virus: millennial myopia

Wade T. Smith (morbius@channel1.com)
Fri, 29 May 98 21:21:04 -0400

We can all sit calmly knowing, can't we? that December 31, 1999, will
pass, and that January 1, 2000, will come, and there will be parties, and
gatherings, and maybe even some suicides, homicides, children conceived,
drunk drivers on the roads, drunks in your back yard, and maybe even some
fireworks over your town.

We can all smugly sit and say, tsk, tsk, we'll just have to do this
again, next year, when it will be _correct_ to do all this....

And we will all laugh about anyone saying much of anything different.

Then again, these happenstances of a cultural numbering system don't
happen every day....

Stephen Jay Gould has a laissez-faire attitude about the whole thing.
Sounds like a plan....

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