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[–] [email protected] 246 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Are you dating a spreadsheet?

[–] [email protected] 132 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gotta remain positive and see the glass half full, or January 2nd depending on the cell format.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

She's so perfect. Literally not a single flaw. She's a 1.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Excel would say Oct. 10

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

He’s got all access to that one

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

If your mind goes to "spreadsheet" instead of "calendar," that says more about your... proclivities... than it does his!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's really more of a DataFrame I've mismanaged. Which might be why I'm struggling to handle my relationships.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it’s time to upgrade to a relational database.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I don't think I'm ready for that. In fact, I think I'm just going back to individual delimited text files to store every record separately using a custom encoding I made up.

I'll add arbitrary folders to split them up based on inconsistent logic and never make backups.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Did you know you can also store your data on random pieces of paper of various sizes and shapes, and pile them on the kitchen table? You also get bonus points, if you write/draw the data using colorful crayons! I call it the CLUTTER format which stands for: Chaotic Loosely Unstructured Tangled Tornado Explosion Records. It’s a new data storage method, and I’m pretty sure it will catch on.

[–] [email protected] 152 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now that's quality showerthinking

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

This is what it's all about right here.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 months ago

First post here that kind of fucked me up for a moment.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 months ago

this hit me like a mental flashbang. your wisdom is beyond all of us

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, and if we're playing my connect 4 rules, you can also aim for a Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday diagonal.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago (6 children)

You can also go 3D. January 8, February 5, March 4, April 8 would be 4 in a stack.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

thank goodness i can see time in 3d now. this wont end badly.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Seeing time in 3D, mayhaps like a Time Cube?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Holy shit, what an opener, and then the second paragraph is the perfect punchline. I think the wiki editors knew exactly what they were doing.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

What if we add a 4th dimension with years?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That’s the third dimension of time. You playing 6D chess over here

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

If you include multiple years, you can add one more dimension.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

If you see someone on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, that counts as only three days in a row, since Monday is on another row. If you see somebody on four consecutive Tuesdays, that would be four days in a column.

Like this

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What if the Mondays span different months?

Like 8/19, 8/26, 9/2, 9/9?

Now the Mondays are on another page or they're a swipe to the right

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Maybe!

Bonus!! Love this concept:

Some context:

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The bonus is absolutely terrifying

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you can, hope you make today a great day 🌈

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Looking at my life calendar every day for a few months really kicked my life into gear.

My advice is just open it up and look at it once per day. You don’t have to do anything else. Make sure it’s one where the current week is marked.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

You got me there!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago

This what a calendar does to a mf

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

Are you perchance Bobby Tables?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I see where this question is leading, and I don't think I like the implications

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

... Where is it leading?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Get your ducks in a column.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

No, it's boating related. Four days in a sail.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

I'm going to make the executive choice of saying that yes. Yes it does mean that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

I absolutely love this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Life is row-order; suck it, FORTRAN

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So whats first day of the year 4 years in a row?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

In a three dimensional calendar that could work, 4 days deep ?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There is no human entity, just human Cubics - as in 4 different people in a 4 corner stage metamorphic rotation.

4 corner quadrants compose Earth sphere, as 4corner room with 4corner dimensions, with 4corner perspectives and the 4seasons. Earth's 4corners rotate 4corners of TIME, creating 4simultaneous day Earth rotation, as if 4 different Worlds with their own day, for 4separate races with 4corner life stages, with outer limits of 4x4 great-grandparents.

(sorry, I couldn't resist!)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Evil Ass Educators Suppress Time Cube, and dumb ass students condone such evil. Cubeless institutions are spreaders of evil, and students lack mentality to challenge it.


I bestow upon myself the "Doctorate of Cubicism", for educators are ignorant of Nature's Harmonic Time Cube Principle and cannot bestow the prestigious honor of wisdom upon the wisest human ever.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'd say so.

Although I still think it's weird that "consecutive" became a requirement.

Edit: Not implying blame for OP about the requirement. But colloquially it does mean consecutive, and I think that's a little strange. Probably a weird etymology rabbit hole to look at sometime.

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