A HUNDRED YEARS IN THE MAKING, TOMORROW MORNING IS 01:02:03 04/05/05.Byline: DANA BARTHOLOMEW Staff Writer It'll be a blip in time not seen for another century - 01:02:03 04/05/06. That's the third second after the second minute after 1 a.m. on Wednesday, April 5, 2006.Some call it a Gregorian glissando glis·san·do n. pl. glis·san·di or glis·san·dos Music A rapid slide through a series of consecutive tones in a scalelike passage. , a numeric quirk quirk n. 1. A peculiarity of behavior; an idiosyncrasy: "Every man had his own quirks and twists" Harriet Beecher Stowe. 2. in the Western calender CALENDER. An almanac. Julius Caesar ordained that the Roman year should consist of 365 days, except every fourth year, which should contain 366, the additional day to be reckoned by counting the twenty-fourth day of February (which was the 6th of the calends of March) twice. . Others see it as a positive portent for L.A., for the nation and for the world. ``I feel like I know something's going to happen - like a rush through my whole body,'' said fortune teller Gina Leecq of Northridge Psychic. ``At that particular second, I do see good things for the nation. ... There will be a change in the world for everyone.'' One Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. astrologer consulted charts for Los Angeles and for Greenwich, England - the international meridian at zero degrees longitude longitude (lŏn`jĭt  d'), angular distance on the earth's surface measured along any latitude line such as the equator east or west of the prime meridian. - and saw the dawn of sharing and cooperation among rich and poor nations. He also saw the signal for tremendous growth in L.A. ``The city will shoot up, with houses being ripped down for high-rises; one-story strip malls will go by the wayside,'' said astrologer Bill Mayercq of Stars Over Los Angeles. ``It all starts on that moment in time.'' Others were both puzzled and excited by the orderly time and date. ``Oh my God,'' said Chatsworth author and political satirist Steve Youngcq. ``It's the only thing that's going in the right order in this country.'' Paul Saffocq of the Institute for the Future said Wednesday's blip will be one more beguiling moment in man's search for patterns within a random universe. But that didn't stop the predictor of Y2K See Y2K problem and Y2K compliant. Y2K - Year 2000 from being tickled by the sequence. ``I love it,'' said Saffo from his office in Menlo Park Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. . ``Oh, this is so cool. Oh man, last night as I was standing in my hot tub, I thought I felt the peacock feathers quiver in an unusual way.'' For Mike Wynercq, an up-and-coming astrologer whose birthday falls on Wednesday, it's not a moment worth waking for. ``It doesn't do much for me,'' said Wyner of West Hills. ``I don't think I'll go out and pop a champagne bottle.'' dana.bartholomew(at)dailynews.com (818) 713-3730 |
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