[Revi]

We are moving into a new decade and this one is on it's way out. It started with Al Gore and ended with Obama here in the USA, and it was a really strange decade.

Here's an article about it and the peculiar psychology that pervaded it:

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology ... story.html

I guess those of us into peak oil were reflecting the larger culture after all. (maybe we were a little ahead of the curve)

What do you think? How did the 00's treat you? How was it from your vantage point? We have just a few more days to go before 2010 comes along and gets rid of those double zeros.

[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Revi', '(')maybe we were a little ahead of the curve)

[Revi]

For me the 00's were the decade of peak oil. I knew about it in the 90's but denied it's existence. With the coming of the millenium peak oil started to come true, in many interesting ways. I think we hit peak in 2008, so to me it was the last decade of oil increasing.

I think we should get out our blue suede shoes and party like it's 1999.

Should old acquaintance be forgot...

[hillsidedigger]

There is another year of the 00's to endure.

The tenth year of the first decade (the 00's) of the 21st. Century is 2010. The next decade is after next year.

For most of those alive from the beginning of 2001 to the end of 2020 the 00's will have looked fabulous compared to what the 10's will be.

[Sixstrings]

Culturally, I would call the 00's the beginning of the industrialization of the individual. Having already industrialized all aspects of the environment and human behavior, in the 00's our formerly private inner selves have been categorized, data-mined, assigned a Facebook status, and keyword-optimized for Goggle Adsense.

Whether this is good or bad, I don't know. What I do know is that electronic social bonds can be severed with a flip of a swtich, a power outage, or a breakdown in the supply chain.

[Revi]

Wasn't 1920 the first year in the "twenties"? I know it's not fair, but people lump all the years in a decade together.

Twenty-ten will be the first in the decade, whether it makes sense or not.

The last decade was 1990-1999. This one will be 2000-2009, and the next one will be 2010 -2019.

I think...

[hillsidedigger]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Revi', 'W')asn't 1920 the first year in the "twenties"? I know it's not fair, but people lump all the years in a decade together. Twenty-ten will be the first in the decade, whether it makes sense or not.
The last decade was 1990-1999. This one will be 2000-2009, and the next one will be 2010 -2019. I think...

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')ou're not an accountant are you?

1920 was not the first year of the 1920's. By that logic we would now be in the 20th. Century because all the years begin with '20'.

The way our years are defined, it at started at point Zero with the year One b.c. dating back from that point and the year One a.d. dating forward from that point, so that at the end of the first decade of the First Century a.d. it was the end of the year 10 and it came forward from there.

[hillsidedigger]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')ou're not an accountant are you?

1920 was not the first year of the 1920's. By that logic we would now be in the 20th. Century because all the years begin with '20'.

The way our years are defined, it at started at point Zero with the year One b.c. dating back from that point and the year One a.d. dating forward from that point, so that at the end of the first decade of the First Century a.d. it was the end of the year 10 and it came forward from there.

[Revi]

What do we call the decade that is going to end in 2010?

The double zeros? The aughts?

We are coming to the end of a decade that doesn't even have a name!

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Revi', 'W')hat do we call the decade that is going to end in 2010?

The double zeros? The aughts?

We are coming to the end of a decade that doesn't even have a name!

[hillsidedigger]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Revi', 'W')hat do we call the decade that is going to end in 2010? The double zeros? The aughts? We are coming to the end of a decade that doesn't even have a name!

[TheDude]

Wikipedia has an entry for Names of the decade. "Naughty Aughties"? "Noughts" does the trick. Didn't we figure this out a hundred years ago?

Incidentally Wiki also points out that "Although any period of ten years is a decade, a convenient and frequently referenced interval is based on the tens digit of the calendar year, as in using 1960s to represent the decade from 1960 to 1969." So withdraw pendant.

[Vogelzang]

I'm almost back up to a quarter million dollars outside of retirement (2 brokerage accounts and 2 bank accounts).

[hillsidedigger]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheDude', 'W')ikipedia has an entry for Names of the decade. "Naughty Aughties"? "Noughts" does the trick. Didn't we figure this out a hundred years ago?

Incidentally Wiki also points out that "Although any period of ten years is a decade, a convenient and frequently referenced interval is based on the tens digit of the calendar year, as in using 1960s to represent the decade from 1960 to 1969." So withdraw pendant.

[Vogelzang]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'M')ore of the same: denial, distraction, and hubris was the philosophical foundation of the time; stupidity was the MO; and economic, social and planetary destruction the consequence.

A great time to be on the sidelines looking in

[SeaGypsy]

In Oz the decade has been known as the 'naughties'. This was popularised by music radio stations early in the decade. I side with the decade beginning in 2000 but I do get HSD's point.
To me the decade has been the most interesting of my life and I think in history.
Peak oil/ the internet really coming into central focus/ the most bogus political acts of all time/ a renewed focus on science/ the beginning of mainstream awakening to the damage humanity is doing to the planet.
My marriage, the birth of my daughter, major career changes.
The Kubler-Ross decade?

[2cher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Vogelzang', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'M')ore of the same: denial, distraction, and hubris was the philosophical foundation of the time; stupidity was the MO; and economic, social and planetary destruction the consequence.

A great time to be on the sidelines looking in