Aug 30, 2009
The Rampler #367 (8/26/09)
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“MASTERMIND” - 21:03 / 19.5 MB - Frank in NYC in the afternoon. The fancy part of 57th Street, Invicta Venom Reserve Watch,the game “Mastermind” from the 70s, logic, plastic shield pet peeve, Tourneau, Louis Vuitton cool purse window display, criminals, knockoffs, The King of Fighters, melancholy music, American Idol, schtick, decades, the millennium, the goose eggs, the Y2K bug, Cloverfield, horsies, music, dancers, and parallel parking with a horse cart.
(This recording was broadcast at the beginning of the 8/29/09 WFMU show, but somehow it had a lot of weird static, so here it is in good audio quality.)
I was actually playing an online version of Mastermind during my very first listen to the Overnightscape in early 2009! It was at a very basic game site, mah-jongg.ch. I see there are two versions now; “Mastermind II” must have been put on there sometime in the past couple of months.
Enjoy your Rampler Free week !!!!
Hate to disagree with you Frank, but decades, centuries and millennia ARE in accord with each other. They all start on the “1″ of each grouping, thus, January 1, 2001 was the first day of a new decade, a new century and a new millennium.
1980, 1990, 2000 and 2010 are all a part of the decades that precede them.
Our next new decade shall begin on January 1, 2011.
The logic is thus: Although the current Gregorian calendar was not adopted until 1582, it’s retroactive factor traces back to a first year, being the year 1, so the first decade was 1 – 10, the first century 1 – 100, and the first millennia 1 – 1000. Neither the Gregorian, nor the previous Julian calendars have a “Year 0″ which would have been the first year, so decades, centuries and millennia all start on the “1″ year.
Looking forward to a Ramplerful week next week!
The definition of “decades” in this case is the more casual sense, which is in common usage. “The Eighties”, for example, began January 1, 1980 and ended December 31, 1989.
If you were counting decades, you might say that the “199th Decade” began January 1, 1981 and ended December 31, 1990.
However, the decade system that is in use these days is the more casual system and not the more formalized system.