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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.
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.
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...the birthday of the Macintosh! Perhaps I should leave my computer off that day?
If you read the article it states clearly that 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
RTFA:
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
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from the article:
The formula for the day of misery reads 1/8W+(D-d) 3/8xTQ MxNA.
Where W is weather, D is debt - minus the money (d) due on January's pay day - and T is the time since Christmas.
Q is the period since the failure to quit a bad habit, M stands for general motivational levels and NA is the need to take action and do something about it.
liqbase
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...
RTFA
- Phil
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
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
.. they want their liberal whining back.
I new it was gonna be the worst birthday I've ever had.. I'll be 25.. Practically over the hill.
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
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.
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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Though it is the first day back for many semester based schools across america.
"I can not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presents danger, the solution is ignorance" - Isaac Asimov
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
somebodys got a case of the Mondays.
Oh great, that's my birthday. Thanks Dr. Idiot.
Well, you could see to it that the 24th is the worst day.... for HER!
Your friendly Canadian slashdotter,
- shazow
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/
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.
Now we need a formula to calculate how much time is spent doing nothing in british universities...
You're a military contractor, right?
Argh! That's my birthday!
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
January 24th is my grandpa's birthday - and the 25th is my birthday! Yikes!
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If you're not outraged, then you're not paying attention.
Oops, didn't see the name...
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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
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!
Crazy Brits. How are all the variables expressed in a numerical value? This is just plain stupid, IMHO.
This is just one in a string of such crap from the BBC. With a quick search I found "The Perfect Horror Film", "The Perfect Film", "The Formula for Happiness", "The Formula for On Screen Chemistry", "The Formula for the Perfect Family Christmas".
I also recall a "Formula for Murphy's Law", and a "Formula for the Perfect Joke", but the quick search didn't turn those up.
It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't present the things so earnestly. And besides, as a joke the whole concept is long since lost any semblance of interest or humour.
About the only formula of value the BBC seems to have turned up in all this is "The Formula for Pumping out Online Content", and the "value" of that one is highly dubious as it is.
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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...
Hooray!!! My birthday!!!
--Stephen
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Thank God I live in Colorado. Don't think a tsunami is going to make it here.
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Repton.
They say that only an experienced wizard can do the tengu shuffle.
The Dr. probably got nominated for his PHD for proving that.
to the 9th power
1/8W+(D-d) 3/8xTQ MxNA^9
is related to him getting laid.
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.
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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
If you are female, am sure some of the guys here will volunteer with that.
You know why ? First day of classes.... NOOOooooo.
How do I use them on the actual news post?
is worse than the day before, so that every day you see me is the worst day of my life.
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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.
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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.
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...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.
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I think he's just being prophetic about Peter Gibbins' future.
Get me a meat pie floater!
"... 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.
I think he's over by about 4 days.
Nah, it just takes 4 days for the reality to set in.
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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? Looks like a divide by zero error there...
My Scottish cousin came to Australia once - he said it was nice. He likes the way the kangeroos wander down the main street, but he wish's there were more shops than that 'general store'
Traffic was nice - both sets of traffic lights worked well, and it only took 35 minutes from Perth to Sydney.
All in all, he highly recommends it.
You can't expect to wield supreme executive power, just because some watery tart threw a sword at you
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.
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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.
Some American colleges have semesters like mine, some have trimesters (sometimes called quarters).
One man's selflessness is another man's annoyance.
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
> 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.
... 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
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 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
it will be good to have it over with!
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.
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
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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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.
... 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.
wait a second that seems stupid.
if semester is 2 times a year, and quarter is 4 times a year, shouldn't trimester be 3 times a year, not 4?
what gives?
I am quite male, but I would not deny attention to my ass.
Knock yourselves out.
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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You misspelled "misspell."
btw, i'm an American old fart, and you'll notice i spelt realisation without our 'z' -- twice now. but in neither of our versions of English is 'definitely' spelt with an 'a'. (we also spell spelt spelled.) it isn't even pronounced that way. one of the great mysteries of the last century, extending into this one, is why so many people who grew up in the last 20 years or so of the 1900s spell that word with an 'a'. do any of them say "i am deaf-in-at-lee going to that party"? no, they/you all say deaf-in-it-lee. so why do you spell it definately? it's so common, it almost seems as if some spelling book was wrong 20 years ago, and now it's just accepted. don't you ever wonder why newspapers and magazines spell it 'wrong'?
i'm not coming down on you personally. as i said, lots and lots of young people spell it that way. where did that come from, and why do none of you notice that stuff written by older people spell it 'definitely'?
and why am i going on about it so? weird.
