# Random Thoughts **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** reactions\ **Created:** [September 28, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/random-thoughts/393 "2020-09-28T16:41:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 370
**Author:** ![SteveGrondin](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/stevegrondin/32/3257_2.png) [@SteveGrondin](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SteveGrondin)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2026, 2:02am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/random-thoughts/393/7455 "2026-10-11T02:02:07Z")
Well there’s always this way to get a rye ![image](https://community.goactuary.com/uploads/default/original/3X/e/9/e928c923df292bf18c51a4a1db23da7d50243f18.png) ---
**Author:** ![Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/cooke/32/15467_2.png) [@Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Cooke)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2026, 10:13pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/random-thoughts/393/7456 "2026-10-12T22:13:46Z")
Good for Dan Levy. > **[Dan Levy slams Shane Gillis’ SNL monologue about women’s gym clothing](https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/article/dan-levy-slams-shane-gillis-snl-monologue-about-womens-gym-clothing/)** > > Canadian actor, writer and director Dan Levy is calling out Shane Gillis’ Saturday Night Live monologue and urging more men to stand up against the American comedian’s remarks about women. ---
**Author:** ![BG5150](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/bg5150/32/38521_2.png) [@BG5150](https://community.goactuary.com/u/BG5150)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 7:42pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/random-thoughts/393/7457 "2026-10-15T19:42:18Z")
Only 2 days in your lifetime are not 24 hours long. The day you are born and the day you die. ---
**Author:** ![quoll](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/quoll/32/81747_2.png) [@quoll](https://community.goactuary.com/u/quoll)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 7:43pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/random-thoughts/393/7458 "2026-10-15T19:43:43Z")
I had a Christmas Day last three hours once when I crossed the International Date Line. ---
**Author:** ![Vorian\_Atreides](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/vorian_atreides/32/65623_2.png) [@Vorian\_Atreides](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Vorian_Atreides)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 7:45pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/random-thoughts/393/7459 "2026-10-15T19:45:54Z")
> [@BG5150](#): > > Only 2 days in your lifetime are not 24 hours long Depends on how you want to define a “day” . . . ---
**Author:** ![NumericalNeuroticism](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/numericalneuroticism/32/464_2.png) [@NumericalNeuroticism](https://community.goactuary.com/u/NumericalNeuroticism)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 7:46pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/random-thoughts/393/7460 "2026-10-15T19:46:18Z")
And the 2 days a year when clocks change (for most of us). And any day we change time zones. Going west over the IDL means skipping a calendar day (ignoring precise time and location while in the air) and going east can mean 40+ hour calendar days. ---
**Author:** ![Maphistos\_Sidekick](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/maphistos_sidekick/32/84973_2.png) [@Maphistos\_Sidekick](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Maphistos_Sidekick)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 8:19pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/random-thoughts/393/7461 "2026-10-15T20:19:14Z")
And yet, according to a computer tracking the number of seconds since the start of an epoch (e.g. 0:00 UTC, 1 January 1970, for UNIX), a day is always exactly 24 hours long…plus/minus any leap seconds. ---
**Author:** ![SteveGrondin](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/stevegrondin/32/3257_2.png) [@SteveGrondin](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SteveGrondin)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 9:33pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/random-thoughts/393/7462 "2026-10-15T21:33:27Z")
And the year the use a negative leap second. Ninja’d! ---
**Author:** ![Maphistos\_Sidekick](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/maphistos_sidekick/32/84973_2.png) [@Maphistos\_Sidekick](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Maphistos_Sidekick)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2026, 1:06am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/random-thoughts/393/7463 "2026-10-16T01:06:32Z")
Looks like there’s some news about leap seconds. No more leap seconds; instead, some day we may have a leap hour (or a negative leap hour). > **[Scientists just voted to redefine how the world keeps time](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-vote-to-end-leap-seconds-redefining-how-the-world-keeps-time/)** > > A new system, called the “leap hour,” will allow Earth’s rotation and official time to fall out of alignment by a full hour ---
**Author:** ![Klaymen](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/klaymen/32/194_2.png) [@Klaymen](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Klaymen)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2026, 2:43pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/random-thoughts/393/7464 "2026-10-16T14:43:55Z")
When I woke up the furnace was on, it just got colder here. I briefly sang the Glenn Fry hit “The heat is on” to my wife. An hour later I’m in the grocery store and that song is on the speakers! ---
