Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> On 2022-04-02 16:57, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> > Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> >> On 2022-04-01 21:39, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
> >>> On 2022-04-01 11:48 a.m., nospam wrote:
> >>>> In article <jaojfrF4qk0U1@mid.individual.net>, Rene Lamontagne
> >>>> <rlamont@shaw.ca> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Here we are Boys and Girls.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 88 th birthday today.
> >>>>
> >>>> looking forward to 88 more.
> >>>>
> >>>>> Good Lord, That's 770,880  uptime hours!
> >>>>
> >>>> don't shortchange yourself.
> >>>>
> >>>> you're not including leap years, which means it should be 771408 uptime
> >>>> hours.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> I stand corrected, you're quite right.  sometimes I slip up.  :-)
> >>
> >> Enter your birthday in a cell in a calc sheet, then the current day in
> >> another cell, and subtract. It should calculate the correct day count :-)
> >
> > No need for bloated spreadsheet programs or silly websites! This is a
> > freaking *Windows* group for crying out loud, so use the bloody built-in
> > *Calculator*, will you!? :-)
> >
> > (And yes, that also says 32142 days, so also 771408 hours.)
> >
> > (For those who don't know how: Just switch the 'View' from 'Basic' (or
> > whatever) to 'Date calculation'.)
>
> Oh, if it were Linux I could have said to just use the built-in command
> line:
>
>
> cer@Telcontar:~> let DIFF=($(date +%s)-$(date +%s \
> --date='1 April 1934'))/86400 ; echo "$DIFF days"
> 32143 days
> cer@Telcontar:~>
>
> :-D
>
> And it adjusts for "today" automatically ;-)

Yeah, works fine in my Cygwin bash environment as well. (Cygwin is a
Linux-like - well GNU to be precise - environment under Windows.)

"Cygwin, don't leave - or stay in - house without it!"

On 01/04/2022 18:48, nospam wrote:
> In article <jaojfrF4qk0U1@mid.individual.net>, Rene Lamontagne
> <rlamont@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>> Here we are Boys and Girls.
>>
>> 88 th birthday today.
>
> looking forward to 88 more.
>
>> Good Lord, That's 770,880 uptime hours!
>
> don't shortchange yourself.
>
> you're not including leap years, which means it should be 771408 uptime
> hours.

Are you assuming sleep counts as 'uptime'? Also don't forget to subtract
time under general anaesthetic. I'm sure in 88 years, there have been some.

In article <jau1muF6akfU1@mid.individual.net>, occam
<nobody@nowhere.nix> wrote:

> >> Here we are Boys and Girls.
> >>
> >> 88 th birthday today.
> >
> > looking forward to 88 more.
> >
> >> Good Lord, That's 770,880 uptime hours!
> >
> > don't shortchange yourself.
> >
> > you're not including leap years, which means it should be 771408 uptime
> > hours.
>
> Are you assuming sleep counts as 'uptime'?

he's still breathing, so yes.

> Also don't forget to subtract
> time under general anaesthetic. I'm sure in 88 years, there have been some.

that would count as sleep.

he did mention needing a defibrillator a couple of times, which would
reduce it by only a few minutes, which for an hourly tally, can be
ignored.

another question is at what time during the day he was born. someone
born at 12.01am would be ~24 hours older than someone born at 11.59pm,
both having been born on the same day.

On 2022-04-03 12:21 p.m., nospam wrote:
> In article <jau1muF6akfU1@mid.individual.net>, occam
> <nobody@nowhere.nix> wrote:
>
>>>> Here we are Boys and Girls.
>>>>
>>>> 88 th birthday today.
>>>
>>> looking forward to 88 more.
>>>
>>>> Good Lord, That's 770,880 uptime hours!
>>>
>>> don't shortchange yourself.
>>>
>>> you're not including leap years, which means it should be 771408 uptime
>>> hours.
>>
>> Are you assuming sleep counts as 'uptime'?
>
> he's still breathing, so yes.
>
>> Also don't forget to subtract
>> time under general anesthetic. I'm sure in 88 years, there have been some.
>
> that would count as sleep.
>
> he did mention needing a defibrillator a couple of times, which would
> reduce it by only a few minutes, which for an hourly tally, can be
> ignored.
>
> another question is at what time during the day he was born. someone
> born at 12.01am would be ~24 hours older than someone born at 11.59pm,
> both having been born on the same day.
>

Anesthetics, yes, many times, some as long as 6 or 8 hours.

I was born at 6:25 A:M on a small farm on the Saskatchewan prairies.

