Seems to me there's too many celebrities in this country.
My solution? They do what many of them promised to do, back when the democrats attempted massive election fraud and ultimately failed, and ship them elsewhere. I'm sure France would be happy to recieve them. Now, I don't believe that we should just be able to deport anyone - I support everyone's right to say whatever they want. I instead propose that the following criteria be used to generate a group of people that can be deported:
If you can answer yes to any of those questions, you're up for the election. Here's how it will work:
The operating costs of a 747 are around $60,000 per trip. I know both of those references are spaceplane papers... I figure they have the greatest tendancy to over-estiamate, and I want my figure to be "on the outside". At 400 passengers, that's about $150 per head. I say we get a site going, and list all of the people who can answer yes to any of the above questions. In order to vote, you have to pay $10. I figure getting 6000 people that support the deportation of Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, and various other peaceniks and anti-americans, who have $10 to spare, will take about 30 seconds. Heck, you can vote twice, if you contribute twice. I'm expecting there to be a lot of leftover cashola when this scheme is done. All the leftover money will be split. 1/3 will go to buy supplies, snacks, water, entertainment, whathaveyou to be sent immediately to our troops. 1/3 will be used to purchase medical supplies, food, and water purification equipment to be sent to the Iraqi people. 1/3 will be invested in Great American Companies, and the financial power will lie dormant until such time as a second, similar campaign is needed.
At the end, we get the top 400 people, and politely ask them to make good on their promises, or at the very least, to do what it's now clear they want to, and board that plane. At absolutely no cost to them - what a great deal. You say you don't want to live in a country that goes to war with Iraq - here's your chance. You say GW Bush isn't your president? We can make that a reality.
Now, I love America, and I could understand how these people would want to remain here, even if their words and actions are to the contrary. After all, where else could they express this level of hatred for their government, and be praised for it? I'm not a man without mercy - I say we give them 1 last chance to repent, right there at the gate. That chance comes in the form of a USMC recruiting officer. Sign the dotted line, and you don't have to go. Not only that, you get 3 squares a day and plenty of fresh air and exercise.
There's a door at work. The breakroom door. What do we know about breaks? Breaktime is friendly time, right?
Not when you interact with the door.
There's a pop machine just inside the door, so if someone is attempting to debate the merits of a particular dollar bill with the machine, and the door opens, they will almost certainly be struck.
Factor into this that the door is "heavy", and the hinges seem designed to keep it shut tight. It takes so much force to open the door that first inch, that by the time you're done with that first inch, you've gone too far, and proceed to FLING the door open despite your best intentions. On the converse, when opening the door from the other side with the handle, I often hit the auto-door motor. Which delays just long enough to make me want to grab the handle and help it, often to my dismay as the door flies open at extreme velocities. Conclusion: to use the motor is to imperil your wrists.
Forget the dangers of the line - the real danger is in the doors.
The last one was long, this one will be short... go read this entry about Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine. Any reason we shouldn't take this guy's Oscar away, and remove him from all director/writer organizations?
I've got an mp3 of his 'acceptance' speech, as soon as I get some webspace, I'll try to put a link up.
--Edit: Here's a link to that mp3 I promised
Hackers... what can I say to help people who don't know any real hackers understand us? I tried to explain it to my mom once, that I was a hacker and what that meant, and her response was essentially that she didn't want me to be a criminal. Of course, according to the dictionary, she is infact a "medicine hacker", but I'm not about to go into that one.
Anyway, I've decided that rather than try to explain the methods and thought processes that go into a good hacking run, I've decided analogy is the way to go. To that end, here's why Hackers are like Bikers:
--- Women Troubles
Hackers, like bikers, have women troubles. Typically, there's 1 group of women that are actually interested in male hackers (you know who you are, hacker groupies), and I can't speak for female hackers, but I assume that the reverse is true. We also associate well with other hackers across the gender line, but in a little different way. Similarly, biker guys tend to get along well with biker chicks, but in a different way than 'biker groupies'. Biker chicks are the ones who know how to drive the bike, and probably wear as much leather as the guys. The biker groupies are the ones who ride with bikers because their parents hate it. The bikers provide a useful service to the groupies (invoking parental wrath, beating the snot out of people), just as hackers provide a useful service to the hacker groupies (occasionally fixing and explaining their computers). Services that both groups are happy to provide.
