Comments on: 3-9-08 The Black Iron Prison http://oneneatthingaday.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/3-9-08-the-black-iron-prison/ Or two or three or four or... Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:15:46 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: silasginn http://oneneatthingaday.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/3-9-08-the-black-iron-prison/#comment-1639 silasginn Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:26:28 +0000 http://oneneatthingaday.wordpress.com/?p=155#comment-1639 I agreewith the last comment. Franklin was a prick. As for daylight savings time, well I would guess you live a good deal closer to the equator than I do. Many of the folks who had the power to push daylight savings time lived more northernly than others. That is to say, they weren't in the third world, if things were truly democratic there'd be no daylight savings, and people in sub saharan africa wouldn't die like flies. It's the tyranny of us poor vitamin D deprived northeners that was of concern. And if you've ever lived in northern alberta and gone entire weeks without seeing the sun simply because you were at work or even in school, before the sun rose and after it set, you'd get the point of it. Now, I agree it would be simpler if we all got up later, opened businesses later, waited for sunrise and the day to perform our daily ablutions, or we could simply send our kids to school in pitch dark half of the time, things would be simpler for you and your clock. But imagine reading the "hours of operations" signs on the doors of places of business, not merely "closed early sundays and holidays" it would be "starting an hour or two earlier in the months november through march north of the thirtieth parallel...." and instead of messing with your clocks you'd spend the same amount of time squinting at signs from your double parked car. As for firing up a UV light to chase away the winter doldrums as opposed to standing in the full light of the morning sun, if you think that a suitable alternative I suppose you also feel this little exchange to be a reasonable alternative to speaking to people face to face. In which case I wish you the best of luck with "cyber" romance. =Sigh. I agreewith the last comment. Franklin was a prick. As for daylight savings time, well I would guess you live a good deal closer to the equator than I do. Many of the folks who had the power to push daylight savings time lived more northernly than others. That is to say, they weren’t in the third world, if things were truly democratic there’d be no daylight savings, and people in sub saharan africa wouldn’t die like flies. It’s the tyranny of us poor vitamin D deprived northeners that was of concern. And if you’ve ever lived in northern alberta and gone entire weeks without seeing the sun simply because you were at work or even in school, before the sun rose and after it set, you’d get the point of it. Now, I agree it would be simpler if we all got up later, opened businesses later, waited for sunrise and the day to perform our daily ablutions, or we could simply send our kids to school in pitch dark half of the time, things would be simpler for you and your clock. But imagine reading the “hours of operations” signs on the doors of places of business, not merely “closed early sundays and holidays” it would be “starting an hour or two earlier in the months november through march north of the thirtieth parallel….” and instead of messing with your clocks you’d spend the same amount of time squinting at signs from your double parked car. As for firing up a UV light to chase away the winter doldrums as opposed to standing in the full light of the morning sun, if you think that a suitable alternative I suppose you also feel this little exchange to be a reasonable alternative to speaking to people face to face. In which case I wish you the best of luck with “cyber” romance.
=Sigh.

]]> By: Felix Nothus http://oneneatthingaday.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/3-9-08-the-black-iron-prison/#comment-588 Felix Nothus Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:37:05 +0000 http://oneneatthingaday.wordpress.com/?p=155#comment-588 Ok, I originally read this due to the review on the black iron prison project, but after reading your thoughts on daylight savings and a friend of mine also reading it, and him being a major historical buff and knows what he's talking about, he's actually convinced me that Benjamin Franklin was dead serious about what he was saying, and I don't see why anything that was said could be taken as tongue in cheek, I won't bother elaborating on what exactly was said unless you ask, but I will say that while I don't normally agree with my friend on many things, this is something I do happen to pretty much completely agree with, Benjamin Franklin was being for real about his suggestions. This is no "A Modest proposal" here from what I can see Ok, I originally read this due to the review on the black iron prison project, but after reading your thoughts on daylight savings and a friend of mine also reading it, and him being a major historical buff and knows what he’s talking about, he’s actually convinced me that Benjamin Franklin was dead serious about what he was saying, and I don’t see why anything that was said could be taken as tongue in cheek, I won’t bother elaborating on what exactly was said unless you ask, but I will say that while I don’t normally agree with my friend on many things, this is something I do happen to pretty much completely agree with, Benjamin Franklin was being for real about his suggestions. This is no “A Modest proposal” here from what I can see

]]> By: Mike Harmon http://oneneatthingaday.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/3-9-08-the-black-iron-prison/#comment-187 Mike Harmon Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:52:16 +0000 http://oneneatthingaday.wordpress.com/?p=155#comment-187 I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you. Mike Harmon I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.

Mike Harmon

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