old school style, miller but devout, strange brew and hamlet make strange bedfellows, but even stranger still, with candy, stereotypes and abstractions of data, time and velocity, movements of sand through the hourglass, step by step, the millenium approaches, not really, technically, since 2000 is pretty technical, why not be really technical, but then again, it's the fault of those wacky arabs not giving us the zero at the start, but then again, what's with the 2000th revolution of the earth around the sun, especially when it's already done it 134,234,214,785,218,918,125 times anyway. but then again, human markings mark humanity, so celebrate the 2000th scratch on the wall, shows something, means something, go figure.