Hack Tonight

Never before seen interview with the creator of isit2009yet.com aka me

• Someone Else: Q.
• Me: Inspiration is a tricky subject, and one in which artists like myself find it a little difficult to discuss (mainly because I lack any semblance of self-awareness). I'd say I was most inspired by hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com mainly because I'm really interested in whether the earth has indeed been destroyed (since my physical form needs earth for sustenance).
• Someone Else: Q.
• ME: I wrote it on a Macbook Pro purchased specifically for creating isit2009yet.com. I figured if I was going to spending so much time working on this beautiful website I would need a workhorse computer (not to mention sexy).
• Someone Else: Q.
• ME: Well SE, that's an interesting question. I guess the world deserves an answer. Your probably thinking it was some technical glitch related to some bad leap year code, but it wasn't. Your probably thinking it was just a simple FAIL where some dude was going to manually update it at midnight local time but forgot to because he was at this really kick-ass party and it never crossed his mind, but it wasn't. No, it wasn't those things. It was a commentary on how dependent we've all become of technology, and especially these new "Single Serve Sites". I've never seen a "SSS" fail, and so I started relying on them for everything. Finding out about the election, whether it was, in fact, a tuesday, and confirming my suspicions that the world had not yet been destroyed. I found myself not able to make a decision unless there was an appropriate SSS that would help me out (which made things in the bedroom a bit awkward). Finally I had a wakeup call when my laptop broke and I accidently spent more than 3 hours away from the internet. I rediscovered the physical in those three hours, and by making isit2009yet.com fail so horribly, I hope that maybe I can pull a couple of more souls out from the fake and into the real.