Rene

nospam wrote:
> In article <jau1muF6akfU1@mid.individual.net>, occam
> <nobody@nowhere.nix> wrote:
>
>>>> Here we are Boys and Girls.
>>>>
>>>> 88 th birthday today.
>>>
>>> looking forward to 88 more.
>>>
>>>> Good Lord, That's 770,880 uptime hours!
>>>
>>> don't shortchange yourself.
>>>
>>> you're not including leap years, which means it should be 771408 uptime
>>> hours.
>>
>> Are you assuming sleep counts as 'uptime'?
>
> he's still breathing, so yes.
>
>> Also don't forget to subtract
>> time under general anaesthetic. I'm sure in 88 years, there have been some.
>
> that would count as sleep.
>
> he did mention needing a defibrillator a couple of times, which would
> reduce it by only a few minutes, which for an hourly tally, can be
> ignored.
>
> another question is at what time during the day he was born. someone
> born at 12.01am would be ~24 hours older than someone born at 11.59pm,
> both having been born on the same day.

Plus all the "lost time" when you go into a room, stop, and wonder what
you came here for. Or climb the stairs and stop on the landing wondering
why the hell you're here.

Then you go back downstairs, carry on, until suddenly it hits you why
you went up. So up you go again and get that phone which you left there.

Ed (:-

"Ken Blake" wrote in message news:jaov71F72poU1@mid.individual.net...
>
>On 4/1/2022 10:35 AM, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
>> On 2022-04-01 12:14 p.m., Bill Bradshaw wrote:
>>> Rene Lamontagne wrote:
>>>> Here we are Boys and Girls.
>>>>
>>>> 88 th birthday today.
>>>>
>>>> Good Lord, That's 770,880 uptime hours!
>>>>
>>>> Rene
>>>
>>> 76 March 25th. The scary part is when I look at the obituararies in the
>>> newspaper (yes, I am an old guy that still reads the newspaper on real
>>> paper
>>> and even reads a couple of magazines on real paper) and all the listing
>>> are
>>> for people younger than me. It must be really be scary for you. Hope I
>>> make it to 88.
>>>
>>
>> No not scary, all part of the life cycle. You know the old saying, "When
>> Ya gotta go. Ya gotta go"
>
>
>I'm 84. My favorite saying is
>
>
>When you get old, there are three things that go. They are
>
>sight.
>hearing,
>and, and, and...
>I can't remember the third one.
Well George, er' Ken, the 3rd one is -------????
I forget.
Happy 88th Rene!!!
--
Buffalo

"Ken Blake" wrote in message news:jap01oF7756U4@mid.individual.net...
>
>On 4/1/2022 11:50 AM, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
>> On 2022-04-01 1:39 p.m., Ed Cryer wrote:
>>> Rene Lamontagne wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Here we are Boys and Girls.
>>>>
>>>> 88 th birthday today.
>>>>
>>>> Good Lord, That's 770,880 uptime hours!
>>>>
>>>> Rene
>>>
>>> Do me a favour. You are a bit ahead of me in the game of life. When you
>>> get to meet God, tell him he's really f****d up this planet. And then
>>> tell him to wait until I get there; I'm gonna give him detailed
>>> instructions of how to get it better.
>>>
>>> Ed
>>
>> Yeah, every night when I go to bed I think ' Boy, this a real Fucked up
>> World.'
>
>
>No, that's not what what Ed thinks. He thinks it's just a f****d up world.
>If it were a fucked up world it would be much worse.
>
>To use a real acronym, I think it's a FUBAR world.
>
>
FUBAR ---F--ked Up Beyond All Repair . Great word!
--
Buffalo

On 4/4/2022 4:30 PM, Buffalo wrote:
> "Ken Blake" wrote in message news:jap01oF7756U4@mid.individual.net...
>>
>>On 4/1/2022 11:50 AM, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
>>> On 2022-04-01 1:39 p.m., Ed Cryer wrote:
>>>> Rene Lamontagne wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Here we are Boys and Girls.
>>>>>
>>>>> 88 th birthday today.
>>>>>
>>>>> Good Lord, That's 770,880 uptime hours!
>>>>>
>>>>> Rene
>>>>
>>>> Do me a favour. You are a bit ahead of me in the game of life. When you
>>>> get to meet God, tell him he's really f****d up this planet. And then
>>>> tell him to wait until I get there; I'm gonna give him detailed
>>>> instructions of how to get it better.
>>>>
>>>> Ed
>>>
>>> Yeah, every night when I go to bed I think ' Boy, this a real Fucked up
>>> World.'
>>
>>
>>No, that's not what what Ed thinks. He thinks it's just a f****d up world.
>>If it were a fucked up world it would be much worse.
>>
>>To use a real acronym, I think it's a FUBAR world.
>>
>>
> FUBAR ---F--ked

No, you spelled it wrong. It's not F--ked, it's "fucked."

