Coincidental PSA
April 3, 2006 7:41 PM Subscribe
A friend notes that a friend of hers noted another person on LiveJournal who said his brother noted that Wednesday morning "at exactly two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be: 01:02:03 04/05/06." (In U.S. notation.)
And in four and a half weeks it will be 01:02:03 04/05/06 (in UK, et al notation). I agree that these things are fun to note but I'm not sure I'd call them coincidences.
posted by Songdog at 7:50 PM on April 3, 2006
posted by Songdog at 7:50 PM on April 3, 2006
Well, at least this didn't come from BoingBoing, that's all I can say.
posted by crunchland at 7:51 PM on April 3, 2006
posted by crunchland at 7:51 PM on April 3, 2006
THE EXACT SAME DATE AND TIME IT WAS WHEN THE FIRST TOWER FELL, ADJUSTING FOR INFLATION11!!11!
posted by clockzero at 7:51 PM on April 3, 2006
posted by clockzero at 7:51 PM on April 3, 2006
zomg end of universe wtfbbq!!!111
posted by exlotuseater at 7:52 PM on April 3, 2006
posted by exlotuseater at 7:52 PM on April 3, 2006
Make a wish!
posted by Roger Dodger at 7:54 PM on April 3, 2006
posted by Roger Dodger at 7:54 PM on April 3, 2006
This is here....why???
Probably 'cause it's kinda cool.
posted by dersins at 7:55 PM on April 3, 2006 [1 favorite]
Probably 'cause it's kinda cool.
posted by dersins at 7:55 PM on April 3, 2006 [1 favorite]
I'm waiting for 06:06:06 on 6/6/06.
(You other-side-of-the-ponders will have to figure out the date yourselves.)
posted by hangashore at 7:57 PM on April 3, 2006
(You other-side-of-the-ponders will have to figure out the date yourselves.)
posted by hangashore at 7:57 PM on April 3, 2006
I've been waiting for 123456 and 666666 for quite a while, stemming from a drunken conversation last fall. I guess I should get a blog and then I'd be famous, too.
posted by atom128 at 7:59 PM on April 3, 2006
posted by atom128 at 7:59 PM on April 3, 2006
Your four-times-removed acquaintance posted prematurely, I'm sorry to say.
If they had waited until roughly a year and month from now, they would have been able to proclaim it's 12:34 5/6/07.
You know, we'd all be one digit more impressed. But this goes to 11.
posted by JHarris at 8:10 PM on April 3, 2006
If they had waited until roughly a year and month from now, they would have been able to proclaim it's 12:34 5/6/07.
You know, we'd all be one digit more impressed. But this goes to 11.
posted by JHarris at 8:10 PM on April 3, 2006
Is that when the universe will end?
I need to know so I can go run up my credit before the end of the world.
I had a math teacher that nearly creamed herself on 9/9/81 and then she cried when none of her students thought it was interesting in the least. I think she quit teaching a couple of years later.
posted by fenriq at 8:31 PM on April 3, 2006
I need to know so I can go run up my credit before the end of the world.
I had a math teacher that nearly creamed herself on 9/9/81 and then she cried when none of her students thought it was interesting in the least. I think she quit teaching a couple of years later.
posted by fenriq at 8:31 PM on April 3, 2006
Crap. I didn't see the BoingBoing post before I put this up. I swear. Subscribe to friend's feed; see link; think link is cool; post link. Continue moving through feeds. See BoingBoing link. Feel dumb. Contrite. Apologetic. Sorry, people.
posted by cgc373 at 8:40 PM on April 3, 2006
posted by cgc373 at 8:40 PM on April 3, 2006
Don't apologize, I liked this link. If someone didn't point this out to me, I never would have realized it.
posted by Falconetti at 8:51 PM on April 3, 2006
posted by Falconetti at 8:51 PM on April 3, 2006
I had a math teacher that nearly creamed herself on 9/9/81
I creamed m'self at precisely 1:23:45 6/7/89, and just over a year later at precisely 2:34:56 7/8/90. (And I doubled my fun because I also wrote the dates down the stupid American way!)
Old skool.
posted by uncanny hengeman at 9:06 PM on April 3, 2006
I creamed m'self at precisely 1:23:45 6/7/89, and just over a year later at precisely 2:34:56 7/8/90. (And I doubled my fun because I also wrote the dates down the stupid American way!)
