From a telephone pole along the Burke-Gilman to a display outside a shuttered sushi restaurant, signs around the city forecasted the end of the internet on December 2 of last year, or 12022021. The palindrome date (and apparent book marketing stunt) did not inspire the panic of Y2K but rather a fleeting relief that people might log off for once.
Bragging Rights
In 1990, E. Donnall Thomas won a Nobel Prize for developing bone marrow transplants to treat leukemia and other cancers. How much is that honor worth? $312,500, apparently. The late Fred Hutch leader’s gold medal was sold at auction for that amount,
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