - Mary Lou Retton, gymnast
* 1979 - Tatyana Ali, actress
Deaths
* 41 - Caligula, Emperor of Rome (AD 37-41) (assassinated by his own guards) (b. AD 12)
* 1125 - David the Builder, king of Georgia (b. 1073)
* 1366 - King Alfonso IV of Aragon
Crazy Brits. How are all the variables expressed in a numerical value? This is just plain stupid, IMHO.
.. they want their liberal whining back.
From the bar right of the article
1/8W+(D-d) 3/8xTQ MxNA. Where:
W: Weather
D: Debt
d: Money due in January pay
T: Time since Christmas
Q: Time since failed quit attempt
M: General motivational levels
NA: The need to take action
StefanoB
Sounds like a movie plot or something unreal.
:(
Sorry for the bad day hope things work out
What with the Bush inauguration...
I new it was gonna be the worst birthday I've ever had.. I'll be 25.. Practically over the hill.
Go out Geocaching or something - oh Silent Bob :)
And her boyfriend was.....your bastard son.
Does this take into account those of us in the southern hemisphere, where the weather is great and sunny this time of year?
Looking at the comments in the article they're almost all from England or Scotland, so that says most of it.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
I just called a therapist for anxiety the other day. She hasn't finallized the appointment, but what are the chances it will be on the 24th?
Whatever, sore loser. Bush's second term inauguration marks another four great years.
Doesn't he have something better to do than this? Perhaps he should give up his day job and become a psychic, like Miss Cleo. At least he might make some money off of it.
My calculus final is this Monday.
Maybe I shouldn't even try and give up now.
Did he mention the 5% margin of error?
Why does the BBC continue to publish this drivel? This is about the 5th article where some git has come up with a "mathematical formula" for something which is complete drivel.
First it was "the perfect joke", then "the perfect horror movie", and "the perfect family game", then I think we had "murphy's law". Every time it's just a bunch of random subjective factors strung together into (usually linear) formula that's realistically as arbitrary and subjective various factors they're combining.
Yes, yes, all fun and amusing and all that. Well, it was the first time - a bit of a laugh. The second time it just seemed a little silly and pointless. By this point it rates about as funny as a slashdot meme. Why publish this crap?
Jedidiah.
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So your first inclination is to go on Slashdot and tell everyone about it? If true, that's pretty sad. I'd rephrase your post as "I got fired and divorced today and the only shoulder I had to cry on was that of the slashdot hive mind."
I start my new job on the 24th! And my wife's birthday is that day too!
Curse you braniac-part-time-tutors-from-Cardiff!
I would argue that if you are genuinely suffering from depression, reading about it gives you a sense of empowerment (sorry for the buzzword). It gives you some perspective on your emotions, allows you to identify and characterize your feelings, and perhaps most importantly, removes that sense of isolation and "no-one understands what I'm going through." Most people have a general fear of the unknown. Get rid of the unknown and people start to feel a lot better. They feel like they are in control and can change their situation.
I have the day off, heck, the whole week. You all have my permission to have a bad as day as you want. You have my blessings.....
Its today.
That's the day I got married! ;)
Err.. may be he's right
She could've told you she was divorcing you and he was your new boss.
somebodys got a case of the Mondays.
Actually, both are quite good methods depending on the person involved.
"Exercise and bibliotherapy - reading a number of books to allow people to understand their own symptoms and how to control them," were initial treatments, he said.
This is quite good advice. Understanding what one is going through (and that they're not alone) and also ways to cope are perfect for combatting depression. However, not everyone is strong enough to face these demons.
It's like when it comes to meditation. An experienced meditator will tell you not to begin meditation when you are feeling depressed or to meditate too deeply while in such a state. The demons confronted may not make for the best of company when feeling like this.
When meditating you are doing exactly what he said bibliotherapy would accomplish: you learn to understand what you're going through, where it's coming from and how to deal with it. However, if you are not mentally strong enough this can be more detrimental than helpful. Those who are not normally depressed but notice it at this time of year may find solace in this article, learning that they're depression is due to such fleeting factors.
Oh great, that's my birthday. Thanks Dr. Idiot.
Well, you could see to it that the 24th is the worst day.... for HER!
Yeah, you should always marry work colleagues below you.
Your friendly Canadian slashdotter,
- shazow
For those of us in the North East of the USA, I would advise staying inside to avoid depression. Very little snow, high winds, and now sub-zero temps.
Get a few bottles of beer, some friends, and some cards. And set a 50 cent limit on bets, just to be safe.
So if I do stay in bed, does that mean that the worst day of the year will be the day I stayed in bed? Works for me.
1984 - The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale. !?! Well that's your answer why it is so unlucky right there!
Get you ass kicked for saying something like that around here...
I have seen this story reported on several 'reputable' news sources, and it makes me angry. It just screams of psuedo-scientific nonsense.
No units are given for any of the variables. What unit is the result in? It's completely meaningless.
Look at the guy's home page, he seems to be a press whore:
http://www.nopills.demon.co.uk/
Can someone mod this troll bait down asap plz.
For decades plebes (first-year Midshipmen) at the US Naval Academy have needed to know the daily happiness and gas factors. Hopefully, he cited this prior work.
You're a military contractor, right?
Argh! That's my birthday!
please explain?
Cardiff University is shit. TRUE FACT!
The calculations includes the weather variable, so the Winter is supposed to contribute negatively.
But I've been wondering... Does that "Worst Day" thing apply to the Southern Hemisphere aswell? It's Summer here thank you (I do live in Brazil).
Or perhaps since we're at the opposite half of the planet it means everything is reversed (like the toilet-flush water-rotation effect)?
Maybe it's going to be the best day here, right?
(Oh, nevermind... It's raining like hell these days and everyone is depressed the whole week).
Sounds like you might be able to sue for that...
looks like we don't have to wait for Hari Seldon and the Second Foundation to mathematicaly predict the future.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
Why did she fire you? I understand the diveroce thing... but this don't explain you being fired. Does she have a reason to fire you? Or she just did it because she just don't want to see your face anymore?
I suggest you to take the SCO way: Sue her.
- Gustavo
I just learned this past week that on Monday the 24th, I will be required to attend some kind of "safety forum" where 200+ people have to gather together for three hours and brainstorm ways to make our workplace more safe.
