The end of which millennium? Jewish people are in the year 56xx that is no end of millenium, nor even decade. Some other cultures are in other years. For the catholic religion it also unknown whether Christ was really born on the year 1, because in those days the had another calendar, and once a Pope decide that Jesus had been born on that year.

Not only the first day of the third millennium, January 1, 2001 is also the first day of the 21st century and the 201st decade, as well as the second year of the naughties.

Everything2 Time Capsule
It's like the everything snapshot, but much more comprehensive. Our children may look back on this writeup and think, 'Wow! This place used to be a dump!

At the time the server rolled over to January 1, 2001;

• The following users graced Everything's Best Users:
  
  1. Pseudo_Intellectual (38266/5033 )
  2. Segnbora-t (29319/1889 )
  3. pingouin (27112/2244 )
  4. dannye (24467/1382 )
  5. dem bones (24209/1979 )
  6. sensei (22632/917 )
  7. knifegirl (19621/1148 )
  8. Saige (17892/1799 )
  9. hamster bong (17230/804 )
  10. Sylvar (16972/952 )
  11. Tem42 (16534/1054 )
  12. Lometa (16163/1351 )
  13. juliet (15860/1368 )
  14. Templeton (15595/753 )
  15. yossarian (15572/1385 )
  16. ideath (15501/869 )
  17. tregoweth (15415/2111 )
  18. /dev/joe (15222/993 )
  19. BaronCarlos (15201/1634 )
  20. nine9 (14876/881 )
  21. Jet-Poop (14258/1431 )
  22. fondue (14163/1538 )
  23. themusic (13879/1252 )
  24. wharfinger (13352/688 )
  25. dann (12620/2585 )
  26. General Wesc (12608/1067 )
  27. LordOmar (12584/1300 )
  28. Deborah909 (12205/1893 )
  29. iain (12010/765 )
  30. yam (11652/925 )
  31. Electricsound (11481/542 )
  32. Gamaliel (11386/1030 )
  33. dizzy (11292/604 )
  34. Dis (11235/222 )
  35. moJoe (10976/1682 )
  36. pukesick (10858/1822 )
  37. JeffMagnus (10597/4074 )
  38. N-Wing (10594/929 )
  39. mat catastrophe (10540/873 )
  40. ophie (10528/632 )
  41. BelDion (10447/1921 )
  42. alex.tan (10435/808 )
  43. ariels (10356/1216 )
  44. Uberfetus (10103/756 )
  45. jessicapierce (9968/2446 )
  46. dragoon (9952/569 )
  47. The Custodian (9792/914 )
  48. anotherone (9456/1182 )
  49. ModernAngel (9232/2288 )
  50. hoopy_frood (9215/788)
• These writeups were in Cool User Picks! on the front page:
  • refurbished monitor
  • Suggestion: Balance COOL-ing with OBJECTIVE-ing
  • Why You Should Not Tip Waitresses
  • rec.pets.cats
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Brilliance
  • Rivendell
  • weeks: time increment of choice
  • pull out all the stops
  • incompatibilism
  • Trial Before Pilate
  • epiphenomenalism
  • joyful clapping
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau
  • Saige: Why I fight Christianity
• The first few lines of weeks: time increment of choice by Templeton, epiphenomenalism by bongy, and December 31, 2000 by jafuser were on the front page under Cream of the Cool.
• New for Noders, stuff that matters featured sensei's writeup in A message from sensei and nocodeforparanoia's in Our sensei.
• The Statistics Nodelet had this to say:

  nodes:  788917 
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• The database was on node_id 894705 (this writeup :)
• The highest ranked writeup (that I am aware of) is moJoe's under I will REMOVE the fucking toilet seat if you don't shut up with +298 C!. Note from anotherone 3/25/02: at this date, writeups could only be C!'d once. That was +10 XP, though.
• The chatterbox looked like this:

  Electricsound wishes E2 a happy new year
  <Uberfetus> LET THE NEW MILLENNIUM OF E2 BEGIN!
  <Rancid_Pickle> Happy E2 Millenium, folks
  <Uberfetus> Infinity, yer wrong!

