on my blog: ... "alpacalypse"

[Joel S. Berson]

Someone should create a bot that counts down at midnight and modifies
the slogan, so that today it would read "16 days till the
alpacalypse".  Or has someone already done that?

And remove alpacas one by one?  (I can't accurately count the number
in "18 days", but it's close!)

Joel

At 12/5/2012 11:19 AM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>On Dec 5, 2012, at 7:48 AM, "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
> >
> > Arnold, you write:
> >
> > "Though the reference of the term Alpacalypse isn't clear here (in 18
> > days?), ...".
> >
> > I infer that the "slogan/image" was posted on December 3, and
> > "alpacalypse"  is a misplaced reference to the December 21 end of the
> > world supposedly predicted by the Mayan "long count"
> > calendar.
>
>yes -- and nicely covered in comments on my posting.
>
>i should always ask readers to check out the comments as well as the
>original posting. there's a lot that i don't get at first.
>
>arnold
>
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