I’ve timed this post to go up at 12:34 ET this afternoon in order to celebrate an event that happens twice every hundred years, and happened for the second time today.  The clocks will read 12:34:56 on 7/8/9 a mere 56 seconds after this post goes up in the Eastern Time Zone, as they did 12 hours earlier.  It’s quirky and esoteric, but also a little bit of fun.

The previous occasion of this kind of sequencing took place in 1978, at 12:34 on May 6th.  When that moment arrived, I was rehearsing for a school musical (Bye Bye Birdie), and I had everyone stop and wait out the full minute.

And yes, everyone thought I was a geek then, and I’m sure they think I’m a bigger geek now.

Carry on.