From the Everything daily report:

Top 25 Cool Writeups by Rep 
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January 1, 2001 (thing) 
written by anotherone and cooled by tftv256 ((kwa-PING!))
 
 
January 1, 2001 (idea) 
written by break and cooled by simonc 
 
 
Noders are Clean: The Aftermath of an e2 Party (idea) 
written by zot-fot-piq and cooled by nocodeforparanoia 
 
 
January 1, 2001 (idea) 
written by RalphyK and cooled by heyoka 
 
 
January 1, 2001 (idea) 
written by clearpebbles and cooled by Aresds 
 
 
January 1, 2001 (person) 
written by Jinmyo and cooled by blowdart 
 
 
No one wants you the way you are. (idea) 
written by anemotis and cooled by Frater 219 
 
 
Why You Should Tip Waitresses (idea) 
written by generosity and cooled by qousqous 
 
 
January 1, 2001 (thing) 
written by ariels and cooled by WWWWolf 
 
 
When Everything2 Goes Mainstream (idea) 
written by syntax_ and cooled by tftv256 
 
 
Why are there no girls on Everything (idea) 
written by Saige and cooled by nine9 
 
 
Japanese writing system (idea) 
written by Myrmidion and cooled by blowdart 
 
 
Editor Log: October 11, 2000 (thing) 
written by sensei and cooled by hramyaegr 
 
 
Why You Should Tip Waitresses (idea) 
written by blaaf and cooled by proj2501 
 
 
How to Screw With People's Heads At The Mall (idea) 
written by ivan37 and cooled by wh00t 
 
 
are you a Visigoth or Ostrogoth? (person) 
written by Stride and cooled by Sylvar 
 
 
Codger must be stopped. (idea) 
written by blaaf and cooled by WickerNipple 
 
 
Gandalf (person) 
written by Wuukiee and cooled by dg 
 
 
polynomials (idea) 
written by General Wesc and cooled by dg 
 
 
bases of dating (idea) 
written by cahla and cooled by proj2501 
 
 
Mersenne prime (idea) 
written by blaaf and cooled by mrichich 
 
 
December 31, 2000 (idea) 
written by RimRod and cooled by nine9 
 
 
bases of dating (idea) 
written by masukomi and cooled by blowdart 
 
 
iMac (thing) 
written by ccunning and cooled by Rancid_Pickle 
 
 
How to bathe a cat (idea) 
written by BelDion and cooled by wh00t 
 
 
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Everything Snapshot

Time: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 00:20:46 GMT
Everything server: Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) Debian/GNU mod_ssl/2.4.10 OpenSSL/0.9.4 mod_perl/1.21_03-dev

Number of nodes: 788911 (541 new since December 31, 2000 [670.9 wa7])
Number of users: 22328 (31 new since December 31, 2000 [45.7 wa7])
Number of links: 3063885 (6563 new since December 31, 2000 [9016.1 wa7])
Number of writeups: 438108 (292 new since December 31, 2000 [344.4 wa7])
Number of cools: 53916 (125 new since December 31, 2000 [154.9 wa7])
Number of votes: 1673617 (5401 new since December 31, 2000 [6330.7 wa7])
Number of hits: 27717382 (82020 new since December 31, 2000 [107910.7 wa7])

Node to user ratio: 35.333 nodes per user
Link to node ratio: 3.884 links per node
Link to user ratio: 137.222 links per user
Link to writeup ratio: 6.993 links per writeup
Votes to cools ratio: 31.041 votes per cool
Cools to user ratio: 2.415 cools per user
Hits to user ratio: 1241.373 hits per user

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JeffMagnus node count: 4074 (1 new since December 31, 2000)
JeffMagnus experience: 10598 (93 more since December 31, 2000)
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JeffMagnus nodeshare: 0.517% (Via alternate method: 0.930%)
JeffMagnus node of the day: http://slashdot.msn.com/

02:42

2001: A Nodegel Odyssey
"Hey, Nate, what are you doing?" - EDB

2001. The year always used in sci-fi prior to the 90s. As a little kid the year 2001 seemed so very distant. During the Olympic Games at Atlanta when they were talking about the next ones in Sydney, the year 2000 still seemed so far away. 21 was a big number, and I figured I'd be a completely different person - an independent adult with a life? - at this point. While there has definitely been both intellectual and spiritual growth, it has been gradual, not as dramatic my teen mind expected back then. At this point I realize I will stay basicially the same person for the rest of my life. I will become a better person, and my worldview is sure to change. But I will remain myself. And if I have learned something else this year, it's that life is too short for spending it waiting for good things to magically find their way to you.
In other words, I've had myself 52 weeks to think things through and all I've managed to come up with is cliches.

