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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2022 10:08:27 GMT -6
Happy Easter to all! Eddie (Eagle Blues)
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Post by GuitarAttack Forum on Apr 20, 2022 16:16:17 GMT -6
Hope everybody had a good weekend.
John
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Post by antares on Apr 21, 2022 1:16:04 GMT -6
Indeed we did. One chocolate egg with eight salted caramel chocolates. I have two of those left and the egg's still intact, but it's looking apprehensive!
I hope you all had a good Easter weekend too. I'm a bit sorry to admit that the religious side of things goes over my head, but I unreservedly acknowledge the significance of Good Friday to Easter Monday for the faithful, even if the exact dates are obfuscated to vary with each passing year?
でつ e&oe ...
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Post by GuitarAttack Forum on Apr 22, 2022 9:21:48 GMT -6
Apparently it started in 325 AD/CE. Easter has to fall on a Sunday; specifically the first after the full moon after March 21. The first day Easter could possibly be is March 22; the last time that happened was 1818.
My son lives in New Orleans; this formula has a big impact on Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras is the day before Ash Wednesday, which always falls 46 days before Easter.
John
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Post by antares on Apr 23, 2022 2:11:17 GMT -6
Somewhere here I have at least one of the Psion Organisers. They were the predecessor of the superb Psion clamshell Organisers which in turn fell into obscurity after the tsunami of the "smart" 'phone. They ran on "OPL" (Organiser Programming Language) and I bought a few Psion programming books, memory blocks and other peripheral junk. One listing that I entered so laboriously was a routine to calculate when Easter falls, all you had to do was run the program and then enter a chosen year and it returned the date of Easter as far (theoretically) into the future or past as you desired. Eventually it crashed and wouldn't run again, and inputting the listing in the OPL again using the square matrix of keys was too much for anyone! ( the later Epoc OS was the rebranding of OPL (Organiser Programming Language) for the Psion 3, 5 & 7 series.)
Now I don't know how it calculated the first full moon after March 21st because it sure wasn't in the program listing, but until it crashed it was great. Maybe it queried the on board calendar and extrapolated from there because it wasn't "online". They were neat devices. I remember the staff in the British high street retail chain Marks & Spencer using them for stock control in the stores.
I well understand how such dates can have significance for the religious folks, even on superficial daily events that pass without much notice let alone such a central tenet as Easter.
Half of the chocolate egg went last night. For someone who seems to be on a diet more or less permanently, the lack of hesitation upon being offered some of my Easter egg is amazing, but she did buy it for me!
でつ e&oe ...
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