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Jeff Wrangler:
I enjoyed the astrology article (Oct. 28), but it reminded me of a question I've had about astrology for some time. You need your birth time to calculate a chart, but what exactly is your birth time for astrological purposes?
If you are born in the U.S. while (most of) the nation is on Daylight Saving Time, is your birth time the clock time, or do you subtract an hour for the time on Standard Time? Is your birth time the time on Greenwich Mean Time? Have birth times been affected by the adoption of world-wide time zones?
The almanac I buy every year always has a page devoted to listing personal characteristics according to signs of the Zodiac. I certainly seem to be a classic Taurus.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on October 29, 2019, 11:51:09 am ---Since the latest issue was disappointing, I'm going back to earlier issues that I didn't finish. The July 8 & 15, 2019, issue has a couple of good articles: "Uncle Jim Called" by David Rabe is the best fiction I've read in a few years. It captures the mind of a writer, who oftentimes stands on the outside observing.
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I've been reading the Emmanuel Macron profile from July 1. It's slightly "duty," but Macron is a pretty interesting person -- much more than Adam Driver, that's for sure. And he's even attractive, like all world leaders except ours.
Jeff Wrangler:
I admire how the two of you can save your issues for months and then go back and read them. If I don't read one as soon as it arrives, it won't get read, because there is always something else to read.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on November 01, 2019, 09:01:46 am ---I admire how the two of you can save your issues for months and then go back and read them. If I don't read one as soon as it arrives, it won't get read, because there is always something else to read.
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It's not so much "save" as "don't get around to throwing out because I keep thinking I'm going to read them and by the time I've read one or two pieces a new one arrives.
I almost never get through all the possible readable articles (not including ones I wouldn't read anyway) but until I do I don't throw them out. So they pile up. When I'm looking for something to read, I grab a random one out of the pile, which is how I got on the Macron profile.
When the pile gets too high, I go through and try to throw out as many as possible, or at least rip out an interesting article or two and throw the rest out. If thre are multiple interesting articles, I put those in a pile along with the ripped-out articles. Then I never get around to reading those!
I used to keep a few of the ripped-out articles in my purse at all times in case I got stuck waiting somewhere and needing to pass the time. But since I've had a smart phone, that tends to take priority and the articles sit in my purse until they get too wrinkled and worn to read.
Front-Ranger:
To make matters even more nonlinear, I read forward this morning to the article about Jeremy Renner and the take-down of his app. There was a link to a piece on "Sad Affleck" from March of 2018. I read that too. A strange world we live in where people obsess about figures in popular culture.
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