I'm looking forward to the year of the snake. There will be many goals to achieve, bringing with them major changes in life. Since I may have to spend 2002 imprisoned doing my mandatory civil service (since there's no way in hell I'll serve in the Finnish military), I should try to enjoy my "freedom" as much as possible for these 365 days. I have a feeling this year might prove to be one of my best so far. And after all, it's all up to me to make it happen.
Oh, yes.. There was a resolution too.. But I'm keeping that one to myself.
No, it wasn't 1600x1200. :)

The New Year's Eve? It was more like a state of war. Most of the night you couldn't see past 200 meters due to the heavy snow, but the booming sound of fireworks never ceased during the hours between 18-00. I've come down with a nasty flu, so I spent today inside, using up a mountain of handkerchiefs and coughing my lungs out. Without E2 this evening might have been downright boring. :) Special thanks to simonc and perdedor for being cool as always. And to Note for a nice phonecall which surely cheered this kung-flu master up!

I'm only going to say this once.. (until next year, that is)
Onnellista uutta vuotta kaikille nodettajille!

a year ago today, my ex-boyfriend was killed. by a drunk driver, shockingly enough.

so i am home, safe inside, drinking champagne, thinking about how fucking lucky i am. and i don't need anything right now. tonight, i'm just happy i'm alive. i made it this long, and, moreover, things are good. i'm not failing out of school, i'm not pregnant, i'm not sick or psychologically fucked up. i'm sitting here in a warm house, in front of a nice computer, with friends close by. i feel peaceful. mwah.

resolutions:
i will stop trying to be less than i am.
i will find a way to be young without being excessively stupid.
i will drink a lot and smoke a lot and eat food that tastes good, no matter how bad for me it is, and have great sex and make stupid art and watch clouds go by when i need to because immortality and survival of the fittest are pointless if you're not enjoying yourself.
i will try and be nice.

the end.

I'm tired of crying myself to sleep. I'm tired of letting what they say hurt me so much. The New Year started off terribly. The first hour was spent in my living room listening to my parenta insult me left and right. We all sat in a circle. I gave the idea that everyone should say what they thought of the previous year and to say what they hoped to see the following year.

"We all have one single huge problem that we wish we never had in our lifetime, Xochitl, you are my problem."

When I heard this, tears starting running down my face. I couldn't hold them in any more. I cried while my mom, sister, and aunt laughed. It hurt. I don't see why they hate me so much? My friends can put up with me, and say my parents over-react. I don't know what my parents want from me. The other night I stayed up til 4 am helping them and woke up at 6:30 to help my dad. I work, I go to school, I clean the house, I wash everyone's clothes. What more do they want? I'm so tired of it all. I'm tired of crying myself to sleep. I'm tired of myself. I'm tired of life. I'm not a bad person. I have a lot of good qualities, they're just hard to find I suppose.

I haven't gone to sleep yet today.

The start of a new millennium, the beginning. The beginning of a new millennium, MY millennium (hey I'm only 17). I went downtown with some of my friends to see fireworks, just before the clock hit 12 we went around and thought of things we had accomplished this year. When it came to me, I had nothing to say. I can't think of one thing I did this year that was out standing in anyway. The only reason I will possible remember this year is because I got my G2. And is that real worth anything?

'This year will be different' is what everyone all way says. But who real fallow through with any new years resolutions? I know I never do. I decided not to make any this year.

I seem to be getting increasingly cynical about almost everything. I don't know if it is my age (only 17) or is it just the world its self. I have started caching myself wishing I wasn't smart, so I could be one of the seemingly happy members of the ignorant mass.

