I have just under 2000 messages in my INBOX. Am I ever going to go through these messages? Maybe.
However, my INBOX has reached a kind of stasis, now that I've begun to associate the message numbers with years. For example, it's 1973 A.I (Anno Inboxi). A few days ago, it was 2037, but this made me uncomfortable -- too much uncertainty. So I got to about 2008 -- not bad -- and now I'm a little baby.
I used to do the same thing with the NASDAQ, when it was hovering around 1900. I'd try to imagine what was happening this NASDAQ-equivalent-year in history. Right now it's 1386.18, so that's, what, January 20th, 1386. Apparently Donatello was born c. 1386. Let's pretend he was born on January 20th. How about that.
Posted by cradle at April 4, 2003 12:43 PMI bet you're right - Donatello always seemed like an Aquarius.
Posted by: Andrew at April 5, 2003 2:36 AM