Comments on: A riddle http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/09/04/a-riddle/ this is not blogging; this is typing Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:02:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: gifted typist http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/09/04/a-riddle/comment-page-1/#comment-1787 gifted typist Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:12:33 +0000 http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/09/04/a-riddle/#comment-1787 Dale, ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dale, ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: Dale http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/09/04/a-riddle/comment-page-1/#comment-1780 Dale Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:15:59 +0000 http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/09/04/a-riddle/#comment-1780 The child must be given up immediately for adoption and you have to try again. The child must be given up immediately for adoption and you have to try again.

]]> By: Deepti http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/09/04/a-riddle/comment-page-1/#comment-1762 Deepti Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:39:09 +0000 http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/09/04/a-riddle/#comment-1762 Ah, metaphysical thinking. It hurts my brain... Ah, metaphysical thinking. It hurts my brain…

]]> By: gifted typist http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/09/04/a-riddle/comment-page-1/#comment-1755 gifted typist Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:29:42 +0000 http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/09/04/a-riddle/#comment-1755 I like that Ro, lateral thinking. Deepti, I'm more interested in the metaphysical aspect of the question. You are correct to say it should be celebrated on the 5th and also to say that the birth cert. should be stamped with the 5th, but what interests me is the moment she was born and what that means to her here and now, in a different time zone. And yes TB the Newfy thesis sort of captures it. I like that Ro, lateral thinking.

Deepti, I’m more interested in the metaphysical aspect of the question. You are correct to say it should be celebrated on the 5th and also to say that the birth cert. should be stamped with the 5th, but what interests me is the moment she was born and what that means to her here and now, in a different time zone.

And yes TB the Newfy thesis sort of captures it.

]]> By: TagBagger http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/09/04/a-riddle/comment-page-1/#comment-1752 TagBagger Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:16:41 +0000 http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/09/04/a-riddle/#comment-1752 My god, that makes my brain hurt - who knows, but I do know that it was a half hour later in Newfoundland... My god, that makes my brain hurt – who knows, but I do know that it was a half hour later in Newfoundland…

]]> By: Deepti http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/09/04/a-riddle/comment-page-1/#comment-1748 Deepti Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:48:53 +0000 http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/09/04/a-riddle/#comment-1748 If you don't celebrate New Year's when Britain is (i.e. 4 hours early), then logically the birthday shouldn't be celebrated on the 4th? If you don’t celebrate New Year’s when Britain is (i.e. 4 hours early), then logically the birthday shouldn’t be celebrated on the 4th?

]]> By: Rowan from Cheddar http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/09/04/a-riddle/comment-page-1/#comment-1747 Rowan from Cheddar Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:46:08 +0000 http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/09/04/a-riddle/#comment-1747 Hows about the birthday starts at 00:01 on the 4th and finishes at 23:59 on the 5th? If you make it the official birthday I'm sure she will thank you in years to come ie the teenage ones! Of course like the queen over here she could just have two birthdays. Again I reckon she will like it more than your pocket! And on the same principles if the longitude 000°00'000 is at Greenwich, UK making GMT the standard time of the world, then surely wherever you are in the world you would celebrate new years when we do in the UK! Hows about the birthday starts at 00:01 on the 4th and finishes at 23:59 on the 5th? If you make it the official birthday I’m sure she will thank you in years to come ie the teenage ones! Of course like the queen over here she could just have two birthdays. Again I reckon she will like it more than your pocket! And on the same principles if the longitude 000°00’000 is at Greenwich, UK making GMT the standard time of the world, then surely wherever you are in the world you would celebrate new years when we do in the UK!

]]> By: gifted typist http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/09/04/a-riddle/comment-page-1/#comment-1744 gifted typist Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:30:41 +0000 http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/09/04/a-riddle/#comment-1744 Jacy, Chelene, Zed, Deepti, the child in question agrees with you. Today is her birthday, even if it is the first day of school. Dick, brilliant. I'm with you. The b'day is really on the 4th, even though the others are technically correct - for practical reasons it has to be recorded on the 5th. I'm now listening to the talking book lectures you sent on Relativity and Quantum physics. I've done Aristotle, Galileo, Newton & Maxwell and am about to leap into Einstein's Special Relativity which, I think, is mind-blowingly interesting and more accessible than General Relativity, at least for amateurs like me. Jacy, Chelene, Zed, Deepti, the child in question agrees with you. Today is her birthday, even if it is the first day of school.

Dick, brilliant. I’m with you. The b’day is really on the 4th, even though the others are technically correct – for practical reasons it has to be recorded on the 5th.

I’m now listening to the talking book lectures you sent on Relativity and Quantum physics. I’ve done Aristotle, Galileo, Newton & Maxwell and am about to leap into Einstein’s Special Relativity which, I think, is mind-blowingly interesting and more accessible than General Relativity, at least for amateurs like me.

]]> By: Dick http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/09/04/a-riddle/comment-page-1/#comment-1743 Dick Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:13:33 +0000 http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/09/04/a-riddle/#comment-1743 LOL at your linear thinking. The child represents a plane in the space / time continuum. Where ever you intersect the plane represents the whole life in alternate dimensions, so yeah...the 4th. LOL at your linear thinking. The child represents a plane in the space / time continuum.
Where ever you intersect the plane represents the whole life in alternate dimensions, so yeah…the 4th.

]]> By: Jacy http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/09/04/a-riddle/comment-page-1/#comment-1742 Jacy Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:44:47 +0000 http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/09/04/a-riddle/#comment-1742 The real birthday, I think, is whatever the date was in the place where the child was born. The real birthday, I think, is whatever the date was in the place where the child was born.

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