And Happy New Decade! Welcome to the 2010s! Above: The ingredients of the traditional Brendan-and-Becky midnight milk toast (actually enjoyed at 10:00 PM local time this year, as the ball dropped in NYC). In the background, our Christmas tree & lights throughout our house, and CNN’s horrible New Year’s Eve coverage on our television. P.S. Just a reminder: it’s twenty-ten,… Read more »
…here in Denver, that is. Less than 2 hours to go in Times Square. And it’s already 2010 across much of the globe. Here are some of the celebrations from elsewhere around the world: P.S. On another note… Heh.
As you’ve probably guessed by now, I am not going to finish my Defining Days of the Decade list this decade — well, unless you’re in the “decade starts in 2011” camp (which I’m not). The write-ups have taken me longer than I anticipated, and I’m certainly not going to spend my free time on my eldest daughter’s second birthday… Read more »
Heh. (Hat tip: InstaPundit.) By the way… here’s a good Volokh post about the whole 2010 vs. 2011 “decade” debate, essentially agreeing with me on the issue. Money quote: [T]he second decade of the twenty-first century, if you want to use the term “second decade,” might begin either in the 2010 or 2011; my sense is that actual usage is… Read more »
A few people have commented that they’re disappointed I’m buying into the notion that the “decade” begins in the zero year and ends in the nine year (e.g., 2000-2009), as opposed to the “purist” ideal that it begins in the one year and ends in the zero year (e.g., 2001-2010). I have a couple of thoughts on this. First, I’ve… Read more »
If you’re wondering why I wasn’t live-blogging or live-tweeting the BCS selections Sunday evening, the above video is your answer. While the college football gods were conspiring to give us TCU vs. Boise State in the Tostitos Die-Cinderella-Die Bowl, Becky and I were busy hosting the 15th (give or take) Annual (more or less) Loy Family Christmas Lights Extravaganza. It’s… Read more »
In addition to the funny tweets posted below, here’s another take on today’s official turkey pardoning, from Doug Mataconis: “That must be the biggest Turkey to get a Presidential Pardon since Ford pardoned Nixon.” Heh. Personally, I want to know whether that turkey was even born in this country. I bet he’s a foreigner, and thus constitutionally ineligible to be… Read more »
Via e-mail from Andrew: XEROX IS DOING SOMETHING COOL If you go to this web site, www.LetsSayThanks.com, you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq. You can’t pick out who gets it, but it will go to a member of the… Read more »
On Monday, NPR aired a story on the question of what’s the proper way to pronounce the year 2010. Is it “two-thousand ten,” or “twenty ten”? To me, the answer is obviously the latter. The only reason we’ve been saying “two-thousand one,” “two-thousand two,” etc., is because it feels awkward to say “twenty-oh-one,” “twenty-oh-two,” and so forth. (For some reason,… Read more »
