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 It's 1499976221. Do you know where your epoch is? |
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Jul 13, 2017 - 9:03 PM - by JoeP
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At 02:40:00 UTC Fri Jul 14 2017, less than 25,000 seconds from now (but I plan to be asleep then), it will be 1500000000, 1.5 billion, in Unix epoch time.
(We still have a few years until it runs out - 19 Jan 2038 - at least within the range of signed 32 bit integers.)
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and in fourth place: everyone else! |
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Jul 09, 2017 - 5:22 AM - by ZEZOZE
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Zeke (my son, aka Zekester) was in a karate tournament today. he didn't have to take part in it, but decided he'd like to participate. this was his second tournament.
Zeke is not the best at sports and isn't very interested in them. he takes guitar (and is very good) and is quite the artist, but sports isn't really his bag. i have a hard time relating to this because when i was his age i played a lot of sports. i don't really have a jock personality, but i loved playing sports and was in many different leagues. some sports i was pretty good at, while others not so much, but that didn't matter too much to me. i was naturally, but not overly competitive.
i don't push Zeke to play sports, but i do offer up the possibility because i think sports are good for you. sports teaches you teamwork and discipline. it also keeps you fit. so, when Zeke showed an interest in karate, i signed him right up.
he is not the best, but he is progressing. he will be going for his orange belt soon. his performance at today's tournament was not stellar. at the end they gathered all the competitors to give out trophies. they announced one kid as being in fourth place and gave him a medal. then they said Zeke was also fourth place. then two more kids strangely tied for fourth place. all were given the same medal. finally the first, second and third competitors were given their trophies.
Zeke got the same medal at the last tournament, but i missed the speech given when they were handed out- the whole fourth place deal. i just figured it was a participation medal and was presented as such. hearing all these kids being lied to and given medals in such a way grossed me out. i've heard of trophies-for-all, but this was my first dealing with it. it seemed so wrong to me. Zeke looked very upset and he cried a bit as we got ready to go home.
I let him stay up late with me tonight in the family room and i got around to asking him what he did with his medal. he told me... [Read More]
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