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I just realized that today's the Ides of March.
Why yes, yes I am trying to avoid work. Why do you ask?
Posted by Rand Simberg at March 15, 2005 11:18 AM
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The Gregorian calendar never used the Roman system of dating from the kalends, nones and ides of the month. (The ides is only the 15th in March, May, July and October, it's the 13th in other months.) So, today is actually VI ante diem nones Martius MMDCCLVIII Ab Urbae Condita, when properly using the calendar of the Republic as reformed by C. Julius Caesar. And Idus Martius won't be for another 13 days.
Posted by Raoul Ortega at March 15, 2005 02:34 PM
Jeez, Raoul - and I thought I was a pedant.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut at March 15, 2005 05:14 PM
Gee, thanks. That was a wonderful thing to read 2 and a half hours before my dynamics final...
Posted by Johnathan at March 15, 2005 05:20 PM
One wonders why you're reading blogs (particularly mine) two hours before your dynamics final.
Sorry, no sympathy...
Posted by Rand Simberg at March 15, 2005 05:23 PM
Well, with the amount of studying I've done, if I don't understand it now, I'm not going to gain anything from stressing about it for the next two hours.
Posted by Johnathan at March 15, 2005 05:57 PM
'Is that a dagger I see before me? Come. let me ...' Oh, never mind. Wrong tragedy...
Posted by Greg at March 15, 2005 09:11 PM
One wonders why you're reading blogs (particularly mine) two hours before your dynamics final.
Why? They still had plenty of time to start studying.
Posted by Karl Hallowell at March 16, 2005 05:50 AM
Just stay away from the Senate and you'll be fine. ;)
Posted by Ralf Goergens at March 16, 2005 07:02 AM
There was one time as an undergraduate when I got absolutely perfect grades on physics and math finals. It was my first semester sophomore year.
I came down with some disease that had me sleeping nearly around the clock just before finals. My schedule during finals looked like this: get up to eat and take finals. Sleep the rest of the time.
Yes, I studied throughout the semester.
Last minute cramming is one of those rituals that appears to do more harm than good.
Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day. Try not to drink too much Guinness, everyone. :-)
Posted by Chuck Divine at March 16, 2005 07:05 AM
Try not to drink too much Guinness, everyone.
Seriously, is there such a thing?
Posted by McGehee at March 16, 2005 01:08 PM
I'm not a drinker, so I'll watch Guinness instead. What'll it be - Bridge on the River Kwai, or Star Wars?
Posted by Alan K. Henderson at March 16, 2005 09:57 PM
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