Re: [spoon-discuss] Thoughts toward a universal Nomic calendar

[Zarpint <athena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Glad you're here, Aquarion. Having each year a different length is a great
idea, but it should be deterministic - for instance, we could use the nth
term in the continued fraction for pi. And I like your names, but may I
suggest 'Strange' and 'Charm' instead of the more prosaic quarks 'Up' and
'Down'?
There's also the advantage that we could all get extra Charm in the Charm
season.

And Wonko's right: the week length should not be a multiple of seven for
that reason.

Zarpint the Incomplete


On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Aquarion wrote:

> Daniel Lepage wrote:
>
> > If I may interrupt your dialog for a moment...
> >
> > There was a reason why Dave chose the ten-day week for B Nomic, and it
> > was precisely to avoid the sort of regularity you seem to be aiming
> > for. The idea was that different times of week are better for
> > different people to vote - some people might have many weekend
> > commitments, so to be fair, the vote should fall at different times
> > every nweek.
> >
> > I personally don't like the idea of a 14-day nweek; I'd much prefer
> > seven if you want it to match "real time", but frankly, I like the
> > ten. Or at least, I liked the ten, back when nweeks were fairly
> > reliably 10 days... we just need to redesign things so that we don't
> > need to stop game time every three days.
> >
> > As for discordianism... I prefer to avoid mainstream chaos. This is B
> > Nomic, where chaos radiates outward from us like Flies from a Rotting
> > Whale Corpse that's just been Blown Up Rather Nastily. We certainly
> > don't need to bring the chaos of others into this mess.
> >
> So, Five seasons of a random number of nweeks per season (between two
> and twenty) labeled "Up", "Down" "Sex appeal", "Peppermint" and
> "Yesterday", where the random number is defined at the beginning of
> every nyear?
>
> (Hi, I'm Aquarion, and I'll be your Newbie just as soon as I've
> understood the rules a little better)
>
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> Aquarion
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