I ended up dirty-dancing in a kitchen with a super hottie from Visalia. We were an oddly matched pair that evening, she being a b-girl with pierced fingernails.. I think the sense of desperation and impending doom helped my cause.
But I woke up the next morning and some smart-ass programmer had put ISHTAR on TV! That was the first thing we saw in the new millenium.
― andy --, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― andy --, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link
Yup, pretty much. Watched MST3K's Hamlet as well.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― happy fun ball (kenan), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:58 (nineteen years ago) link
Remembering five years ago = depressing
And seeing old newscasts from the 90's (when they talk about the Oakland fires, for instance) and the lame hairstyles and clothes is really depressing. The 90's sucked.
― andy ---, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― ()ops (()()ps), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan M. (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 17:09 (nineteen years ago) link
(more at 11 as i have a block meetin in 10 mins)
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― happy fun ball (kenan), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link
Kenan, I trust you went for the throttling...as a purely humane gesture of course.
― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― happy fun ball (kenan), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 17:29 (nineteen years ago) link
The next morning we were all up at 0530 per usual, as I recall.
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― andy --, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 17:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― happy fun ball (kenan), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link
I vaguely remember thinking how funny it would be if the 80,000+ people at that big Phish show in Florida were about to become the last vestiges of the human race.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Now that's what I'm talking about. "Earth Abides" sort of shit, one last survivor forging a new world from the ashes of the old, boldy establishing a new order like THE POSTMAN.
― andy --, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― andy --, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link
Actually, a small part of me wanted there to be a catastrophe if it meant that I didn't have to finish my senior thesis, which I was in the grueling middle of.
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Nick - like your father I look forward to the earnest world of the post-apocalypse as well - bartering, making mocassins, growing corn for fuel, etc. Maybe if we attack North Korea we'll get our wish.
Neither sleet nor hail will prevent Kevin Costner from getting out the mail. Has anyone seen both Waterworld and The Postman? (I've seen neither)Please compare/contrast. He was on a real post-apocalyptic mission there for awhile.
― andy --, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:21 (nineteen years ago) link
About the only preparation done besides stocking up on booze was my dad informing me which guns were in the best working order in our house. The fucker even laid claim to the 9mm.
― Dan M. (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:54 (nineteen years ago) link
i like to stay in on new year.
― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link
i didn't know anyone there except the person who brought me - a friend but not a date - she wanted to dance, which is her right, so i tried to find somewhwre to sit out of the draftiness
after breakfast turned out to be so awful i decided to make it home (abt 5 in morning): so i MISSED THE ONLY "GOOD" THING = g/f of guy who had thrown party turning up... he had not told her it has throwing a millennium party! possibly bcz when she DID arrive he wz doin coke and hott sex w.someone else in the bathroom!
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link
Yeah it was pretty good. I narrowly avoided pulling a graveyard shift at the ISP I worked for. We had people on shift assuming everyone's pooters/routers/networks would fall over. And of course nothing happened. So I'm glad I didnt bother with that.
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link
I found this "all about me" book that my friend gave me that (of course) i never filled out because i knew it would be hilarious some day and also because who answers questions like this13 years later, here is a sample
it's like proto ok cupid or something? overly personal questions and baseless future predictions.
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m34ey4TE9a1rtmp17o1_1280.jpg
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
what kinds of choices will you make in the new millennium?
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
Wait, you can't have cigarettes AND oral sex?
― emil.y, Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
i know! you also have to choose between drugs and personal confrontation, fashion and soul.?! wtf kind of post millennial hell is this?!
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
frisbee or UFO
Frisbee or GTFO
― emil.y, Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
Does the end of the Millennium signify the start of something new? Y NIf Y, what? _________ <--- teeny tiny little line on which you make predictions about the next thousand years
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
glad i don't smoke
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 3 May 2012 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
here's another one
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3j6lxQbMc1rtmp17o1_500.jpg
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Monday, 14 May 2012 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
sorry about the blurry edges, i am too lazy to scan twice
who on earth would answer these questions in a book? i am truly wondering about what kind of person would write all of this stuff down? it seems like finding one that had been filled out would be a diamond mine of blackmail material?!
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Monday, 14 May 2012 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
omg
― crüt, Monday, 14 May 2012 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
i know
its like an invitation to oversharing to the nth degree
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Monday, 14 May 2012 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
this is but a mere sampling of this book's wares
God and the apocalypse
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3ta821OX11rtmp17o1_1280.jpg
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 17 May 2012 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
To be honest, it would be quite interesting to look back on your attitudes to these weird arbitrary things, I think.
― emil.y, Thursday, 17 May 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I've gone back and forth about it. I just know that there is no way I would have filled this out sincerely because that is just WAY too much info about my personal thoughts to share with anyone. But to read the thoughts of someone who was less guarded/self-conscious about sharing the answers? I'm going to keep my eye out for these in thrift stores from now on.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 17 May 2012 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
The book is 92 pages long!
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 17 May 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
Bloody hell!
― emil.y, Thursday, 17 May 2012 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
hold on...i'm scanning the toc...
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 17 May 2012 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8014/7215695786_db31225c46_b.jpg
'Cat and Mouse'?
― emil.y, Thursday, 17 May 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
Romantic (and a little bit of platonic) relationships, with dual focus on fantasy (traits of your ideal mate - woman, etc) and history (what's the furthest you have traveled to see a love interest?) Also, pursuit/being pursued.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 17 May 2012 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
sorry, farthest
for example:
when you are attracted to someone:
you like to be the catyou like to be the mouse
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 17 May 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
I'm just gonna keep posting these because why not
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3trm5oO531rtmp17o1_1280.jpg
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 01:43 (twelve years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/50gU873.jpg
― the burrito that defined a generation, Saturday, 17 October 2020 23:46 (four years ago) link