tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post3693336053008471036..comments2023-07-03T06:51:05.962-07:00Comments on O Dock: Blogging At 2 AMO Dockerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-56793281835360673972009-10-06T15:46:25.282-07:002009-10-06T15:46:25.282-07:00Now we know why Carol Anne usually sticks with Jim...Now we know why Carol Anne usually sticks with Jimmy Buffet chronology: It's always five o'clock somewhere.<br /><br />That one goes well with my first principal of navigation:<br />Wherever you go, <br />there you are.Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417115374524861438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-71659834019726159972009-10-06T07:40:05.434-07:002009-10-06T07:40:05.434-07:00Panda (pardon me if I abbreviate):
Everyone tells...Panda (pardon me if I abbreviate):<br /><br />Everyone tells me I have one foot in yesterday.<br><br>O Dockerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-82828057580263789882009-10-06T01:39:20.201-07:002009-10-06T01:39:20.201-07:00Happens to me when I awake at 03:00 and try to use...Happens to me when I awake at 03:00 and try to use the internets tubes to lull me back to sleep.<br /><br />As for the IDL, K and I have stood where it passes through Taveuni Island, Fiji. Very confusing. Did we have one foot in today and the other in tomorrow? Or was it one foot in yesterday and the other in today?<br /><br />word verification definition: caturv: 1) what do you call a curved part of a cat? 2) an Indonesian Chess move.Pandaboniumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352197350806179930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-59558463056633572262009-10-05T22:52:34.747-07:002009-10-05T22:52:34.747-07:00So many people think that mañana means "tomor...So many people think that <i>mañana</i> means "tomorrow." It doesn't. It just means "not today."<br /><br />So please don't say mañana if you don't mean it ...Carol Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07201269435839112134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-84493267596437236792009-10-03T09:07:33.056-07:002009-10-03T09:07:33.056-07:00Albert, thanks for taking time out of your busy sc...Albert, thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to visit O Dock.<br /><br />Or, did you take <b><i>space</i></b> out of your busy schedule?<br><br>O Dockerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-41328967995607008052009-10-03T05:37:25.610-07:002009-10-03T05:37:25.610-07:00The only reason for time is so that everything doe...The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.<br /> <br />Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.<br /><br />This line intentionally left infinitealbert einsteinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-5190445329008495732009-10-02T22:43:27.738-07:002009-10-02T22:43:27.738-07:00Greg, that's the thing I find confusing about ...Greg, that's the thing I find confusing about the IDL.<br /><br />Shouldn't Captain Matheny have said, "We crossed the IDL about 1300 <b><i>yesterday</i></b> afternoon?" Or, "We crossed the IDL at 1300 <b><i>tomorrow</i></b> afternoon."<br /><br />That stuff makes my head hurt the same way it does when I try to think about the concept of infinite space. If you get to the end of space and there's a jelly donut there, what happens to the continuum if you eat it?<br><br>O Dockerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-33237871642660151792009-10-02T21:26:43.776-07:002009-10-02T21:26:43.776-07:00Faulknerian sentences amidst a furious sound of ti...Faulknerian sentences amidst a furious sound of time zone explainin'? This here's a regular party, Dr. O'Docker. <br /><br />I recall the first time I crossed the IDL, back in '86. Captain Matheny came on the 1MC and said, "We crossed the International Dateline a little after thirteen-hundred this afternoon. Those of you on the main deck at the time, might have seen it."The O'Sheashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14887851548539021097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-29153666441035818092009-10-02T16:57:47.692-07:002009-10-02T16:57:47.692-07:00I can't get you a Sake now, Joe, but how about...I can't get you a Sake now, Joe, but how about not now?<br><br>O Dockerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-483325410001899862009-10-02T16:54:12.813-07:002009-10-02T16:54:12.813-07:00don't forget there is now, not now and right n...don't forget there is now, not now and right now and then there is how now!Zenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10787377470200331937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-12119974569113057062009-10-02T16:35:28.257-07:002009-10-02T16:35:28.257-07:00I'm confused again by all you smart guys. Now ...I'm confused again by all you smart guys. Now is always now until it's not now, so even though I am typing this now, it's now, not now. Can someone get me a sake with that jelly donut? It doesn't have to be now.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00087089319937016247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-59874261761134857812009-10-02T12:11:41.144-07:002009-10-02T12:11:41.144-07:00After a sentence that long, I would have expected ...After a sentence that long, I would have expected to see a line left intentionally blank.