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Sunday, 17 April 2005

weekend

I didn't get off work until 1800, but anyway I got my taxes done Friday night. We dropped them off downtown at about 2300, so I still had an hour to spare ;-)

I didn't sleep in too late Saturday, instead I got up and mowed the lawn and moved a bunch of dirt to fill in about half of the trench I dug last year for a drainage pipe. To celebrate Saturday's accomplishments, I vegged out today and relaxed, which was very cool-- something I haven't got to do in a long time.

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  1. Neal says:
    #1 2005-04-20 19:20 (Reply)

    You sound like you are in the army

  2. ra says:
    #2 2005-04-22 08:53 (Reply)

    I prefer 24 hour time. I hate am-pm nonsense and it's ambiguity. (hey let's get together at about 10 o'clock) I sometimes use colons (23:00) but when I'm lazy I leave them out.

    The 24 hour time = "military" time stereotype dies hard. Same with date formats. It's as if we were still the last major nation still clutching to imperial measurements too.

    So speaking of dates, I hate this kind of crap even more: 1/5/05. ::cringe::

    It's:
    2005-05-01
    or:
    01 May 2005
    or, if you have a comma fetish, I guess this is ok too:
    May 01, 2005

  3. The_SCSIBug says:
    #3 2005-04-25 10:26 (Reply)

    Hell, 1/5/05 isn't even the typical U.S. convention. Usually, when Americans abbreviate "the fifth day of May, year two thousand five," they do it as 5/1/05. Which, of course, throws the rest of the world WAAAAAAY off, because the day and the month are transposed.

    God bless the pound weight, the surface mile, the rectangular acre, and the fluid ounce! They're like "13375p34|

  4. The_SCSIBug says:
    #4 2005-04-25 10:27 (Reply)

    ...like "13375p34k" for international standards of weights and measurements; obfuscation for the sake of it.

  5. ra says:
    #5 2005-04-25 18:10 (Reply)

    I put 1/5/05 (DD/MM/YY) on purpose to illustrate my point :-) I dislike both DD/MM/YY and MM/DD/YY because they are frequently indistinguishable. ISO-8601 (YYYY-MM-DD) rules.

    lol-- imperial units as "measurement l33tspeak" it's a better excuse than anything else I've heard.


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