One 60th of a Second by James A Chambers 1

1/60th of a second by James A. Chambers   One millisecond is to one second as one second is to 16.67 minutes.1 Chance… Take a chance…  Meet by chance.    Exciting, unexpected, unwelcomed, but always to be counted on. Humans can’t live without chance. Some try. Some lock themselves in their room; leave nothing to chance; others seek chance like a drug… “I can pass this guy he’s drivin’ too slow… I’ll take a chance.2   BAM!!!3   Those kinds of chances are dangerous; I prefer the more cerebral kind.      [  >>>>> FORWARD ]   ------------------- 1 In Canada, the National Research Council is the federal agency responsible for official time. The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is one of the most accurate and flexible means of sending time over the Internet. It can be used by almost any type of computer. Starting March 1, 2011, the old TIME protocol on port 37(RFC-868) will no longer be offered from the NTP servers below. However a new time service for the old TIME protocol is now offered from a new server, time4.nrc.ca. Users are encouraged to switch to the NTP protocol described below, for a more accurate time service.  2 “Every action of every person either is or is not due to that person himself. Of those not due to himself some are due to chance, the others to necessity; of these latter, again, some are due to compulsion, the others to nature. Consequently all actions that are not due to a man himself are due either to chance or to nature or to compulsion.” [Aristotle, W. Rhys Roberts, Ingram Bywater, and Friedrich Solmsen. 1954. Rhetoric. New York: Modern Library. First written 350 B.C. Translated by W. Rhys Roberts Bekker # 1369a] In 1831 August Immanuel Bekker (1785-1871) published what was then the most authoritative edition of Aristotle’s works in Greek. This edition was in two volumes with continuous pagination. On each page, the Greek text was laid out in two columns. Between the columns line numbers were printed. Bekker numbers reference the text by page number, column, and line number of the Bekker edition. Because these numbers are printed in every modern Greek edition and in different translations of Aristotle’s work, they enable precise reference to Aristotle, even for someone using a different edition. 3 Oxford Dictionary - bam Pronunciation: bam exclamation             1. used to imitate the sound of a hard blow or to convey something happening abruptly. Origin - 1920s: imitative.   Share | [Distillate © HA&L + James A. Chambers  |  {from the Greek bios} -- the course of a life.] [This article is sponsored by Tourism Hamilton: Supporting Hamilton as a City of Creativity. Acknowledged with thanks by the Editors and Samizdat Press.]