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!
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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.
“Almost every American I know does trade large portions of his life for entertainment, hour by weeknight hour, binge by Saturday binge, Facebook check by Facebook check. I’m one of them. In the course of writing this I’ve watched all 13 episodes of House of Cards and who knows how many more West Wing episodes, and I’ve spent any number of blurred hours falling down internet rabbit holes. All instead of reading, or writing, or working, or spending real time with people I love.”
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
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