--- Terminology
Hackers have their own terminology. If I try to tell a non-hacker that such and such block of code is write-only for now, because I wrote it when I was well into a code zen toward the end of a particularly long hacking run, and I need time to percolate before I digest and comment it, they might "get it", but only through context clues, and I doubt very much that they'll have a true appreciation for the zen it took to produce the code. Hackers in different areas and circles tend to have slightly different terminology (I use words and phrases like "code zen" instead of "hack mode", and "snip" to indicate a small quote and "include" for a larger ones, where other hackers would use "include" for both), but generally one hacker can easily understand another, even if their vocabularies differ slightly. Similarly, Bikers have their own lexicon, which I admit I understand only superficially. I might understand that such and such motorcycle qualifies to be a "chopper" or a "hog", but I don't have an appreciation for what those words mean, deep down. I'm willing to bet that bikers in different regions have a slightly different vernacular, but can still easily adapt to communicate in a language that defies true comprehension by the uninitiated.
--- Foodstuffs
I'll snip George Carlin: "...bikers and their sweaty mamas, full of beer and crank...". I think that sums it up. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that all bikers are heavy drinkers or drug users, but picture a biker doing "biker things", and there's a good chance that there's a bar involved. If you encounter a biker late at night, you expect, and assume, that he's got a few drinks in him. Fried food (always available at bars) is also a staple. Similarly, every hacker has his or her own CBOC (Caffeineated Beverage of Choice), and many even have a preferred "dark caffeine" (coffee, cola) and "light caffeine" (mountain dew, almost any "energy drink", whether containing real caffeine or not). Some will break it down between hot/cold caffeine, but the point is, hackers love things that will keep them functioning during long hacking runs. Twinkies, Ho-Hos, Ding-Dongs, pretty much any hyphenated snack cake is sure to be high on the hacker's list of foods. For dinner, I have noticed that hackers tend toward foods that keep them alive, cheaply, in general. This leads us to Chinese food. Don't get me wrong, we're happy to eat tasty, expensive dinners from time to time, and most hackers have at least 1 'exotic' food that ranks high on their list (mine's sushi), but the majority of hackers I know personally own a rice cooker, and have brought the art of sandwich making to a level the Earl himself would be proud of. While the general population may enjoy some hacker foodstuffs, few people can rally as much enthusiasm for a 2-AM frozen pizza as hackers.
--- Misunderstood Hygiene
Picture a Biker - sweaty, unkempt hair, dirty fingernails, probably with a tattoo or two. Now picture a Hacker - wrinkled clothes, also unkempt hair, probably battered old sandals or tennis shoes on the feet, and possibly with dark circles under the eyes. Both groups of people have Hygiene that is acceptable to their peer group, and indeed, appropriate to their situation. Bikers don't need to smell particularly nice all the time, and all that leather is there for a reason. And while the biker's hygiene isn't always immaculate, the bike usually is. Similarly, the hacker's hair may get combed a few times a week, and the hacker's clothes are generally "clean enough", though almost every hacker will admit to applying the "smell test" more than once. You can coerce hackers into wearing fairly nice clothes and decent shoes, but that's about where the line is drawn. We wear clothes that are appropriate to our work - comfortable, functional, and generally cost-effective. There is a tendancy amongst many hackers to dress like mountain climbers (ie fleece vests/pullovers, occasionally even boots). Same reasoning - these garments are comfortable, and allow for easy temperature control through the removal/addition of more garments. Both groups manage their clothing and appearance just as much as is needed for a given situation. Your mileage (and their perceptions of how much is "needed") may vary.
--- Sleeping Disorders
No one expects to encounter bikers on the way to work. Except for maybe bikers that are on the other end of their day. Similarly , hackers tend to throw themselves out of phase with the rest of the world. Most hackers can do productive work at 8 AM, but we're often just as, or more happy doing that work at 10PM or later. The demands of a code zen can be harsh, and if you hit a good one right before quitting time or bedtime, nothing can be done - you don't interrupt it! One hour of code zen (or "hack mode", if you prefer) can be as productive as a whole week of regular old programming. If this forces you to become a creature of the night, so be it.