I don't pretend to be loved, I only hoped I was. Tonight my parents went to Mexico so I spent New Year's Eve with my grandma, we talked for a while. I felt so much pain when the time ran out, a new year, no school, no job, no love, no girlfriend (only confusion), and no means of pretending to be loved by anyone. I hugged my grandmother and almost started crying, she wouldn't understand. I don't need to burden her with my shit. I only hope that this new year will bring me something better. I've received 3 postcards in total, thank you to Girlface, Ereneta, and bozon. They are hanging from my ceiling (thank you clearpebbles for the idea). Where are the rest of them?

10:44

Happy new year!!!

The new year doesn't start that well...

• Upgraded Mozilla and *BANG* lost stored passwords and *almost* lost cookies and bookmarks! First time I thank my auto-backup script =) =)
• Mozilla's PSM doesn't work. Yes, that means I can't use SSL sites that use JavaScript. At all. This also seems to affect SourceForge usage. =(
• Speaking of SourceForge, CVS could be described politely as Fucking Confusing (Here I'd really need a CVS for Dummies book, and I'm not even a newbie...). I now have an extremely lousily imported CVS tree in SourceForge, and I'm completely and utterly unable to delete that stuff. Imagine conversation (after too much coffee):

  "Sorry, kid, if you nuke a directory you can't tell me a numeric version."

  "Tell me, what the ******* you mean? *****! Just nuke it, OK?"

  "help is not a valid command. Please enter your password next time you use me. Have a nice day. Oh, by the way, you still can't ssh to add an authorized_key."

This sort of stuff... Well, I wish this will get organized.

I already put "One hour of complete silence" to my to-do list =)

12:44

Linux nighthowl 2.4.0-prerelease #1 ma tammi  1 12:18:18 EET 2001 i686 unknown

OK, they said the ext2 filesystem bug was fixed - this bloody well ought to work if it's a "prerelease"... =)

14:50

Looks like I can afford a DVD player.

The prices of consumer electronics never cease to amaze me.

Anyway, the latest stress source: IDrive.com sez "thou shalt not use me with Lynx". Damn. Triple damn. And since Mozilla's SSL doesn't work... Grrrrrrrrrr.

I Hate It When This Happens.

15:40

Yess, I downloaded Mozilla 0.6 and it seems to work...

Thanks to break's daylog above, I read a story from an old (1981) book that told about the January 1, 2001. =) List of predictions, and how they turned out:

• The couple in the story had a home computer (called Helper) that turned on lights and filled bath tub. This could be doable this day, but "if it isn't broken", people say, "then we don't need to fix it"...
• One character in the story asks the computer to notify him of an appointment; the machine gets mail and asks if it should be shown or read to them. Ah! PIM! E-mail! "You've Got Mail!" =) It would be a matter of minutes to hack E-mail program to feed E-mail to Festival or something... =)
• Computer contacts other people's computers, asks what kind of food the owners like, and then orders ingredients from store to make lunch. This could be done by, say, consulting personal homepages - just that not many people seem to mention their favorite foods there. Ordering food is certainly possible, at least in certain areas...
• The character also wanted to work home, so he "connected his terminal to company computer", called to a work buddies with a video telephone, made a contract with a word processor, and sent it to the said people for them to look at. Almost correct - except for that video phone part, and that these days we speak of workstations, not terminals =)
• Computer reserves tables from restaurants, and gets taxi. Well, apart of the fact that taxis still seem to have human drivers, this seems possible.
• The restaurant had "old-fashioned methods" with waiters and stuff. Well, we live in a junk food culture, but I guess that author meant there would be robot waiters and such... =)

18:26

Did nothing relevant, just thought of what would be involved in making a HTCPCP-compliant coffee maker with Lego Mindstorms stuff... and uploaded some photos to my web album. Nothing really Kewl with Capital K.

20:28

Hmm. In Guinness World Records TV show, there was a bit about "the most dangerous car alarm ever made" - blows meter-high flames to the sides of the car. The inventor had already got 2000 orders.

