[time-nuts] So, how did you spend your leapsecond?

Michael Blazer mblazer at satx.rr.com
Sun Jul 1 23:03:08 UTC 2012


Well, the list isn't called Time Nuts for nothing.

Mike

On 7/1/2012 11:05 AM, Edgardo Molina wrote:
> I was dinning at an Argentinean restaurant with my wife and some 
> friends of her.
>
> Armed with a 3G Internet equipped iPad and sharing the story with the 
> people at the table. Good food, good company and the opportunity to 
> shine publicly (at least for a leap second), explaining time keeping 
> to a table full of psychologists. A lonely engineering soul being 
> analyzed for sure by the phycological minds.
>
> Nice warm and rainy afternoon in Mexico City.
>
> Regards to you all,
>
>
>
> Edgardo Molina
> XE1XUS
>
>
>
>
> On Jul 1, 2012, at 10:27 AM, Chuck Harris wrote:
>
>> We spent our leapsecond reading books by kerosene lamp as the
>> power failure continued...
>>
>> And, no, the power failure wasn't caused by the leapsecond, but
>> rather a very strong thunderstorm that came roaring through parts
>> of Maryland.... trees down everywhere.
>>
>> ... Well, unless Mother Nature is yet another that is offended
>> by the shear lunacy of leapseconds.
>>
>> There are large numbers still without power even now.
>>
>> -Chuck Harris
>>
>> Mark Sims wrote:
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