22 thoughts on “12/13/14”

  1. That reminds me of a lame joke I saw on Facebook three years ago: “Today is 1/11/11. OMG, we’re not gonna have another day like today for TEN MONTHS”.

        1. De nada.

          PS: I tried posting the comment above by itself and was told by Word Press that it was too short. That’s a first for me.

  2. There will be a few interesting variations ahead…5/10/15, 10/20/30, 01:12:35 8/13/21 (okay I forced that one a bit)

    1. My brother and his now wife picked 9/10/11 for their wedding date.

      Shortly before their engagement party, my sister announced she was getting married. They announced (at my brother’s engagement party) that they would be getting married on 12/11/10.

      When probed by my family about when I was going to settle down (knowing that I was seeing someone at the time), I told them to “get back to me a little closer to 10/20/30”. My girlfriend at the time, who wasn’t at the party, was actually somewhat okay with that answer. There were plenty of other reasons we’re no longer together, but thankfully that joke wasn’t one of them.

      4/9/16 seems to be a good option, for those with a bit more of a nerd bend.

    1. I remember it as yesterday, when the family was in the car with Dad driving and the odometer clocked in a “palindrome”, a mirror-image digit sequence like 27572 (these were days when odometers only went up to just shy of 100K miles), and I wondered out loud when the next one would happen when math whiz lil’ bro’ answered without hesitation “the bottom two digits have to match the top two in reverse order, so this happens about once every 100 miles.”

      Good call, guys, even if the number 34 is not right after 2 and 45 does not immediately follow 23. And Rand, you have my sympathy.

  3. Hope some nutcase doesn’t think of this. He, she, or it could use this sequence to start a cult.

    1. Well, the universe is based on numerology, so sequential numbers have great power.

      Unfortunately, power can be good or bad, and in this case, 12/13/14 are centered on 13, which is unlucky, so therefor it’s abundantly clear that the world will end on 12/13/14. And not just any 12/13/14, but the one in 2014, because 12/13/2014 adds up to 32! And, as we all know, if you add up 3+2 you get 5, which subtracted from 20 (the first two numbers in 2014) gives you 15, and subtracting the first number in the year from that gives us… 13!

      There can only be one conclusion…. Doom! you heard it here first, folks.. the world will end on Saturday, December 13th, 2014! Spread the word!

    2. I saw a news story this morning about a baby girl who was born at 10:11 AM on 12/13/14. If someone starts the cult, she will be the object of veneration.

    1. My favorite date format is 2014Dec13 which is nearly the same but doesn’t have the same sorting advantage as pure numeric.

      What kind of person has a favorite date format? Weird!?

    2. Back in 1993, I was evaluating a piece of network management software. If we approved of the software, the company was going to make a major purchase (hundreds of copies – we had many large networks). A coworker and I loaded the software and fired it up. The first thing it demanded: “Enter the Start Date”. We entered a date but got an “Invalid Date Format” error message. When we pressed the F1 key for help, all it said was, “You entered the date in the wrong format. Enter the date in the correct format.” Very helpful. We systematically tried over 15 different date formats with the same result. We called tech support and asked what date format we were supposed to use and no one could tell us.

      We rejected the software and went with another product. I used this product as an example when teaching introductory programming classes on how not to write prompts and error messages.

      1. I call this programmer contempt for their meal ticket. How could you possibly not know the correct format was…

        [2014 / Oct. – 11th] with just those capitalization, spaces and punctuation (no substitutions allowed) or you’re just not worthy of their fine product!

        Kids don’t know the difference between a black box and true knowledge. Computer ‘science’ is over run by tricky children. Even those professors teaching others don’t understand that gotoless programming isn’t about the jump, it’s about the landing.

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