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Y2/D363...Frigging Daylight Savings Time
Mar. 14th, 2022 08:59 pmOperating on three-four hours of sleep. After not having any problems with sleep and finally getting my sleep schedule on track - it all went to hell this weekend with frigging daylight savings time. I'd finally gotten past my insomina - and wham.
If you are a DST fan? Frak off. Seriously, go away. I can't deal with you today.
Co-workers were in agreement of course. But they were blaming the poor farmers for some reason.
Coworkers: It's all the farmers fault.
Me: No. It's the city and suburbanites fault - think about it, why would farmer's want daylight savings time.
Coworkers: so they have more daylight in the evenings with the crops?
ME: Crops don't know its daylight savings time. They don't change. Nor do the animals know it's daylight savings time. Farmers hate daylight savings time - they still have to get up early. And still have to be in bed by 8 or 9 pm. It's the city folk who want that extra hour between 8-9pm. Also, they argued that it saved money on electricity at night - to have daylight longer. (That's BS, it doesn't.)
Here's a A Short History of Daylight Savings Time
In 1895, George Hudson, an entomologist from New Zealand, came up with the modern concept of daylight saving time. He proposed a two-hour time shift so he'd have more after-work hours of sunshine to go bug hunting in the summer.
Hudson suggested moving clocks ahead two hours in October and then a two-hour shift back in March.
In 1905, William Willett, a British builder, suggested moving clocks ahead 20 minutes every Sunday in April and then setting them back every Sunday in September. That's eight time changes every year!
First real use of daylight saving time
It was during World War I that daylight saving time was first practically used.
In 1916, locations within the German Empire set clocks ahead one hour in an effort to use less power for lighting and to save fuel for the war effort.
Many other countries soon followed and after the war ended, they all went back to standard time.
Daylight saving time in the U.S.
In the United States, daylight saving time was first used in 1918 when a bill introduced the idea of a seasonal time shift. It lasted seven months before the bill was repealed.
During World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt re-established the idea of daylight saving time. It was called "War Time."
War Time began in February 1942 and lasted until the end of September 1945.
In 1966, the Uniform Time Act of 1966 established the idea of regulating a yearly time change. Daylight saving time would begin the last Sunday in April and end the last Sunday in October.
During the 1973 oil embargo, the United States Congress ordered a year-round period of daylight saving time to save energy. The period would run from January 1974 to April 1975. The plan did little to save energy and in October 1974, the U.S. switched back to standard time.
From 1987 through 2006, daylight saving time started the first weekend in April, running through the last weekend in October.
More on the history of Daylight Savings Time.
And..( Not all States Follow Daylight Savings Time )
In regards to danger? We had a train derailment on Sunday. No major injuries luckily. And on the Van Wyck, according to a co-worker, there were signs this morning about pulling off the road if you felt drowsy.
I did, but I was on a train.
**
Apparently "Turning Red" - the Pixar film about a 13 year old girl turning into a Red Panda whenever she gets really emotional, and embracing the hormonal beast within - is controversial? I watched it on Friday, and I didn't think it would be so controversial. Or controversial about the very things I liked about it? People sigh. There are days, I just want to smack them upside the head. Or I wonder it they were dropped on their heads as kids?
I liked that it was a teen girl coming of age story, that it focused on Chinese folklore, took place in Toronto, Canada, and the whole puberty thing. (My issues with it were purely personal - I don't like embarrassment humor and the mother grated on my nerves. Also spastic slapstick comedy doesn't work for me. )
Apparently there are people out there - that had..well their own issues with it, but seemed to think these would be universal ones?
Turning Red Spurs Debate regarding Double Standards in Film Criticism. (It also underlines an ingrained sexism and misogyny in our society. I mean we can be inundated with male puberty coming of age films - with teen boys and their wet dreams. But we can't watch female hormonal puberty coming of age films? Really?
The critical narrative around Turning Red really disheartens me. We can have a million "boys will be boys" coming of age narratives in film, but the moment we get a film that does the same for girls, suddenly it becomes taboo or "cringe." It's just kinda sad.
And..
“I recognized the humor in the film, but connected with none of it. By rooting ‘Turning Red’ very specifically in the Asian community of Toronto, the film legitimately feels like it was made for Domee Shi’s friends and immediate family members,” O’Connell wrote. “Which is fine — but also, a tad limiting in its scope.”
Okay. People are stupid. We need more Darwin Awards. We've already established this.
13 year old girls hitting puberty, crushing hard on boys, and writing fanfic is cringe
The only thing I found cringe inducing in the movie was the mother's reactions to her daughter or over-reactions. That I felt was unrealistic or "cringe" - although, now that I think about it? Not so unrealistic, my mother was known to embarrass me in this matter - when I was 13.