--- Respect for Authority and Communication
Hackers will not call you 'sir' because you've been at the company longer than them, or because you make more money than them, or because your clothes cost more money than theirs. Hackers will never, not ever, give each other such meaningless titles except in jest or hyperbole. Rarely will a hacker call someone "Mr." unless pressed, and even then, most hackers will be uncomfortable. Exceptions may be made when addressing wizards and gurus of high esteeem (ie Claude at Rose Hulman, who I will rarely address as anything less than "Dr. Anderson"), but many of those true hackers will insist that all titles be dropped as meaningless. The hacker's view of a company is a body of cells - in the case of a manufacturing company, there are hacker cells that run the nervous system, there's muscle cells out on the line that make the product, there's blood cells that supply the production line, bone cells that maintain the buildings and equiment, and the brain cells that manage the whole thing. Just because the cell is in the brain doesn't mean it's better than the cells that are in the colon - both are vital, and both deserve respect. Management will often think that hackers exist at the will of management. On the surface, hackers will state that both are needed parts of a whole. Deep down, most hackers believe that management would be hopelessly lost without them, but are glad they aren't moved into management, they'd have to give up hacking! Similarly, Bikers will not afford someone artificial respect because it is demanded of them. Bikers will give respect to someone based on their talents, their efforts, and their skill in various contests (darts, drinking, you get the idea). If you want a biker to respect you, you have to show him that you are worthy of respect. It's not worth it pretending that you're a biker - they'll see right through that, just as hackers will see right through any attempt to come to them "programmer to programmer" on some issue. Much easier, then, to be honest with both groups. With most bikers, and most hackers (though both groups have particularly arrogant exceptions - hackers call them "Real Programmers"), giving them sincere respect is enough to get yourself respected in turn. Neither group likes to be looked down on, but both groups recognize that often they don't fit into the societal norm.
--- Adaptation
I'm going to go kind of out on a limb here on this last one, but I bet that most bikers can fix an engine. Not just a bike engine, most real bikers could probably patch up a car engine pretty well if it quit working - they can easily adapt from bike mechanics to the workings of a different bike, or car, or truck, or whathaveyou. If you're stranded on a highway somewhere, a towtruck is a welcome sight, but a crowd of friendly bikers may be just as welcome (your mileage may vary widely with this one, not all bikers are the friendly sort, just as some hackers may also be crackers). Hackers, too, can adapt to new systems to varying degrees. Most hackers know Unix very well and dabble in windows, or know windows very well and can read man pages and figure things out in unixland. Similarly, there's Mac Hackers out there who can probably do fairly well on both systems, if pressed. Languages are easier to adapt to - your average hacker can sit down infront of a language they don't know, and probably figure it out - sure, going from C-thinking to lisp-thinking in 5 minutes isn't always easy, but most hackers know enough languages (just as most bikers have worked with enough engines) that they have some similar experience to draw on.
Longest... Post... Ever!
The short version: Hackers and Bikers... both groups are misunderstood, and from what I see of bikers, and what I know of hackers, that's usually just fine with them.
Every person who calls themselves an American, who can possibly listen to this clip, needs to listen to this clip as soon as possible.
I want a better paper fastener.
Right now I have to choose between the "butterfly clip", the "paper clip" and the staple. You know the butterfly clip, that's the big black one with the folding silver tabs that go flush to the paper when you're done affixing it.
Anyway, here's my complaints:
Butterfly Clip - can let papers slide around if it's not sufficiently full. Definate fixed size, but that's OK since they come in a variety of sizes. Does somewhat impede page flipping, especially if it's a big one for lots of papers (where it's especially impractical to unfasten it to read the papers. Does not "stack" well (ie you can't put 3 of them on and make a binding that works well) because of this. Folding up the metal tabs for reading is a solution, but it should be easier than that, we have these b-clips at work that you need some sort of screwdriver to pry up sometimes, so flush are they to the paper. I suppose that's "good design" when I don't want them flipped up, but when I do, it's worthless to me. Probably the best of the current solutions, but still not perfect.
Paper clip - lets papers slide all over the place unless it's perfectly full (but not overfull). I hate these things, and would rather have no clip at all. It's all of the problems of the butterfly with none of the benefits!
