To­day is 10/10/10 (or rather 10/10/2010 which does­n't look so cute, right?) and again there's a flood of "this on­ly hap­pens ev­ery 100 years! OMG!".

At least this time it's cor­rec­t. How­ev­er:

How of­ten is 10/11/10 go­ing to hap­pen? How of­ten did yes­ter­day's 10/9/10? Ev­ery 100 years, too. In fac­t, ev­ery date writ­ten in that for­mat will hap­pen once ev­ery 100 years, be­cause that's the way dates work!

Oh, you may say, the spe­cial part is that the three num­bers are the same, sil­ly!

But then again, last year we had 9/9/9 and next year we'll have 11/11/11 (much cool­er than 10/10/10!) so ... no, not that spe­cial.

OTO­H, to­day (at 10P­M) my kid and I will see the first ev­er episode of Ben10 Ul­ti­mate Alien (hey, 5 10s!) for the first time and that... well, that has nev­er hap­pened be­fore, and will nev­er hap­pen again. That, friend­s, is spe­cial.