;)
This at a workplace that has already banned paper in the server room because it was deemed to present a fire hazard. Seriously, once you're banning paper, I can't see how could be any other saftey hazards to brainstorm about. Once you start nitpicking that far down the list, any remaining (legitemete) hazards must have long since been resolved. I fully expect to walk into work one day and witness someone installing foam padding on every corner in the building.
So yes, Monday, January 24th is going to be the worst day of the year for me. Such insanity makes me want to claw my eyes out.
Posted anonymously because I know I'm not the only employee at my job that reads here.
January 24th is my grandpa's birthday - and the 25th is my birthday! Yikes!
The Doormat
If you're not outraged, then you're not paying attention.
How exactly is the weather, general motivational levels, and the need to take action quantifiable? and what are the numbers represented as? seconds? minutes? days? months? and sense time is only quantified in those types of measurments, how can W, M, and NA be converted to the same type of measurment? let alone actually be quantified with any accuracy on a grand scale. that may end up being the worse day for him, but only because it will be a self fullfilling prophecy.
Oh yeah, non of questions are retorical, i would love an answer.
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Whatever, sore loser. Bush's second term inauguration marks another four great years.
Four great years of what? I mean seriously, what did he do for you?
Here's what he did for me: besides failing to prevent 9/11, increasing the deficit by an incredible amount, and starting a war that nobody is sure why we're in (killing 17 thousand people in the process), he's also a complete idiot, and makes sure people are aware of it on a regular basis.
What exactly is he good at? I mean sure, he espouses conservative values and that appeals to the Republicans, but honestly, what has he done that's so great? What skills does he have to make you think he'd be a good president in the future?
Spoken by someone who might get moody now and then, but has never suffered true clinical depression.
If you feel sluggish and blue because it's raining and you have to go to a job you hate every day and have nagging money worries and your girlfriend broke up with you, that's not clinical depression. If you feel nothing but dread about the prospect of doing anything, can't sleep most nights (and have nightmares when you do) and have panic attacks in public, you're getting closer. That's a chemical imbalance and getting some fresh air isn't going to take care of it.
If you haven't experienced what I'm talking about, good for you. But if someone you even remotely care about suffers from true clinical depression, please don't tell them it's all in their head.
Failed to prevent 9/11? Please tell me you're joking.
Oops, didn't see the name...
5 38864
This poster is a known troll/karma whore. If this story is true I'll eat my hat.
This post, for example: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=125825&cid=10
Where did you go, and what did you think? (I'm in Brisbane).
Seriously. Do you make more than $200,000 a year? If not, Bush really doesn't give a shit about you. All of his policies are directed at taking more money away from you and giving it to someone above that magical $200,000 mark.
He lives in MN. There's nothing to do in MN, so they are all depressed there all the time. Slashdot is like therapy for him.
You mean he lives in MN and wants people to go outside? Do you know what winter is like in MN?! This guy is freaking suicidal, somebody stop him before he makes his last post! He posts rubbish a lot of the time, but I don't want him to die... yet.
George Walker Bush
But, the tsunami was on December 26, not December 25. The day after Christmas isn't a holy day.
>Failed to prevent 9/11? Please tell me you're joking.
No. Previous presidents thought national security was part of their job. They took the threat of terrorism seriously. Bush did not (until after 9/11). He was briefed that Al Quaeda was up to something big, and he sat on his hands. So did Condi and Rumsfeld. They suck too.
Surprise! Amsterdam Vallon is a known troll ... check his post history, it often blatantly makes shit up to insinuate a relationship between itself and the topic ... it has claimed to work for Tom's Hardware, NASA, it's "wife", Xfce and many others. He is, evidently, a fraud. Yuck.
would have been the worst day of the year. It has been for me for the last several years.
Fax it to a warmer universe!
He said GW, not GWB. GW are not his initials, but they are George Washington's.
Not joking.
january 25 is just a few weeks before the greatest holyday of all: Carnaval.
not to mention is summer here, all schools are on vacation, so there's no traffic jams, even in big cities like sao paulo...
you get the picture. this guy should consider adding a geographical factor in his equation.
What ? Me, worry ?
they're gonna lose in the NFC Championship game for the fourth straight year!
Don't flame me, I'm an Eagles fan too! Just had my heart ripped out too many times...
this has to be the best anniversary gift ever!! (it is me and my girlfriend's one year anniversary on monday...)
o_0
Hooray!!! My birthday!!!
--Stephen
Did you ever notice that *nix doesn't even cover Linux?
I'm glad I rescheduled my Microsoft Interview from the 24th to NeXT month ;)
:P
Yeah, that's right! I want to work for M$, mod me down bitches!!!
Thank God I live in Colorado. Don't think a tsunami is going to make it here.
Find coupons in Greeley
-- Ketan B Shah, Harrow, England
Repton.
They say that only an experienced wizard can do the tengu shuffle.
Hunt her down, eradicate her family and everyone who knows her. Burn her pets, her possesions, everything.
This psychotic post brought to you in 'honour' of America's day of shame. GW's inaugeration.
to the 9th power
1/8W+(D-d) 3/8xTQ MxNA^9
is related to him getting laid.
Yeah man, that sounds pretty fucking illegal.
* 1986 - Voyager 2 passes within 50,679 miles of Uranus.
Well I guess there is always a problem when things get near Uranus...
Given that it's my birthday, I rather think it's a fine day...
I've wrestled with reality for 35 years and I'm happy to say, I finally won out - Elwood P. Dowd
Luckily for me, Monday the 24th is a local anniversary day... so I don't have to go to work on the worst day. http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=cache:MLMHaDno6no J:news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4187183.stm+&hl=en&s tart=1&client=firefox-a
I'm a Minnesotan and this is supposed to be Insightful? Even though this winter has been rather mild for us last winter I was frequently out in temps well below zero.
Hell on my birthday I was in the middle of a frozen lake in -25 degree temps with gusts of wind dropping the windchill to -35 and below.
Dress warm and learn to get used to it.
Other than comitting the three worst stragic blunders since the Vietnam war while running up a huge deficit and murdering tens of thousands of innocent people, Bush's first term was pretty good.
Play Command HQ online
Guess you had better tell the British that... Of course I guess that is just a holiday. Or for that matter, many religions consider Sunday to be a holy day - so it was on Sunday.
