There is a #10yearsago meme going around Twit­ter.  Because I am unable to fit my response into 140 char­ac­ters, you get a blog post.

I was liv­ing in Cal­i­for­nia in the afore­men­tioned cot­tage house.  I was a lot more gothic/industrial back then (at least, on the out­side; I think I will always be on the inside).  I was dat­ing Moocher-Jessica (although that was on the decline and led to the No More Jes­sica Party after a few more weeks).

At the time, I was work­ing for Alta Vista, and my cowork­ers and I were a lit­tle bit spooked by Y2K.  I was secretly hop­ing for a lit­tle bit of mey­hem — maybe not on the level of the best Nike com­mer­cial ever, but I did have a few hun­dred dol­lars in sin­gles on hand just in case the credit cards and banks were bro­ken and I needed exact change for toi­let paper, food, or water.  I also remem­ber hav­ing a lot of can­dles, camp­ing sup­plies, and what­not.  I wasn’t quite buy-some-land-in-Montana para­noid, though I knew a few peo­ple who were, but did have a bit of “cau­tious pessimism.”

Ten years ago, today, I was buy­ing booze, snacks, and ice in prepa­ra­tion for the big Y2K party.  Dave arrived early for the party.  Hours and hours early, as you will see in Act 1.

This is the time-lapse video I set out to make just under 10 years ago.  I learned (pieces of) Adobe Pre­miere in the process.  It took me weeks to come up with some­thing semi-decent, but a hard drive crash killed that video.  I never got around to recre­at­ing it until today.  This new video only took 15 min­utes of work, and most of that was remem­ber­ing how to do image sequences in Quick­Time and screw­ing around with titles in iMovie.  And yes, Jeremy, there is still that “Leonard Bern­stein” bit in this revised video.

Y2K Time-Lapse, 6 images per sec­ond, 4m:09s, H.264 MP4 video.  It starts a lit­tle slow, but gets inter­est­ing about 0:50s when the guests start arriv­ing.  Hav­ing issues with the embed­ded player?  Directly down­load Y2K.m4v, instead.

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