Comments on: Millenial moment…

By: McD

McD — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:52:27 +0000

Anything that Frank Paynter and Betsy Devine think is cool is worth reading about… based upon a few hundred blog posts.

I’m considering re-setting my computer’s system clock to enjoy this special event a few more times before just moving on: “Nothing to see here, folks. Move on.”

Your post did remind me of the dozens of odometer events that I’ve anticipated over the years… only to notice miles later that I didn’t see the actual roll over event. Short on attention span… long on comment.

McD

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 22:48:57 +0000

You know what surprises me... I have to say it here because Betsy's not allowing comments... what surprises me is not that I took this pretty much at face value, but that Betsy Devine, a certified smart woman, went along with my dumbness.

By: Charles Follymacher

Charles Follymacher — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 21:03:26 +0000

Great job, Gary. My official line is that my instincts were whispering that this smelled funny, but I was too lazy to think it thru.

Riight. I’m about as deep as a teacup saucer.

Anyway, next auto I buy, I’m going to keep a camera (and fresh batteries) in the glovebox just so I can catch a shot like Stu’s. For real, that’s a keeper.

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 19:39:26 +0000

Nobody should ever credit me with being a deep thinker. Thanks Gary! I’ll slap my forehead and say “duh…” for each century. But, well, it SOUNDED true.

By: Betsy Devine

Betsy Devine — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 19:36:18 +0000

Frank, you and I are sooo busted. I quoted your “millennial” comment in my blog. Just got email from Gary Farber (http://amygdalagf.blogspot.com/ ) pointing out that we’ll see the same thing in 2106, 2206, 2306, etc. So what does that make this…a centurial moment?

By: Gary Farber

Gary Farber — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 19:30:13 +0000

Hi. Having just read about this on Betsy Devine’s blog, I e-mailed her to point out, and then figured I might as well mention the following here.

“01:02:03 04/05/06″ will take place again nine more times this millenium, in 2106, 2206, 2306, etc. No?

Maybe there’s something I’m missing here; I must be, because I can’t see how this isn’t a once every one hundred years thing (it’s also purely arbitrary according to just a single calender, but that also seems obvious).

Anyway, apologies for missing whatever I’m missing.

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 10:01:22 +0000

Good one Stu. You must have had to pull off the road to snap it. (I did a double-take on the km/h metric too… don’t see many speedometers that go up to 260 around here!)

By: Stu Savory

Stu Savory — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 05:03:02 +0000

Frank,

here’s a simple-pleasure photo for you

http://www.savory.de/1234567890.jpg

Stu

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:14:03 +0000

I wuz counting up from one, Charles Trubblemacher.

By: McD

McD — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:45:27 +0000

And if you want to sleep through the first event you can catch the it again at 1:02:03 PM with a clock that doesn’t use 24 hour display.

My VCR’s will still be off by 1 hour due to the recent daylight savings adjustment and the mental effort required to navigate through the menu’s.