Cthulhu2012
Posted by Gremlin in What's New on Tuesday, 16th September 2008 at 3.23 am Zulu Time
It's starting to look like we at Cthulhu/Dagon2008 may have to concede the electionyear; it seems to be between Palin and Obama now [which raises the question: is McCain now up against Biden, whom 99% of democrats and 100% of republicans didn't want?]. Partly because, despite the merchdrive [which has been doing better than I'd really expected], we never actually reworked cthulhus.com from a splashpage announcing a restaurant I seriously considered opening before the smokingban. But that's okay. There's always next time.
Next time, of course, is in 2012. Which is already feared and highly anticipated by stupid people who weren't clever enough to keep reading on the matter of the Mayans:
Maya stelae occasionally show dates beyond 2012. Most of these are in the form of "distance dates", where a Long Count date is given with a distance date to be added. For example, on the Tablet of Inscriptions from Palenque the following Long Count date was found: 9.8.9.13.0 8 Ahau 13 Pop (24 March 603 Gregorian) with a distance date of 10.11.10.5.8. The resulting date is given as 1.0.0.0.0.8 5 Lamat 1 Mol,[10] or 21 October 4772 – almost 3,000 years into the future. The king Pacal of Palenque predicted that on this date the eightieth Calendar Round anniversary of his accession will be celebrated, suggesting he did not believe the world would end in 2012.[11]
—wikipedia.org
But, don't tell them yet; they might have money.
To that end, I just picked up cthulhu2012.com which, being a couple minutes old, currently contains precisely dick. But, what we've got done of the political blogue initially destined for cthulhus.com can go there once it's ready; the rest is a simple matter of updating all Cthulhu/Dagon2008 things to 2012. Does that make my Cthulhu/Dagon2008 shirt a collector's item? I should steal it back from Hunter. Or order another one before we swap out the designs. Or both.
Anyway. That kinda gives me something reasonably timecritical to think about when I'm staring at the blinking cursor, trying to decide what to do to Lurkers next. Hence the bigassed whiteboard I've got on the wall here.
That's about all I wanted to mention. Except that we're open to comments and ideas and whatever; follow the link below to add comments to the board.
More later....
