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Well, before the world goes awry and leaves us in a state of catastrophe, we recorded one last show. We talk about our own Y2K preparation and the recent DVD-related news. If you can still get to a computer, it might be worth a listen.
anti-first posters are lame to.. no offense personaly =)
please understand: I only did that to piss off the l33+ f1r5+ p05+ k1dd135
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I rather like cows.
i did some moderating, and the following was the result. notice the sequence of numbers that designate which posts i moderated. december 28?
Moderating 99/12/28/1622239
+1 (Informative) Servers are down where I work. (99/12/28/1622239-22, 3 points left)
+1 (Informative) Site going down for 1.75 days (99/12/28/1622239-25, 2 points left)
+1 (Informative) ebay (99/12/28/1622239-34, 1 points left)
+1 (Informative) kepp it up (99/12/28/1622239-37, 0 points left) You don't have any moderator points.
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If your site is down, you need a new IS manager (Score:5, Insightful)
by Bruce Perens (bruce@perens.com) on Friday December 31, @10:44 AHS (#26)
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What a nice last thought, hearing Rob's voice before the world is blown to bits.. (or something)...
Happy New Year everyone, I hope everyone has a safe and very enjoyable time tonight...
-D.Alphaeus
-- Java is not a Jedi trait... "do, or do not, there is no try" --
We are running a medium sized ISP, and I'm on guard to{day|night}. Every services are running fine.
What did we to prepare ourself to Y2K? Honestly not much, the more important part of our preparation was to not be dumb (hardware and software). The information available on the net was more than enough to be reasonably informed of what to really avoid (hard & soft).
Do I think that our problems are over? Certainly not, I beg that "real" Y2K problem - real meaning: non obvious either by the symptoms or either by the cause) will emearge in the following days/month et even years.
Nicolas
lurn too spel, dewd.
Well, i wanna hear this before the end of the year, so i think i'll use the winamp stream =)
Oooh.. Nice work by the mods. This was moderated offtopic about 15 seconds after it was posted.
I personally think the real y2k problem for me is going to be the endless number of phone calls, knocks on my office door, and my name being yelled in order to tell me that they have a y2k problem. I predict Excel crashes will be blamed on y2k (even though it did the same thing in 1999), blue screens, slow loading web pages, printers out of paper, dogs that pee in the house, stubbed toes, etc...
I have a solution. I call my fellow BOFH's to follow suit. Tomorrow I am going to a sporting goods store to buy a ping pong paddle that will be boldly marked "THE Y2K SMACK". It will be in my posession at all times. Blame y2k on something dumb, and SMACK!
Any other suggestions of what to do to the users would be appreciated *grin*
Just wondering but how does MS-DOS not qualify as an OS? I know how Winblowz 3.x & 9x don't count as OSes, since they are merely GUIs which actually use DOS as their actual OS. If DOS isn't actually an OS then what operating system is running a DOS-based computer??
I knew I secretly had Unix installed on my machine years ago!!
Who said MS-DOS wasn't an operating system? Hell I still prefer it over 95 & 98
1 MIN TILL MIDNIGHT GMT!
EVERYONE HOLD YOUR BREATH!!
Well if anyone is interested I just got up this morning 10:50am Jan 1 2000, Sydney, Australia.
The only unusual events I noticed was the buses were displaying "just married" on the (electronic) information signs instead of the normal "sorry not in service" line, and the strap on my girlfriends show broke. I'm not sure whether these problems were Y2K related or not.
I haven't checked my bank balance yet but obviously power and telecommunications are ok. (pppd connection has been pretty crappy though).
It just went path 11:00am so I guess none of the GMT problems have affected me.
Well, GMT hit midnight a few minutes ago, and nobody is reporting any problems so far. I hate to say it, but I told you so.
midnight GMT
happened ten minutes ago
the lights are still on
Irritable, left-wing and possibly humorous bumper stickers and t-shirts
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my 486's died!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the russain presi=dent stepped down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 4 missles launched from the US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we're all screwed!!!!!!!!!!!!! everything2 crashed again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the fones don't work in antartica!!!!!!!!!!! Geeks in space stopped!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the rednecks are coming!!!!!!!!!!! oh well, at least my gameboy still works.
HAL 7000, fewer features than the HAL 9000, but just as homicidal!
