Comments on: The Witching Hour http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/03/the-witching-hour/ In a mad world, all blogging is psychiatry blogging Fri, 24 Jul 2015 21:38:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 By: 7 Quick Takes (11/15/13) http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/03/the-witching-hour/#comment-20767 Fri, 15 Nov 2013 17:05:39 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1099#comment-20767 […] I didn’t see Scott of Slate Star Codex’s post for the end of Daylight Saving Time in time to share with you, but perhaps you would also like to set yourself a reminder to send this […]

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]]> By: Anonymous http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/03/the-witching-hour/#comment-19422 Fri, 08 Nov 2013 11:07:27 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1099#comment-19422 A good story. Reminds me of the story about the reaction of WW2 GIs in Britain
to Double summer time (the clocks were moved 2 hours forward). Looking for a dark nook to make out with their girls they would cry ” Don’t it ever get dark in this darn’d country.”

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]]> By: Paul Torek http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/03/the-witching-hour/#comment-19319 Fri, 08 Nov 2013 01:26:11 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1099#comment-19319 Not only is the story drop dead gorgeous, it makes much more sense than the actual history.

We will all get to say “I knew Scott before he was famous”.

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]]> By: David Gerard http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/03/the-witching-hour/#comment-19297 Thu, 07 Nov 2013 23:38:55 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1099#comment-19297 So the clocks cached their (very) last copy of TZDATA?

(I used TZDATA and Wikipedia to explain to a non-techie just precisely how gaffer-tape-and-string the plumbing of civilisation actually is.)

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]]> By: Rolf Andreassen http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/03/the-witching-hour/#comment-19256 Thu, 07 Nov 2013 19:55:17 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1099#comment-19256 Amazing story. But alas, I would not be moved to comment if not for sharing a nitpick:

“If you were not a Lorekeeper yourself, I would not sure such secrets with a foreigner.”

‘sure’ should surely say ‘share’.

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]]> By: Berna http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/03/the-witching-hour/#comment-18925 Wed, 06 Nov 2013 16:25:30 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1099#comment-18925 Great story!

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]]> By: Nestor http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/03/the-witching-hour/#comment-18784 Tue, 05 Nov 2013 12:08:15 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1099#comment-18784 Heh, yeah, I have an old mobile phone without a SIM I use as an alarm clock and when the time went out of whack* because it was turned off I realized there’s no way to actually manually set it anymore, it just synchronizes with whatever atomic clock the ancients have left ticking in an ancient salt mine.

* It was confused about the hour but the minutes were accurate, it has since realigned itself with the universe, on it’s own. I find the way mobile phones increasingly do things on their own slightly unnerving.

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]]> By: Doug S. http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/03/the-witching-hour/#comment-18747 Tue, 05 Nov 2013 03:28:03 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1099#comment-18747 I once read a short story (“The Boy Who Lost an Hour, the Girl Who Lost Her Life” by Ian Watson) about a boy who doesn’t set his clock back and ends up out of sync with the rest of the world (everyone else has disappeared, except for this one girl who also didn’t set her clock).

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]]> By: Anonymous http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/03/the-witching-hour/#comment-18730 Mon, 04 Nov 2013 20:02:56 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1099#comment-18730 Awesome.

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]]> By: Andrew http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/03/the-witching-hour/#comment-18723 Mon, 04 Nov 2013 17:15:29 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=1099#comment-18723 That was very good.

I’ve always been a sucker for the hook of taking a normal and banal piece of our culture and exploring how alien it might look to an outsider.

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