I’ve no idea when I first saw this, and props to its original creator. But I’d like to underscore that this is exactly where we are today:
Presently, as of 13 August, 2023, we are most absolutely — and after the recent discovery of the sudden temperature increases measured in oceans over the last six months’ time — firmly balanced on the line between the red and yellow sections above.
One of the things that I still struggle with is the dependence, here, upon an exact and incredibly flawed method of accounting for dates. They insist that dates must be written in an mm/dd/yy fashion.
This is, for an old-school computer geek, somewhat challenging. Let’s say that we need to account for the third of February, 2004 (yes, past; follow along).
According to that standard, it would be written as
2/3/4
Why? Because if the mask was MM/DD/YY, then it would be
02/03/04
In the military, we had a slightly different written date style:
DDMonYY
Where that same day referenced above would be written as
03FEB04
God help you if you’re accustomed to a Day, Month, Year order. In any case, there would need to be a customary or even tribal knowledge of how dates are used and referred to.
When I wrote code and scripts for automation, I always ordered in Year-Month-Day because it was easier to quickly sort and scan through the lists.
Thank The Maker that the 2000’s — or, the naughties — are far into our pasts.
This appears to be some strange new variety of the color black with which I was previously unfamiliar:
Alternative Douglas Adams reference: “Every time you try to operate on of these weird black controls that are labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to let you know you’ve done it.”
There’s a reason these are only $11 and semi-disposable.
Why?
Because if they were any more “sturdy”, then you’d be replacing a $2,000 magneto… or, minimally, that magneto’s $400 distributor assembly.
Sure, you’re going to tear it down and inspect it… **sigh** again… but it’s better to replace that $11 tool than the more expensive parts.
the rest of me 