Talk:1061: EST

2015-10-08T09:53:44Z

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"24 hours 4 minutes" because the period of rotation of the Earth is 24 hours MINUS four minutes.

EST = Eastern Standard Time (USA) or England Standard Time (UK); there's no easy way to disambiguate this since it is a common time zone for English speakers in the USA and UK.

"Run clocks backward" a possible reference to the leap second.

"0.9144" because 1 yard = 0.9144 meters

"triple 4 hours after every full moon" = add on an additional 12 hours every full moon, to make the time between full moons exactly 30 "days" (in real life it's 29.5 days). [[Special:Contributions/75.103.23.206|75.103.23.206]] 21:44, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

: Erm, just like to say, as a UK resident for all my life (five decades, adult and child), that I've ''never'' heard of "English Standard Time". GMT is Greenwich ('Gren-itch') Mean Time, which is ''for most purposes'' the same as UTC (which officially took over in the early 70s, but most lay-people still ''say'' 'GMT') and all the various other prime standards in use (give or take leap seconds, planetary rotation/orbitting adjustments, adherence to atomic clocks, etc) and BST (British Summer Time, i.e. GMT+1)has just taken over for this sun-tilted part of the year. A brief check of the usual reference sites reveals no sign of EST existing any time since any form of standardised "Railway Time" was originally instituted in the days of the Industrial Revolution, but I might have missed it.

: Anyway, as such, the two ESTs is surely a constructed part of the joke not (as I read it) some fact from RL that needs explaining. Yes, there's EST (Eastern Standard Time) for the US (and versions for Australia and elsewhere?), as well as main Egyptian time-zone and European Summer Time (actually a over-term for the three varieties: Western, Central and Eastern). (The UK roughly matches up to Western European Time and Western European Summer Time accordingly, but that's by no means official except possibly by convention/shared heritage of definition.) But I think the joke with the two 'EST's is ''purely'' to do with something like the whole Yard/Metre(/Meter) thing. Although initially I imagined it might be something to do with UK/US Gallon differences, albeit that we now tend to have to use Litres. Or, if you prefer, 'Liters'. ;) [[Special:Contributions/178.99.20.83|178.99.20.83]] 21:49, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

I seem to recall that Narnia time ran usually much faster but sometimes much slower than real-world time. [[Special:Contributions/130.160.145.224|130.160.145.224]] 20:51, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

I always thought that Taiwan, Province of China missed a golden opportunity here to establish propaganda that they founded it. Instead they are known as a township in the US. [[Special:Contributions/66.88.136.254|66.88.136.254]] 20:01, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Think of what Jack Bauer could have done with 4 more minutes! {{unsigned ip|108.162.254.101}}

Not all possible attempts to make the calendar simpler would make it as complicated (or worse) than it is. For example, removing one day each from January and August to make February have 30 or 31 like the rest of the months would make the calendar (slightly) simpler and more logical going forward.[[Special:Contributions/173.245.50.174|173.245.50.174]] 18:39, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

This might be a reference to the old TV show Babylon 5 here, but that's unlikely because the show is never mentioned anywhere else.[[Special:Contributions/208.97.36.166|208.97.36.166]] 3:18, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Perhaps it's just a coincidence, but it should be noted "1958" could also refer to the Discordian calendar, in which that is the year 3125 (5^5, 5 being the by far most significant number in a religion especially obsessed with numerology).--[[Special:Contributions/141.101.105.29|141.101.105.29]] 22:10, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

The historical Jewish calendar did have month names; four of them happen to come up in the Old Testament. Some do suspect that the names were only used rarely.<br>The modern Japanese calendar - and I think a few others - does have numbered months only; don't recall if any historical ones do, unfortunately. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.80.44|141.101.80.44]] 09:53, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Talk:1496: Art Project

2015-03-10T14:31:13Z

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What is "Cutie"? If we're introducing a new character name, I'd say it would be the last "Megan". Her hair is longer and therefore not the prototypical Megan. Should the names be switched? [[User:Azule|Azule]] ([[User talk:Azule|talk]]) 06:19, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
:Someone on the internet is wrong - so I'm switching things around. Megan is number 2, and Danish is number 4. [[User:Pmw57|Pmw57]] ([[User talk:Pmw57|talk]]) 07:33, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
:Not convinced. I think number 2 is a character we haven't seen before, and number 4 is Megan. Her hair's not much longer than usual, and a LOT shorter than Danish's.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.4|141.101.99.4]] 14:14, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
::This is definitely not Danish, who has much longer hair, and should be meaner or at least with Black Hat, and number two girl has much shorter hair than Megan. I have corrected this error- --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 15:11, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

The first one looks like a selfie?--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.144|108.162.250.144]] 06:43, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

The art projects all appear to be examples of narcissism, as the artists are only showing themselves. {{unsigned ip|108.162.216.190}}

This comic is obviously poking fun at those projects of people taking a photo of themselves every day for several months/years and upload the resulting video to YouTube. --[[User:NeatNit|NeatNit]] ([[User talk:NeatNit|talk]]) 08:13, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

The last seems to be a reference to "Andy Warhol eating a Hamburger" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejr9KBQzQPM
[[Special:Contributions/108.162.254.30|108.162.254.30]] 08:38, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Isn't it (partially) satire on "Boyhood"? --[[User:JakubNarebski|JakubNarebski]] ([[User talk:JakubNarebski|talk]]) 08:42, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

The first art project also reminds me of the performance of John Cage's A(s)SL(ow)(a)SP(ossible) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_as_Possible) in Halberstadt which has a sceduled duration of 639 years.--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.254.32|108.162.254.32]] 10:01, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Some people live long enough that a picture every 100 years could be taken twice in a lifetime. [[User:Djbrasier|Djbrasier]] ([[User talk:Djbrasier|talk]]) 19:21, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
:Agreed. People have lived to 122, and it's easy to imagine an 18-year old student starting this project and taking another picture at the age of 118. Lifespans will probably keep increasing too. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.156|108.162.237.156]] 20:41, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
:: He could be one of these Singularitarian guys, and geniunely believe he'll live for multiple centuries. And to be fair, considering the clearly advancing tech level, if Cueball here is still a teenager, him surviving another 100 years isn't ''that'' unlikely. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.80.44|141.101.80.44]] 14:31, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Do we need the long note about Megan? [[User:Djbrasier|Djbrasier]] ([[User talk:Djbrasier|talk]]) 00:46, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

:I don't think the long note on Megan/Not Megan is warranted on this page. I'm not sure where it would go, but this isn't the right place for a discussion on character designations. --[[User:Pudder|Pudder]] ([[User talk:Pudder|talk]]) 10:44, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

:: Can it be moved to the [[Megan]] page? For example, the [[Cueball]] page states that there can be multiple Cueballs in a comic, perhaps this is a case with multiple Megans? Maybe the thing to do is to edit some of the discussion and move it to Megan's page with a note that this is a case where Megan (everywoman) appears twice in a comic. I concur with the consensus from the discussion above that her hair is too short for #4 character to be [[Danish]]. [[User:Djbrasier|Djbrasier]] ([[User talk:Djbrasier|talk]]) 13:29, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

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