Monday, January 10, 2011

Re: [BLUG] Unix epoch day 15000 coming up

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 01:15:51PM +0000, Mark Krenz wrote:
> So the 15000th day of unix epoch time is coming up. Epoch time being
> the number of seconds since Jan. 1st, 1970. Its on Wednesday, January
> 26th 2011 GMT, which rolls over on the 25th at 7pm Eastern Time. These
> 5000 day anniversaries only happen every 13 years, so its significant.
> Whole paradigms of computing come and go in 13 years.

Nerd. =)

> I was thinking of throwing a party and even help coordinate a global
> celebration via a forum. I wanted to ask, do you think this would be
> something interesting that you'd attend. I know its really geeky, but
> hey, so what.
>
> Suso is actually supposed to have one free use of the Fountain Square
> Ballroom once a year so we could use it for this and have a nice party
> that we'd pay for, have a cake, etc. and a meet and greet. I'll have to
> check if its available though.

I'd be up for another get-together, whether it's at FSM, Max's, Yogi's,
or wherever. We can all have some more nerd arguments, it's been
awhile.

<troll>BSD > GPL && vi > Emacs</troll>

-j

--
Jeremy L. Gaddis


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