Keeping the Future Posting in Check
Dallas, 11:25 PM: Don’t take this post the wrong way: I’m not going to sleep before 2010 officially arrives in Dallas. I am, however, posting early so as to not cause a rift in the space-time continuum by posting from 2010 when it would still be considered to be 2009. Sorry if you were wanting to see what would happen, but you’ll just have to wait about another 24 hours to get my first 2010 post.
On that topic, I’ve seen a bunch of places encouraging people to call the new year “twenty-ten” instead of the “two thousand and _____” format that has been in use for the past decade. The former definitely falls more in line with what everyone would expect pre-this past decade, but I’ll probably still use the long version for a while out of habit. I see it as being sort of like writing the date at the top of my paper in school right when we started the second semester. In the month of January, I probably turned in quite a few papers that indicated they had been written a year previously.