It means the world is going to end

Today’s date is 3-2-1-0. That only happens once every 1.8 million years or something.


Well...every hundred years, actually...but I guess that's beside the point.


Fairly often, a pattern or sequence emerges in the date or time that makes people decide it's newsworthy. Last year alone we had 7/8/9, 9/9/9, and 3/6/9, and some overzealous reporter decided to point out how this number sequence only shows up every 10,000 years. Forget the fact that the way we write dates in the US is different from the rest of the world, where they more logically put the day first (Then, the date is sorted by length...days and shorter than months, which are shorter than years), and the fact that not everyone in the world agrees that this is even the year 2010, according to our arbitrary system, a pattern emerged...and holy crap is it newsworthy!

So today, I would like to point out that by the same arbitrary system, today's date is 3/2/10. At 6:54 AM, it was an even more whimsical 6:54 3/2/10, and it will be again at 6:54 this evening, unless you use the more world-standard 24-hour clock, at which point you already missed it, so don't you feel bad you poor sucker? Since you missed it, there will never be another 6:54 3/2/10 in your lifetime. You'll just have to wait for the next bizarre arbitrary pattern to emerge that won't happen for another 654,000 years. I think it's in August or something...