Thing to do on the King's Birthday October) Long Weekend

[old man emu]

The King' Birthday Long Weekend isn't a time for putting your feet up and taking it easy. No way, Jose! It used to be the weekend you spent firmly ensconced in your favourite TV watching chair watching the Bathurst 1000. But alas, that's moved to next weekend, so SWMBO will rescind your TV watching privileges this weekend, with the chance of parole next weekend for you to watch the Big Race if you complete the work to be done!

 

In NSW the Bushfire Danger Period commenced on the first of October. This is the first weekend you'll have off to get around your place and minimise fire risks and review your bushfire disaster plan, as well as gathering your post-fire survival kit. If you don't have a "home amongst the gum trees", and your "vision splendid" is of solar panelled rooves extended, then this is the weekend to replace the battery in any smoke detector alarms you have about the place. (I wonder how much power remains in a 9V battery after six months on standby.)

 

And before you settle in the well-deserve repose tonight, don't forget that in some places, the populous will begin to "enjoy" more daylight after the normal close of business due to an alteration in the display of the hours and minutes on clocks. So make sure that if such a thing happens where you live, advance the time display on your timepieces by one hour. 

[nomadpete]

11 hours ago, old man emu said:

The King' Birthday Long Weekend isn't a time for putting your feet up and taking it easy. No way, Jose! It used to be the weekend you spent firmly ensconced in your favourite TV watching chair watching the Bathurst 1000. But alas, that's moved to next weekend, so SWMBO will rescind your TV watching privileges this weekend, with the chance of parole next weekend for you to watch the Big Race if you complete the work to be done!

 

In NSW the Bushfire Danger Period commenced on the first of October. This is the first weekend you'll have off to get around your place and minimise fire risks and review your bushfire disaster plan, as well as gathering your post-fire survival kit. If you don't have a "home amongst the gum trees", and your "vision splendid" is of solar panelled rooves extended, then this is the weekend to replace the battery in any smoke detector alarms you have about the place. (I wonder how much power remains in a 9V battery after six months on standby.)

 

And before you settle in the well-deserve repose tonight, don't forget that in some places, the populous will begin to "enjoy" more daylight after the normal close of business due to an alteration in the display of the hours and minutes on clocks. So make sure that if such a thing happens where you live, advance the time display on your timepieces by one hour. 

Phew!

That was the logest winded diatribe ever seen on it.

 

As our resuden grammar policeperson, you might have said....

 

"Daylight saving starts today (in some states)" !

 

 

Edited October 5 by nomadpete

[red750]

The King's birthday holiday in Victoria was 10 June.

 

And my bloody smart watch ain't so smart. It didn't automatically adjust. I slept in.

[red750]

2 hours ago, nomadpete said:

As our resuden grammar policeperson, you might have said....

If wikipedia doesn't know the answer, ask OME.

[facthunter]

I think I've wrecked my sundial. Nev

[onetrack]

This King is making a welter out of his birthday celebrations. Our Kings Birthday holiday was on 23rd September 2024, so tomorrow's a normal workday here on the Left Coast - no doubt complete with the regular morning peak hour crashes on the Freeways, that snarl traffic up for kms, and making everyone that's caught up in it, grouchy.

[facthunter]

That's the downside of living in Cities.. Traffic SNARLS. Nev

[onetrack]

I don't know about that. In my neck of the woods, a country drive often turns into a snarl as you run into a major oversize movement going on. And when a big load comes to a bridge or overpass, all the traffic is stopped, as the road engineers instructions are that no more than the one oversize/overmass load is allowed on the bridge or overpass at the one time, and the heavy load has to transit the bridge/overpass at no more than 10-15kmh.

 

This instruction is to prevent bridge/overpass pylon displacement, which can happen if a heavy load transits a bridge/overpass at speed. The load pressure is transferred in a longitudinal manner to the bridge/overpass structure with high speed, and this can make the bridge/overpass structure move longitudinally, and displace it on its pylons.

 

I went to the country yesterday, up the Gt Northern Hwy, and it's a route constantly full of oversize/overmass equipment being moved to and from the North of W.A. I ran up behind 3 of the biggest (new) dump trucks I've seen in recent weeks, heading North to the Iron ore country, and got slowed to a crawl as they went over an overpass.

But at the next overpass, I managed to get past them by exiting left before the overpass, and then rejoining the highway from the road under the overpass, while they were crawling over the overpass.

 

Then, I got about another 20kms up the highway and crested the hill just before the Chittering Roadhouse, and sighted another two massive dump trucks preparing to pull out of the roadhouse! The road was full of pilot and escort cars, but I managed to squeak through as the last vehicle in a line, and all the escorts blocked the highway as the trucks pulled out behind me!

It would have been a slow trip for people stuck behind them, the loads are anywhere between 8 and 10 metres wide and the cover more than two full lanes - and even when there's a passing lane, you're often still blocked from overtaking by pilot vehicles. It's a PIA, and it really slows up your trip time.

[facthunter]

Iron ORE is GOD. It's only DIRT till WE dig it up. (gina)

[nomadpete]

8 hours ago, red750 said:

If wikipedia doesn't know the answer, ask OME.

Nah. If I ask him the time, he'll spend all afternoon telling me the world history of timekeeping

[nomadpete]

8 hours ago, facthunter said:

I think I've wrecked my sundial. Nev

I thought you just had to lift it up and turn it a bit to the left?

