Actually a friend who lived in Rome proposed a new European definition of the nanosecond as the time between the lights going green and the sound of the horn of the car behind you. I still remember driving in the rushhour in Rome, now _that_ was scary.
On 15 January 2012 14:40, Skip Withrow <skip.with...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear nuts, > > I would like to propose a new unit of time, the 'textsecond'. This is > the interval of time from the time the signal light turns green to > when the driver behind the idiot texting driver honks their horn. > Still collecting data on its exact length, but seeing a lot more > examples lately. > > I'm sure there is probably a much more clever name (and there are a > lot of clever time-nuts out there). However, I don't want this > comment on social behaviour to blossom into a lengthy OT thread. > > Regards, > Skip Withrow > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- Tom Harris <celephi...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.