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LJezzacotta (or DWezzacotta) meme!

Being obsessed with a) mezzacotta, the randomly generated webcomic that's (retroactively) been around since 9999999999999 BC, and b) nerdy math-related stuff, I thought of an idea for a LJ/DW meme that incorporates both! Back in July or so. Why didn't I post it until now? For that matter, I'm surprised I didn't think of this meme before July 2017.

Anyway...

1) Look at the mezzacotta strip from your birthdate:
http://mezzacotta.net/archive.php?…

2) Look at the strip(s) from the day you joined LJ and/or DW and/or any other blogging site you use regularly - if you don't know when that is, you can go to your profile and find out (at least for LJ and DW):
http://mezzacotta.net/archive.php?… (LJ)
http://mezzacotta.net/archive.php?… (DW)

3) Optionally, also look at the strip(s) from any other dates that are significant to you!
I'll skip this step, though - while there are many other dates that are significant to me for whatever reason, I think I'll just use my birthdate and the dates I joined LJ/DW for this.

4) Put in the same dates from steps 1-3 again but with AD changed to BC. You can do this just by putting a minus sign before the year in the URL:
http://mezzacotta.net/archive.php?…
http://mezzacotta.net/archive.php?…
http://mezzacotta.net/archive.php?…

5) Put in the dates from steps 1-4 again, but replace the years with the last two digits of them:
http://mezzacotta.net/archive.php?…
http://mezzacotta.net/archive.php?…
http://mezzacotta.net/archive.php?… (...so is he going to show me or not? :) )
http://mezzacotta.net/archive.php?…
http://mezzacotta.net/archive.php?… (A hair restorer on leeches?)
http://mezzacotta.net/archive.php?… (I guess a penny isn't enough.)

6) Now take the dates from steps 1-3 and replace the year with your LJ and/or DW (and/or other blogging site) user ID! On LJ and DW at least, that's also on your profile.
(Any time I say to replace the year with a number that isn't a year like your user ID, do this for both BC and AD if the AD version exists [i.e. the number is between 1 and the current year]. If it doesn't - which it won't 99.9% of the time - then just use BC.)
http://mezzacotta.net/archive.php?…
http://mezzacotta.net/archive.php?… (I'd say that's changing focus more than just "a bit". :P )
http://mezzacotta.net/archive.php?… (Yes, I even combined my LJ user ID with the date I joined DW and vice versa. Because that makes a lot more sense than the strip I got by doing so!)
http://mezzacotta.net/archive.php?…
http://mezzacotta.net/archive.php?…
http://mezzacotta.net/archive.php?… (The first panel of this one is the best part.)

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If any of these methods gives you an invalid date:
Year with leading zeroes - remove the leading zeroes.
Year is 0 - use 9999999999999 BC (13 nines), 1 BC, and/or 1 AD instead. Or, if this happens in step 5, replacing it with 100 BC/AD makes sense too.
February 29 in a year that doesn't have one - use February 28 and/or March 1 of that year instead.
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When did the distant future officially begin?

Since certain past years and dates (especially starting with 2015) sometimes still sound futuristic to me when I think about them, I thought I'd make a poll about it.

Poll #2062591 Forwards to the Future
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All. Participants: 4

What is the earliest year that you have, at some point in your life, thought of as the distant future?

View Answers
1983 or earlier
1(25.0%)
1984
0(0.0%)
1985
0(0.0%)
1986
0(0.0%)
1987
0(0.0%)
1988
0(0.0%)
1989
0(0.0%)
1990
0(0.0%)
1991
0(0.0%)
1992
0(0.0%)
1993
0(0.0%)
1994
0(0.0%)
1995
0(0.0%)
1996
0(0.0%)
1997
0(0.0%)
1998
0(0.0%)
1999
0(0.0%)
2000
1(25.0%)
2001
0(0.0%)
2002
0(0.0%)
2003
0(0.0%)
2004
1(25.0%)
2005
0(0.0%)
2006
0(0.0%)
2007
1(25.0%)
2008
0(0.0%)
2009
0(0.0%)
2010
0(0.0%)
2011
0(0.0%)
2012
0(0.0%)
2013
0(0.0%)
2014
0(0.0%)
2015
0(0.0%)
2016
0(0.0%)
2017
0(0.0%)
2018
0(0.0%)
2019
0(0.0%)
2020
0(0.0%)
2021 or later
0(0.0%)

What is the earliest year that you still sometimes think of as being in the distant future?

View Answers
1983 or earlier
0(0.0%)
1984
0(0.0%)
1985
0(0.0%)
1986
0(0.0%)
1987
0(0.0%)
1988
0(0.0%)
1989
0(0.0%)
1990
0(0.0%)
1991
0(0.0%)
1992
0(0.0%)
1993
0(0.0%)
1994
0(0.0%)
1995
0(0.0%)
1996
0(0.0%)
1997
0(0.0%)
1998
0(0.0%)
1999
0(0.0%)
2000
0(0.0%)
2001
0(0.0%)
2002
0(0.0%)
2003
0(0.0%)
2004
0(0.0%)
2005
0(0.0%)
2006
0(0.0%)
2007
1(25.0%)
2008
0(0.0%)
2009
0(0.0%)
2010
1(25.0%)
2011
0(0.0%)
2012
0(0.0%)
2013
0(0.0%)
2014
0(0.0%)
2015
0(0.0%)
2016
0(0.0%)
2017
1(25.0%)
2018
0(0.0%)
2019
0(0.0%)
2020
0(0.0%)
2021 or later
1(25.0%)

What is the earliest year that you still almost always think of as being in the distant future?

View Answers
1983 or earlier
0(0.0%)
1984
0(0.0%)
1985
0(0.0%)
1986
0(0.0%)
1987
0(0.0%)
1988
0(0.0%)
1989
0(0.0%)
1990
0(0.0%)
1991
0(0.0%)
1992
0(0.0%)
1993
0(0.0%)
1994
0(0.0%)
1995
0(0.0%)
1996
0(0.0%)
1997
0(0.0%)
1998
0(0.0%)
1999
0(0.0%)
2000
0(0.0%)
2001
0(0.0%)
2002
0(0.0%)
2003
0(0.0%)
2004
0(0.0%)
2005
0(0.0%)
2006
0(0.0%)
2007
1(25.0%)
2008
0(0.0%)
2009
0(0.0%)
2010
0(0.0%)
2011
0(0.0%)
2012
0(0.0%)
2013
0(0.0%)
2014
0(0.0%)
2015
1(25.0%)
2016
0(0.0%)
2017
0(0.0%)
2018
0(0.0%)
2019
0(0.0%)
2020
1(25.0%)
2021 or later
1(25.0%)


I think my 1, 9, 2, and 0 keys want a break now. :)

(I say that right before I have to type all those years one more time for the tags on this entry...)