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From: Hatunen on 26 Feb 2010 19:42 On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:43:31 -0800 (PST), "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim(a)verizon.net> wrote: >Washington, Oregon, and California are in the same time zone as >Vancouver -- and we have already had testimony that NBC is showing the >same delayed coverage there as it is here in Eastern Time. By recording the activities to show, edited, at a later time allows NBC to sick in plenty of commercial breaks whenever they like. -- ************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen(a)cox.net) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
From: Brian M. Scott on 26 Feb 2010 19:52 On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:08:23 -0800 (PST), Yusuf B Gursey <ybg(a)theworld.com> wrote in <news:ece5875d-4923-4378-9aee-50d51c604cf4(a)b30g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> in sci.math,sci.lang,alt.usage.english: > On Feb 26, 10:23�am, "Brian M. Scott" <b.sc...(a)csuohio.edu> wrote: >> On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:33:25 -0800 (PST), "Peter T. Daniels" >> <gramma...(a)verizon.net> wrote in >> <news:1696d92f-1836-48b7-a33c-1dd0a12586fb(a)15g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> >> in sci.math,sci.lang,alt.usage.english: >>> On Feb 25, 1:29 pm, Adam Funk <a24...(a)ducksburg.com> wrote: >>>> On 2010-02-24, sjdevn...(a)yahoo.com wrote: >> [...] >>>>> It's not uncommon to make tables of historic >>>>> astronomical events. They might be used purely for >>>>> statistical analysis, or they may be helpful for >>>>> trying to determine "what's the comet-shaped thing >>>>> carved in the sky on this obelisk" or whatever. >>>> "archaeoastronomy" >> Historical astronomy. > both terms exist. "Historical Astronomy" is appropriate > for the first point, "Archaeoastronomy", for the last > point. [...] Yes, as should have been clear from the remainder of my post. Brian
From: Brian M. Scott on 26 Feb 2010 20:05 On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:42:40 -0700, Hatunen <hatunen(a)cox.net> wrote in <news:uhqgo59l0v6qg65ti70rilhh7k5h1rnejp(a)4ax.com> in sci.math,sci.physics,sci.astro,sci.lang,alt.usage.english: [...] > By recording the activities to show, edited, at a later > time allows NBC to sick in plenty of commercial breaks > whenever they like. Conscious or unconscious typo? <g> Brian
From: Mensanator on 26 Feb 2010 20:12 On Feb 26, 6:08 pm, Peter Moylan <gro.nalyomp(a)retep> wrote: > jmfbahciv wrote: > > I used to solve my really pesky problems by dreaming the solution, > > or workaround. Sleeping is useful. > > There once was a time when I was struggling with difficult theoretical > problems, and I would wake up in the middle of the night with solutions, > or at least with important insights. Once the morning arrived, I would > recall getting the insights, but couldn't remember what they were. > > To fix the problem I put a notepad and pen beside my bed, and went to > bed with the firm resolve to write down any ideas I got in the night. It > worked: I woke up with yet another brilliant idea, and spent some time > writing down all the details. I used to wonder if that worked. > > In the morning, I found the sort of scrawl a two-year-old might have > written. One day I caught my subconscience red handed. I dreamed I was signing in at a hospital. After signing my name and entering the date, the nurse looked at it and said "That's last week." I took it back and saw that I had reversed the date, writing DD/MM/YYYY instead of MM/DD/ YYYY. Of course, once I woke up, I could not remember the date. But I thought "Aha! I can figure it out. What dates would, when reversed, give you a week earlier?" Turns out there is no such date. My subconscience was not, in fact, dreaming up useful ideas. I wasn't missing anything by not writing them down. > > -- > Peter Moylan, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. http://www.pmoylan.org > For an e-mail address, see my web page.
From: DKleinecke on 26 Feb 2010 20:40
On Feb 26, 5:12 pm, Mensanator <mensana...(a)aol.com> wrote: > On Feb 26, 6:08 pm, Peter Moylan <gro.nalyomp(a)retep> wrote: > > jmfbahciv wrote: > > > I used to solve my really pesky problems by dreaming the solution, > > > or workaround. Sleeping is useful. > > > There once was a time when I was struggling with difficult theoretical > > problems, and I would wake up in the middle of the night with solutions, > > or at least with important insights. Once the morning arrived, I would > > recall getting the insights, but couldn't remember what they were. > > > To fix the problem I put a notepad and pen beside my bed, and went to > > bed with the firm resolve to write down any ideas I got in the night. It > > worked: I woke up with yet another brilliant idea, and spent some time > > writing down all the details. > > My subconscience was not, in fact, > dreaming up useful ideas. I wasn't missing anything by not writing > them down. I generally put myself to sleep by working on one or another kind of intellectual task - writing a paper or solving a problem. I find it very soporific. While I am dozing off I will jerk back from my line of thought to something resembling a waking state and generally discover that I have instantly forgotten the chain of thought. The relatively few times I do remember something have convinced me I have lost nothing worthwhile. My subconscious or whatever is guiding me deals, it seems, entirely in nonsense. I dream frequently and vividly and it seems to me that I have a much better recall of my latest dream when I awaken than I have of dozing- off thoughts. I do not make a record of my dreams and all memory of them quickly fades away. |