I have mod points and I am not afraid to use them
I read this article on BBC a couple of days ago and I have some questions for Dr Arnalls (who holds the honourable and prestigious position of "part-time tutor" at the university):
Why does the weather contribute exactly 1/3 as much as the other term in this formula?
Is D the debt accumulated by christmas, or as of January 1st? How is it measured (in dollars, hundreds of dollars, thousands)? How is d measured?
What does the time elapsed since christmas have to do with motivational levels (since they are coupled in the equation, I can only assume there is a relationship between them)?
How do you measure general motivational levels?
How do you measure the "need to take action and do something about it"?
Is there any research, anywhere, which would back up such a quantitative formula?
What is this formula equal to? Does it give a probability that you will wake up depressed? Would it give a number related to the amount of depression inducing chemicals in the brain?
Why does January 24th happen to be the worst day? Can you give me values or average values of W,D,d Q, M or NA for that day?
This is one of the worst kinds of pseudo-science I have ever seen published as news. Why is it that all you have to do is show reporters some uncorroborated formula and they'll treat it as valid scientific fact? There is no excuse for this kind of thing being reported on in the media, and I only hope that people who have read it recognize it for the BS that it is.
If you are female, am sure some of the guys here will volunteer with that.
You know why ? First day of classes.... NOOOooooo.
Gloom, dispare, agony on me, deep and dark depression, hard times misery. If it wern't for bad luck I'd have not luck at all. Gloom, dispare, agony on me.
How do I use them on the actual news post?
Cold? You're not getting the warm streak? That sucks.. it was -30 last week, and +8 this week. I didn't shovel my walk, and now mother nature has taken care of it.
I Love Alberta Beef
is worse than the day before, so that every day you see me is the worst day of my life.
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I don't like Mondays!
Hell yeah!
That way you can smoke without everyone whining about it.
down around the 7-11, they stop correcting the equation on the restroom wall about january 24th, so it must be true.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
Not possible becasue the 24th is the day my Mac Mini gets delivered. Woo!
If a million monkeys randomly pounded on keyboards, they would all log into AOL.
I understand that depressed people consistantly have a more realistic outlook on life than undepressed people, so maybe you ought to think twice before trying to banish the blues.
Play Command HQ online
Yeah, but just imagine if you lived on the east coast, like in, say, NYC. Just imagine what a tsunami, let's say because of global warming, could do there, combined with a few other natural disasters.
I smell a movie plot!!!
at least spell Inauguration correctly if you're going to make some silly post about Bush.
/voted for Kerry
As someone already said - 2004 called, they want their liberal whining back.
*** For a better tommorow, change your life today ***
...By this point it rates about as funny as a slashdot meme.
I, for one, welcome our new slashdot meme overlords.
In Soviet Russia, the meme's slashdot you!
Imagine a beowulf cluster of slashdot memes.
Software Wars
I think he's just being prophetic about Peter Gibbins' future.
Get me a meat pie floater!
In discovery of this worst day, lawyers, used car salesmen, and building contractors rush to form Make January 24th Even Worse For Everyone On Earth Co. MJ24, as they call themselves, are predicted by stock market analysts to have the highest stock prices in the universe on the 24th, then have the lowest in the universe on the 25th(Best Day of the Year Day.)
Actually that's spelled "Vonnegut" (note the two enns). Thanks.
"... and getting your ass outside."
"Do you have ANY idea how cold it is ootside? I can't even feel my ass anymore."
I would imagine rather than it being cold outside causing you to loose sensation in your buttocks, it's more likely the fact that you've gone and gotten your ass outside and yet left the rest of you inside, posting on Slashdot...
Go and bring your poor ass in from outside and reattach it sir.
Suddenly my 3:30pm urology appointment just got a little more scary.
Movie plot? Have you been reading Micheal Crichton's State of Fear? If you haven't, you should. Seriously.
Have you seen the arrow?
I think he's over by about 4 days.
Nah, it just takes 4 days for the reality to set in.
LedgerSMB: Open source Accounting/ERP
Hell, even if he's male, and slightly effeminate, I'll give it a go around.
Unf.
"That's my freakin' 18th birthday... great" I post this and others post similar words and I get modded offtopic?
you insensitive clod!!!
Yeah, but watch out for Mecha-Streisand!
I rest my case.
Imagine this, I have a dental appointment at 8:00 AM. Yep, I have a couple teeth that are more cavity than tooth from my teen days. The Doc wants to rebuild 'em.
I guess, if it's gonna be a crappy day, might as well go to the dentist, instead of dreading it on some beautiful spring day
Hello? Kwanzaa?
That's right. All your base.
Imagine living on the east coast???? That would be my worst day - even without a tsunami.
Find coupons in Greeley
wasnt bush inaugurated on the 20th?
thank god I don't live near boston anymore... I think a dirty bomb would be sufficient to make it the worst day of the year
As far as I can tell, all of these are reasons to be depressed. (Claudius was actually a nice guy, before becoming Emperor. Then he went stark raving mad. Ok, so depressed or looney.)
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
...back in the olden days, noose's had 13 wraps. Obviously being hanged was unlucky. Today it's illegal to have nooses with 13 wraps. You can still have a noose, but it must have either 12 wraps and below or 14 wraps. and above
I suggest exercise, reading stuff OTHER than depression/illness related material (especially work related), and getting your ass outside.
I'll tell you something. I suffer from bipolar disorder. When I have a major depressive episode, it is impossible to get my ass outside. It is impossible to get my ass up and do anything. Exercises are great, but don't help when I actually cannot move at all. Trust me, I would give everything if it could only be that simple: got depression - get your ass outside! I wish... I have already gave up school, lost countless jobs, girlfriends, everything, because I couldn't possibly do anything, literally couldn't move, let alone go out or exercise. And yes, reading about my illness helped me understand that I am not the worst piece of shit in the whole universe, but I'm just sick and have to learn to live with it. Keep in mind that this is a disorder where 25% people end committing suicide - and no, I am not counting suicide attempts, but actual deaths - you have better chances to live with cancer. I cannot possibly explain how I feel when I have depression. I cannot move. I cannot read. I barely can breath. And then I start feeling better, I wonder what the fuck was wrong with me, everything is all right, my life may be wasted and worthless but I don't give a damn, then I get manic, start doing stupid things, like singing and crying because the sky is so beautiful, I get a srorm of thoughts, I can listen to music, sing, and write poems, while writing some programs at the same time, and then it is suddenly too much, I start going down, I once again understand what a miserable freak I am, and I feel like shit again, can't move, can't read, can't do anything, can't even sleep, and only think that I am the worst person in the whole world, constantly, and there is another week or two, or at least few days, when I don'd go out, don't do anything. This shit is my life. I hate it. I hate myself. And yet I cannot change it. Please don't tell me that going out would help when I can't even stand up, and I sometimes sit on the floor or on the chair for two days, before I can stand up. I hope you will never feel that way I do every day.
