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There was a site I found the other day (and have subsequently forgotten what it was) that prompted you to enter your birthdate, and it would present you with various facts about your age. You know, what year in the Chinese calendar it was when you were born, what your astrological sign is, etc. etc. One thing resonated with me, though, and it was in the alternative time measurements of age (number of days old, and months, and weeks, like that): the number of seconds old.

Obviously it's an estimate, but the realization that I am more than one billion seconds old kind of brought me up short. On my 33rd birthday five months ago I was (approximately) 1,040,688,000 seconds old.

Put another way, I suppose I could say I'm 1.04 gigaseconds old...

This may possibly be the dumbest idea ever: Congress may extend daylight-saving time. Come on, are you kidding me? What a monumental waste of... well, everything. Jesus Christ, if you really need that "extra" hour of daylight, just get up an hour earlier.

And that whole "The more daylight we have, the less electricity we use" line is a crock of shit, too. Think about it.

Yeah, strong feelings against it. I've ranted about daylight savings before. I just think the whole concept is retarded.

Wikipedia, as usual, has an excellent article on daylight savings, worth reading.