**Author:** ![quoll](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/quoll/32/81747_2.png) [@quoll](https://community.goactuary.com/u/quoll)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2026, 3:09pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/random-thoughts/393/7465 "2026-10-16T15:09:45Z")
I always found it interesting when I would go to the supermarket in the middle of a Wisconsin winter (which is most of the year) and they would be playing Summer Breeze. ---
**Author:** ![Ling](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/ling/32/70261_2.png) [@Ling](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Ling)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2026, 8:58pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/random-thoughts/393/7466 "2026-10-21T20:58:00Z")
They should play… **California dreamin’** **On such a winter’s day …** ---
**Author:** ![The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/the_polymath/32/83081_2.png) [@The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/u/The_Polymath)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2026, 11:02pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/random-thoughts/393/7467 "2026-10-21T23:02:19Z")
Yikes… > **[Flaw in PHP computer language leads to shutdown of websites around world](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/21/flaw-in-php-computer-language-leads-to-shutdown-of-websites-around-world)** > > Precautionary takedowns come as experts say vulnerability in PHP, which is used by 70% of sites, could be exploited ---
**Author:** ![vjvj](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/vjvj/32/406_2.png) [@vjvj](https://community.goactuary.com/u/vjvj)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 6:03am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/random-thoughts/393/7468 "2026-10-22T06:03:20Z")
Ah. The Beach Boys. ---
**Author:** ![Vorian\_Atreides](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/vorian_atreides/32/65623_2.png) [@Vorian\_Atreides](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Vorian_Atreides)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 12:32pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/random-thoughts/393/7469 "2026-10-22T12:32:11Z")
> [@vjvj](#): > > The Beach Boys. 🤨 ![image](https://community.goactuary.com/uploads/default/original/3X/c/2/c2fdd1ea2137b4dea8ce96af0e8da3d6af731682.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![vjvj](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/vjvj/32/406_2.png) [@vjvj](https://community.goactuary.com/u/vjvj)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 5:01pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/random-thoughts/393/7470 "2026-10-22T17:01:03Z")
Punk Rock Girl by the Dead Milkmen: "And someone played a Beach Boys song on the jukebox And it was California Dreaming So we started screaming On such a winter’s day" [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ZyaK3jo4Sl4/maxresdefault.jpg "The Dead Milkmen - Punk Rock Girl HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyaK3jo4Sl4) ---
**Author:** ![Triweasel](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/triweasel/32/159_2.png) [@Triweasel](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Triweasel)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 5:20pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/random-thoughts/393/7471 "2026-10-22T17:20:12Z")
RN ---
**Author:** ![Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/cooke/32/15467_2.png) [@Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Cooke)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 8:35pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/random-thoughts/393/7472 "2026-10-22T20:35:44Z")
I was watching this morning my four year old granddaughter talking on WhatsApp to her English grandmother in London and was marvelling at how technology has improved our lives in some ways. When we lived in the UK 35 years ago, I did not phone my mother even once as the phone rates were many £ per minute in those days. **However** , what I did do was write my mother a letter every single week when we lived there telling her what we did that week. She kept all of the 100+ letters I wrote and gave them back to me before she died. They are cherished by myself and my four children who were all little when they lived there. So there are pluses and minuses to improved technology. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/the_polymath/32/83081_2.png) [@The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/u/The_Polymath)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 8:38pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/random-thoughts/393/7473 "2026-10-22T20:38:25Z")
I remember running up a $600 CAN phone bill back in the 90s when I dialled a California BB to play an online game with a few other players (ahh..the days of 2400 baud modems). My parents were not amused. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PatientZombie](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/patientzombie/32/391_2.png) [@PatientZombie](https://community.goactuary.com/u/PatientZombie)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 8:47pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/random-thoughts/393/7474 "2026-10-22T20:47:57Z")
have a friend whose daughter moved to Japan around 20 years ago. First time I knew of Skype. Used it to call my daughter when she did a semester in Kenya ( could only talk, not enough bandwidth for visual) Even all the complaints about Facebook, it helped me reconnect with people who were out of my life. One complaint. Back when, you called the house and talked to whomever picked up, before they gave you to who you called. Now, you call or message your kids directly, you lose the accidental interactions with the Son In Law or Daughter In Law [Previous page](https://community.goactuary.com/t/random-thoughts/393.md?page=369) [Next page](https://community.goactuary.com/t/random-thoughts/393.md?page=371)