>Up Beyond All Repair

And it's "Beyond All Recognition."

. Great word!

--
Ken

Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> wrote:
> On 4/4/2022 4:30 PM, Buffalo wrote:
>> "Ken Blake" wrote in message news:jap01oF7756U4@mid.individual.net...
>>>
>>> On 4/1/2022 11:50 AM, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
>>>> On 2022-04-01 1:39 p.m., Ed Cryer wrote:
>>>>> Rene Lamontagne wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here we are Boys and Girls.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 88 th birthday today.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Good Lord, That's 770,880 uptime hours!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rene
>>>>>
>>>>> Do me a favour. You are a bit ahead of me in the game of life. When you
>>>>> get to meet God, tell him he's really f****d up this planet. And then
>>>>> tell him to wait until I get there; I'm gonna give him detailed
>>>>> instructions of how to get it better.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ed
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, every night when I go to bed I think ' Boy, this a real Fucked up
>>>> World.'
>>>
>>>
>>> No, that's not what what Ed thinks. He thinks it's just a f****d up world.
>>> If it were a fucked up world it would be much worse.
>>>
>>> To use a real acronym, I think it's a FUBAR world.
>>>
>>>
>> FUBAR ---F--ked
>
>
> No, you spelled it wrong. It's not F--ked, it's "fucked."
>
>
>> Up Beyond All Repair
>
>
>
> And it's "Beyond All Recognition."
>
>
>
>
> . Great word!

Yup it's a SNAFU.

Situation Normal: All Fucked Up.

Ken Blake wrote:
> Buffalo wrote:
>> Ken Blake wrote:
>>> Rene Lamontagne wrote:
>>> To use a real acronym, I think it's a FUBAR world.
>> FUBAR ---F--ked
>
> No, you spelled it wrong. It's not F--ked, it's "fucked."
>
>> Up Beyond All Repair
>
> And it's "Beyond All Recognition."

That's one of the spellings, but there are more:
- fucked up beyond all repair or fouled up beyond all repair
- fucked up beyond all recognition or fouled up beyond all recognition

And sometimes fubar can be repaired after all with percussive maintenance.

-p

Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> posted this via
news:jb1jlhFrahhU1@mid.individual.net:

> On 4/4/2022 4:30 PM, Buffalo wrote:
>> "Ken Blake" wrote in message news:jap01oF7756U4@mid.individual.net...
>>>
>>>On 4/1/2022 11:50 AM, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
>>>> On 2022-04-01 1:39 p.m., Ed Cryer wrote:
>>>>> Rene Lamontagne wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here we are Boys and Girls.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 88 th birthday today.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Good Lord, That's 770,880 uptime hours!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rene
>>>>>
>>>>> Do me a favour. You are a bit ahead of me in the game of life. When
>>>>> you get to meet God, tell him he's really f****d up this planet. And
>>>>> then tell him to wait until I get there; I'm gonna give him detailed
>>>>> instructions of how to get it better.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ed
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, every night when I go to bed I think ' Boy, this a real Fucked
>>>> up World.'
>>>
>>>
>>>No, that's not what what Ed thinks. He thinks it's just a f****d up
>>>world. If it were a fucked up world it would be much worse.
>>>
>>>To use a real acronym, I think it's a FUBAR world.
>>>
>>>
>> FUBAR ---F--ked
>
>
> No, you spelled it wrong. It's not F--ked, it's "fucked."
>
>
>>Up Beyond All Repair
>
>
>
> And it's "Beyond All Recognition."
>
>
>
>
> . Great word!
>

It's "Beyond Army Regulations".

Hope this helps.

--

I AM Bucky Breeder, (*(^;

And *NO*, that is *NOT* a Jedi Light Saber I have in my pocket!

But that doesn't necessarily mean I'm happy to see you either.

On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 17:47:13 -0500, Rene Lamontagne <rlamont@shaw.ca>
wrote:

>> he did mention needing a defibrillator a couple of times, which would
>> reduce it by only a few minutes, which for an hourly tally, can be
>> ignored.
>>
>> another question is at what time during the day he was born. someone
>> born at 12.01am would be ~24 hours older than someone born at 11.59pm,
>> both having been born on the same day.
>>
>
>Anesthetics, yes, many times, some as long as 6 or 8 hours.
>
>I was born at 6:25 A:M on a small farm on the Saskatchewan prairies.
>
>Rene
>
Which depending on what time of year could have been absolutely lovely
or the complete opposite. (as someone who spent 4 1/2 years in
Winnipeg)