Don't forget, I have my own holiday as well: February 10th in Lowell,
Massachusetts is Michael Scott Lorrey Day.... and January 19th to Feb
10th is the Mikeymas holiday season, to be celebrated by much artistic
expression, shooting matches, skiing races, punning contests, and
procrastination seminars...
Anders Sandberg wrote:
>
> "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> writes:
>
> > > On the day December 25, 1642, Isaac Newton was born.
> >
> > Did anyone ever compile a transhumanist calendar?
>
> You mean something like August Comte's positivist calendar?
> http://personal.ecu.edu/mccartyr/comte.html
>
> I think it will quickly get dated. However, I think something like the
> Swatch beat combined with Vinge's use of kiloseconds, megaseconds etc
> might become useful (except for those pseky relativist corrections).
>
> I did a small list of transhumanist holidays at
> http://www.algonet.se/~aleph/Trans/Cultural/Fun/holidays.html
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Anders Sandberg Towards Ascension!
> asa@nada.kth.se http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/
> GCS/M/S/O d++ -p+ c++++ !l u+ e++ m++ s+/+ n--- h+/* f+ g+ w++ t+ r+ !y
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