Oh GOD its happened!
Russia just accidently launched all of its nukes at Michigan!
Everyone go to http://www.webefucked.com for details
oh well its just Michigan
no big loss
If the IRS isn't Y2K-compliant they'll be checking all of the returns by hand. And I can see them disallowing all kinds of deductions. If it is bad, but not as bad as you think, you may be stuck with the full cost of the shopping spree.
The net will not be what we demand, but what we make it. Build it well.
are in "On The Beach" by Nevil Shute, for anyone who doesn't know. There's also the crew of a US nuclear sub that happens to be deep underwater when the bombs begin to fly. Good book; I had to read it for school about eight years ago and it made quite an impression.
Hey, I know I'm not the easiest guy to get along with around here, but for those of you whose clocks haven't struck midnight, here's hoping that everyone has a very fun and safe time tonight. Seeya in 2000...
Cheers, and this time I really mean it,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Fuck the moderators.
This was the best shit I've seen posted here all day. Beats Katz's fucking god damned piece of shit posts hands down. I laughed at this, whereas I fucking want to light Katz on fire and piss on him every time I read one of his posts.
Moderators: Might I suggest (5, Informative)?
Well It is now 0019 UTC and the net seems to be up I have power and my computer is still working. So I think we will be ok. Congradulation to all the people that put is many many hours (and even years) of hard work so that the roll over went as smothly as it did. best of luck to all my fellow nerds in the new "20" prefix :)
Y2K for me
Is over four hours away.
I'm bored of this shit.
Novell Netware in German = Guten Abend !
Well,
some said to me that they regarded DOS only as an interrupt handler, not an os that really provides
services to the user programms. Remind yourself that it was common tactics for many DOS games just
to forget the ugly and complete insufficient DOS services and play on bare metal.
Each program had its display and printer drivers.
Greetings from the next millennium.
Well it is 0025 UTC and every thing seem ok. The net is up, power is on, I do not see any ICBMs over head. Well I think that a congradulating is in order to all the people that spent many many houres and ever years working so that this roll over could go as somthly as it did good job.
:)
Well I just wanted to wish all my fellow nerds a good time in the new "20" date prefix
Any chance of posting a transcript next time for people who have slow connections? Or how about ASF format for those who don't want to use non-WindowsMedia streaming audio? Thanks.
Blah! The world didn't end. It would have been convenient ;)
2600 seems like the Y2K bug has claimed a page... heh...
Top Ten Ways to make Y2K fun:
10. Play REM's "It's the end of the world as we know it" loudly. Repeatedly. Until the VP comes in and begs you to stop playing that damned song.
9. Point out, as UserFriendly did, that Y2K isn't till 2048, so you're going home.
8. If your boss is a Pagan, at the rollover of each hour, drop to your knees and loudly pray to the Lord God for salvation from the "cursed bug". Make your speech flowery with thee's, thou's, and use the word "abomination" at least three times.
7. Annoy your co-workers by reminding them that it's not really the millenium.
6. Wear a black trenchcoat, especially if you are not in the habit of doing so. Glance nervously at your watch and threaten to leave early.
5. At 11:59, scream loudly into the phone: "What do you mean, you have another Y2K jumbo Patch I need to install!?!?!". Then leave.
4. Rent a rider truck. Drive it to work.
3. Make regular comments about the sudden shortage of high-nitrate fertilizer.
2. Get a 20 camera flashes (the kind that come on poles). Set them up outside your window. Set them off at 12:00 PM, while screaming "Get Down!"
1. And the number one way to enjoy Y2K: Quit this stupid job. After all, you're a UNIX geek, you can find a job tomorrow.
Surgeon general's warning: following these suggestions may be hazardous to your future earnings. This was intended as humour, and is not intended to advocate or condone any illegal activities.
-- Slashdot sucks.
MEEPT!!!!!
MEEPT!!!!! will now share a poem, inspired by his years of y2k preparation, thanks to the brilliant individual who penned y2kchaos.com.
[a poem - to the tune of Pink Floyd's "The Wall"]
I musn't let them
take away
my y2k
i make lots of cash
i'm a consultant
i monger fear
oh no it's gone
i can't monger fear
2000's here
and nothing's wrong
am i too old
is it too late?