Frak me, thats the day my office is switching phone systems... and I'm in charge.
Hope its not too late to pawn it off onto the other phone guy...
Now that I'll be turning the answer of the universe (42) this 24th, I have some one telling me my birthday is going to be on one of the worst days of the year.
Thanks for harshing by buzz dude..
"I bow to no man" - Riddick
Also, I predict a fat movie critic in the year 2000 will keep calling you "Jebidiah" during a commentary.
Cardiff University is shit.
...it seems Cardiff is trying to!
I have mates there and been there with them. Biggest bunch of non working thickos in the UK.
This has probably been encouraged by the 'university' public relations department and sent to every news outlet around the world knowing them.
Over here in the UK we have a phrase "You can't polish a turd"
> Do you have ANY idea how cold it is ootside?
Cold? You call this *cold*? We haven't even *had* any real COLD yet this
winter. I keep hoping. I think we're due. It's been entirely too long
since the last big freeze, and it's high time we had one, the kind where
the temperature drops to thirty below and the wind kicks up to 60 mph and
blows the snow so you have white-out conditions and twenty-foot drifts.
Why, when I was a lad, we had *real* winter...
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
I have an appointment with the dentist on the 24th.
Why not just redirect slashdot.org to some horoscope page.
... Monday the 24th will become the worst day of the year. Everyone, reacting to the fear that Monday the 24th will be the worst day of the year, stays in bed resulting in the collapse of society as we know it.
On the plus side, at least we know that after the 24th, things will not be that bad again for at least another 11 and a bit months
"Do you have ANY idea how cold it is ootside? I can't even feel my ass anymore."
What's funny is that people who live in California are thought of as being crazy.
"Derp de derp."
Okay, January 24 is not only my birthday, but I was born exactly a year after the release of the Apple Macintosh. However, I don't think that is the reason I am masochistic enough to go into Computer Engineering in U of T.
It also happens to be the first day of exams for most high school students. I have 2 exams that day... one of which is physics 12 so that cant be a good sign
Ah well, further justification to sleep in.
Now you have to figure out a good way to kill both her and "lover boy".
You even have a reason to give up and its based on mathematics, what better irony?
Yep, its about 32 degrees - shorts and t-shirt weather.
Of course, those degrees are celsius.
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I turn 20 on the 23rd. The realisation that i'll never be a teenager will kick in on the 24th and it will definately have to be one of the worst days in 2005.
I was pike fishing today in western new york along a river in 0 degree weather with decent gusts but I too have been out in colder weather so I know exactly what you mean
too bad i have an english literature final that morning!
it will be good to have it over with!
loose sensation? so the sensation is tied up somewhere? the word is lose
Also not joking (federal government)
That's not reality setting in, it's the hangover wearing off.
My advice: take another drink, it's going to be a long few years.
I was thinking of 'The Day After Tomorrow', but, okay.
For those that are reading this and are actually suffering from clinical depression, a very real and very dangerous mental illness, I would like to suggest reading a credible and helpful book An Unquiet Mind. It is the memoirs of a psychiatrist who is also a manic depressive herself, not some two bit, asshat with absolutely no training or experience in fighting the disease.
It was, by far, the most helpful thing for me to understand that depression is a cruel, but treatable disease, that having it strikes at the very core of your identity, but does not mean you are a less of a person, and that ignorant advice such as "get some excercise" or "we all get down sometimes" will not help. We don't fault cancer patients for having a disease, nor do we tell them to get their head out of their asses and run on a treadmill to cure it.
I beg anyone who is reading this and is unfortunate enough to face the demons of depression to ignore the parent poster's ignorant ramblings, drop a few dollars on the book, get treatment, and begin living with depression and not dying from it.
I've battled the disease myself, watched family members waste away from it, and nearly lost some very dear friends to it. I hope that my experiences can help others more than a karma-seeking asswit.
i guess its good if i can not go to work, but bad if i'm the one causing it to be such a bad day :P haha
Let's also not forget that 24 put together is the worst combination in Chinese Numerology as 2 means easy and 4 means death, so "easy death". http://www.feng-shui-architects.com/articles-fengs huinumerology.htm
You are an ignorant ass. I hope that you never have to witness someone crippled by the disease. If you would care to be enlightened, though I know you don't, I suggest you take a trip to the mental illness hospital in your area and spend just one day with the poor souls that have been so unfortunate to first be institionalized for a disease of the mind, then marginalized so many inhumane cockwits like yourself.
Okay so of formula is:
1/8W+(D-d) 3/8xTQ MxNA. Where:
W: Weather
D: Debt
d: Money due in January pay
T: Time since Christmas
Q: Time since failed quit attempt
M: General motivational levels
NA: The need to take action
But what are the units? What the hell number does one plug in for W,D,M or N?. Has somebody actually created a unitary measurement for each those factors? Is there a "weathertron" measurement that I missed in all the horsepower, newtons and pascals in physics class? Do we end up with dimensionless number or do we get our bad days measured in money times motivation divided by weather?
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January 24 was the worst; and January 25, that was the worst too. January 26 I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of decline...
What exactly is he good at? I mean sure, he espouses conservative values and that appeals to the Republicans, but honestly, what has he done that's so great?
His greatest skill seems to be defeating supposedly smart Democratic candidates.
the asylum called, they want everyone who voted for bush back.
... they'll all be dupes.
Yeah, I know what you mean. It dipped below 70F Monday here in Southern California.
Hollow words will burn and hollow men will burn.
Dammit! That's my birthday!
*sigh* I guess I needed more socks anyways.
Fnord.
Haha! I used to be obese and hate myself and never get laid, so I hardly think the 24th will be something I can't handle.
I'm going to make a bunch of money in just a couple hours on Tuesday. I just got a dollar per hour raise a week or two ago, I just installed Linux on a computer at work so I'm not a slave to Windows all day!