<br><br>O Dockerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-56450088680120515832009-10-02T12:02:04.578-07:002009-10-02T12:02:04.578-07:00I don't worry about the International Date Lin...I don't worry about the International Date Line. I have crossed it many times. It doesn't hurt at all. <br /><br />Every time I crossed it I had to be confined in a long metal tube for about 15 hours between two contraptions laughingly known as seats which were cunningly positioned so that the front of mine was exactly 2 inches less than the length of my femur from the back of the one in front and I was forced to eat the same meal three times in a row because according to the staff it was always dinner time which meant that one year I ate three consecutive Thanksgiving dinners in the approximate longitudes of San Francisco, Bora Bora and Fiji and they all tasted like they had been made in Burger King about 3 days before, and I was forced to watch 3 movies, the second and third before I had sobered up properly from getting drunk during the first because it was so boring, and I think that's why the IDL didn't hurt...tillermanhttp://propercourse.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-51867488517089363062009-10-02T10:28:20.261-07:002009-10-02T10:28:20.261-07:00I have this time difference thing pretty much figu...I have this time difference thing pretty much figured out in my head - and it took me about 30 years to get it straight - so I'm not going to get myself all crossed up again by attempting to answer you.<br /><br />The one thing that really confuses me is the International Date Line. I gave up trying to figure that out years ago.<br /><br />I think that is the line you left intentionally blank.<br><br>O Dockerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-57993051145047378222009-10-02T10:22:11.450-07:002009-10-02T10:22:11.450-07:00to Maintain harmony in the universal formlessness....to Maintain harmony in the universal formlessness...<br /><br />otherwise<br /><br />a shift in the space-time-jelly donut continuum would turn to cream filled...<br /><br />jheeze everyone knows that, stop pulling people's leg O-D!Zenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10787377470200331937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-88109973098497909692009-10-02T10:19:41.574-07:002009-10-02T10:19:41.574-07:00This earlier/later thing with time zones always co...This earlier/later thing with time zones always confuses the hell out of me too. <br /><br />The sun does reach New Mexico earlier than it reaches California, but that makes it later in New Mexico than California! So is New Mexico earlier or later?<br /><br />And then when people say things like "Sydney is 10 hours behind New York" I get really confused. Does "ahead" on the clock mean earlier or later? I could argue either way. But maybe they are talking about "ahead" on the globe?<br /><i>This line intentionally right blank.</i>tillermanhttp://propercourse.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-33392843259771177342009-10-02T10:14:37.077-07:002009-10-02T10:14:37.077-07:00Greg, I won't ask what you're doing up at ...Greg, I won't ask what you're doing up at 3 am. I do hope you're not feeling seasick again.<br /><br />And Tillerman, there is more than one blank line at the end of this post because there is more than one blank line at the beginning. I'm sure Zen knows more than I do about why that must be so.<br><br>O Dockerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-64870377729815354552009-10-02T10:03:30.214-07:002009-10-02T10:03:30.214-07:00I'm sorry Carol Anne, I don't want to be a...I'm sorry Carol Anne, I don't want to be anal about this, but you are making my point for me.<br /><br />I'm reasonably certain that New Mexico is a time zone <b><i>later</i></b> than California, not earlier. I know you are a careful proofreader, so it must be the 2 AM shift in the space-time-jelly donut continuum that is causing this distortion in your truthiness.<br><br>O Dockerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-3167064652003463062009-10-02T08:49:52.077-07:002009-10-02T08:49:52.077-07:00Was this post intentionally left blank?Was this post intentionally left blank?Zenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10787377470200331937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-47632187410284874432009-10-02T05:25:18.728-07:002009-10-02T05:25:18.728-07:00Why is there more than one blank line at the botto...Why is there more than one blank line at the bottom of this post?tillermanhttp://propercourse.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-71348297552771530742009-10-02T02:55:25.174-07:002009-10-02T02:55:25.174-07:00So you're the guy with all of the 'post de...So you're the guy with all of the 'post deleted by author' comments. <br /><br />Note that I'm posting this bad boy legerdemainy doohickey @3a and I'm feeling pretty damn proud o'myselfThe O'Sheashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14887851548539021097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-46375350609101731212009-10-02T02:51:51.285-07:002009-10-02T02:51:51.285-07:00I have a very similar problem - will post on v. v....I have a very similar problem - will post on v. v. soonJPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10749223049615363296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-59408357568616715852009-10-02T02:30:02.105-07:002009-10-02T02:30:02.105-07:00Oh, yeah, it happens to me too ... and since I'...Oh, yeah, it happens to me too ... and since I'm in a time zone an hour earlier than yours, well, I'm an hour deeper into nonsense.Carol Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07201269435839112134noreply@blogger.com