If You Give a Bank a Bailout… « bald man blogging

Too true. Anyone who’s had kids in the last 20 years or so will probably recognise the pattern.

Forget July 7^th, 2007 (07/07/07), August 8^th, 2008 (08/08/08) or even the upcoming September 9^th, 2009 (09/09/09). Real geeks know that today, at 5:31 PM (well, 30 seconds AFTER that) central time is the REAL date pattern to watch: At that time, the time will be recorded as

1234567890

Those other dates will happen again in 100 years, but 1234567890 will never happen again.

For my non-geek friends (both of you), that sequence of digits represents the number of seconds since January 1, 1970 in Greenwich, England, which is how Unix-based system record calendar dates and times. So don’t blink – the celebration lasts for only one second.

This video came in on The Onion video feed. The concept was funny enough, but I literally laughed out loud when reading through the list of “symptoms” that can be treated with “Despondex.”

The world is finally safe!