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Paging the Time Patrol. Paging the Time Patrol.

The New Year's Eve celebration is Sunday night, approximately 58 hours in the future. Along with a falling ball and lots of cold people, it will feature multi-colored confetti.

The confetti turns up on the sidewalk the next day. Normally.

Some of it is already there, bits of thin red and blue paper, with that forlorn look they have when they've served their purpose, when there are only a few bits lying on the ground instead of myriads drifting on the wind.

It's nice to know that the celebration will go off okay, but I'm worried about other leakage.

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Paging the Time Patrol. Paging the Time Patrol.

The New Year's Eve celebration is Sunday night, approximately 58 hours in the future. Along with a falling ball and lots of cold people, it will feature multi-colored confetti.

The confetti turns up on the sidewalk the next day. Normally.

Some of it is already there, bits of thin red and blue paper, with that forlorn look they have when they've served their purpose, when there are only a few bits lying on the ground instead of myriads drifting on the wind.

It's nice to know that the celebration will go off okay, but I'm worried about other leakage.

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This is completely trivial, but maybe if I type it out I can stop thinking about it: for Reasons Not Worth Explaining, I'm doing a bunch of stuff on our database that is officially for October 2000. The input fields use four-digit fields, so October 1999 was 9910 and March 2000 was 0003. And October 2000 is 0010. And I type it in, thinking "oh oh ten" and look at the screen and it says "two." I'm not that sort of coder, and I don't think in binary. Except here. November won't be any better.

(no subject)

This is completely trivial, but maybe if I type it out I can stop thinking about it: for Reasons Not Worth Explaining, I'm doing a bunch of stuff on our database that is officially for October 2000. The input fields use four-digit fields, so October 1999 was 9910 and March 2000 was 0003. And October 2000 is 0010. And I type it in, thinking "oh oh ten" and look at the screen and it says "two." I'm not that sort of coder, and I don't think in binary. Except here. November won't be any better.