[end poem]
This MEEPT!!!!! has been brought to you by the letter Q, and the numbers 5, 8, and 498.2
MEEPT!!!!!
Hey, everybody. Yesterday, I was totally despondent over this Y2K thing. But this morning, I got up to hear the news to see whether the world would first end in New Zealand and Australia. As my fellower slashdotters from down under can attest. The world is quite a safe place after all. I am so glad I didn't go out and stock up on a lot of stuff. Now, I can really stick to my New Year's resolution of spending less and making more money.
I'm so happy. Here are my plans for tonight! I'm going to hear the honorable Bishop Desmond Tutu give a prayer at the National Cathedral, then I'm going to see some fireworks!
Life is grand. I kiss you all!
If you download the MP3 and look at the ID3 tag under Genre it says "Pop". Very funny Rob and Neal and whoever else.
Anonymous Hay goes in and I come out...
Here in my cozy town in the hills the power just went out. No lights but cars in any direction. The battery on my laptop is dying, so these may be the last words I write. Is anyone else out there? Is anyone left? Really. No, really! I feel priveledged beyond any computer geek on the planet to have actually lost power on New Year's Eve 2000. Can you beat that? I should win an award or something.
Its only 5 PM here, can't wait to get piss drunk in a few hours though :)
your girlfriend wears a strap-on?!?!
Well, I know I won't be going to the grocery story for any of the basics for the next month. (Contact lense solution and cleaner, toilet paper, paper towels, alcohol, rubbing alcohol, toothpaste, soap, caffiene, soda, green beans, corn, vitamins, baking soda, cerial, and who knows what else.)
:)
So, while Katz has decided to opt out of Y2K, I've decided to opt-out of the month of January. In retrospect, I do feel a bit silly for paying my rent in cash.
Of course, a good terrorist even could change all that... (that's my easy out).
Wow, The clocks in my Datacenter have been reporting 1/1/80 91:00 since the GMT rollover. If I was hourly I'd be racking up the OT! Wow, I've never stayed up untll 91:00 hours before, yet I am suprisingly not tired. Must be all the coffie.
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Yes the site is still up, just can't get to it from www.2600.com, click here if you want to goto the normal site
Where do they get the money to purchase 120+ CD's?
You need a girlfriend. Or a boyfriend. Or something. Badly. =)
*BUT*... if you're that hard up (so to speak) for Lara's pixelized nipples, there are hidden goodies in the games where you can get your fill o' Croft pr0n. I can dig up the hidden moves and send 'em to ya in an email if you like =)
--
rickf@transpect.SPAM-B-GONE.net (remove the SPAM-B-GONE bit)
"People will pay big bucks for the luxury of ignorance."
See ya on the other side! :)
blah.
if you figgered that out, good on youe.
...that the reason the world didn't end today was because the geeks were right all along, and the turn of the millenium is still a whole year away.
Don't mortgage off those bunkers just yet, ye loonies.
--
It's October 6th. Where's W2K? Over the horizon again, eh?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I plan to blame any problems I have with my servers at work on EL Nino.
So I boot up the ole' Windows machine here... everything's working fine (10pm EST, dec.31st), until that "Critical Update Notification" message comes up. Okay, sure... coulda sworn this wasn't here the other day.
;-) Daltorak
So I check in with Windows Update... and what's the critical update? It's a Y2K patch for Microsoft Outlook... one of the most often-used Microsoft applications in the business environment! I have to say, considering MS has been fairly good about getting Y2K updates out for their software (in some cases, multiple patches cause they didn't -quite- catch everything), I think releasing a patch just a couple of days before "the day" is horrific.
Perhaps I should be staying tuned, just in case they discover something 'at the last minute'. After all, you gotta consider that, even though nothing major in terms of computer failures have been reported thus far, that probably just indicates that computers of any real value to society aren't running Windows...
Injured worker wins against Mattel, Mattel still retaliates!
All I can say about that last show is that you guys are some sick puppies! but i9t was great, very interesting, and full of gibberish!
Since we are the most technologically advanced country, (and based on Linux, I think we'll be safe and sound, so we can listen to more of these great shows...
aye.. this Gin and OJ is getting to me head.. am I still typing right?