Staple - VERY limited in the number of papers it can affix together, and damages the paper. well-nigh impossible to remove without (and sometimes even with) a specialized instrument, without damage to the documents inside. Also, affixing it to the paper is a product of the person using it's strength - lots of documents take more strength, and that's no good. It should work just as well for a 5 year old girl as Andre the Giant.
I don't know what sort of form the "hyperclip" would take, but here's my requirements:
1) Number of papers. It should fix together a good "Range" of numbers of papers. I don't want one clip to do it all, but it should be good at a decently wide range, and multiple sizes (a la butterfly clips) are an option.
2) Sliding. I want those papers firm. Very firm. if I can put my hand on the top sheet and rotate it away from the pack, it's no good. I want to be able to grab the top half of the stack of sheets and flop it around for a good minute, then put it back and still have the stack line up.
3) Removal. If I can't remove the clip and add more papers or seperate the stack at some later date, it's no good. If you never intend to remove the thing, a staple is OK for small documents, but you should really consider real bindings (spiral, etc) for anything larger than the trivial. Eventually, those staples will tear, shred corners, or otherwise defile your document.
4) Usability. If I have to learn how to use it, fine, so long as your average person, no matter age or education, can pick it up and use it near-effortlessly with a minute or two of basic instruction.
I know you're used to alot more concrete ideas than this in these posts, but hey, if I knew what the hyperclip would look like, it would already be invented.
I hate programming. Ok, so that's not true, I love programming. I hate starting to program. If I haven't written a line of code in the last 10 or 15 minutes, writing a single line of code requires an internal struggle of epic proportions. Every morning I sit down and find things to do besides program for as long as I possibly can, and then at one point, I realize I'm being silly, and stop goofing off and start doing some work. Inevitably, withing a minute of writing that first line of code, I've gotten over it and am back in that happy place, where I remember that this isn't something I hate, it's something I really greatly enjoy. Now why is that? You'd think my brain would remember that it enjoyed programming, and want to do it. Ah well, who understands people, anyway.
Here's a little required reading, to get everyone up to speed:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_229010.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/22113.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1589133.stm
And the real facts:
http://www.snopes.com/religion/jedi.htm
If you read all that, good for you. If you didn't, let me sum up. Apparently lots of people are marking their religion down as "jedi" for census collections in Australia and the UK. So many, that the Office of National Statistics has assigned it an official "code" as a religion. This does NOT mean it is recognized as a religion, just that it has a code for easier sorting.
This is why I think that the Order of Jedi Knights should have official recognition as a religion:
First of all, to the people who think that having a "religion" means that you need some great and ancient tradition, or that the list of "religions" is and forever will be short, wake up. There's more religions in the world than you care to think about. The fact is, in our times, any group of more than 2 people can start a new "religion", and though we may label them a cult, or loonies, or a splinter faction, or whathaveyou, they're entitled, according to the law and the courts (at least in this country), to the same rights and protections as Christianity or Islam, so long as they don't step on anyone else's toes.
Having "jedi" recognized as an official religion brings us one step closer to making it clear to everyone just what the real modern definition of religion is. We need more of these "secular religions", so to speak, to be recognized.
I realize that it's a stretch to put the jedi order on the same playing field as Christianity. I know that it's difficult... but look at this from the modern secular viewpoint - if Christianity can't compete with the jedi order, what good is it? Guess what kids, they're right. If we, as Christians, can't honestly say that we have something more to offer people than the jedi order, or any other floofy "religion", we have no business whatsoever interacting with non-Christians. I'd much rather have a level playing field between all quasi-religious groups, than see Christianity continually dogged as something that the uncivilized do - as if it were a phase that you were going to grow out of as soon as you attended a few peace rallys, got some more homosexual friends, and drank enough coffee drinks with funny names.
Putting the jedi, and other "secular religions" on the same level field as Christianity does give us one powerful weapon in the current cultural war though - it opens the door do have darwinism exposed as a faith-based religious system. Wouldn't that be something? Making evolutionists defend their faith, as faith, and not letting them just slam the religion door in our faces? Guess what, we'd have to *gasp* teach more than one viewpoint in public schools when the science book got opened to the origins chapter. What's a liberal teacher to do?
I realize that this is a pretty "out there" post, as posts go, but I see Christianity giving ground all the time - most politicians, particularly on the left, have learned to strike a perfect balance - to be able to embrace their "faith tradition" and still engage in enough Christian bashing to make them appealing to the modern darwinist "atheists"(or whatever else you want to call them). If they really want to go down this road - to make religion a totally arbitrary identifier, I say let them. If we're smart, we can turn this to our advantage.
