I giggled while I was writing it. Never before or since have I laughed during a final exam.

*looks back and notices a link for the first time*

Wow, that was really fun to read. I only wish I understood the reference to Dante more xD

Most of the references are to the New Testament of the Bible. I've never read Dante.

...I wish I understood the references the New Testament. I don't even know what the New Testament is ^^;;

It's the second half of the book, the part that distinguishes Christianity from Judaism.

Going into more detail than that... well, that's probably excessive for this thread. :P

That was beautiful, Coda. ; w;

I just had a dream about being around a bunch of underwater creatures. I'm sad now that it's over, since there weren't any filler characters in that particular dream.

Applying to colleges last minute makes everything blur together.

But I found something that reminded me of Coda's essay:
http://people.cs.vt.edu/~mcquain/pix...stmasStory.jpg

Happy new year, y'all.

Watch me STILL unintentionally write 2013 in 2018. I'd probably mistakenly write 2017 in 2022...

That's closer to the current year than me. XD

I can still remember writing 9/9/99 on my school papers and thinking I was so cool

I remember dating papers from the 90s. It feels weird to think about now.

i'm always confused, so it's all good for me. =)

-blinks- I'm like. A couple years too young to have done that.

....i remember dating papers from the 80s.... o_O

lmfao I just read the last post with no context, and read "dating" differently. I also wined and dined my papers back in the day. XD

LOL bluebird... that's kinda funny. XD

I thought the same thing but I couldn't come up with a sufficiently witty way of saying so. :P

i tell it like it is. B) because being witty takes effort lol

but bless your soul for always delivering quality content. i still can't get over the pun battle with mekatra. XD

The box is still around how fun.

f r i c k

Yeah, there are a couple threads still going from way back.

Frick, I'm not QUITE old enough to remember dating papers from the 90's but I DEFINITELY remember being in preschool and learning about how New Years works and "how special" that year was because it was a new millennium. Big word for a bunch of 4 year olds

sup y'all

r/m a d l a d s


sup EverAshwood. i remember the big 2000 scare too. that was the first time i felt hyped, before hype became a thing. gud times.

okay so we're all about the same age then

...*dabs*

..... Captain(Capitan XD ) Marvelous... that cannot be a coincidence. :0

Hade ni ikuze! 8D

(Some reason I feel like I've noticed this before. Maybe it's deja vu or not idek xD )

sighs @ basic missing features

lentils are pretty useful

Like what?

I remember being confused about Y2K. like, what was supposed to happen?

Y2k was a self-defeating prophecy. BECAUSE it was so hyped up, it GOT fixed, so it DIDN'T blow up. Of course this means that laypeople will look back and wonder what the big deal was, but we software engineers understand just how much effort went into making sure the public could afford to feel that way.

The biggest problem with Y2k was that LOTS of systems stored dates with just two digits for the year. So in 1999, a system would know that I was 17 years old, because 99 - 82 = 17. But that same code would have thought I was -82 years old in 2000 -- certainly not old enough to drive or vote or open a bank account or take out a loan or sign a contract or get a job!

Another possible issue: Suppose something has to be processed every day after 1:00 AM, but only once per day. A common way to do this would be to store the last time the computer performed that task, and if it hasn't been, say, 23 hours since last time yet, then it's not time yet. Well, 12/31/99 01:00 AM rolls around, no problem. Now 01/01/00 01:00 AM rolls around... oh wait, last time we did it was in the future, obviously we don't need to do anything!

Whoops.

*noms on thread because is bored* :V

I remember my folks had a bunch of water stored in the basement around that time, but that was as far as it went.

I keep making frequent changes, but I wanted a Valentine's avi. Go figure. xux