Fook
The price we pay for immortality... is death. Narnia The Great Fall
yet another fucking yy2k haiku
made friends with jack d.
hes such a grood friend to me
i can''t see the screen
This sig is false.
in Japan that is. http://www.cnn.com/1999/TECH/computing/12/31/japan .nukes.idg/
MEEPT!!!!!!
The ever-scraping-his-butt-on-the-driveway Meept would like tto make an annoucement to his simillarly drunken slapdash friends:
Meept is officialy running for president of Slapdashg.
When Meept is elected,
many
will
MEEPT!!!!!!
no more unsubstantiated rumor stories
no more stories to inflate stock prices
No more editorial stink
MEEPT!!!!!!
[ a poem ]
im calling my attorneyMEEPT!!!!!!
this Message was brought to you by the friends of Meept for president of slapdash.
I don't know if anyone pointed out to the general public yet, but the fact that no y2k bugs are actually taking place might be taken by some people that it was a h0ax. But in fact, that means that everyone did what they were supposed to do, and squashed 90% of those out there. I say good job to all of you y2k exterminators.
Now we all must brace for the impact of new years into California, where most will probably occur...
There used to be a counter counting down hours / minutes towards year 2000 ... it stopped working at about 18:00 CET ... displaying weird shit. Wonder if it's some hacker ... Imagine that, the panel starts displaying "I'm 3r77t I 0wn y0u!" Whoups, quickly pull out the plug!
Counter culture is that fuzzy thing by the sink. The one that ate the wood spoon.
MEEPT has been reborn as a gift of the Lords of Ethanol.
"Y2k" as a raging virulent social craze is undeniably almost over.
All is right with the world. Eat a mint, take a pint, and be at peace.
It nothing happened it was a fraud.
Plenty of emerging countries had sever shortages of resources when dealing with Y2K problems. If nothing went wrong in these countries then the whole thing was a hoax.
Why not party when it's supposed to be :)
HIC...up.
this is a test
I'm sure he'd like to blame Y2K, but I just think that the father of the internet was relying on Microsoft to help out his boss. They do hae about 25 minutes left in Washington.
My server namelookup doesn't seem to be working had to use http://209.207.224.40/ to get here? Must be a local host problem.
Check out the Star Trek site. It seems that they're doing another time travel episode. It's ("Fair Haven") airing on 1/1/1900! ROFL.
but go the first post of 2000? I be trolling but I dont care!!
first millenium post!!!
Happy New Year (eastern standard time).
It's here
the one and only time this will ever be a *good* post..
Happy New Year All!
I hope, anyway. WOOHOO!!! I WIN!
This is the first post from post-Y2K! Happy new year!!!
I'm in +1 GMT and it's now 6 pm and nothing happened except for some fire downtown.
If you are one of the usual doomsayers or loonies waiting for armageddon or whatnot, I could use the situation to mock you, laugh at you or recommend a sanity check etc.
But that would be cheap. Instead I'll drop my pants and shake my derrier at you with style!
( \ ) ( | ) ( / )
And all is well.. well the cell tower is out but it isnt very reliable
first
DOS=disk operating system
it gives you access to your files and a few basic services. other than that, programs are on their own. it's not a complete.. um.. operating evironment.
win9x are operating systems. ask someone who did CS what an OS is. it's the software that provides resource management - eg. memory and CPU allocation. Win9x does all that without calling DOS, so they're OS'.
IIRC, Win9x uses DOS for around 10 functions, like getting the BIOS date, Novell ID. something like that anyway.
Well, to put it bluntly, Y2K came around and after all the talk about how it would screw up the world as we know it, Jack Squat occurred. No power outage, no missle launches, nothing. I hate to think how this going to be remembered by future generations. "And now class, we discuss 'The Panic of 1999' ". P.S. What happens to the cartoon "After Y2K" now? It's going to sort of end up like Star Trek, which has Earth breaking out into WWIII in the early 1990's (the origin of Khan I think).
Well, to put it bluntly, Y2K came around and after all the talk about how it would screw up the world as we know it, Jack Squat occurred. No power outage, no missle launches, nothing. I hate to think how this going to be remembered by future generations. "And now class, we discuss 'The Panic of 1999' ".
P.S. What happens to the cartoon "After Y2K" now? It's going to sort of end up like Star Trek, which has Earth breaking out into WWIII in the early 1990's (the origin of Khan I think).
posting from the afterlife..... sorry ;0)
-DAVEO
Auld lang syne and all that crap.
spoo
firzt post of y2k, all y'all bitches!!!!!
