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To: Dayuhan who wrote (31222)	2/19/1999 7:49:00 AM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

LOL!!! Actually, it is especially amusing as I have known Ed since he was toiling away at the Fed in NYC. And because of the two other people who are attending.... (Wicked cackle!)

To: Dayuhan who wrote (31222)	2/19/1999 8:46:00 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Speaking of the Y1K bug. Hope everyone hasn't seen this. It's a little tiny bit funny. I/III/I > > Dear Cassius, > > Are you still working on the Y zero K problem? This change from BC to ADis giving us a lot of headaches and we haven't much time left. It's already January third and the end of February is coming round like a chariot at the coliseum. > > I don't know how people will cope with thinking the wrong way around. Having been working happily downwards forever, now we have to start thinking upwards. You would think that someone would have thought of it earlier and not left it to us to sort out at the last minute. > > I spoke to Caesar (hail our beloved Augustus) the other evening at the court baths. He was livid that Julius hadn't done something about this zero year issue when he was sorting out the calendar. Said he could see why Brutus turned nasty. > > We called in the consulting astrologers, but they simply said their > learned studies show that continuing downwards using minus BC doesn't work. Great, we already guessed that. They promised us documentation after the turn of the ... what, year? century? millenium? ... even our language doesn't cover this. As usual, the consultants charged a fortune for doing nothing useful. > > As for myself, I just can't see the sand in an hourglass flowing upwards. And those Arab numerals you taught us to do calculating with, they don't handle the "aging" problem very well. Makes my head hurt just thinking about it. > > We have heard that there are in the east three men wise in these matters bringing a possible solution for the problem, but unfortunately they won't arrive till it's all over. They're at least two years away and chances are they'll go to that idiot Herod over in Caesarii Philippi first. Zeus know what he'll do about their news but it won't be pretty. > And the doomsayers (like that oracle-ess down Apian Way that Olasius swears by) insist the world will cease to exist at the moment of transition. > > Anyway, we are continuing to work on this blasted Y zero K problem here, too. Please send us a parchment if anything further develops at your end. > > I must end this message short because I have suffered from a terrible case of enscriber's syndrome ever since you mandated us to use these new high-speed rewriteable tablets you're importing from Egypt. > > Best Regards, > Plutonius