By 12:00am Monday my mom will have just completed the Landmark Forum and my girlfriend and father the Landmark Advanced Course and so the women in my life will be under an obligation to be responsible for themselves and their own emotions.
This January is actually the FIRST January that I'll have ever had regular sex, so take that Mr. Mathematics!
Please stop stalking me, bro.
I am quite male, but I would not deny attention to my ass.
Knock yourselves out.
10 to 1, when a PC doesn't power up, it's usually the power supply. The symptoms match: press the on button, then nothing, just fans and LEDs. This means the power supply isn't sourcing enough current to turn the HD, CPU, mobo,... on. If HD or RAM was the problem, then you'd still get a boot up, and the video card would show something.
But power supplies aren't cheap, they run from $50 and over. Best shot is to find a used one, or salvage (must be lots of scrap G3s out there).
I have to question this 'short days' thing.
Where I live (Southern Ontario), the days are starting to get a bit longer. Sunset is around 5:18 or so, as opposed to December where it is 16:45 or so. So I am going home while there is still some natural light, and not total darkness.
Everyone knows that December 21 is the shortest day in the year, don't they (at least most of the world, the Northern Hemisphere).
Also, BBC while being a great news resource, often go into sensationalistic journalism from time to time (don't they all?).
They made a big deal out of Scotland's recent snow, and even put up a picture gallery of it.
When I saw that, I sent it to a co-worker. We get this stuff every week for 4 months every year. A heavy snow storm is when you cannot take the car out of the garage and have to shovel the walkway in order for the garage door to open, and when four family members take a whole day in shifts clearing it!
And we have it easy here! The Maritimes (Eastern seaboard provinces of Canada) are getting pummeled every three days with a heavy storm (by Canadian standards).
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We haven't had -30 degree weather with 60mph winds? Did you forget December? I remember nearly a week of -30, worse with the heavy winds.
You misspelled "misspell."
It's like meeting the girl of your dreams, and finding out she's only 5.
Suppose if I stay in the US on Jan 24 and then cross the 180 line and spend Jan 24 on again, will I have two bad days?!
Every Day Is the worst day of my life...
Snow 6 foot high? Not sure if you wanna "shovel out"? Oh yeah, wanna stick inside, watching sports, and "preventing dementia"? Try this!
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January 24th happens to be the day that first-year Ph.D. students at Brown defend their solution to a week long test.
Reading the article though, it seems that they basically just picked the day a month after Christmas. Most of the rest of the equation would be variable on a per-person basis and there doesn't appear to be much evidence presented to defend the forumla anyway.
T: Time since Christmas
Well, as an observant Jew, I suppose I'll need to re-calculate this using a religious-orientation-appropriate substitute.
Any others of the tribe lurking? If so, any suggestions? Maybe Tisha b'Av?
Those of other religious persuasions, feel free to chime in with your own sectarian-oriented suggestions as well.
And, I guess this gets the atheists completely off the hook...enjoy your Monday, you Godless unbelievers!
Oh great. That's the day I start at Google. I knew my luck would run out eventually.
Sheesh.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
His greatest skill seems to be defeating supposedly smart Democratic candidates.
Based on how the campaign went, if GWB were a boxer, he'd just sit there punching his opponent in the balls. The referee would just laugh, "Hey, that guy's getting punched in the balls! Hahaha!"
So *that's* why the flags were at half mast today..
The easiest thing to do is get a zinc supplement and start taking one a day. It takes about 2 weeks for positive effects. Strangely, you should avoid multi-vitamins as they contain copper together with zinc.
I'm moving back out in the spring. ;-)
I'm not anti-social, I'm anti-idiot.
I think trying to feel your ass is bad enough, but outside?
I don't get it.
Huh? It's 31 C outside... walking back from the sushi joint after lunch almost killed me.
Send lawyers, guns, and money!
So good in fact that the Kerry looked bad to the majority of voters.
.... his face always looked that way ...
Oh, I'm sorry
I rarely read replies, it's my opinion and if you thought about your opinion a little more, I'm OK with that.
The day after Christmas day is Boxing day and a holiday in England and Wales but not Scotland. Traditionally it was the first working day after Christmas day and was the day that the workers received gifts and bonuses from their bosses.
my birthday is on the 25th, it sure would have sucked to have the your birthday on the worst day of the year.
lose != loose
What is W, 0=snow, .5= fog, 1=sun? It should be temperature in kelvin, unless your require a methane atmosphere, in which case your current spatial location, and not temporal, will be the source of your regret-filled terran rotation(s).
How about order of operations people, is it 1/(8W) or is it W/8? Big difference.
The solution here is to formulate the problem consistently. For example, W should be a measure of Misery per kelvin (and it should be a function of latitude). Similar factors should exist for Misery per dollar debt (a function of income and latitude), amount of hair covering subject's head (between 0 and 1), etc.
Once properly realized, transcendental equations can be derived, pinpointing the temporal coordinates of maximum Misery for various limiting cases (wide shallow well, narrow deep well, etc.), excepting the aforementioned methane-atmosphere case, which leads to several divergent summations.
This hokey non-science has no place outside of sociology and other "life sciences". The situation needs to a proper analysis, governing equations should be derived and solved. I dare say the proposed formula is not merely erroneous but is, in truth and deed, incredibly nonsensical.
He clearly said "ootside". Therefore he must be Canadian, not Californian.
The 24th's a good day in my book, the next episode of Battlestar Galactica airs that day (on sky one in Britain, but that's what bittorrent is for right?).
what sig?
Jan 24th is my birthday. I'll be 45. One foot in the grave, the other on a banana peel.
Lemon curry?
After reading the entire article, there isn't a large enough font size to express my present WTF-ness. My brain hurts.
Screw that, move to Phoenix like I did. Being able to play golf 52 weeks a year caused me realize how miserable (and unnecessary) winter in Maine is and wonder why I put up with it for 20 years. It's easy to deal with 118F days in the summer, stay out of the sun in the middle of the day. Dealing with -15F is much more difficult, you still have to get up in the morning when it is damn cold and go to work and shovel the friggen' snow when you get home.
Don'cha know....
I rarely read replies, it's my opinion and if you thought about your opinion a little more, I'm OK with that.
Realizing that you are depressed 90% of the time only spells deeper depression.
