Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Date: 12 Oct 2015 05:26:15 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net Otse5U1Km5UBg+UO8OMctQ0ow1xkWz22SMJzwIXVWVZiQRo8+d Cancel-Lock: sha1:SzkvQ75vkYJa197hoRMpAzd86t4= X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:152719 On 2015-10-11, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2015-10-11, Michael Black wrote: > >> On Sun, 11 Oct 2015, jmfbahciv wrote: >> >>> Did it include the phases of the moon? I could not find a 2015 calendar >>> which had them; I wasn't going to spend $8 on one just to see those >>> expensive calendars were real calendars. >>> >> I hadnt' thought about that. But it wasn't uncommon years back to have >> the phase of the moon on a calendar, but I havent' noticed it in some >> years. > > I suspect that most people no longer care about celestial phenomena (aside > from the Kardashians). They're too busy staring at their smartphones to > look at the sky anyway. I was at the Grand Canyon yesterday. It was depressing how many people were ignoring the canyon and either peering at their phones or jamming huge numbers of calories into their morbidly obese faces. -- I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.