Today marks the end of the Mayan calendar and hopefully it marks an end to all the stupid Mayan Apocalypse jokes. I am sure it is the end of the world for some people. One website calculated 250,000 – 300,000 die every day. Hopefully I am not going to be one of them nor is anyone I know.
It is interesting though, wondering how they determined the Mayan’s selected this date.
Perhaps it was some kid’s homework assignment?
Teacher : “I want you to carve a three wall essay that takes the calendar into the future as far as you can.”
As most kids are apt to do, this student did the minimum.
Or what if it was some stoner who halfway through his IT project decided to go smoke a bowl and he strolled down to the Siete/Once (7/11) to get some cheesy poofs only to get run over by a reckless Mayan god trying to put her make up on in the rear view mirror?
They had cars, right? I keep reading they were advanced.
It got me thinking of my legacy. In IT development, the average system life span once in production is maybe three or four years. Just yesterday I was setting up a table for pay periods and I mulled over how far into the future to take even if the chances of the system being around five years from now is very, very slim.
Who’s to say in the distance future, when archeologists come across my virtual server that holds my SQL database, and they see that my pay period table ends on October 7th, 2031, that the world doesn't go apeshit over my calendar ending because I thought 500 seemed like a nice round number to represent the number of pay periods to generate in the system, retroactive to August?
Will it be considered a prophecy?
Honestly, it was arbitrarily chosen and yet, I wonder, will this be known in the future as "The Bryon Apocalypse?"
It could make me immortal, like a Mayan god, provided that I am wrong.
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In retrospect, I think I should add 12 records more so it is 512 records which is a binary number and computers are all about ones and zeroes. YMMV.
