[time-nuts] So, how did you spend your leapsecond?

Tom Knox actast at hotmail.com
Sun Jul 1 17:07:44 UTC 2012


I made the most of it by grabbed the HV terminal on a power right at Leapsecond and in that moment watched my whole life pass before me.

Thomas Knox



> From: xe1xus at amsat.org
> To: time-nuts at febo.com
> Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 11:05:55 -0500
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] So,  how did you spend your leapsecond?
> 
> I was dinning at an Argentinean restaurant with my wife and some  
> friends of her.
> 
> Armed with a 3G Internet equipped iPad and sharing the story with the  
> people at the table. Good food, good company and the opportunity to  
> shine publicly (at least for a leap second), explaining time keeping  
> to a table full of psychologists. A lonely engineering soul being  
> analyzed for sure by the phycological minds.
> 
> Nice warm and rainy afternoon in Mexico City.
> 
> Regards to you all,
> 
> 
> 
> Edgardo Molina
> XE1XUS
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Jul 1, 2012, at 10:27 AM, Chuck Harris wrote:
> 
> > We spent our leapsecond reading books by kerosene lamp as the
> > power failure continued...
> >
> > And, no, the power failure wasn't caused by the leapsecond, but
> > rather a very strong thunderstorm that came roaring through parts
> > of Maryland.... trees down everywhere.
> >
> > ... Well, unless Mother Nature is yet another that is offended
> > by the shear lunacy of leapseconds.
> >
> > There are large numbers still without power even now.
> >
> > -Chuck Harris
> >
> > Mark Sims wrote:
> >>
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