I guess it's more "humane" than the MagnaVolt (or whatever it was called) that was in the RoboCop movies... ::shivers::

22:27

Hmmm... E2 was down a moment ago. So down that I actually got to see stuff like "Index of /" =)

OK, my bookmark list has officially grown out of control - maybe I should reorganize it into a more worthy (ie, organized) node list. Hell, it worked in Web...

Rukajärven Tie in TV - I love this movie. I was in the premiere, and I was in the army when they made this movie (and the defence force participated in the production a bit)...

00:05

Got the bookmark list sorted... finally...

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Other day logs o' mine...

Noded today by y.t.: PSM Palm m100

Updated: Small helpful scripts for noders

Gemma and I rode our bicycles to the lake last night to see the midnight fireworks. We settled down on the rug with some good sauvignon blanc (Nepenthe Adelaide Hills '99 & Bridgewater Mill "3 Regions", also '99). We lasted maybe two hours before the drunken hoards drove us home to our cozy abode at around 11pm. Which was OK. I told Gemma that I really wasn't an outdoors in public kind of person -- she said she could have told me that 10 years ago. I'm lucky to be understood.

Although I may not be alone, I do try to run a different kind of ship. To give in and write one of these 01/01/01 nodes, if only to proove to future everythingians that I was there, is unavoidable. Sorry.

So let the self glorification begin!

This past year I have:

1. Moved to Minnesota. Specifically, the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. I miss California, but at this point in my life I have no idea where I plan to stay. That's limbo for you.

   (Note to self: Let's try to avoid the word "I", okay?)

2. Joined university. Hamline university.
3. Taken up the name litmus on several of these new little online communities. Including Everything2, and the Foxfire message board.
4. Joined several jazz combos, jazz bands, and punk bands. Music is taking hold as my main pastime, with Everything coming in second at this point.
5. Learned how to drive on ice and snow.
6. Made new friends, and kept old ones. The friends worth keeping that is.
7. Lived off of the fat of the land, and succled on the university nipple.

A reflection on the state of drunkeness.

To avoid being around when not drunk...

Thank you.

To do list for '01(which will be half completed by 01/02/01):

• Node New sound of the Venezuelan Gozadera.
• Node Arepa 3000.
• Node Carvin custom instrument and amplifier company.
• Node Carvin Bel-Air 212.
• Make a decision on this whole sXe thing.
• Paint something I actually like.
• Kiss some-one I love.
• Probably more stuff.

/attempt_at_saying_something_meaningful

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I am glad to know you all. See you tomorrow.

     This new year, you could say, has not started out well.

     I woke up on the morning of 12.31.00 with an unbelievable pain in my neck on the right side. It seems that I had strained it the evening prior while engaged in "extracurricular activites" with Jessica. Although I am boyishly happy as to what I was doing when I hurt my neck on some primordial Guy-level (I could have been, for instance, shovelling snow), my neck still hurts. A lot.

     As if that were the worst thing. Also, I seem to have missplaced my spectacles a few days ago. Without them I can see, but very limitedly. Driving at night is a very cumbersome event. Aside from driving, it makes my everyday activities a little harder as well (noding, for instance). This definitely takes some of the fun out of the whole day.

     Jessica was working today until eight p.m.. With nothing better to do, this meant sleeping until five for Our Hero. You may say that I was a slob for sleeping so late, but I didn't have anything better to do. I wanted to get all of the sleep possible, as I was invited to four parties for New Year's Eve!

     Jessica came home at a little after eight. I laid on the couch, and we watched The Simpsons together. It was great. We have a really small couch, which is more of a loveseat, really. I can't help but to grope Jessica at every possible chance (commercials, after show, slow moving parts, etc.). She doesn't seem to mind, and we watch The Simpsons and for the hell of it, Malcom In The Middle. I ask her where she wants to go this evening, as there is no likely way that we would make it to all four different places. I at least want to make a "cameo" at two of the places and tell her so. All seems set for the night, and I begin to think about taking a shower and getting dressed.

     What was that quote? I can never think of who said the damned thing in the first place, but Stienbeck titled a book by it: "The best laid plans, o' mice and men, are oft led