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<H1>bar-time (was Re: [MUD-Dev] The MLI Project)</H1>
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<LI><em>From</em>: Mike Sellers <<A HREF="mailto:mike#online-alchemy,com">mike#online-alchemy,com</A>></LI>
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At 08:24 AM 2/25/98 PST8PDT, Caliban Tiresias Darklock wrote:
>... I've heard it
>described by a guy I knew in the military as 'living on bar time', which
>refers to the timekeeping practices of bars in California -- they set the
>clocks ten minutes fast, so they have time to clear off the drinks from
>tables by the legal deadline (I think it's like 2 or 3 AM, not sure), which
>means that people in bars actually experience a given clock time ten
>minutes before it occurs. (It's surprising how many people think the
>television station is actually running ten minutes slow because it has
>never occurred to them that the bar might be running fast.)
Almost-OT: the only other reference I've heard to bar-time is in the book
"Expiration Date" by Tim Powers. Perhaps not as great as his others, but
still a solid, intriguing weaving of fact and fiction. Might well make a
great noir-ish modern-day MUD setting.
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by men out of touch with their instinctive values." - Carl Jung
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00622" HREF="msg00622.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Why not compile java into object code?</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00609" HREF="msg00609.html">Tutorial: Let's build a Compiler! - Part I: Introduction</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00608" HREF="msg00608.html">Tutorial: Comments on Hand-crafting a compiler</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00607" HREF="msg00607.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Java and Javascript</A></strong>,
Mike Sellers <a href="mailto:mike#online-alchemy,com">mike#online-alchemy,com</a>, Thu 26 Feb 1998, 16:13 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00592" HREF="msg00592.html">bar-time (was Re: [MUD-Dev] The MLI Project)</A></strong>,
Mike Sellers <a href="mailto:mike#online-alchemy,com">mike#online-alchemy,com</a>, Wed 25 Feb 1998, 21:54 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00583" HREF="msg00583.html">Dynamic Loading of Modules</A></strong>,
Niklas Elmqvist <a href="mailto:d97elm#dtek,chalmers.se">d97elm#dtek,chalmers.se</a>, Wed 25 Feb 1998, 06:26 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00580" HREF="msg00580.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The MLI Project</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Tue 24 Feb 1998, 18:20 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00582" HREF="msg00582.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The MLI Project</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Tue 24 Feb 1998, 19:25 GMT
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