Out Of Order
Everyone’s all a’twitter about tomorrow. It seems that it’s become this Very Big Deal that on Wednesday, at two minutes and three seconds after one in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. Everyone’s a’twitter except me because all I can see is the flaw.
That nice little progression only works if you write your dates in the bastardized way we Americans do, with the month first, the day second, and the year third. If we’re going to have exclusionary criteria, we may as well just be as artibtrary as we feel like being, and find more interestingly-sequenced moments.
There is one far more poetical moment to come next month, because it follows actual sequences in terms of ascending or descending spans of time. That’s quite unlike the one making the rounds which goes from hour to minute to second to month to day to year. Close, but no cigar.
This far more elegant moment will occur on the fourth of May, at two minutes and one second after three in the morning. Or, if you will: 06/05/04 03:02:01.
So pass that one around. At least it’s got something going for it.
Update: FYI, the other meaning to this item’s title is that between working a full week this week, instead of just part of a week, and it being the start of baseball season, I’m not going to be on this site all that much for awhile. So, think of this blog like a bathroom with a sign hung on it reading the same as the above title.