Dumb question for the hivemind? When did the mm/dd/yy (or dd/mm/yy) date format start to be in common usage?
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
What Happens in Natter 35 Stays in Natter 35
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Anne W. - May 14, 2005 6:32:28 am PDT #4129 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
brenda m - May 14, 2005 6:33:37 am PDT #4130 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Tuesday.
t not helping
Topic!Cindy - May 14, 2005 6:36:03 am PDT #4131 of 10001
What is even happening?
looks at brenda's response
thinks how unhelpful it was
t clarifies
I don't know if that was helpful. It seems to me brenda didn't think she was helping.
t /clarity
§ ita § - May 14, 2005 6:37:21 am PDT #4132 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I found this:
This order [mdy] is used in the United States and countries with U.S. influence (but the U.S. federal government sometimes uses day, month, year). England originally used day, month, year, then for a while used month, day, year, and finally the original form (day, month, year) was revived around 1900. The U.S. uses the middle form of month, day, year. Canada uses both conventions, those starting with the day and those starting with the month.
In wikipedia. I can google some more after I finish making the pancakes.
SailAweigh - May 14, 2005 6:37:46 am PDT #4133 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Well, the dd/mm/yy I think of as European, not an American usage. But when either of them started, that's a good question to which I have no answer. Did google give any help?
Kat - May 14, 2005 6:40:36 am PDT #4134 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Hey ita, can you also find out IF the southern hemisphere is warmer (overall temperature, so I guess land and water) and if so why?
I can find the info for mars (warmer because the southern hemisphere's polar ice cap is about 1/3 the size of the northern one), but I can't find anything for the earth. Pablo and I are arguing about it.
Also can you come make pancakes here?
§ ita § - May 14, 2005 6:43:17 am PDT #4135 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Kat, if you want to play along at home, I'm making the CI fluffy pancakes. But they're already on the griddle, so they're going nowhere other than my stomach.
Which is kind of a waste, since I can't eat the whole thing. And the batter won't keep.
As for temperature, complicated question, huh? Why you and Pablo have to be like that?
Lee - May 14, 2005 6:45:32 am PDT #4136 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Dude, if ita is getting in her car to go make pancakes, she needs to come up here.
on edit: darn.
Kat - May 14, 2005 6:46:37 am PDT #4137 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Well Pablo said that the southern hemisphere was warmer by a few degrees and I just scoffed. Cause, huh? That seems not so logical to me. So then we started trying to look it up and it didn't work.
NOW I want pancakes. WAH. Imma gonna shower and then see what to do about fud. I have a meeting at school at 11:00. Oof.
Lee - May 14, 2005 6:48:39 am PDT #4138 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I'm going to Hobee's, I think. I'm going to have the hi hat omelette, but with no ham. [link]