Comments on: Happy New Year

by: Torsten Adair

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:53:03 +0000

No, no… the Y2K thing was predicated on computer clocks. So either stuff goes wrong at 7 AM 12/31/99 (New Zealand = Midnight), or everyone buys the farm at 7 PM (GMT = Midnight). Of course, I’m certain that most IT personnel ran simulations well before then, but I was not going to panic until necessary.

Now, I’d love to see a movie where everyone panics about 01/01/00, breathes a collective sigh of release when nothing happens, then have all hell break loose on 12/31/00 when the ACTUAL Millennium occurs.

Hmmm… what if someone launched a virus on 010100 which did not activate until 111111?

What I love about Times Square is that one can date photos from all the advertisements in the background!

by: John Tebbel

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:27:34 +0000

Mark- The Coke billboard is over the photographer’s right shoulder, I think. Don’t forget to kneel before Zod!

by: Joe Lawler

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:40:39 +0000

“Of course, technically, the new millennium didn’t start until January 1st, 2001 (unless you include the non-existant “Year Zero”).”

But that’s what Doc Brown set the Delorean to to see the birth of Christ. Back to the Future is right about everything (even Jiggawats).

by: Thomax Green

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:12:51 +0000

and I so hoped that all the computers in the world were going to crash all at once, everyone was so panic striken; it’s kind of funny now.

by: mark coale

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:44:51 +0000

Wheres the Coke billboard that Superman threw the Phantom Zone guys through?

by: AaronH

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:15:59 +0000

Is that the famous video screen from Blade Runner in the upper left corner??

by: Simon Hacking

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:44:15 +0000

Wait, does that mean it went 2BC, 1BC, 1AD, 2AD, etc.??? surely there was a year 0 in between?

All my conceptions of time are falling about around me!

by: Andrew Laubacher

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:40:42 +0000

Of course, technically, the new millennium didn’t start until January 1st, 2001 (unless you include the non-existant “Year Zero”).