thats it….the end of the world, party at my house!
Ok, so there are a few things that I am slightly superstitious about…nothing crazy like jana’s “left before right rule”, but I do have my quirks.
In this particular case, I AM VINDICATED!!!! It looks like there are a collection of people who think the world is going to end on December 21st 2012, based on the merging of the Mayan and Gregorian calendars.
A quick explanation in case you don’t have time to read the entire article. The Gregorian calendar (the one we use) is designed to be a repeating calendar. We start January 1st, go all the way through to December 31st and then repeat. The Mayan calendar was a 5126 year long calendar that ENDS. Do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars. The calendar just ends.
There is a lot of interesting things that happen on that date. The article lists them all, but there is one that they are not aware of that all of you might want to know about, THE PARTY AT MY HOUSE!!!!! So as the world burns and the Mayan calendar ends I have just one question. Who’s bringing the guacamole?
August 5th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
(WARNING: You are about to read a run-on sentence. I know this is a run on sentence. Just read it and bear with me.)
I do not mean to end your party before it begins, but if you are telling me that because the Mayan calendar ends on our equivalent of Dec. 21, 2012, and that its end signifies the end of the world, than for that theory to hold true, the beginning date of that Mayan calendar had to have started the day the world began. But I’ll give you my guac recipe just in case.
On a side note, I do love the title of that article, “Thousands Expect Apocalypse in 2012.” Thousands… wow.
August 5th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
ok….hole punching time.
The calendar need not begin at the beginning of time. They could have just created a calendar that told them the end of the world, not necessarily the beginning. You are thinking in a Gregorian method, that you can just go all the way backwards to 150,000,000 BCE. Technically speaking our calendar doesn’t have a beginning or an end. Think about it this way, if we found out that there was this asteroid that was going to smash into Earth and we knew the exact date then we would have an “end date” to our calendar, right? (That is of course barring a crew of heroic oil drillers who trained to become astronauts in 8 days and then miraculously saved us 2 seconds from “zero barrier”).
August 6th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Ah yes, another Michael Bay classic. I don’t know what’s more surprising, Rob: The fact that you just referenced Armegeddon to me or the fact that I spelled Armegeddon correctly on the first shot.
I just don’t buy that the Mayans, as advanced as they were, discovered a way to see the end of the world. I mean, if they saw the end of the world and put it on the calendar, I would think they would have also noted on that calendar the day the Spanish stopped by for a visit.
August 6th, 2008 at 11:52 am
maybe the spanish didn’t RSVP so they weren’t sure…
August 6th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Two points:
1. “Thousands” - That’s interesting because that’s about equal to the amount of people who believe they could be the next American Idol.
Thousands believe they have what it takes to be the next American Idol
2. The Mayan calendar ends, but not in the traditional way we interpret “end.” They mean “reset,” which essentially means the calendar just starts over. It’s kind of like old school video games that would just start over from the beginning when you beat them.
August 6th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
ok, we STIll don’t have a good guacamole recipe so here is one from my favorite food television star Alton Brown:
3 Haas avocados, halved, seeded and peeled
1 lime, juiced
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon cayenne
1/2 medium onion, diced
2 Roma tomatoes, seeded and diced
1 tablespoon chopped cilantro
1 clove garlic, minced
In a large bowl place the scooped avocado pulp and lime juice, toss to coat. Drain, and reserve the lime juice, after all of the avocados have been coated. Using a potato masher add the salt, cumin, and cayenne and mash. Then, fold in the onions, tomatoes, cilantro, and garlic. Add 1 tablespoon of the reserved lime juice. Let sit at room temperature for 1 hour and then serve.