tangleofrainbows reblogged
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freaking leap second
so yesterday (tuesday) afternoon, my phone kind of freaks out and tells me that i just missed an alarm. specifically, it says that i missed my wednesday morning wakeup alarm, but b/c i often have difficulty remembering which day of the week it is, it doesn’t register that that’s wrong and i just swipe away the notification and keep going about my routine.
then, in the evening, i try to log into tumblr and just . . . don’t get any two factor authentication codes, and can’t log in. i pull up the backup authenticator app that i have, but the codes it generates don’t work for some reason. at some point when i’m fiddling around with all this, i realize that my phone thinks it’s wednesday. i have a serious freakout abt this — did i somehow forget an entire day? — but i’m still wearing my tuesday clothes and have my hair in my tuesday hairstyle (one of the reasons i do my hair in a different style on different days of the week . . . ) and my computer says it’s tuesday, so eventually i calm down enough and realize that my phone just somehow has the wrong date. i go into the settings and manually bump the date back to tuesday, and that seems to make the authenticator app happy, so i can log in and move on with my evening. (about an hour later, i get a flood of abt 20 auth codes from all my earlier attempts to log in, so i’m guessing something weird was happening on tumblr’s end too.)
at this point, i p much always half wake up before my alarm and toss and turn a lot. sometimes i’m in this state for upwards of an hour, but even when it’s just 15 minutes, it still feels like forrrrreeveeeeerrrrrrr, and this morning was no exception and so i was as usual irked but resigned to it. eventually, i was like “you know, this has been going on for a long time, i just want to check the clock and see how much longer before my alarm goes off” and i pull off my sleep mask and check the clock and it’s 10:02, a full two and a half hours after i normally get up. evidently despite bumping the date back a day, my phone didn’t re-set my wednesday morning alarm and considered it to have already gone off on tuesday afternoon.
so yeah, that’s the story of how adding a leap second made me super late to work this morning. thanks a lot, time.
#also i didn't have time to shave or do my hair so i feel groooooossssssss#my life#leap second#technology#alarms#the struggle is real#fortunately i work off site#so no one else knew#fun times#phones#unreality#ugh#ugh ugh ugh#also my body is SUPER confused abt what's going on#and doesn't understand why i just lunched#gonna feel vaguely nauseous until after dinner probs#joy#so much to look forward to
“One of my favourite Steve Jobs stories was the time the engineers working on the iPod brought their finished prototype to him in his office. He said it was too big, they needed to make it smaller. They said it was as small as they could make it, it couldn’t be made any smaller. So he took the prototype over to his aquarium and dropped it in. The iPod sank to the bottom, and as it did, tiny little bubbles came out. ‘See those bubbles,’ he asked. ‘They’re air inside the iPod. Make it smaller.’
“Another story about Steve Jobs was when they brought the prototype for the iPad 2 to his office. The engineers told him it was faster than the first iPad. He took it over to his aquarium and dropped it in. ‘Look how slowly it sank,’ he told them. ‘Make it faster.’
“One time a newly hired intern had been sent out to get Steve a sandwich. When she brought it to him, he looked at it. ‘I thought I ordered the beef on rye,’ he asked. She told him it was indeed beef on rye. He took it over to his fish tank and dropped it in. ‘Does that look like beef on rye?’
“He was always dropping things in that fish tank. We couldn’t stop him. We told him he had to stop, he wouldn’t listen. It was full of stuff that shouldn’t be in an aquarium.
“The fish had all died years ago. One had been crushed under an early generation iMac. The others were all poisoned. He didn’t care.
“It got to the point where there was no room for anything in the fish tank. When we emptied it after he died, we found a body in there. We never found out who it was.”
babylonian
i feel like if you showed this to clickhole they would hire you on the spot fuiru