Hrm. Maybe I shouldnt' have posted Anonymously. That way I dont get credit!
*breathe*
I can see the fireballs rising from my house in albany.... so horrible...
who knows where the bombs fell from, maybe russion maybe china..... I saw several birds fly from the local rapid response silo installations.. pant pant...
may god have mercy on us all
Dammit. Did it again.
I shouldnt' have posted anonymously. That first post of the year was mine! I swear.
No, it just means I'm out of a job. :)
- PenguinDude, bored because my friends have decided to play trivial pursuit drinking game.
Wow im so 37337!
wouldn't pissing on him after lighting him on fire put the fire out? dude, think before you post. Besides that just chill, Jon ain't that bad, I don't see you posting any articles, just more AC bullshit.
LOL at 9:40pm Pacific, not one of the "First post of the Millennium" is time stamped after 11:30pm on Dec 31st. Dorks.
see subject
First Post
first post of /.2000?
First posters sux
F1r57 P057 0f 7h3 43w y3ar! -1337 H4X0R
who got it?
trash, air, Times Square crowd
milling millions millennium
waiting for the ball
What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?
I was queing up some mp3's for my parents y2k party when my clock rolled over to 12:00 Dec 31 1999 and my xserver crashed. I'm not sure if its the y2k bug tho cause I think xmms made X crash. Also it was 12:15 jan 1 2000 when my computer rolled over because the clock was slow. I'm going to set my clock back and try it tomorrow to see if it crashes again. -Garak
Yeah that sort of reminds meof this one time when my dad just got home from korea, and he pulled out this whopping camel with a hard on. The camel tried to bite me but I was too quick for his dirty his dirty klingon ways. I placed my hand on my dad and said "hoo dog that's it," during which I put my other hand in my mouth, first clenching it into a tight fist...tight enough to squeeze in a smooth slippery vaginal opening, like my grandmother's...
I'm still alive.
My 'puter still works.
If the world has ended, somebody tell
me in the morning.
so far the only thing that has happened to me directly is one lost icq message i was looking foward to using my right to bear arms come on i like weapons and hey nothing likea national holiday to air that right hehe and i bought alot of ammo and food and i am stuck with 20,000 rifle rounds ooh well any one want some rifle rounds?
Stupid fuckers.... All the lame-ass slashdot clowns like roblimo spreading paranoia and FUD about y2k and NOTHING HAPPENED! Not here, not in China, not in Pakistan, and not in Russia. Told you so, you dumb bastards!
oh yes, i made it!
my lame attempt at fp
Depends, it is new years... he could be drunk, and, ahem... "leaking" alcohol.
Had to post, mainly for posterity. Everything works, I think we can all pat ourselves on the back for the hard work, long hours, brain sweat we put into this thing.
Also, we can now look forward to NOT hearing about the damn Y2K bug every time we turn around.
Dive Gear
--- Think of it as evolution in action ---
The General Public is not going to appreciate the relentless efforts of geeks around the world... everybody expected a major disaster (including myself), but with none forthcoming (at least, not yet), they're gonna say "What was the big fuss about?"
---- I made the Kessel Run in under 11 parsecs.
Okay, guys. The power's still on, and Slashdot's still up. You can come out of your bunker now. *POST SOMETHING NEW*
Something about the number 2000. I'm drunk as hell, so let me rant for a second about what I thought might be the end of the world.
I might be an insignificant piece of dust in the universe in what we call time and just got back from a small bar in a small town, to my small home, from listening to live music of a band composed of truck drivers and farmers, slipping on the floor drenched with cheap champagne to the beat of old classic rock and roll, but it was nice to celebrate a year that is represented by three zeros. Numbers made by our culture, but certainly nice to be in the middle of the fun.
All of my old friends are scattered across the country and I may never see them again. If it weren't for money, well, just getting a damn job, and getting a fucking house and car, things might be the same. They are important if one wants to ever have a chance in ever finding a love life. But enough of me...
I really was worried that among the concentration of hype in certain circles of politics, we might have had to breathe some fallout of a mispushed button during our fun together. The dance floor was hopping with the most energetic people in the world who had no care of silly stuff on CNN. It was the parents of children, single folks in serious relationships, and the hopefuls just having fun.
