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December 08, 2000.

Y2K, Better Late Than Never


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Well, the Y2K bug is here, and about damn time, I say. It was looking nip and tuck for a while, but I carried the flame, I knew that this year was going to Hell in a handbasket, and Mr. Doom-seer was right after all. Look who's laughing now!

Are we heading for the apocalypse? Use this handy check list:

* Rolling electric grid blackouts: check

* World stock markets plunge (over 9 months): check

* Political chaos as democracy unravels: check

* Flying sharks: check

On a personal Y2K note, I know I'm approximately another year older and deeper in debt, and I would really like to blame a bunch of programmers from the '70s for his state of affairs. Go Y2K!

On the plus side, by waiting until December to end civilization, we got to see all those really excellent movies that came out this year like, oh, wait, I'm thinking of 1999. Never mind.



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