Per twitter - apparently someone stated in the Rotten Tomatoes reviews that 13 year old girls don't write fanfic or fantasize about boys and sex? Uhm yes, they do. I was reading my mother's romance at that age - and writing fanfic in my head an on the page about all sorts of things. Heck, I was crushing on Davy Jones of the Monkeeys (the original cheap boy band), at the age of 8. We were chasing and crushing on boys at 8 and 9. And people were passing Judy Bloom's Forever around for its sex scenes.
***
Crazy workplace
On the way into work this morning - or rather into the Air Train Building, there were two homeless men curled up. And a group of officers, male and female surrounding them, figuring out how best to remove them - safely and humanely from the premises. The officers wore masks, the homeless men didn't, I did, and most folks did, but there were folks inside who did not.
At work - I'm increasingly running into people who are chatting in various hallways and in front of the bathrooms, without masks, and I have to walk through their conversation or around it. The mask wearing/social distancing is about 50/50, more or less along conservative and gender lines.
Although, chatted with Project Manager who is convinced the whole mask/vaccine thing is pointless.
Project Manager: Did you tell new organization all of that? Make a suggestion maybe -
Me: It would be pointless.
Project Manager: Maybe not.
Me: It would kind of be like trying to convince you to get the vaccine and wear a mask.
Project Manager: Oh, yeah - well you know that they dropped the mandates and restrictions so that means they don't work.
ME: No, it means they no longer care if you die. They care more about the economy and getting back to normal. You die of COVID, that's on you. It's kind of like smoking, actually - you decide to smoke and die of lung cancer - that's on you.
Project Manager: True, they also care more about the Ukraine. But point taken.
***
Busy day tomorrow. Management is getting stressed again - which means they want me to hurry up and wait. Get them stuff - so they can sit on it for two weeks. We'd get so much more done - if they were less indecisive and insecure.
It's cold inside the apartment - because I've no heat or hot water. But I was able to wear the cosy alpaca purple sweater that I bought from Talbots last year. Also my second turtle neck of the year. Usually its too hot for either.
The heat and hot water will be back when I return to my apartment tomorrow - or so I'm told.
Also, it will be in the 60s tomorrow, so not that big a deal. It's in the forties tonight, and was in the fifties during the day - so it could be worse. Much worse.
Eh, the pictures aren't loading, so you'll have to do without, or we both will. Never mind, they did finally...
[Again cat not mine - belongs to brother, it's happier with him - lots of space to run about in.]
If you are a DST fan? Frak off. Seriously, go away. I can't deal with you today.
Co-workers were in agreement of course. But they were blaming the poor farmers for some reason.
Coworkers: It's all the farmers fault.
Me: No. It's the city and suburbanites fault - think about it, why would farmer's want daylight savings time.
Coworkers: so they have more daylight in the evenings with the crops?
ME: Crops don't know its daylight savings time. They don't change. Nor do the animals know it's daylight savings time. Farmers hate daylight savings time - they still have to get up early. And still have to be in bed by 8 or 9 pm. It's the city folk who want that extra hour between 8-9pm. Also, they argued that it saved money on electricity at night - to have daylight longer. (That's BS, it doesn't.)
Here's a A Short History of Daylight Savings Time
In 1895, George Hudson, an entomologist from New Zealand, came up with the modern concept of daylight saving time. He proposed a two-hour time shift so he'd have more after-work hours of sunshine to go bug hunting in the summer.
Hudson suggested moving clocks ahead two hours in October and then a two-hour shift back in March.
In 1905, William Willett, a British builder, suggested moving clocks ahead 20 minutes every Sunday in April and then setting them back every Sunday in September. That's eight time changes every year!
First real use of daylight saving time
It was during World War I that daylight saving time was first practically used.
In 1916, locations within the German Empire set clocks ahead one hour in an effort to use less power for lighting and to save fuel for the war effort.
Many other countries soon followed and after the war ended, they all went back to standard time.
Daylight saving time in the U.S.
In the United States, daylight saving time was first used in 1918 when a bill introduced the idea of a seasonal time shift. It lasted seven months before the bill was repealed.
During World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt re-established the idea of daylight saving time. It was called "War Time."
War Time began in February 1942 and lasted until the end of September 1945.
In 1966, the Uniform Time Act of 1966 established the idea of regulating a yearly time change. Daylight saving time would begin the last Sunday in April and end the last Sunday in October.
During the 1973 oil embargo, the United States Congress ordered a year-round period of daylight saving time to save energy. The period would run from January 1974 to April 1975. The plan did little to save energy and in October 1974, the U.S. switched back to standard time.
From 1987 through 2006, daylight saving time started the first weekend in April, running through the last weekend in October.
