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Today Is EPOCH Day 15000
A great number of people wrote in to note that it's
EPOCH Day 15000, so don't expect the post office to run, and I'm pretty sure the markets will be closed. And presumably your employer gave you a paid vacation day?
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And if Slashdot would have accepted my story earlier that I tried posting a few times, you could have joined in on the countdown and parties. Somehow, I knew that Slashdot would do this. Posting things after the fact.
Nevertheless, we had a pretty good party in Bloomington last night with around 40 people, DJ, free pizza, cake and so on. We all had fun and it was a good social outing. Maybe someone will post a picture of our Epoch Day 15000 party cake. If I could get my phone out of this funky state its in I could post a video.
Official Day 15000 website
And it's my birthday. If only I were 15 again... =/
By using "Appendages of Dawn", of course.
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It's Australia Day you insensitive clod!
So EPOCH day 15000 was marked with a trip to the beach, beer and a barbie.
Well obviously the Epoch switch delayed processing of your story. Moreover I suspect it also explains why the slashdot's look changed and now seems to be a broken interface, only showing some of the comments.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Whats so special about the number 15000 ? I could understand if it was 10000 or 100000 or, for more binary based folks 16383 or 16384, but 15000?
"You'll get over it"
I'll be saving my champagne for Epoch day 16,384 (otherwise known as 2^14). A little under 4 years to go...
We usually don't have surprise dates on "school nights". I thought he just wanted to keep me away from the State of the Union Show so I would not be grumpy the rest of the week.
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It's also Republic Day here in India too, celebrating them (I'm just visiting from London) finally ratifying their own constitution and throwing off the last of the laws imposed on them by the perfidious British oppressors. Having witnessed the independence of spirit and disdain for tyrannical rules most Indians exhibit on the road first-hand (like, you know, all driving the same way along a carriageway), I'm frankly amazed the Raj lasted longer than a day and a half.
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Is CmdrTaco really as lazy as I am? That, my friends, is sad.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
I totally forgot to buy cards to send out.
Every day is a holiday somewhere in the world.
Today is also:
Duarte Day: Dominican Republic
Foundation Day: (Santos) Brazil
Republic Day: India
Earth Calendar for today.
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I'm waiting for Epoch Second 1300000000, which will be Sun, 13 Mar 2011 07:06:40 GMT
All those zeros will ease the pain of 2011 being the first year since 1977 that no one could make year-shaped glasses for new year's eve that actually allow you to see out of both eyes.
echo $(( $( date +%s ) / 86400 ))
Yo mamma is so fat, she sucks. Oh wait...
EPOCH fail!
"Now gluttony and exploitation serves eight!" - TV's Frank
I'm waiting for epoch second 4E 00 00 00, which will be June 21, 2011 2:20:48am UTC....and even more significantly, epoch second 50 00 00 00 July 13, 2012 11:01:20 am UTC.
You did celebrate epoch second 40 00 00 00 which was Jan 10, 2004, 1:37:04pm UTC, didn't you?
You celebrated by "having" an 8 inch not-quite-human-proportioned plastic doll? You aussies have strange traditions.
Well at least on the day anyway... around 10 AM in the morning. Parents had hoped for a just-after-midnight birth on 1-1-1970, but that didn't happen.
It's spelled "e-e-p-o-k".
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The Christians had Y2K, but nothing awful happened.
I'm a bit more frightened of the events leading up to the runup to 12-12-12 though.
(But does the Mayan ruckus count the calendar switch in the middle ages?)
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Uh, that applied to anyone using computer software that used the Christian dating system - nothing "religious" about it, just a convention.
And if a lot of us in IT had not been scrutinizing, testing, and modifying, Y2K would have been a major mess.
You're welcome.
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With 10K epochs at 27, 54 and 82 years. I had the luck of noting one of my epochs. It was sobering.
Hats off to the classy approach to being swamped by /. linkage: http://twitpic.com/3tmjo6 Grace under pressure. Cheers!
just look at the related post! damn!
Why o why, i posted this like 2 hours before, but you get the frontpage, i don't understand how this works, you even copied my title!!
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RFC: Is it time to codify Epoch celebration traditions? What should they be? New Years eve has large parties, kissing someone at Midnight, Champagne, Time-Square, Dropping a large lit ball, Music, College Football Bowl Games,Rose Parade... So what is appropriate for Epoch day? First should major celebrations be a power of ten or a Power of Two? Since they come at less than one per years should the celebrations be bigger and more lavish? Come on Slashdotters, should we be honoring history? or should we ceremonially burn obsolete technologies instead of dropping the Ball? For instance we could have blown up a bunch of floppies instead of fireworks, Dropped a ball made of CD's instead of crystal.... Food: Pizza? Chinese, anything from the local take-out? Drink? Red Bull, Starbucks Parade: Floats made entirely of obsolete computer technology. Discuss
That will be Day 16384. Much more suitable for a geeky celebration.
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Apparently the new design of Slashdot include even more pointless stories.
It's Australia Day you insensitive clod!
So EPOCH day 15000 was marked with a trip to the beach, beer and a barbie.
You went to the beach with a tall, plastic blonde?
Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...
Over here it's "stop wasting time on slashdot and get back to work!" day.
... it will be Back to the Future ...
Actually most of the laws are still in place. I mean, the legal foundation of India was built during the Raj (as were the railways and goodness knows what else).
Did everyone forget the Year 2038 problem? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
Go, ask our Aussie friend if he's wearing a thong :) (Jandel to us Kiwis, flip-flop I believe in North America)
no, there are days that are not holidays anywhere. For example, 30 January 2011, not a holiday anywhere. It happens to be an "awareness day", World Leprosy Day, but that doesn't count as a "holiday".
15000?
Wake me up for 16384!
That's when we gonna party!
Maaaate!! yeah me too. And don't forget the fireworks, I bet no-one else had such a big bash for Epoch Day 15000.
Someday EPOCH time will be the what CE dates are today, especially if we start colonizing other planets.
So yes, a paid holiday for us! Though the 27th is now almost over...
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no sig for you. come back one year.
You're clueless. Y2K wasn't a "Christian thing", and the Mayan calendar ending isn't on 12-12-12, it's on 12-20-12.
And you thought Y2K was a big deal.
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