I live one and a half miles away from the international dateline. Because of some time zone tomfoolery, my eastward neighbors (the Russian military post on Big Diomede Island, 2.5mi away) are 21 hours ahead. Big Diomede Island, in other words, is the one of the fist places in the world to see tomorrow. Check out the wikipedia article, they’ve got cool pictures and complicated graphs and big words to explain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Date_Line .

That all is to say that if the world’s gonna end tomorrow, it will begin to end two and a half miles east of where I sit in my cozy duplex in a little more then an hour. At precisely 3:00am AST, it will be 12:00am 12/21/12, and I’ll take a picture of Big Diomede (OR WHATEVER IS LEFT OF IT!) and post the picture here.

Stay tuned