Half a lifetime

[cjsmith]

Presuming I was born around three in the morning (JD 2439769.83333), and the party with the backrub chain was roughly 10pm EST (JD 2447106.625), I will have been with Rob half my life at 2pm PST, December 8, 2007 (JD 2454443.41667).

Geek. Geek. Geek.

(I think I would have run in terror if somebody had told me during that backrub chain that when I was forty I'd be doing this math.)

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I think I would have run in terror if somebody had told me during that backrub chain that when I was forty I'd be doing this math.

One of my most memorable conversational exchanges is being told, in 1996, that I shouldn't trust deyo to commit to me -- early in our dating -- and I said that I knew, I wasn't hoping for or even wanting anything at all long term, but was happy to use him for sex for a few weeks if he was amenable.

[laurenhat.livejournal.com]

Hee. Yay! :) And yay, geeky romance (or romantic geekery).

[excessor.livejournal.com]

What does JD mean?

[fyellin.livejournal.com]

Julian Day.

To quote Wikipedia:

"The Julian day or Julian day number (JDN) is the integer number of days that have elapsed since the initial epoch defined as noon Universal Time (UT) Monday, January 1, 4713 BC in the proleptic Julian calendar. The Julian date (JD) is a continuous count of days and fractions elapsed since the same initial epoch. . . . The integral part (its floor) gives the Julian day number. The fractional part gives the time of day since noon UT as a decimal fraction of one day or fractional day, with 0.5 representing midnight UT."

Aren't you glad you asked?

[excessor.livejournal.com]

Yes, thank you. I did a google search of JD and just got a bunch of results regarding legal programs. So I went to a site that talks about units of time measurements, but didn't find anything there. Hence, my question.

It seems counterintuitive to have defined JDN to start at noon and not at midnight.

[fyellin.livejournal.com]

It was designed for European astronomers. This way, they wouldn't have to switch dates in the middle of the night.

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Geek!!!

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

But wasn't there wine involved that day? ;-)

[rfrench.livejournal.com]

I think back then it was Vodka.

[eichin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, maybe even Pepper Vodka...

Oh so similar...

[elflet.livejournal.com]

Kathy and I met after I gave her best friend a backrub and she asked for one. We started dating in 1986, so doing the match I've been with her half my life too. (Yay!) Those backrubs are tricksy beasts... :)

Re: Oh so similar...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That they are! And do we mind their tricksy ways? Not a bit... :-)

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

cool. :)

(my inner geek wants to know what the half-life of your relationship is)

*ducks and runs*

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

So far, ten years. ;-) ;-)