Year of Linux (humor)

First, I'm going to try to designate articles that are meant to be funny. Hope this doesn't spoil the joke for anyone, but we had a few people confused over some of the more subtle jokes. Anyway, Mike Perry wrote in with proof (?) that 1998 is in fact the year of Linux. Its pretty funny. Hit the link below and wonder at the lengths Linux users will go to. Well, since I had no homework this weekend, and with Pi day having just passed uneventful yesterday, I decided to find out what is the most number of Friday the 13ths we can have in our calender, and when it occurrs. I knew we just had 2 in a row, so I suspected that this year might have the record..

So I wrote this little program to open a pipe to cal, and count up all the Friday the 13th's each year over a span of years.

My suspicions were confirmed. 1998 contains the most Friday the 13th's possible in our calender. But, that's not all. I remembered that our calender repeats itslef every 28 years. So I ran a quick check, and my suspicions were again confirmed. The last time we had this many Friday the 13th's was 1970, the very same year UNIX came into being and began to dominate the computer industry.

ed:Spoooooooky isn't it?