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I just checked the "Whatever" and it's gone. In it's place is a nifty new feature titled: "That Was The Millennium That Was".
It's a very good review of the best things of the past millennium, often from categories that the mainstream media have overlooked. Go see it. It's good!
--Baloo
------------------ You can't seriously want to ban alcohol. It tastes great, makes women appear more attractive, and makes a person virtually invulnerable to criticism. --Mayor Quimby http://members.tripod.com/~Bob_Baloo/index.htm
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It's won the prize for five millennia running. It's not as easy to use as ours, but then we have professionals inserting leap seconds when we're not looking. It's the only calendar that doesn't require constant tinkering and fine tuning. Too bad you have to have degrees in math and archaeology to use it.
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The most confusing thing about it is it being developed with both 360 and 260-day intervals incorporated. The second worst thing is having to count in units of 20. Imagine counting your name in multiples of 1, 20, 20 times 20, 20 times 20 times 20.. etc. But at least they did have the zero, yes, but it was needed or else their system just wouldn't function properly.
And yes, I study archaeology in case you hadn't guessed yet. :]
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Today's list is up, and it's "the Best List of Bests". It's better than it sounds. Very good.
Now go read it and start picking over the archives. This stuff is too good to miss, and if the worst of the Y2K hype is correct, you may never have another chance to see this stuff again (and if it isn't at least you'll be free for other activities).
Hmmm... Well, if I have to lose to someone, at least it was the definitive curmudgeon. Here's a sample of his work:
That sovereign of insufferables, Oscar Wilde has ensued with his opulence of twaddle and his penury of sense. He has mounted his hind legs and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck, to the capital edification of circumjacent fools and foolesses, fooling with their foolers. He has tossed off the top of his head and uttered himself in copious overflows of ghastly bosh. The ineffable dunce has nothing to say and says it� says it with a liberal embellishment of bad delivery, embroidering it with reasonless vulgarities of attitude, gesture and attire. There never was an impostor so hateful, a blockhead so stupid, a crank so variously and offensively daft. Therefore is the she fool enamored of the feel of his tongue in her ear to tickle her understanding.
Such marvelous invective. It brings tears to my eyes. Good thing he's dead, huh?
--Baloo
------------------ "American cheese is to cheese as American culture is to culture: It's not necessarily better, it's just convenient to use, standard and unvaried and largely non-biodegradeable no matter where you find it." --John Michael Scalzi http://members.tripod.com/~Bob_Baloo/index.htm
[This message has been edited by Baloo (edited December 29, 1999).]
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