[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: [NTLUG:Announce] December Meeting

[Christopher Browne]

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:23:52 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as
Shane Wickson <grover at kludge.org>  said:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 02:16:10PM -0600, Kendall Clark wrote:
> > NTLUGGERs,
> > 
> > The last NTLUG meeting of the millennium, the century and 1999 is
> > taking place on Saturday, December 18th, at Nokia. See
> > http://ntlug.org/cal/ for details.
> 
> This is such a pet peeve of mine.
> 
> The millennium is not over in a few weeks.  People started counting the years
> from 1, so 2000 years don't officially pass until we hit 2001.  By that same
> logic, its not the end of the century, or even the decade.  It's only the
> end of 1999.
> 
> Thus, unless all the NTLUG meetings of 2000 are cancelled, we have 12 more
> before the end of the millinneum.

While I wrote most of the announcement, I will have to join you in griping
about that change...  I find the "millenial" (misspelling intentional) fever
quite distressing.

It appears that there may be armed guards or the sort at the office on
January 1st to worry about the yoyos that have their brains burned out by
such fever; what is *more* distressing is that I was wondering a few weeks
ago if they were going to do this very thing...
--
Q: How many Newtons does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Faux!  There to eat lemons, axe gravy soup!
cbbrowne at hex.net - <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/linuxy2k.html>