Wow, I'd feel better if I realized I was only depressed 90% of the time.
Sure I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?
First day back to work for all those who got their Mac mini's over the weekend. Those things must be super shweeet if that makes it the worse day of the year.
Please, I beg you, get some professional treatment. My words may seem empty and meaningless, but they are real and come from experience: depression is a manageable disease, but you need help to get on the path to being able to control it. It is near impossible to beat through sheer force of will. While crippling depression may seem like the worst the illness can offer, and I believe you, it is pretty horrible, but one day you may find yourself in a dangerous mix of both manic and depressive episodes, a so-called "black-mania"; this is the state in which so many bipolars act destructive either towards themselves or others. But it doesn't have to happen and with some help your depressive episodes will be less dark, and your manias less frightening.
No no no, Winter-een-mas.
So THAT'S what that means!
Alright. Sounds like a wonderful idea. I was going to call you on your bullsh*, but then I read your post history, and I found out you're actually just a little retarded.
Sorry. But still, what the hell do you mean by "creative or imaginative?" I don't understand what you're referring to.
I do agree that the iPod thing is stupid. But I'll leave it in my sig anyway.
Please stop stalking me, bro.
Only a KW would emphasize his/her text with unnecessary whitespace so to make his/her post more visible.
...it will be the worst day, many many of the people who have read this will then be on the look out for something particularly bad to happen, and whether or not something bad does happen, anything remotely not good will be blown out of praportion. This is all on a personal scale however...if some serious shit goes down on a regional/national/global scale, then he was right.
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Phoenix ? To hell with that. The difference between cold and warm weather is that you can always put on another layer. In the heat, at some point you have to call 911 to get peeled off the couch.
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Pseudoscience that matters.
I never been so broke that I couldn't leave town.
Our mutual-misery inspired orgy in hopes of forgetting the reality will finally sputter out 4 days later.
OK, gotta get back to it!
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His greatest skill seems to be defeating supposedly smart Democratic candidates.
Yeah, his greatest skill is getting elected. The odd thing is, a lot of people genuinely think he's a good president. I just wish someone could tell me what exactly he's done that's good, or what makes him the best guy we could find to run the country.
Being smart gets you elected? If that were the case, we would have a number of nobel prize winning scientists as ex-presidents. We obviously don't, so I fail to see what your point is.
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Monday I start my new job... as a System Admin.
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I mean sure, he espouses conservative values
I'm curious- what are these conservative values you speak of?
- Smaller government? Nope. He's never vetoed a spending bill. Even excluding the military and homeland security, government expenditures are growing faster than during Clinton's terms.
- Fiscal responsibility? Dear Lord in Heaven, no. His entire economic policy amounts to "Charge it!"
- State's rights? Just try to pass a medical marijuana (CA) or euthanasia (OR) bill and see what happens.
- Minimally interventionist foreign policy? Hmm, I can't remember the objection here. I think it ends with a "q", but I might be wrong.
- Free trade? Sure, unless you need votes in a big steel state. Then forget it.
- Respect for the constitution? We've got american citizens sitting in jails right now, no charges filed, no lawyers, no trial, ever. Get labeled a terrorist and you can just disappear.
I could go on for quite a while. Bush is not and has never been a conservative in the classical sense of the word. He's a radical."Seven Deadly Sins? I thought it was a to-do list!"
Yeah, but you'll be F*CKED if yellowstone blows up. Just totally screwed.
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more people are alive today, then have ever died.
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Do you have ANY idea how cold it is ootside? I can't even feel my ass anymore.
Yes, it's 57 F at 1 AM as I write this. Ice age coming, no doubt.
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Well, you certainly seem to be depressed. Don't worry -- it should wear off in two or three days.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
get someone else to feel it for you.
That will help take your depression and change it into a depression on the bed.
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I just went out on the balcony to spark a midnight pinner and went I went to check the weather online and it said minus 30. With the windchill, its around -45 celsius...and I saw about 120 people waiting in front of the Cafe Campus about an hour ago for La Sonora Calavera, La Chango Family, Tomas Jensen and Oztara for a Puta Madre Mestizo Fest.
Welcome to Montréal, Québec
We dont get a caline de tabarnaque how cold it is.
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24th is Salary Day! Joy!
No lying in bed all day for me, I will drag myself as far as my PC, and promptly waste it on ebay..
The 24 is partially so bad because the holiday cheer is gone. No more to get excited about... Not anymore. On the 25 of January, Winter-een-mas starts! If there's anything that'll cure my blues, it's taking out my frustration on some hapless alien or pedestrian. Don't know what wintereenmas is? Just go to http://www.wintereenmas.com
This had better be a coincidence!
Blood seeps from every pore just thinking about the possibility.
Previous presidents too the threat of terrorism seriously? What a joke. If you actually believe that shit you're beyond hope but I'm sure Michael Moore loves you.
That's better than giving it to some worthless second or third generation welfare parasite.
Do you belive everything Michael Moore spews from his imagination? Sorry, most of us don't see muslim terrorists as innocent people. Next I suppose you'll be blaming the tsunami on Bush.
As for Kerry looking bad to the majority of the voters, it is worth considering that in both the prior election and in this one, more people voted against Mr. Bush than any other President in U.S. history. The Republicans just got out the vote slightly better, with emphasis on slightly. Either way, half the country thinks he's a moron who doesn't deserve to be the president of the school board, much less the President of the United States.
Put another way, the most mismanaged campaign in the history of the Democratic party almost ousted a sitting President. There is no greater dishonor to Mr. Bush than his meager election victory. That's something that he should take to heart in the next four years. Of course, being a divider by his very nature, he will not, and he will alienate half of the country so thoroughly that in 2008, there's going to be a revolution in the polling places come election day..
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Inauguration day is most definitely the worst day of , not the year, the decade.
Shit.
That's the day my new iBook will (hopefully) arrive!
I'll tell you something. I suffer from bipolar disorder. When I have a major depressive episode, it is impossible to get my ass outside.
Doesn't medication help at all? Not that I know anything besides what I learned from Abbey's mother on ER...
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Dr. Swanson: What about today? Is today the worst day of your life?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Dr. Swanson: Wow, that's messed up.
It's "no one," not "noone." Who the hell is noone anyway?
Here in Austin, TX, it's not really all that cold outside. In fact, today it was about 70F (21C) outside, and sunny.