[onetrack]

My Dad brought a sundial back from one of his holiday trips to the U.K. (where he was born). But I think he failed to realise a Northern Hemisphere sundial is useless in the Southern Hemisphere.

I wondered why it was amongst his collection of possessions after he died, and not being used. But when I set it up, I realised why that was the case.

[old man emu]

Bloody Daylight Saving!

 

The sun set at 7:00 pm. I  had my early evening cheese, wine and bikkies.Now it's 8:15 pm and I've just started cooking my evening meal. There won't be enough time to have desert, or later my pre-bedtime coffee. 

 

I just hope that I sleep through to sunrise at 6:30 am. Waking up last week at 5:30 wasn't so good, except it made my bladder happy.

[willedoo]

1 hour ago, old man emu said:

Bloody Daylight Saving!

 

The sun set at 7:00 pm. I  had my early evening cheese, wine and bikkies.Now it's 8:15 pm and I've just started cooking my evening meal. There won't be enough time to have desert, or later my pre-bedtime coffee. 

 

I just hope that I sleep through to sunrise at 6:30 am. Waking up last week at 5:30 wasn't so good, except it made my bladder happy.

You're welcome to it.

[old man emu]

21 hours ago, red750 said:

If wikipedia doesn't know the answer, ask OME.

13 hours ago, nomadpete said:

Nah. If I ask him the time, he'll spend all afternoon telling me the world history of timekeeping

I had to think about this one. The history of timekeeping is the answer to the question, "why do we need to divide the period between successive middays into segments?"

 

Up until people started to gather together in the first permanent large towns and individuals began to specialise in the jobs they did - butcher, baker and candlestick maker - I imagine that relying on the position of the sun in the sky was sufficient to divide the day. Long before this gathering together, the annual movement of the stars was well known and would have been sufficient for the timing of food production and seasonal religious practices associated with that movement.

 

Here's my radical answer to that question. As those permanent towns developed the power and influence of those who conducted the religious practices grew. A big part of that influence was the creation of anthropomorphic deities, who required regular worship, as well as a place to dwell. I propose that timekeeping was developed by the "priesthood" to ensure that the various ceremonies were conducted at the correct time of day. Thereafter, the rest of the population organised their lives to attend those ceremonies. Then the necessity to know when the ceremonies took place lead to the invention of devices to mark the passing of time.

 

The impact of these devices on the majority of the population was probably pretty small until the coming of the Industrial Revolution when it was necessary to have workers arriving at factories at the same time, and finishing after an agreed period of work. From then on, Life has been ruled by the timepiece.

[nomadpete]

Oh...

 

Was there a question at all?

 

I'm still blaming Nev for wrecking his sundial by turning it the wrong way....

 

Ever since he did that the sun has been rising an hour late!

[nomadpete]

I see an ancient process....

 

First, create a really unique answer.

 

THEN

 

Find a cool question that fits it.

[red750]

2 hours ago, nomadpete said:

First, create a really unique answer.

 

THEN

 

Find a cool question that fits it.

There's a TV program for that - it's called Jeopardy. All answers must be met by a question.

 

Example:   Answer - Nelson Eddy           Question - What is Eddy Nelson's name backwards.

 

 

[old man emu]

5 hours ago, nomadpete said:

Was there a question at all?

Twas you who inferred a possible direction that an answer from me might take. You suggested that I might embark on an expose of the history of the means of keeping time, but I became more interested in what it was that produced the need to know how long it would be for certain parts of the day to occur. 

 

I thought that my premise that religion and its practices was the necessity that resulted in the invention of timekeeping would provoke some comment.

[red750]

The old expression used to be - "Ask him the time and he'll tell you how to make a watch."

[Chris Tarran]

At the risk of being pedantic I have to point out that the October Long Weekend, where celebrated, is Labour Day.  King's Birthday is, in most states, in June.

 

Cheers

 

Chris

[spacesailor]

Not so ! .

Take Ireland.

Totally Pagan and satisfied with their life ,untill that " Roman Cathlic ", gang wanted a piece of that action,  and sent their allies in to ' murder ' the Irish royalty. 

And they're still praying to a foreign invaders God .

Hezbolla should have invaded The Vatican city .

Now that should put a ' cat in with the birds ' .

spacesailor

 

 

[old man emu]

3 hours ago, Chris Tarran said:

being pedantic

Pedants we don't mind, nor pedagogues, but we won't have any of those pedo files. 

 

 

[old man emu]

2 hours ago, spacesailor said:

Not so ! .

Take Ireland.

Spacey,

 

Get your historic timeline correct.

By the seventh century, Ireland was indisputably regarded as Christian. At that time what we now identify as England, Scotland and Wales were still well and truly pagan, with extra pagan numbers provided by the Norsemen. It was the Irish Christians who converted these pagans to Christianity.

 

By the 12th Century, Irish Christianity had developed its own style, which didn't sit well with the European Christian hierarchy. The Anglo-Normans claimed the invasion was sanctioned by the papal bull Laudabiliter. The bull purports to grant the right to the Angevin King Henry II of England to invade and govern Ireland and to enforce the Gregorian Reforms on the semi-autonomous Christian Church in Ireland. Laudabiliter was a bull issued in 1155 by Pope Adrian IV, the only Englishman to have served in that office. So you can see the political connection between Church and State.

[red750]