Unavoidable

[cyrano]

Having now seen three (and been informed of a fourth) similar announcements, I have been drawn from the hermit's cave to make the following proclamation:
Tomorrow the date will be 11/10/10! As predicted by the Mayan calendar, this event will not occur for another hundred years! Surely the auspicion of such an unlikely event heralds an opening of the heavens and an outpouring of good luck! Be certain to do something daring tomorrow, or start a project that you've needed to do for a while.

Because tomorrow is another new day. Just like today was. I hope you did something daring, exciting, and productive.

PS: Between Weed and Yreka are two sculptures along I5--a scrap metal cow and a scrap metal dragon. One of these years I will manage to get a picture of them.

Comments

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Tomorrow the date will be 11/10/10! As predicted by the Mayan calendar, this event will not occur for another hundred years!

...I can't help noticing that the same could be said of 12/10/10, 13/10/10, 14/10/10, and so on. And since the Mayans didn't use the Gregorian calendar, I seriously doubt they'd give a crap about the date being 11/10/10...

Because tomorrow is another new day. Just like today was. I hope you did something daring, exciting, and productive.

There we go. ♥

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

You are, as always, a clever and insightful person.

In fact, I rather hope that the same *is* said of 12/10/10, 13/10/10....
And invoking the Mayans is a useful way of getting people's attention, especially since you don't actually need any related content. (Not so much any more, now that we're all worn out from panicking about the end of the world in a couple of years, but still generally true.)

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Very, very true. <--Statement refers to invoking the Mayans being a good way to grab attention, not to me being clever. That was a fabulously unclear statement. "Thank you" would be the correct response to that other statement that lack of caffeine and inspiration is not really making me feel at the moment. *Sighs* I'm apparently comment-incompetent today, sorry.

(Not so much any more, now that we're all worn out from panicking about the end of the world in a couple of years, but still generally true.)

I'm a bit peeved about that, honestly. I was really looking forward to being able to throw an "end of the world" party, but by the time the date shows up everybody's going to be too sick of it to care. :P

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Aww, there will be *plenty* of "end of the world" parties. You are a young thing, but you were still old enough to take advantage of 1999 (party over, oops, out of time!) and I found a web page once with the list of 'years people were convinced the world would end' and they just keep on coming. Because we're just not happy unless we're crap-your-pants terrified.

we must get a winner one day

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

Every time someone starts spouting off about the end of the world, I cannot help but to flash to Peter Cook's immortal Beyond The Fringe sketch (You'll have to imagine the English accents.)

The easiest way to get a snap of something along the highway is to find a nearby place to pull over and get out a camera. (Why yes, I am filling in for Captain Obvious today, thank you.)

[amanda_lodden.livejournal.com]

SOME people think the date will be 10/11/10, a nicely palindromic date, especially at 10:11:10 o'clock.

It's totally a shame that we'll have fewer opportunities for annoying each other with Stupid Date Tricks after 2012, at least for a few decades. Sure, there will be 11/12/13, and some brief fun with 2/2/22 and their ilk, and then of course things will pick back up again around 6/7/89, but what of the time in between? What will we forward to our friends and post on the decade's equivalent of Facebook then?

Oh, right... penis jokes. As always.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I was thinking 'l0lcatz' but I can work with penis jokes.

[reluctantgenius.livejournal.com]

11/10/10 is nothing! Friday I had lunch. It cost me $8.08 and my ticket number was 8, too!