Decimal Time, Oskar Numbers and The Rock Python.

Such a lot has happened!

I think the best way of leading into all this is to cover some history of an Austrian mathematician called Erdos.
Erdos was, in some ways, an itinerant mathematician. That is to say, he wondered around Europe working for board and lodging. In this capacity he co-published some 1200 papers.
Later, while studying academic networking, some of his colleagues (not entirely jokingly) came up with the 'Erdos Number' system. They gave Erdos himself an Erdos Number of zero. Anyone who had co-published with him directly was given and Erdos Number of 1. If these people co-published with someone, they would give them an Erdos Number one value higher than their own. Those who have no publishing link to Erdos have an Erdos Number of infinity.

Upon learning all this, I decided that I needed to start a similar system for myself. I decided that since publishing papers is a bit beyond me at this stage, the interaction that I would track with Oskar Numbers would be the high-five. I explained the system to a few people and high-fived them. I now know of about 15 people with Oskar Numbers of varying magnitude. No doubt this number will grow as the high-fives spread.

I have also (with some prompting on the 'other people coming up with good ideas' front) decided that time needs to be decimalized. From now on you will use the following time keeping system:
The basic unit of time is the jasecond (often shortened to 'second). This is the equivalent of 4.32 seconds in the old system. There are 1000 jaseconds in an oskhour (often shortened to 'hour) and 10 oskhours in a day. What we used to call midnight is now 'time zero' and the time is counted from 0-10 oskhours after this time.

There are now 100 days in a year and the seasons no longer correspond to the year. There are 10 months, each of 10 days; Monember, Duember, Triember, Quadrember, Quintember, Hextember, Heptember, Octember, November and December.

Naturally, our system of angles will also have to be changed (angles being ultimately derived from our time keeping system). There are now 10 degrees in a circle (the Earth rotates one degree every oskhour). We will continue to use radians for simplicity of calculation, but I'm sure you'll all agree with me that 5 degrees=pi radians is much easier than 52.whatever it was under the old system.

In other news, I found out that each of the jungle book names that me and my fellow cub-leaders adopt has a meaning beyond its animal type:

Baloo- the bear- teacher

Rama- the great herd bull- leader

Chil- the kite- observer

and of course, me:

Ka- the rock python-
... wait for it...
TREE CLIMBING!

I am awesome, thank you for reading,
'Skat.