The Column

Motto: This Column was Meant to be about Many Topics I have been thinking some about how stupid our conventions are for times and dates. I wonder if I could come up with something better. This Column is basically a thought experiment, as it progresses. The year is (roughly) 365 and 1/4 days long. We break that up into 52 weeks, each 7 days long.  52 x 7 = 364 So inherently we've got a flaw there.  The prime factorization of 365 is 73 x 5. So we COULD do 73 weeks, each 5 days long. Of course, then our structure for "weekday" and "weekend" would be all messed up. People would either have to work 4 days a week (8.6% more than a standard work week now) or 3 days a week (11.4% less) . Also any sort of social structure that's set up to operate "every other day" would have a weird time dealing with weekends. BUT!  A year isn't 5 x 73 days long, either. It's more like 5 x 73 + 0.2422 days long. So, no set number of days would make a...

Motto: Do You Have Any Apple Fritters? I read an article ( like this one ) about a psychology study in which the takeaway was: telling somebody you were going to achieve a goal, made you less likely to achieve that goal. I thought "I should stop telling people I'm going to do things before I do them!" Then I promptly pulled open my messaging app and typed a message to my wife saying:  "I think I'm going to stop telling you about things I want to do to better myself befo" ... Then I realized the irony of the message, and pressed 'delete' instead of 'send'. I say it here because I thought it was funny. You ever make a table like this? If you haven't, maybe think about doing it.  Or don't. I expected it to be more enlightening than it was. I have a Podcast. It's got  a website  in case you're not interested in Podcast apps... it's nothing fancy. Just a thing we do for fun. Top 5: Things I Learned About Co...