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The Daily Toast: To Father Time

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Calendars (2000)

It’s almost 2001, which means it’s time to take down your old Star Trek: Voyager calendar and put up your new one. Okay, so maybe you have a Teddy Bears calendar instead, or an Everybody Loves Raymond calendar. The point is, for us, a calendar is a much an aesthetic and/or advertising medium as it is a way to see what …

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Leap year

This week saw, not just a once-in-a-lifetime event, but a once-in-four-centuries event: the first February 29 to fall in a year ending in 00 since 1600. The three basic elements of the calendar are the day, month and year. The day is the time it takes the Earth to rotate once: 24 hours. The month …

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Clocks

The passage of time has had a lot of attention lately–which makes this the ideal time to honor the clock. The earliest timekeeping device, used as far back as 3,500 B.C., was a vertical stick that casts a shadow. As the sun crossed the sky, the shadow moved; by measuring its movement, the ancients could …

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Body clocks

It’s very rare for me to be actually awakened by an alarm clock. Generally I wake up on my own just a few minutes before the alarm is set to go off–which is actually kind of annoying, since mornings when I have to set an alarm to get up are invariably mornings when I want …

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Calendars

It’s 1996, which means it’s time to take down your old Star Trek calendar and put up your new one. Okay, so maybe you don’t have a Star Trek calendar. Maybe you have a World’s Fastest Cars calendar, or even (gag) a Friends calendar. The point is, for us, a calendar is a much an aesthetic and/or advertising medium as it …

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