Tranquility base.
Sunday, 26. October 2008, 12:50:14
I awoke this morning feeling strangely tranquil. It took a moment or two to register. Daylight saving time has ended.
I always feel so much better when I get my hour back, but everyone else seems to think it's the end of the world. They talk as though someone has taken ahold of the world and moved it so that the sun rises and sets at a different time.
Nature hasn't moved one iota, all that's happened is someone's diddled with the clocks because, apparently, we're all too stupid to get up earlier without being made to. Actually I think the problem lies at the other end of the day, we're all too stupid to know when we should be going to bed. With the advent of 24hr TV, radio, shopping, working, garages, and drinking establishments we seem to have lost the ability to notice that it's getting dark and we'd be a whole lot better off in bed.
I wonder if we're evolving. It's not that many years since we went to bed and arose again with the sun, and that's obviously the way God planned it because we're designed to live in daylight, at night it's cold and dark and we have to resort to artificial means to keep warm and get around, but maybe H. G. Wells had it right, perhaps in the future some of us will be able to see in the dark and be completely dazzled by sunlight, some of us will feel the cold of night as being natural and have to take to our beds during the heat of the day. We'll develop into night watch and day watch only meet at dusk and dawn. We could all share jobs, homes, beds even!
I don't care as long as we don't have to go onto daylight saving time again next year.
I always feel so much better when I get my hour back, but everyone else seems to think it's the end of the world. They talk as though someone has taken ahold of the world and moved it so that the sun rises and sets at a different time.
Nature hasn't moved one iota, all that's happened is someone's diddled with the clocks because, apparently, we're all too stupid to get up earlier without being made to. Actually I think the problem lies at the other end of the day, we're all too stupid to know when we should be going to bed. With the advent of 24hr TV, radio, shopping, working, garages, and drinking establishments we seem to have lost the ability to notice that it's getting dark and we'd be a whole lot better off in bed.
I wonder if we're evolving. It's not that many years since we went to bed and arose again with the sun, and that's obviously the way God planned it because we're designed to live in daylight, at night it's cold and dark and we have to resort to artificial means to keep warm and get around, but maybe H. G. Wells had it right, perhaps in the future some of us will be able to see in the dark and be completely dazzled by sunlight, some of us will feel the cold of night as being natural and have to take to our beds during the heat of the day. We'll develop into night watch and day watch only meet at dusk and dawn. We could all share jobs, homes, beds even!
I don't care as long as we don't have to go onto daylight saving time again next year.
















shigen # 26. October 2008, 22:32
You got me all excited.....
I just flipped all my clocks and my mom told me, "not yet".
I like my extra hour...
I just hate getting one taken from me in the spring.
Personally, I like day AND night.
I'd be perfectly fine with just outting the whole blasted system.
cakkleberrylane # 27. October 2008, 18:35
Deke # 27. October 2008, 23:32
Unless a cup of tea and cornflakes counts...
shigen # 29. October 2008, 12:38
That's a "floating plan". It floats. You can change the time.
Deke # 30. October 2008, 00:36
It was almost 11.30 this morning.
I've no idea what happened. I just didn't get up.
Still fell asleep during Home & Away though...
shigen # 31. October 2008, 16:59
I'd looove to do that...
I just hafta wait until college.
I'll prolly end up missing half of m classes just catching up on the last fifteen years of sleep. XD
Waht's Home & Away?
Deke # 1. November 2008, 01:06
shigen # 4. November 2008, 01:43
You WOULD see it that way.....
It sounds... Well, not my thing.......
I'm not as into drama... (I get enough of THAT in school, haha!!)
I'm more into comedy, like The Office, lol.
Deke # 4. November 2008, 20:42
shigen # 11. November 2008, 12:34
w00t~!
Waht's Arrested Development? And I don't know Coupling, either...
I loove some of the Monty Python stuff~!
Oh What's Faulty Towers, too? Lol.
Deke # 12. November 2008, 01:17
Coupling was a Brit sitcom that unfortunately looked like a Friends ripoff when they did a US version. It's about the problems and pitfalls of making friends with the opposite sex and got kinda raunchy at times, but there was some great observational comedy in there. I never found cushions funny until I saw this show.
Faulty Towers was about a hotel owned and run by a very short tempered man, it was written by and starred John Clease and his wife. It was based upon a hotel where the Monty Python team were staying and the manager really did seem to resent having to deal with guests. The programme was so popular that hotels called Faulty Towers started springing up all over the world and the hotel it was based on was saved from being knocked down by developers because it was now reckoned to be an English landmark.
Wow.
Don't I know a lot of stuff?
Pity there were no exams in Random Stuff when I was at school.
shigen # 13. November 2008, 00:27
You DO know a lot...
It's cool. It seems like pretty much any band or show I ask you about you know. You suck.
NO ONE at my school everrrr knows half the stuff I say.
I know more about non-school stuffs, too. It IS a pity...
I elarn more here than IN school. xD
Faulty Towers sound wicked funny~!
And Arrested Development sounds cool, too... I LOVE no laugh tracks~!~!~!
A Freinds rip-off...? Damn.
I looove the origional.
Deke # 13. November 2008, 01:57
The writer obligingly set to work and soon realised that although it was all right to use themselves, their friends might take exception to being lampooned. So he used the super-people that he and his wife would like to be as another couple, and wrote in two more people who were two of them if they lost all their inhibitions. It wasn't until the show went on that they realised that it was now about six kinda attractive 20/30 somethings which made it look very much like Friends. It was actually nothing like that show, it was full of going back a couple of hours to see how this situation evolved, or going back over the same scene from another character's point of view. One episode consisted entirely of the same scene as seen from each of the six main characters point of view, it sounds like it should be really boring but by the time they were onto the sixth character we were rolling about almost crying with laughter. The whole prog was singularly lacking in anything remotely resembling linear storytelling...
And another bit of trivia, that writer is going to be the lead writer on Dr. Who next season. Do you ever watch that?
shigen # 18. November 2008, 00:27
Now just about every show on tv is about couples.
It sounds interesting, though~!
I've never heard of Dr. Who.
Sorry...
What network is it on> Do you kn ow>?