Tomorrow is Doomsday

Batten down the hatches because, I forgot to tell you, tomorrow is doomsday. Don't worry about getting a flu-shot; instead just store up 100 or so gallons of water, lots of duct tape and plenty of toilet paper. Tomorrow is 09-09-09 and will cause computers to fail all over the planet which will cripple the economy and crash all the markets.

Well, not really, but it is sort of funny since one company for which I'd consulted used the "fake date" of 09/09/09 as a code for "backordered" or some such thing when placed in the due date field of an order. They had started the practice in the mid 1990s. I kept telling them, "You know guys, that is a real date, and it's not too far off...." They would laugh and say "Yeah, we know...."

But that plant has closed down, everyone is laid off and the business has all been moved to Singapore. So they dodged a bullet; let's hear it for offshoring.

Here's a little bit of numbers fun from an amateur numeralogist who evidently has not yet been confined to a rubber room.


Also witness here the height of the Beatles' drug abuse.