All in all, just damn glad to be alive. Perhaps one person there cared or even knew that computer problems could be fixed. It didn't matter. Tomorrow seems to have great promise and hopefull gossip about this evening. And that is my alcohol talking.
at least the porno sites still work. i'm celebrating n.y.e.. yee haw
Just for fun... (Score:-1, Funny)
Moderation Totals:Offtopic=1, Total=1.
Hrm, i suppose we can't blame everything on y2k, but uh, there seems to be a lot of this going on today. (There was a comment moderated up to 6 elsewhere...)
Well, the only interesting thing about the rollover on Victoria Peak was wondering how long it would take to get down to town again afterwards. I relived my boredom by borrowing a mobile and calling my ex-employer(an ISP) and relaying a tale of power blackouts and panic...they stopped sounding worried when I started giggling :-)
// Hmm, another variant of IE/W9x/NT to add to the "integrated MS value proposition"
*sighs* Everyones got it all wrong. First.. Pick your prophet. Check out what timezone he was in and which was the calendar type in 'style' at the time. lol year 2000 on some calendar's has come and gone while on one or two types it does not come just yet.. LOL so which celdnar WAS the bible using? hmmn.. p.s. Strong intodicants in effect.. I will NOT spell check this.. even tho I see the error.. :-)
After writing this a weird Lotus Notes glitch meant my entire years notes (all 2340 messages and 40 odd Megabytes of it) was forwarded to my email account.
:-)
I am in the habit of collecting my email at home via 56k modem.
This sucked.
About a year ago I set up notes to forward notes to my email address but it stopped working after a couple of months, guess it just started working again
(I had to rlogin into work and delete the mail off the server, it was taking forever to fetch the stuff from a pop account).
http://www.cnn.com/vi deo/lkl/1999/12/31/highlight.vs.rm80.ram
Watch the first five seconds of Larry. Listen to Larry's question. See the smirk on Larry's face after he asks it, as if it was the best fucking question ever asked by any human being ever, period.
Now, here's a little quiz for you kiddies at home:
The Dalai Llama is the leader of what religion?
Larry King is how senile?
CNN is how fucking pathetic for not interrupting the broadcast and destroying the evil that is Larry King right then and there?
A Very happy and non Y2K bug new year to everyone!!!!!!!!!
saying: happy new years. don't take life too seriously. have fun. don't hurt other people. this century won't be too much diffenrent thant the last one but we can still hope.
It's a speck of dust in a very large storm. Our existence is totally miniscule, but still significant. I want to shake the hell out of people that think our tiny existence on this very small rock somehow has the gumption to show arrogance. Our differences are very minor and we should be happy that other humans can be different, yet the same. There is no need to have prejudice based on race, gender, sexual preference, mental capabilities, etc... It is easy to look at our differences but it is hard to see how we are so tiny and fragile. I believe humans will grow and evolve to more compassionate and intelligent beings. I only hope we have the perception to see it and pull it off.
Believe in things of which no person has ever learned
It's a speck of dust in a very large storm. Our existence is totally miniscule, but still significant. I want to shake the hell out of people that think our tiny existence on this very small rock somehow has the gumption to show arrogance. Our differences are very minor and we should be happy that other humans can be different, yet the same. There is no need to have prejudice based on race, gender, sexual preference, mental capabilities, etc... It is easy to look at our differences but it is hard to see how we are so tiny and fragile. I believe humans will grow and evolve to more compassionate and intelligent beings. I only hope we have the perception to see it and pull it off.
Believe in things of which no person has ever learned
6578953475943th post i rule u suck
Why am I not surprised the "first post" of the year 2000 was done none other by Anonymous Coward? I'm betting the legion of anonymous cowards are having a major celebration that they did the ultimate first post of first posts, the first post of y2k. Print it out on your favorite HP printer and frame it, you've earned it!
That's what my computer clock is saying...