More on the history of Daylight Savings Time.
And..( Not all States Follow Daylight Savings Time )
In regards to danger? We had a train derailment on Sunday. No major injuries luckily. And on the Van Wyck, according to a co-worker, there were signs this morning about pulling off the road if you felt drowsy.
I did, but I was on a train.
**
Apparently "Turning Red" - the Pixar film about a 13 year old girl turning into a Red Panda whenever she gets really emotional, and embracing the hormonal beast within - is controversial? I watched it on Friday, and I didn't think it would be so controversial. Or controversial about the very things I liked about it? People sigh. There are days, I just want to smack them upside the head. Or I wonder it they were dropped on their heads as kids?
I liked that it was a teen girl coming of age story, that it focused on Chinese folklore, took place in Toronto, Canada, and the whole puberty thing. (My issues with it were purely personal - I don't like embarrassment humor and the mother grated on my nerves. Also spastic slapstick comedy doesn't work for me. )
Apparently there are people out there - that had..well their own issues with it, but seemed to think these would be universal ones?
Turning Red Spurs Debate regarding Double Standards in Film Criticism. (It also underlines an ingrained sexism and misogyny in our society. I mean we can be inundated with male puberty coming of age films - with teen boys and their wet dreams. But we can't watch female hormonal puberty coming of age films? Really?
The critical narrative around Turning Red really disheartens me. We can have a million "boys will be boys" coming of age narratives in film, but the moment we get a film that does the same for girls, suddenly it becomes taboo or "cringe." It's just kinda sad.
And..
“I recognized the humor in the film, but connected with none of it. By rooting ‘Turning Red’ very specifically in the Asian community of Toronto, the film legitimately feels like it was made for Domee Shi’s friends and immediate family members,” O’Connell wrote. “Which is fine — but also, a tad limiting in its scope.”
Okay. People are stupid. We need more Darwin Awards. We've already established this.
13 year old girls hitting puberty, crushing hard on boys, and writing fanfic is cringe
The only thing I found cringe inducing in the movie was the mother's reactions to her daughter or over-reactions. That I felt was unrealistic or "cringe" - although, now that I think about it? Not so unrealistic, my mother was known to embarrass me in this matter - when I was 13.
Per twitter - apparently someone stated in the Rotten Tomatoes reviews that 13 year old girls don't write fanfic or fantasize about boys and sex? Uhm yes, they do. I was reading my mother's romance at that age - and writing fanfic in my head an on the page about all sorts of things. Heck, I was crushing on Davy Jones of the Monkeeys (the original cheap boy band), at the age of 8. We were chasing and crushing on boys at 8 and 9. And people were passing Judy Bloom's Forever around for its sex scenes.
***
Crazy workplace
On the way into work this morning - or rather into the Air Train Building, there were two homeless men curled up. And a group of officers, male and female surrounding them, figuring out how best to remove them - safely and humanely from the premises. The officers wore masks, the homeless men didn't, I did, and most folks did, but there were folks inside who did not.
At work - I'm increasingly running into people who are chatting in various hallways and in front of the bathrooms, without masks, and I have to walk through their conversation or around it. The mask wearing/social distancing is about 50/50, more or less along conservative and gender lines.
Although, chatted with Project Manager who is convinced the whole mask/vaccine thing is pointless.
Project Manager: Did you tell new organization all of that? Make a suggestion maybe -
Me: It would be pointless.
Project Manager: Maybe not.
Me: It would kind of be like trying to convince you to get the vaccine and wear a mask.
Project Manager: Oh, yeah - well you know that they dropped the mandates and restrictions so that means they don't work.
ME: No, it means they no longer care if you die. They care more about the economy and getting back to normal. You die of COVID, that's on you. It's kind of like smoking, actually - you decide to smoke and die of lung cancer - that's on you.
Project Manager: True, they also care more about the Ukraine. But point taken.
***
Busy day tomorrow. Management is getting stressed again - which means they want me to hurry up and wait. Get them stuff - so they can sit on it for two weeks. We'd get so much more done - if they were less indecisive and insecure.
It's cold inside the apartment - because I've no heat or hot water. But I was able to wear the cosy alpaca purple sweater that I bought from Talbots last year. Also my second turtle neck of the year. Usually its too hot for either.
The heat and hot water will be back when I return to my apartment tomorrow - or so I'm told.
Also, it will be in the 60s tomorrow, so not that big a deal. It's in the forties tonight, and was in the fifties during the day - so it could be worse. Much worse.
Eh, the pictures aren't loading, so you'll have to do without, or we both will. Never mind, they did finally...
[Again cat not mine - belongs to brother, it's happier with him - lots of space to run about in.]