[OT] xkcd

[Ric Werme]

>On 10/13/07, John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:
>>> Of course, if you're using bash, then
>>>       http://xkcd.com/{1..327}

>> Depends on what version of bash.

>That's why we should be using

>	#!/bin/bash-3.2.9

>at the top of our shell scripts.

Unless you have Suse 10.1:

tux:~> ls -l /bin/bash*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 501804 2006-06-02 10:34 /bin/bash

tux:~> bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i586-suse-linux)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

tux:~> echo foo{1..5}
foo1 foo2 foo3 foo4 foo5

How many versions of bash should there be in /bin?  And of everything else?


Oh yeah, xkcd. I tried the 28 hour day described in
http://www.xkcd.org/320/ a couple times, but concluded that I couldn't
shift four timezones each day.  The goal was standalone time on DEC's PDP-10s
at night and bicycling time during the day (foliage season) on weekends.

When I was getting off that, I read about a blind college student whose
internal clock was synchronized to the tides even though he was far from a
seacoast.  I tried that "lunatic cycle" for a month a couple years later,
going to bed at a Boston low tide.  Worked quite well, though my manager
couldn't figure out when I'd be in.  The overnight shifts were during the full
moon so it never got really dark.  I'd like to do it again, but synced with
the other low tide, and spend all night with a telescope during new moon.

   -Ric Werme