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Quick-Start Mechanism - 04 Jan 2000
Well, here it is, Y2k has finally arrived. Raise your hand if you were
disappointed when Friday's parties turned out to be no more exciting than last
New Year's Eve... I see lots of hands. Mine is not among them. This year the
CBTR staff played Nintendo games and watched cartoons to celebrate. We failed to
participate in the time-honored tradition of getting drunk and puking on each
other. Despite that, we had fun, and still made lots of noise when the clock
struck midnight, though no more than we did last year.
Now, raise your hand if you were disappointed by the lack of carnage compared to
last year... That's right, not nearly as many casualties as some predicted, and
when I returned to the office yesterday, not much had gone wrong. The computers
all still worked, the conference phone still didn't, and the alien presence that
we detected was rather docile.
The three zeros on my 'DragonballZ' wall calendar are quite the novelty. I will
try my hardest to make this year better than the last, and then to make 2001
even better than that. Some day your grandchildren might ask you, "What were you
doing with your life around the turn of the millennium?" For the next couple of
years, we should all be working on having a good answer.
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