Look what happens when a President gets elected in a year with a "0" at
the end. Also notice it goes in increments of 20 years.
1840: William Henry Harrison (died in office)
1860: Abraham Lincoln (assassinated)
1880: James A. Garfield (assassinated)
1900: William McKinley (assassinated)
1920: Warren G. Harding (died in office)
1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt (dies in office)
1960: John F. Kennedy (assassinated)
1980: Ronald Reagan (survived assassination attempt)
2000: George W. Bush ????????????
And to think that we had two guys fighting it out in the courts to be
the one elected in 2000.
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Have a history teacher explain this
Think about this one: You're a Ninja looking for work.
The world's getting so "civilized" these days, there's really not much call for a professional ninja. Certainly not enough to keep a steady stream of work, especially when the truly skilled ninja will be undercut by much cheaper thieves and killers for hire from the former Soviet Union, and the middle east. So what's a ninja to do?
Join a Nascar pit crew.
Think about it, the Ninja is ideally suited for this task. They're quick, they're agile, they're strong, and they work together in high-pressure situations. Picture this:
The Car stops.
Five puffs of smoke appear around the car - the ninja pitcrew springs into action
The tire ninjas go to one side, use their swords and amazing ninja strength to lift the car, and strip the tires off quickly. The tire ninja on the other side of the partition hurls the tires, shuriken like, to stick to the axle, and follows that up with a bolt. To secure the tire, one of the tire ninjas simply focuses his ki and with a loud grunt, slaps the bolt onto the threads. Similar feats are repeated on the far side of the car, with the tires being caught and placed by the tire ninjas, or perhaps even bounced off of the far side partition.
The gas ninja's job would be little changed, but a unique meld with the spirit of the fuel would undoubtedly make it flow faster.
Mechanic ninjas, of course, would be able to merely listen to the engine, and feel the vibrations through the hood, to know how well and how hot it was running.
The long arm with the cup on the end for the driver? Forget it, hurl that cup in there, ninja like.
Of course, ninjas being thieves, there's little doubt they could (and would) sabotage the other race teams, so the other teams would have to similarly recruit ninjas, leading to an exciting new sub-event at every race - the ninja battle royale every time any car pulled in to pit.
I decided that it would be valuable for me to learn the .net System.Xml namespace and vb.net (mock if you must, I'm more than willing to debate the virtues of .net, but that's so far from the point here, that the light from the point takes a million years to reach it). Anyway, I wrote a little time tracker for all your working stiffs out there... it's pretty self explanatory. It writes log files out to xml, which I haven't taken the time to write a parser of any sort for, so they're just great heaps of data at this point... anyone who wants to write a parser, feel free.
Download my program here
Download the source code (vs.net project) here
Here's some more great products that need to be merged:
Wireless networks: Bluetooth class 1, 802.11a or g, I don't care, but if you haven't heard about wireless ethernet/networks by now, it's time to move to a bigger city.
Car Stereos: Sure, they can play MP3s off a cd, but that requires me to sit down and burn the cd, plus physically transfer the media to my car: a stretch at 6 AM.
Small Hard Drives: From the small to the very small, little baby hard drives are cheap (moreso than flash, anyway), and easy to get your hands on. Not only that, but interfaces to them are readily available.
What I want is a car stereo with an integrated hard drive, wireless network, and a baby lcd/tft display. Have it set itself up so it connects to a home wireless LAN, maybe once every hour or so, and checks for updates. This way, it won't eat your battery sitting on the LAN full time. Of course, it would have an option to force a connect as well.
If wireless scares you, make a sort of "Base station" that you can set in or near your garage/parking area that will connect only to the car stereo, and the car stereo will connect only to it - this option would be user-configurable in the car. You could use a wireless-to-wireless base station as well, if you needed extra range, or wanted a clearer point of control stuck in there.
On the Desktop side, make an app that will let you make a playlist, and then synchronize it with your car's playlist over the network, listening for those hourly "pings" or for a forced connection. Think about it: Get home, throw in a cd, rip it to the playlist, next morning, it's loaded up and ready to rock.
