As he begins his 50th year...
Happy Bday, Mike!
BTW, just to be certain I verified the date with Wiki and noticed that the article (near the bottom) points to a "Profile" by using what has become an invalid link. Someone who contributes to Wiki should probably fix that, but I'm not that person.
Edit: Ooops! While I was typing, someone else started a thread and pointed out the same event today.
Quote: DocBTW, just to be certain I verified the date with Wiki and noticed that the article (near the bottom) points to a "Profile" by using what has become an invalid link. Someone who contributes to Wiki should probably fix that, but I'm not that person.
Fixed.
Happy 50th birthday.
Quote: pacomartinHappy 50th birthday.
Nope. I think it's his 49th. I said "begins his 50th year."
You math geeks are all alike.Quote: DocNope. I think it's his 49th. I said "begins his 50th year."
Happy Birthday Mike!!!
Quote: DocNope. I think it's his 49th. I said "begins his 50th year."
Ah, so you probably did as I did and celebrated the new Milennium on Dec. 31st 2000. Or did you go along with the ignorant masses?
Shortly after I turned 50, I was having a conversation with my younger brother, and I made a numerical error. He said, "Keeping track of numbers gets harder when you reach your fifth decade." I replied that I was then in my sixth decade. That made him pause, consider that he himself was 41, and say, "Well, I guess I proved my point."
Quote:Nope. I think it's his 49th. I said "begins his 50th year"
Lemme see, if it was Ancient Rome then I think you'd be right either way [without the concept of starting at zero, first year must still have been the first year although to say "1 yr old" at first birthday anniversary in those days was not done I believe]
Happy Birthday from another kind of geek, Mike.
PS: Doc, you sure know how to make a guy feel old!
Quote: NareedAh, so you probably did as I did and celebrated the new Milennium on Dec. 31st 2000. Or did you go along with the ignorant masses?
Nice to see someone point out that the new Millennium started the first day of 2001. Remember how many political speeches referred to the "new Millennium" back then. Nobody uses the term much anymore. Now, did you know that after leap year 2096, the next leap year will be in 2104 because 2100 is not divisible by 400?
Happy birthday Mike! You've got a great site here!
Quote: WizardOne more year before I turn into a cranky old man.
I thought that was age independent -- some guys are able to achieve it early in life.
Is Buzzard reading this thread?
Quote: GreasyjohnNice to see someone point out that the new Millennium started the first day of 2001. Remember how many political speeches referred to the "new Millennium" back then. Nobody uses the term much anymore.
The word's vanished almost as well as the term Y2K :)
What I remember most is the look of beffudlement when I tried to explain it.
Quote:Now, did you know that after leap year 2096, the next leap year will be in 2104 because 2100 is not divisible by 400?
Yes, but I gained this knowledge more recently than the year 2000.
Quote: bbbbccccThe Wiz is 50 years old?
No.
Quote: bbbbccccAmazing! He doesn't look a day under 49
He's not that either.
Quote: NareedThe word's vanished almost as well as the term Y2K :)
What I remember most is the look of beffudlement when I tried to explain it.
Yes, but I gained this knowledge more recently than the year 2000.
Y2K. I didn't even think of that term when writing my post. Remember when they didn't know what would happen to computers?
Quote: GreasyjohnNice to see someone point out that the new Millennium started the first day of 2001. Remember how many political speeches referred to the "new Millennium" back then. Nobody uses the term much anymore. Now, did you know that after leap year 2096, the next leap year will be in 2104 because 2100 is not divisible by 400?
This confusion is why we should grade things on a 0 to 10 scale, not 1 to 10.
Quote:Happy birthday Mike! You've got a great site here!
Thank you and thank you.
Quote: GreasyjohnY2K. I didn't even think of that term when writing my post. Remember when they didn't know what would happen to computers?
Oh, it was going to be the End of Civilization Somehow.
It was a real problem, granted. We used DOS where I worked and much of the software would interpret 00 as 1900 rather than 2000. Sure. But where do you go from that to "power plants will fail, missiles will launch themselves, etc!"
In fact, most of the consequences happened before 2000. By the 90s banks, for example, had trouble when a newly-issued credit card was flagged as having expired decades ago (ie issued 1997 expired 1903).
And the fixes were real, too. I had to upgrade some software at the office. Some places had more complicated fixes. But even then most software running on Windows and Mac was "safe."
For a wizard, the older the better!
Quote: DocI waited for the 3rd millennium (Isn't that interesting to spell?) to arrive before celebrating it. But I did enjoy an extra year of anticipation, compared to most folks.
Shortly after I turned 50, I was having a conversation with my younger brother, and I made a numerical error. He said, "Keeping track of numbers gets harder when you reach your fifth decade." I replied that I was then in my sixth decade. That made him pause, consider that he himself was 41, and say, "Well, I guess I proved my point."
My 6th grade teacher wrote a letter to the editor in late 1999 about this distinction. Nobody paid any attention to him.
