Fall Ponderings

Ponderings 11/14/2010

Day Light Savings:
1A. Why are places normally open at 2am allowed to close at 1:01 am on daylight savings?
Lets say I travel to SF and land at 1:59 am on daylight savings day. As I turn on my cell phone the time has turned back an hour to 1:00 am. I want to go club for an hour and think it is 1:01 am but the place is closed and I am given false hope.

1B. Why does Arizona not follow daylight savings? It makes no sense to me. Either other states should follow Arizona if daylight savings loses money or Arizona should join the rest of the States.

1C. Does day light savings actually work? Before Daylight savings it was dark until 7:20 am in Seattle and would get dark again around 5:30-6:00. With daylight savings we get from 6:20-4:30-5:00. Are more people awake between 6:00 pm - 7:20 am, or betweeb 5:00pm - 6:20 am? I keep hearing we do it for the farmers so then does Arizona not have farmers?

2. A la carte vs. A la mode - Why did we adopt these into English? Instead of "By itself or with ice cream?

3. Why is having a clean shave more formal than a beard or a little scruff?

4. Grocery store deals: Why are some deals 5 for $10 but you can buy only 1 and still get the deal but then other deals require you to get 5 for the deal.

5. Did Play Station just come out with the Wii remote 2 years late?

6. Expert picks: When you go to any sports site they will always have a section for expert picks. Who decides those reporters are experts? If any expert does not have a 65% or higher pick rate they should be removed from the expert pick section for a season.