Happy new decade

1 January 2010

Almost ten years ago, some of my friends were discussing what we should call this decade: the Oughts? the Naughts? “The Zeroes”, my wife said. As it turned out, she was prescient.

Good-bye, Decade of Zeroes. Don’t let the door hit your Sylvester on the way out.

• Later: Comrade Vladimir Ilyich has left the building
• Earlier: “I never drink... soda.”