If you're an Amazon Associate (ie. have an account with them to earn a fee each time an item is bought through your referral), you'll notice that there are no more statistics available. On the Associate's homepage, https://associates.amazon.com, you can still go to the Earning Summary Report's page, but the menu where you can select a date range shows 1999 as only option. And even if you select December 1st, 1999 through December 31st, 1999, no data will be shown to you and the form will be displayed again, saying "There is no data available for the date range you selected. "
Well, y2k passed with a bang, not a whimper. In Anchorage, Alaska, where I live, no y2k glitches were evident except for a few lights turning off(this *was* because of y2k, the police were talking about it over the radio). There was general craziness everywhere and a bomb threat disrupted the festivities downtown, but these were all the result of human actions. How lame! I wanted no power, terrorism and suicide cults! Oh well, at least I had fun driving around in my car with the scanner and listening to the shit go down.
But if we not can get /. den we goin to get really pissed. We goin to Mishigan and goin pound CmdrTaco face. Eh, haole boy, how come I no stay one modarator?
Joking aside, I wish everyone, even MEEPT!!, a wonderful new year/century/millenium. To all, I hope that we as a global community can put aside our differences to finally achieve some semblance of peace in my/our lifetime.
To all out there: Haoli Makahiki Hou (Happy New Year) from beautiful Hawaii.
OH SHIT JESUS WILL SLAUGHTER US ALL .. HOW MUST I GET THE WORD OUT .. PLEASE HELP ME GOD I AM SCARED OF JESUS HE IS A TRUE KING OF TERROR
I was at a party Friday night with a lot of people. Right at 12:00 someone threw the light switch and the room went instantly silent. Everyone was scared p00pless. He waited a few seconds, turned it on, and those god-awful New Years horn and whistles noises started.
:)
Sure was funny
So on 1999.12.30, my girlfriend flew down to Atlanta and we "caught up" with each other and on 1999.12.31 we packed up all the champaigne and beer into my brother's Camry because my motorcycle won't hold that much stuff and a girlfriend at one time and we headed on up to Toccoa, Georgia, to get extremely drunk with my cousin Chip and his wife Shannon who is originally from New Jersey.
When we got up there we started drinking almost immediately and by 2330EST between the four adults we had drunk plenty of beer and five bottles of champaigne ranging from Moët & Chandon White Star down to André Strawberry Sparkling Wine which tastes like somebody made a spritzer out of Boone's Farm and Diet Seven Up and some pee.
After we watched Satan emerge from Times Square to repossess Dick Clark's soul we stumbled outside and turned on the boombox and soaked the bonfire in about a gallon and a half of gasoline and stood about twenty feet away from it and tried to light it by shooting Roman candles into the pile. Well, gasoline fumes spread along the ground and when the bonfire finally caught the flames shot along the ground almost to our feet and then raced back to the bonfire which subsequently went wham! and lifted about two feet off the ground and when it cambe back down it went from being a five foot high pile of wood about five feet wide to being a one foot high pile of wood about twenty-five feet wide that was on fire and we were standing right in the middle of it kicking like hell to get all the burning bits in the middle of the yard and away from the Camry and the dog pen and the hundred and ten year old heart-of-pine house and most importantly away from our feet.
Once the fire was more or less centralized we started to dance and jump up and down in a frenetic semicircle at that exact distance from the bonfire where the clothes on one side of your body are starting to smoke while the other half is getting crunchy with frost. We hollered and thrassed while in the dog pen all five beagles and a bloodhound named Elvis started baying at us for almost burning down their yard. We danced and danced and finally Chip and Shannon stumbled inside and my girlfriend fell down on the ground and begged me to bring her a blanket so she could pass out in the yard. I spent the next half hour cajoling her upright so I could get her back to the house but the whole point of this story is that from the time the bonfire exploded to the time I dragged my girlfriend to safety the radio station on the boombox had been playing "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" by R.E.M. over and over again in a continuous loop and when I staggered back outside at about three-thirty A.M. to to vomit on the beagles it was still playing and now I know how Alex felt about Beethoven towards the end of A Clockwork Orange and boy did my head hurt the next day.
P.S. There's nothing better for a hangover than having a three year old and a five year old jumping up and down on your stomach while shrieking at you to turn on the television so they can watch Pokémon.
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This is not my sandwich.
Actually, I rather enjoyed the "background" comment towards the end of this episode - from Neal, wasn't it?
:)
"I used to fight it but now I've given in to Pop Culture. Woooo! New Millenium! Wooo!"
Or something like that. I fell off my chair I laughed so much (almost as good as Tripping the Rift
I left my body to science, but I'm afraid they've turned it down...