And yet, there's not much chance of my going outside unless really necessary. The reason? The @#$^%&^ cedar pollen. I'm allergic. Not freakishly allergic, but allergic enough to feel the effects. And the effects are strong. Despite regular doses of Claritin and some prescription cortisone nasal spray from my allergy doctor, and despite an allergy filter I installed in my HVAC system, and despite staying indoors for days at a time (which I can pull off since I work at home), I'm still basically totally out of commission. My head is congested, I'm sneezing like there's no tomorrow, I can't clear my throat, I have a pounding headache, and a sore throat. (Or at least I did yesterday; today I'm a bit better.)
Here's a little excerpt from my allergy doctor's web site that explains why:
So, I don't know if January 24th specifically is the worst day of the year, but I can say that for me, January is definitely the worst month of the year.
I think it's the other way around though. Having a realistic outlook on life (which is a festering pile of rotten worms and crap) has a tendancy to give one depressed thoughts, and a loss of hope. Learning how to cope with that doesn't make you less realistic, or at least it shouldn't. You just get on better from understanding what is happening to you.
You Fool! You're not supposed to think about that!
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I'm going to go to cardiff and research crystallization and fossilization of turds into stone capable of being polished. then you'll all see what cardiff is really made of!
It's foolish to respond to AC, but I'm curious. In your own words, why did we invade Iraq?
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Yellowstone isn't in Colorado you retarded troll.
the 23rd is my birthday. that was close
I could have told you that without a complex formula... i'm gearing up for the 24th to be my worst day ever!!!!!
i just climb trees, and look for rhythm everywhere.
has been for many years the worst month for me. If anything really bad happens during the year, it's guaranteed to fall in January. Mind you, if the 24th gets much worse than the rest of this month has been so far, I won't be the least bit surprised.
It's only cold during the few minutes I'm outside (between the house and the car or the car and my work.) I'll take that over having an earthquake turn my house into rubble or drop me and the rest of my state into the ocean.
The fact that on monday 24th the European ministers of agriculture will again vote if Software Patents shall be allowed in Europe is also merely coincidental. If they vote positive, thereby effectively making most OpenSource Software illegal in the long run and costing the majority of software developers (those who work in smaller, financially less powerfull companies) effectively their jobs might yet indeed make monday 24th the worst day, not only of the year but maybe of the decade.
How else do you explain the worst day of the year coinciding with my first day back to school!
The problem here is that you're both right. Yeah, some places are too cold, some are too hot. The correct solution is to find a nice coastal city with a climate that is regulated by a sufficiently large ocean (they keep the summers cool and the winters mild).
If it really is 24th jan, it's telling me I'm going to fail my Assembly/Logic Design exam... Thanks guys, just what I needed!?!?!?
I totally agree ... My philosophy is expect the worst case scenario. Then, most of what happens is a pleasant surprise. So you see, pessimism is in fact my route to happiness.
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Those aren't balls being punched. It's a pussy.
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On Jan. 24th I go back to school after a week off and Monday nights always blow at work. If the Steelers lose on Sunday (which they won't) then the day will definitely suck.
I know what you mean, the Democrats have been so good at bringing everyone together, singing, and dancing and being support and all. It's a good thing they don't hate anyone, because that would be very decisive. Yep ... only the Republicans have been decisive, I know exactly what you mean.
And I agree that it's a good thing we didn't vote for someone that couldn't run a campaign because god forbid he have to run a whole country, that's a lot harder and requires a lot more responsibility.
I rarely read replies, it's my opinion and if you thought about your opinion a little more, I'm OK with that.
You know, like Natalie Portman naked in a beowulf cluster of P2P hottub iPods gets hacked by the next generation of Perl monkeys?
I really don't know if it makes sense, but boy, sure I would click on it to know more about the subject. And just by the words combinations it would be #1 in google for about a week, no matter what you look for.
There was no option to vote against Bush, just for Bush and for Kerry. Please get your information corrected. More people voted for Bush then anyone else in US history.
Gasp, it's my birthday
On the other hand, depression might be related to diagnosed brain chemistry.
:)
Sucks, but what do you do? Meds somewhat help, but otherwise it's just Darwin in action...
Yaha, I'm one of those with that type of depression. Life sucks sometimes, but you suck it up and do the best you can.
That's my birthday! No, seriously!
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Well since I live in Brasil (Rio de Janeiro) and we're having a really, REALLY hot summer in this january. I most say I am not really happy with the weather (33C outside, but it fells li 40C), but I bet most of the people complaining about the winter would like to be in my place.
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It is the St Stephen's Day holiday in many countries.
oh no!
that's the same day my new mac-mini is scheduled for delivery.
Whereupon a hurricane comes along and wipes you out, heh.
Last monday was the worst monday I remember, I think the date may change a week or two for each one, but I'd bet being monday is not a coincidence. I don't know why but I feel so depressed I just quit work and went home early, just to lay on my bed for about an hour, feeling miserable, next day was a lot better.
DON'T PANIC
Neither party unites people. That is not their purpose. THe leaders of our nation are supposed to unite the people. Since Bush can't do that and is disrespected by 49% of Americans (no need to get cocky of 51% votes: that violates moral values), the next election may not go so smoothly. Bush may try to unite people but Americans are stuck bashing each other for perceived grievances. Time to grow up, people.
I'm having my tonsils removed on Januay 24th, so I already knew that day was going to pretty well suck. Good thing I'm going to be wacked out on pain meds for most of it.
And my Ph.D. thesis is due on Monday the 24th.
It feels an awful lot like giving birth. (I'm guessing)
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I read and re-read the formula...
After all of that I think Sollog is definitely more professional than these guys.
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That day is my two year anniversary with my Girlfriend...
And I have to drive 100 miles at the tail end of a two-day snow storm to get there, right through the area projected to get 7-14". Crap!
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My best friend will hopefully make it through the weekend. His first appointment with the head of the oncology dept. of the veterinary school at UGA is at 9:30 AM Monday.
I think it will be a very bad day.
Nobody will read this and care, but I love my dog very much. Much more than any of you could possibly know. And the world will be a poorer place without him.
My brave, strong, handsome dog. My friend Giggy Amadeus.
Somehow, looking at the parameters, it seems like the formula is a weeny little bit geared to a single person, since most of the parameters are personal, either directly (debt, time since failed quit attempts) or indirectly (weather depends on where said individual is).
