Daylight Savings Time blah-gue and a Surprise

[altivo]

Well, the radio controlled clock in the weather station did adjust automatically, and so did my PC. I've learned, since I run multiple OSes, not to let any of them adjust for daylight savings time. Each knows nothing about the other and the result is multiple adjustment attempts. Instead I run ntpd on my primary Linux and let it keep the clock set. It does the daylight time fixes too. The OSes themselves just accept whatever the hardware clock says when they start up.

I still had to run around and set all the weight and spring driven clocks forward (I've mentioned before that I like clocks, I'm sure) which is a noisy business with all the bonging and cuckoo-ing. Easier going forward than back, though. Digital clocks are the worst, each one has a different silly set of button presses to change the time. A couple of those remain to be done. All this stupidity just because people can't wake up an hour earlier on their own? I don't get it, I really don't. The sun is rising a lot earlier now, and I wake up with or before the sun. Always have.

Here's an interesting little LJ analysis I snitched from vimsig. I'm majorly surprised. At least statistically, I am more popular than I ever thought.

altivo's LiveJournal popularity rating is 4.01/10. altivo is more popular than 98.1% of all LiveJournal users. altivo is more popular than 73.9% of their mutual friends. How popular are you? LJ Popularity created by thehumangame.

Also from vimsig, clever finder of things. :) I'd like to see this trick done with dogs or cats, though.

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[quickcasey.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, you're popular. I was telling my experiences of MFF to some fur who wasn't there, and they responded, "Altivo? You mean you actually talked to Altivo?" I guess you can add an aura of mystery to your popularity too.

OMG! I had no idea

[altivo.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

I figured only a handful of people were even noticing what I'm doing. Guess I'd better be on my best behavior if folks I don't know are watching...

Listen, folks.

[goldenstallion.livejournal.com]

Altivo is one of the finest folks, whether furry or horse, around. Very gentlekind spirit who believes in individual liberty and freedom yet tempered with sociatal needs. He simply wishes to live a good and relatively normal life, as do I and most folk and yet has a certain spirit of love and understanding about nature and the ever-unfolding story, for good or for bad, of human exhistance.

In many ways I tend to hate the human world... the evil religion that has brought us war after war and pain and suffering... the monsterous need for many men and women to control and dominate... and there are always those out there who simply work hard, often live good and just as often die hard for reasons outside of real human comprehension.

Nature. We are not some special being brought here by an imaginary God to dominate and control and destroy our world, we are here as animals no different, reallyl, than any other. Only it appears many of us feel a need to feel superior or different or somehow... above the regular animals we are but one of. Sorry, just my feelings, folks.

Imp who loves Tivo very much a good and gentle manhorse

Re: Listen, folks.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

*blush gasp ack*

Imp, you're embarrassing me. :) I love you too, though.

Re: Listen, folks.

[goldenstallion.livejournal.com]

Though? Yes, I am a loud mouth. I am so tired of concealing feelings.

Your ride forever,

Imperator the golden Pegasus.

Re: Listen, folks.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

No need to conceal anything, I'm just teasing ya.

*checks your mane for that little braid he put into it oh so long ago...*

[hrrunka]

I'm not keen on Daylight Saving Time either. Curiously, just down the road in Petts Wood there's a pub, The Daylight Inn, named in honour of William Willett's campaign to introduce Daylight Saving Time in England. I wonder whether it'd be a good place to hold a protest against DST? ;)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

England is so far north that daylight time really makes little sense there. The whole notion behind the thing is just silly. It always was.

Trying to put a stop to it though, is another matter. That's like trying to stop a train by standing on the tracks. People are convinced that it actually does something. What, I don't know.

[hellmutt.livejournal.com]

Makes Slen late for work, that's all it does!

(Some of us have the foresight to furchase intelligent watches that correct themselves, saving us from the same fate.)

[hrrunka]

People are convinced that it actually does something. What, I don't know.

*sigh* It's a complete mystery to me, too...

I gather the US is starting it 3 weeks earlier and ending it a week or two later next year?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

So they say, but I can still believe that will be squelched before it happens. It's pure politics of course, and this crappy administration's wish to look like its doing useful things when in fact all it does is avoid real issues.

[hrrunka]

The politicians in Western Australia eventually got the idea, but it took three referendums to convince them.

http://www.waec.wa.gov.au/state/factSheet18.htm

[altivo.livejournal.com]

That's amusing. I'm surprised they got the message after only three votes.

Sometimes it is a politician's responsibility to tell people what is best for them. Daylight time, unlike civil rights, isn't such an issue.

[hellmutt.livejournal.com]

Popular and deservedly so.

Though I think that meme is skewed in my case.
"hellmutt is more popular than 86.7% of all LiveJournal users."

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I thought that at first too, but they explain just what it means on their site. It's pure statistics, which sometimes do look surprising. They look at the number of mutual friends you have and run it through a formula to compare it to the number of mutual friends other LJ users have. Then they look at the number of mutual friends each of your own friends has, and compare you to that.

The top space is pretty rarified, people like kaysho and chrissawyer who have hundreds of friends. But there are lots of users who aren't very active, and they really fill out the lower percentiles. It looks as if those of us who are even moderately active come out in the top 25 percent overall.

[hellmutt.livejournal.com]

Makes sense.