***TIME TO THINK***

[jjs777]

On Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.

for those of us with too much time on our hands

hA! errr....yeah

[orionburn]

I bet you do the egg thing on the first day of Spring too

[jjs777]

I tried once when I was like 14

it didnt work

[FZRDude]

What egg thing? This I've never heard about or long ago forgot.

[RiceRocket1]

Hey John, were you listening to Ramero (sp?) this morning on the radio......??

[djalbin]

On Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.

That's too early in the morning for me. I'll go with the 12 hour clock instead of the 24 hour clock. That way I can observe it at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the afternoon, when the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06 P.M.
Either that, or I will reverse the time and date to observe 04/05/06 07:08:09.
And if I screw it up on 04/05 I can always wait a couple of months and observe the time when it's 06:06:06 06/06/06.



Don

[jjs777]

djalbin gave more thought to this then I had planned and/or expected

I'm trying to think but nothing happens


no I didnt listen to any radio stations

[RiceRocket1]

Just funny how you mentioned it. On 94.5 he was talking about it and how the "real ultra nerds" (his words not mine) could use it as an ice breaker with the hotties.

[orionburn]

What egg thing? This I've never heard about or long ago forgot.

You must have forgot, cause I figured everybody has heard of that.

On the first day of spring you can stand an egg straight up (on the skinny/narrow end). And no it can't be hardboiled to make it easier to do. Because of the alignment of the earth and sun the gravitational force goes straight up and down making it possible. Technically I imagine you should be able to do this on the first day of fall as well, but it's always been a spring tradition.

I have done it before (a few years back). It's easiest if you do it at noon, that's the perfect vertical point of the g-force. I did it in the afternoon so it took awhile to get the sucker to stay. It was really cool. Once it was up it stayed up for several hours. I was sitting in the living room and at around 6pm it finally just felt over.

See...science is cool!

[jjs777]

from what I recall the egg thing is more a myth than anything

it can be done anytime of year

but that would be NOT the stuff legends and myths are born

there is no science to this

so heres egg in your face

the yoke is on you

[orionburn]

Blah....I won't believe you until Mythbusters says otherwise