Re: You Are In A Groundhog Day Scenario

On 2008-05-12, mralls@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 <mralls@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Scenario:  The day after you read this you wake up at whatever time
> you woke up on the day you first read this message (Day 0).  The next
> time you fall asleep you again wake up on Day 0.  If you stay up for
> 24 hours straight you are jolted into waking up on Day 0.  If you die
> you wake up on Day 0.  Basically you are in a situation that is the
> same as Phil Connors in one of my favorite movies, Groundhog Day.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day_%28film%29
>
> You don't know if your condition will end like Phil's did when he had
> "a good day" and became at peace with himself.  Maybe if you improve
> yourself enough it will end.  Maybe it will end randomly.  Maybe it
> will never end.  For now, all you know is that you keep repeated the
> same day over and over again.
>
> What would you do if you were in a Groundhog Day scenario?

Lots and lots of reading.  SF, of course, but also non-fiction math and
physics.  Practice various things I don't have time for.  Presumably
the "purely physical" changes of exercising won't stick, so I wouldn't
bother with that.

-- 
Aaron Denney
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