We could go one step further (thanks dave) and include a cd slot, so you could load up mp3s direct from an mp3-CD, or even stick a cd in and rip it "live" to mp3's, although uber skip protection would be a must in this case. I know there's enough space in there :)
On the downside... "Dude, someone h4x0r3d my car!"
Ultimately, the limiting point to getting delicious MP3 into my car is that crucial transfer step - I say, more options for the people!
It was a late sunday night for ol' Naginata. I was driving (well, to be fair, dave was driving, and I was reading. Anyway, I got back to my Fortress of Solitude (still looking for a good moniker for the apartment), and found it to be cold. Now, this was by design - I typically turn the thermostat down to a balmy 51 degrees when I leave for any length of time greater than to the grocery and back, gas prices being what they are. Regardless, after a typical day at work (~11 hours away from the hovel), the temperature inside is low, but any surface capable of retaining heat (like my matress) will be less than hyperfrigid. The fact that it takes my apartment about 3 minutes per 10 degrees helps alot.
I'll get to the point - my bed was cold. I upped the thermostat to 65 degrees - 5 degrees higher than what I normally sleep at, and cranked the matress pad up, before brushing my teeth and such. This was followed by me sticking my hand down, where the feet go, and finding that my fingers were almost immediately numb. I could hear my feet crying out to me, anything to avoid being stuck in there. Since movement of the feets is required for getting into the beds, I ended up standing there, in about 55-60 degree air (since my bedroom is always about 5 degrees colder than the other room) for about 2 full minutes. I actually had to weigh the options in my head - do I stand there, boxer clad like an idiot, waiting for some supernatural bed warming to take place, or do I suck it up and use the matress warmer God gave me to make it bearable. Fortunately, reason (and tiredness) won the day, but I haven't shivered like that in ages.
The moral of the story? Bah, who needs em, my point is just that being cold, is not as good, as being not cold.
Many inventions are merely the sucessful merging of 2 existing products. Heck, ultimately most everything is the merging of some number of simpler devices, but you know what I mean :)
You may want to not read this if you can't take a serious discussion about going to the bathroom without giggling or getting offended. The rest of you... sorry that they made me toss in a disclaimer.
Here's 2 devices that need to be merged immediately, if not sooner:
The Automated Checkout Lane -- If you've never used one of these, let me describe it briefly: it's a little camera and scanner at the grocery that prompts you to scan your items, takes your cash or credit card, and most importantly can tell if you're trying to sneak items past it, or otherwise trick it fairly well.
The Automatic Flush Sensor -- you all know what these things are for :)
My idea is this - if we can detect if someone is trying to slip 2 things of yogurt past the scanner and only scan one, why can't we make a toilet flush sensor that knows the difference between shifting position, leaning forward, etc, and leaving the stall? My proposal is this - use the sensor technology in the grocery scanner to determine when some action takes place - re-pantsing being the most obvious choice, and flush the toiliet then. The manual override that exists now, would, of course, still be there, but I'm tired of the toiliet flushing 3 or 4 times every time I go in there to take care of my business. Of course, if we do that, let's go a step further, and have a tiny bit of air freshener released during the de-pantsing, eh?
Money waiting to be made...
I had a discussion with Jerry this weekend about weekends, and the extension thereof, and I've decided, for two reasons, to expand that conversation a bit here. First of all, it's Monday, and my first thought upon looking at my code was "man, alot of these words are misspelled". Second, if I couldn't examine little points like these... well, call it a hobby :)
Anyway, the question at hand is this: If you could have 1 day off, and work 4 10's instead of 5 8's (or 4 12's instead of 5 10's, if you're so inflicted), which day would you want off? I've heard some arguments for Friday - get the weekend started sooner. I heard one argument for wednesday - put a little mini-weekend in the middle of the week. I think that both have some good and bad points, but my feeling is this: Give me Monday.
Now the question is, how long would it take, if we got all Mondays off, until we were bemoaning the terrible tuesdays? I say, any relief, no matter how fleeting, is worth it. And on the plus side, you'd keep the amazing relief we all feel every time the hour hand ticks forward on friday afternoons. Those Friday's restraunts wouldn't have to change their names - nobody wants that. To summarize: I wouldn't mind Monday Mornings so much if they occured sometime Monday afternoon.