I sit here waiting for the great confluence of 1s – 11/11/11 11:11 – I can actually see it twice today if I ignore the 24-hour clock. If I look at this as binary, I see 1,023, certainly not a very remarkable or universally significant number.
Hexadecimal is a little more interesting – 3FF. If I were constructing a password, of course the 3 would represent an E and making the substitution I have EFF. I’ve been following EFF for a long time (in computer time). EFF is the Electronic Frontier Foundation that defends our rights in the digital world. You really ought to spend time at their web site http://www.eff.org. You’ll get so much more out of it than waiting to watch the digits line up.
Why do I feel compelled to rain on everyone’s parade? It’s probably because I hate to see so much significance attached to something created by man! If this event were a cosmic alignment of 11 planets now that would be something! You do realize that if the Pope hadn’t created the new calendar on February 24, 1582 we’d have another 12 days or so before the numbers lined up. That’s right – switching to the new calendar required us to toss out 11 days when it was adopted by Britain in 1752. We skipped from 10/11 to 10/22 overnight! What fun that would have been had we been running on computers! Would have made Y2K look like small potatoes!
We have so many different calendars running and this event is only remarkable in one of them. When do all the other people in the world have their fun?
You might also get a hint that I don’t put much stock in the Mayan calendar ending on a certain date. However, I AM interested in the cosmic event with which it coincides even though the “event” is spread over many years and doesn’t occur on just one day.
So balderdash I say – the clock just turned to 11:11 on my computer. The only thing significant is that I am through with this post … bet you’re happy with that!
– 12:39 PM, Apr 1”