We could have a "dead reckoning" contest in sailing.
Random bit o' trivia: Some people say it's supposed to be "ded reckoning" (short for "deduced reckoning" or somesuch) but apparently that's a myth (which I just learned upon googling): [link]
What makes deduced reckoning and ded reckoning seem plausible is that dead reckoning doesn’t make sense, even though you might end up dead if you got your sums wrong. Writers are divided on which sense of dead the old-time mariners had in mind. Was it perhaps the idea of being as still as a corpse, so referring your position to a point that’s dead in the water? Or is it something completely or absolutely so, exact or precise, as in dead level, dead wrong, or dead ahead? The OED plumps for the latter.
Eeep! You're right! I jumped the gun because I read facebook wrong.
Oh well, happy early birthday meara and Jen!
Profile of Hugh Dillon form today's Globe and Mail:
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When I worked at Lotus, we each got our birthday off as a personal holiday.
The company I'm with now does the same.
Huh. Europe sets date when deaths overtake births: 7 years
The findings come in an official EU study, released Tuesday, which concedes for the first time that Europeans will begin their long foreseen demographic decline in just seven years' time - the point at which deaths exceed births.
Just saw a comment on a news board that sent a shiver of anticipatory delight down my spine: "wait until Obama nominates Hillary for the Supreme Court."
As Zonker Harris would say, Imagine!
I've never worked on my birthday, and don't ever plan to.
This is why I miss getting Columbus Day off. It so often gave me my birthday off.
Do we need to kick some butts for you through the internets, Allyson?
