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Neighbor Rod Goeman points out the numerically cool nature of this fine winter day: it's a palindrome! Write the digits for today's date: 01-02-2010. Same forward and backward! Yahoo!
My numerically inclined European readers will have to wait until February 1 to celebrate, since they write the day before the month. But adopt my preferred ISO 8601 style (year.month.day), and you're the life of the palindrome party again: 2010.01.02. Same result! Abso-flippin'-lutely amazing! Party on, friends!
Bonus puzzler for readers not busy tobagganing: How many more palindrome days will we enjoy this century?
Update II: The Sioux Falls City Council meeting tonight was truly
disgusting. I felt like throwing up afterwards.
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UPDATE II: I decided to see if the 50% rule has even been used since it was
implemented in 2017. It has ONLY applied ONE time, and that was in 2024 and
the...
5 days ago
so... 12:21
ReplyDeletebut is that right twice a day in 24 time zones?
we make ourselves nuts...
need to know jb
need to know about the day and all the time zones..
ReplyDeleteWeird Al has the most to say about this (with a little help from Bob Dylan):
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nej4xJe4Tdg