A never-to-be-repeated, Historical non-event!
At three minutes and four seconds after 2 AM on the 6th of May this year, the time and date will be 02:03:04 05/06/07. This will never happen again.
- Scientist, interrupted; Date Weirdness
Funny thing about that is, every second of our lives is designated by a similarly singular series of symbols. Only their sequentiality surprises us.
2: I might’ve posted this video before but I just ran across it again and it’s so beautiful that I just had to link it for anyone who might have missed it. The Life Of A Cell. Whether you think God designed it at His drawing board, drinking coffee and smoking Kools (what else would God smoke?), or that it is the result of a billion-year iterative process of mutation, combination, and natural selection, it is still amazing.
Strange confession; I sometimes think about this video and about cellular respiration while I am running up stairs. 100kg of middle-aged monkey processing a bit of oxygen and donut, while the miraculous is hidden.
3. Computer software users are inclined to blame themselves when they make a mistake, but I always tell them it isn’t their fault because the software is not intuitively designed. From Good Math, Bad Math, comes a perfect example of why this is so… Bad Software Design; getting the levels wrong.
Updates: the post over on Good Math, Bad Math has acquired a number of very interesting comments. And the 020304050607 date/time thingie has been featured on ***Dave and SEB, whose commenters both found lots of exceptions to the “never happen again” part. Fun for the whole family!
I’m coming back to chase down your links, but for now… I tell my software users, “Don’t blame yourself. Your mother didn’t teach you this stuff.”
It’ll happen again on June 5th :p
Those are some fantastic links you got there!
I liked the monkey vid. Only quibble: we’re not monkeys. We’re apes.
:-S Yeah, and for those of us that were fortunate to be flying back from Eur0pe, it gave the term “JetLag” a greater meaning. Not to mention that I had to fly into CA before going back another hour when arriving in MT. Who’s idea was it anyway? Even the pilot was a bit peaved because the planes clocks weren’t set-up for the early change…