So, pity for that guy. Jan 24th for me (other than being a Monday) plain rocks: Forecast for the 24th is Clear skies, 12 to 30 degrees (centigrade) temp.
No joking here - the 24th is my birthday. Being the superstitious type, this sounds like a very bad omen :(
Oh, what was I doing? I hit the snooze four times then pulled the plug.
Congratulations, and may I wish you and yours great healthiness and happiness.
This is my sig. It's prescription, I swear. I need it for reading things... on the other side of things
Maybe you'll bang a hot nurse or something.
Then it can be her worst day ever.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Cheers,
Toby Haynes
Anything I post is strictly my own thoughts and doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the opinions of IBM.
The Cardiff Giant! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_Giant
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.
Skydiving appointment cancelled...
sounds like somebody's got a case of the MONDAYS!
~insert tech sarcasm here~
Actually you can. Since Bush does not have a good foreign policy and is so focused on the middle east instead of resolving issues between countries and help form standards and form unions between nations, all countries hit by the tsunami may have been well informed after the earthquake occured.
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..or a tsunami
Too Soon?</Brian the Dog>
How depressing...
Ah but which part of the world is "the Eastern land"? The world is round, remember. While East might be righty-ways it doesn't actually stop anywhere. Except on your hew-mon maps. Even then some different cultures/countries have themselves as the centre of the map/world. Foolish hew-mons!
i have my english final exam on monday... too bad i can't skip it. i hate english. math is more useful. or computers. or physics.
upon the advice of my lawyer, i have no sig at this time
When the trains were bombed in Spain last year, some people on the news commented that March 11, 2004 was exactly 911 days after September 11, 2001. When we heard that, we decided to see what 311 days after March 11, 2004 was. Turns out to be January 26, 2005.
Of course, in Spain, March 11 would be 11/3, not 3/11. But 113 days after March 11 was sometime at the beginning of July, and I don't recall any significant terror attacks happening then.
So, just to be on the safe side, get in your bunker on Jan 24 and don't come out until the 27th.
Your fantasies contain the seeds of important concepts.
Great, that's the next release date for our B2B software.
That's not giving me confidence heading into my performance review. Thanks a lot.
(I'm not kidding - my review IS on monday. You bastard!)
You can accomplish anything you set your mind to. The impossible just takes a little longer.
the mondays!
Reading is not the answer... video games are...
January 24 also happens to be the day this year's Razzie nominees are announced as well!
Hmmm...What a coincidence!
Scenario: the car won't start.
You: Dang. Now I have to find someone to give me a jump start. Guess I better call work and tell them I'll be a little late.
Depressed person: I'm going to be late for work and lose my job. That means I'll lose the house, and my children will be homeless unless I give them up for adoption and move into the YMCA.
Scenario: not enough in the checking account today to pay all the bills.
You: Let's see, this one isn't quite due yet, and my wife will get paid on Thursday, so I'll just pay these and pick up the rest next week.
DP: I can't believe I work this hard and don't have enough money to even pay the bills. I'm a failure and will probably go bankrupt.
An obsession with utter despair isn't my idea of a pragmatic approach to life.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
That has got to be the stupidest thing I have ever wasted my time reading.
/. let this in... "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters?" PLEASE!!! What next?!?!? Some part time wanna-be at a zoo counted the number of banana's a chimp eats per year...
Notice, he is a "part-time" tutor. His credentials??? ZERO.
I can't believe
Someone is asleep at the wheel.
Clinton wasn't a great president either, however that does not make Bush a good one. I previously asked the slashdot crowd to name ONE THING Bush has DONE that's GOOD. No one has been able to come up with a thing...they just say "well, Clinton was worse."
The fact is that Bush has done nothing for you and never will, so why do you like him so much? The guy won't even admit that he's made any mistakes. Admitting mistakes is the first step in correcting them, so if the first step is off the table, we're in for a long ride down.
Thanks for supporting an incompetent presidency. I'm sure your children will thank you for it.
I think he was talking about Southern California. They don't get hurricanes there. Earthquakes are another matter.
He was a little mistaken however about being situated next to large oceans: the East Coast is next to a large ocean, but it still gets really cold there in the winter. Maybe not quite as cold as some inland areas (upstate NY, Minnesota, etc.), but nowhere near the year-round mild climate that southern California enjoys.
...if the Eagles lose another NFC Championship.
"ootside?" Yeah, definitely a Canadian....
you insensitive clod!
Thanks a lot, damn it.
Lessee... 2005... getting older... on the worst day of the year!
Oh yeah, things are looking bright. Wait, is that a low-flying airplane I hea
You mean like Florida?
Not in the original quote, it didn't. But I've changed it, lest I get any more commments.
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
Friday the 13th come on a Monday the 24th this year!
But, I wanted socialized health insurance!
The 24th is my Birthday. :(
Yeah, http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/cities/ca n/pages/CAON0383.htm
I had to walk to the bus station this morning for work :(. Snowing like crazy too, couldn't see three feet in front of me and the sidewalk was wiped from existance. Came home to shovel snow up to my knees off the driveway. I miss Vancouver.
Anyone can "stand up for what they believe", but it takes a very brave individual to change what they believe. - Loundry
Things are already going bad (and it's just the 23rd), at least if you're a Johnny Carson fan.
He has died at 79 years old. May he rest in peace.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
I think he was talking about Southern California.
Being Canadian, I was actually referring to southwestern BC -- Vancouver Island perhaps.
the East Coast is next to a large ocean, but it still gets really cold there in the winter
Then I suppose the Atlantic is not a sufficiently large ocean.
Being Canadian, I was actually referring to southwestern BC -- Vancouver Island perhaps.
The weather all along the Pacific coast is very mild that way, though it's obviously a little colder in BC than in southern California.
Then I suppose the Atlantic is not a sufficiently large ocean.
No, I don't think it's that at all. I'm no meteorologist, but I think there's other factors that all conspire to make the west coast uniquely mild, and the east coast not.
The Bob and Tom Show just did a report about this, and have dedicated todays show as an official antidepresant show, much like the Prozac of radio shows.
Er! What I really mean is, real Canadian men go out into blizzards wearing bikinis to wrestle bigfoot and polar bears, you sissy.
Anyone can "stand up for what they believe", but it takes a very brave individual to change what they believe. - Loundry