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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?!
well, at least this 'free ipod' loser is creative or imaginative. but still a loser. get a job, son. pyramid schemes are for losers. go to www.losers.org and register there to troll for people to sign up.
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Snow 6 foot high? Not sure if you wanna "shovel out"? Oh yeah, wanna stick inside, watching sports, and "preventing dementia"? Try this!
Here
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!
Sheesh.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
or quit our attempts at the same time
New Year's Resolutions?
So *that's* why the flags were at half mast today..
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!
Summer quarter. The people who have it wrong are the ones who claim they have semesters.
The safest way to approach lava is to have another person with you and he goes first.
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?).
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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.
No no no, Winter-een-mas.
So THAT'S what that means!
i'm not retarded. just different from you.
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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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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!"
more people are alive today, then have ever died.
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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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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!
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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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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Fry: Oh. What's it called now?
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Peter Gibbons: So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.
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?
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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It's foolish to respond to AC, but I'm curious. In your own words, why did we invade Iraq?
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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.
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.
Its the month after christmas, debt levels in the UK will be high due to the christmas splurge, if you also consider that alot of people take time off around the christmas holiday which might either be unpaid or lower the amount of overtime it's easy to see that the average amount of debt will be higher.
People who are paid monthly are usually paid at the end of the month. So this will be the peak.
Credit card statements from the decmember spend will also be dropping on door mats.
Weather across the UK is fairly uniform and its been miserable for weeks.
I actually think the guy is on to something.
Jason.
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!?!?!?
actually, at the 3 universities that I atteneded, there were 2 REQUIRED periods, thus, they were called "semesters".
The summer break was actually TWO seperate OPTIONAL periods that you could take 2 different classes (or sets of classes).
Therefore at those schools at least, the summer session did not equal a 3rd semester.
Even if the summer session was not optional and even if they combined the 2 fast sessions into one longer period, it was still significantly shorter than a normal semester (less than half).
for example:
at North Carolina State University, where I got my MPA:
fall semester is from Aug. 20 to Dec. 5
spring semester is from Jan. 12 to Apr. 30
1st summer term is from May 24 to June 25
2nd summer term is from July 6 to Aug. 6
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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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.
What's the probability that someone on Slashdot would have this birthday?
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
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.
Gasp, it's my birthday
That's my birthday! No, seriously!
...Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like "1984".
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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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"To bad 99% of liberals are the exact opposite of that. They're the most bigoted, least tolerant people you'll likely ever meet."
In other words, they are exactly like conservatives. No surprise there.
"When was the last time any liberal proposed anything but their way."
When was the last time a conservative did that? Or a moderate? Or anyone in the history of mankind?
"Just look at how they responded to Bushs landslide election."
Pretty poorly, yeah. Exactly the same way as conservatives responded to Clinton's reelection. And by the way, 51% is not a "landslide".
"They have no desire to work with the majority of the country, they want things their way regardless of the fact that most people don't."
Yes. In other words, liberals are conservatives. Two sides of the same worthless coin.
It is the St Stephen's Day holiday in many countries.
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
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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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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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.
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Maybe you'll bang a hot nurse or something.
Then it can be her worst day ever.
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sounds like somebody's got a case of the MONDAYS!
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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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Pretty good I'd say! It's my birthday to.
"I'm not old. I'm thirtyseven."
'been waiting 36 years to say that.
How depressing...
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
And it is mine, too. But I'm not 37.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
No, the original poster referred to a place where the winters were mild and the summers cool. Florida, from what I've heard and seen in the weather report, is horribly hot and humid in the summer. Southern California, however, is quite nice even in the middle of July.
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.
Seems very good... my birthday as well.
Good luck with your dog, hope he will be ok. Most dogs are better company than most people.
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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.
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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.
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:((((( Wish your dog gets better. I prefer dogs rather than 90% of whole humanity.
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.
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