my own minor numbers obsession

[lehser]

Overheard in the elevator this morning (c 8 am): "Oh, well, you have about, what, 20 more hours in today to figure it out."

I realize I'm a data-obsessed fool, but to me there's a very big difference between being 4 hours into the day and being 8 hours into the day (and therefore between having 20 or 16 hours left).  Or maybe I'm just a sleep-obsessed parent.  But that was strange.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think the statement is accurate, if you're willing to stay up until 4am to solve the problem...

[lehser.livejournal.com]

In context ("that could have been my good deed for the day"), I'm not so sure. It kind of required (to my ear and that of another hearer I was with) the canonical day that will be over at midnight.