I know you. You’re a smart, funny, intelligent, confident young woman making your way in the world-wide-web today, just like me. Therefore you are aware of the excellent webcomic XKCD. It is by turns hilarious, randomist, über-geeky, heart-achingly warm, but always brilliant.
See then comic #240. Read it again, inwardly digest, then come back.
Yes, that string of digits does indeed represent an exact geographical location and an exact time. The twist is this: at the time of writing, that exact time is in the future. It’s 2.38pm on 23rd September, 2007. And the geographical location is a point on a street in North Cambridge, Boston, USA.
My question is – do any of you who read this (women or not) live anywhere in or near Boston? And are you going to be there on 23rd September this year? (It’s a Sunday, by the way.) If so… can I ask you a favour? Could you go to this address at exactly 2.38pm and see what happens?
I’d be much obliged, Kthx.
–c.
[Oh, and a thousand bonus points if you could identify the film from which the title of this post comes, and the actor who said it, without Googling.]
