Welcome to year 2000. I do not need to remind you all that the 3rd
millennium begins on January 1, 2001, because there is no year 0.
There is also a year where October 4 is followed by October 15, but
I'm pretty sure no one here is claiming to be born in the 17th
century. Also, in the Chinese calendar, we're in the last quarter of
the 5th millennium.
I hope you've never wondered if there were people who were affected by
the dreaded Y2K bug, but, in fact, whole populaces were erased from
the face of the internet, and history now states that there were six
billion odd people alive on either January 1, 1900 or January 4, 1980.
In fact, people had not been assured of a February 29 this year, thus
had to jump up and down at 11:45 PM on the 28th just to make sure.
I did notice that staring at three zeroes in the date has this hypnotic
effect.
I can quote myself by saying that time is the enemy, but I'd probably
be quoting someone more popular, and with a high probability of being
dead. I still wear my wristwatch/manacle. Did you notice how much
people are now constantly reminded that we just so happened to be
around two thousand revolutions past a point relative to a flaming
ball of gas, which itself had revolved in an arc around the center of
the Milky Way, which itself is in motion, which is not in the least
bit more significant than right now? I keep thinking that if I was in
high school, I'd have to wait for a girl to ask me out.
The fact remains that time is a name, and that all names are important
only to writers and census takers. And people who need to know things
to keep sane.
But here I am, glancing at a watch and getting jolted when it says
either 8:47 or 11:11.
Maybe when the telephone to person ratio reaches 1:1, we'll all have
our names changed to a 7-digit code, plus and area and country code.
Or should I jump the gun and replace the space between my first name
and my last with an at sign?
It's not paranoia when they are tapping your phones. Maybe names will
be replaced by a single note of a paticular frequency. That would
work well with the cellular phone industry. Or will we encode our
genetic code on a CD so that we can make like The Sims by creating
offsping through Monster Rancher?
The best form of contraception is a phone wire.
Switch
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