Old skool.
posted by uncanny hengeman at 9:06 PM on April 3, 2006
Today we look solely to the symbolic term of the millenium to set us off again. The year 2000 as a sole-fatidical non-event. A magical waiting, itself millenarian, for non-parousia. In the meanwhile, everyone's lying low -- creeping catalepsy, collective catatonia, eyes riveted on the countdown. But this is an empty suspense: it's as though the whole of the twentieth century were emptying itself of its substance in these few years...(Jean Baudrillard, Paroxysm)
posted by ori at 9:06 PM on April 3, 2006
I've always wanted to post in a closed, deleted thread.
ME TOOO!!1!!1!!ONE!!1!!!1!ELEVEN!!11!!
posted by dersins at 8:22 AM on April 4, 2006 [1 favorite]
ME TOOO!!1!!1!!ONE!!1!!!1!ELEVEN!!11!!
posted by dersins at 8:22 AM on April 4, 2006 [1 favorite]
And, on July 8 (or August 7, in American notation), we can also have 11:10:09 08/07/06... teh gasp! Why is this news this year, when there has been a couple of these every year since 2000?
posted by antifuse at 8:36 AM on April 4, 2006
posted by antifuse at 8:36 AM on April 4, 2006
Note: posting links from your friend's blog to MeFi front page is generally not the smartest idea anyway :)
posted by antifuse at 8:37 AM on April 4, 2006
posted by antifuse at 8:37 AM on April 4, 2006
I've received several chain emails claiming this is a "once in a lifetime event" (likely true) and some saying it will "never happen again" (hey guys, ever heard of 2106?). Europeans are notably not caring until next month.
posted by mikeh at 8:43 AM on April 4, 2006
posted by mikeh at 8:43 AM on April 4, 2006
Spam email received at work this morning:
From: X___X
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 9:08 AM
To: ^___^
Subject: Did you know
FUN TRIVIA…WHO KEEPS TRACK OF THIS STUFF!
On Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00
the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06!
That won't happen again for a thousand years.
You may now return to your (normal ?) life.
posted by thefreek at 9:33 AM on April 4, 2006
From: X___X
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 9:08 AM
To: ^___^
Subject: Did you know
FUN TRIVIA…WHO KEEPS TRACK OF THIS STUFF!
On Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00
the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06!
That won't happen again for a thousand years.
You may now return to your (normal ?) life.
posted by thefreek at 9:33 AM on April 4, 2006
If they had waited until roughly a year and month from now, they would have been able to proclaim it's 12:34 5/6/07.
And 71 years later it'll be 12:23 5/6/78!
posted by delmoi at 9:41 AM on April 4, 2006
That won't happen again for a thousand years.
You may now return to your (normal ?) life.
It happens every hundred years.
posted by delmoi at 9:41 AM on April 4, 2006
You may now return to your (normal ?) life.
It happens every hundred years.
posted by delmoi at 9:41 AM on April 4, 2006
Times, dates, and the notations of same are arbitrary. Yet people get all excited about this stuff. Some people get worried about bad things happening because of this stuff. That's weird.
posted by raedyn at 9:43 AM on April 4, 2006
posted by raedyn at 9:43 AM on April 4, 2006
No, no, no. It won't happen again for a hundred years, on 2106.
* sends a pedantic correction e-mail to X___X
posted by antifreez_ at 9:43 AM on April 4, 2006
* sends a pedantic correction e-mail to X___X
posted by antifreez_ at 9:43 AM on April 4, 2006
Err, what delmoi said.
posted by antifreez_ at 9:44 AM on April 4, 2006
posted by antifreez_ at 9:44 AM on April 4, 2006
I'm waiting for 06:06:06 on 6/6/06.
My boyfriend has been planning a 666 party for about eight months.
posted by ackeber at 10:27 AM on April 4, 2006
My boyfriend has been planning a 666 party for about eight months.
posted by ackeber at 10:27 AM on April 4, 2006
“You know the most amazing thing happened to me tonight. I was coming here, on the way to the lecture, and I came in through the parking lot. And you won’t believe what happened. I saw a car with the license plate ‘ARW 357’. Can you imagine. Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!” -- Attributed to Richard Feynman
posted by knave at 10:30 AM on April 4, 2006
posted by knave at 10:30 AM on April 4, 2006
Actually, it just happened again - in the PM.
And nicwolff? That was a seriously creepy trailer.
posted by deborah at 1:07 PM on April 5, 2006
And nicwolff? That was a seriously creepy trailer.
posted by deborah at 1:07 PM on April 5, 2006
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