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Fridays and Sundays
Thursday, March 15 2018
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In the remote workplace, for whatever reason (mostly a single article in The Onion), Tuesday has a reputation that most workplaces reserve for Mondays. Tonight during video happy hour, we all began researching what days of the week various calamaties had happened on. 9Eleven had happened on a Tuesday (as did Benghazi), but most of the days we researched that live in infamy happened on Fridays (the sinking of the Lusitania, the crucifixion of Jesus Christ) or Sundays (Pearl Harbor, the reanimation of the Son of God). Finding the day of the week for a famous historical event usually requires two Google searches: the first to find the date and the second to find the day of the week of that date, since it's rare for the day of the week of an event to be considered relevant in reference materials. Such complex queries were proving to be beyond the capabilities of a Google Home; I kept interrogating mine for the answers to these things, since the lady robot's spoken answers could contribute to the jovial banter in the virtual room. But all she kept saying was, "Sorry, I can't help with that yet."
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