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Uncommon Birthdays?

Posted by Cliff on from the for-the-numerologist-in-all-of-us dept.

Dolmen asks: "In few days I will live my 10.000th day. My last 'common' birthday was no fun at all, so I'm preparing something special this time. I'm wondering what special uncommon date you, as geeks, did already/plan to celebrate. What did you do for those special dates that most ignore?" Hey, this is kinda cool. Maybe I'll do something special for my 10-Gigasecond day, due to occur sometime in December, 2002. What about the rest of you?

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  1. And in octal by archnerd · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'll be 21 in july. If I were to get arrested for drinking alcohol (which I don't), I wonder what the police would do if I pointed that out.

  2. Re:Old timer? by AtariDatacenter · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Obvious answer: He meant 1 gigasecond, which is somewhere just shy of 32 years old. Gee. Cliff isn't far ahead of me. I'm 29.

    Actually, I like the question since I'm going to be turning 30 this year. I want something crazy and special but I have absolutely no idea what.

  3. 1 Billon since epoch by Zaffle · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, I celebrated 1 billion seconds since epoch by banging my head repeatidly against a wall trying to figure out why webalizer wasn't working any more. Wasn't until the next day it dawned on me it was 1 billion seconds since the epoch, and that could cause it.

    Mmm, I wonder if I can convince my relatives to give me presents for my 9000 days. *grin*.

    Calculating how old I was in seconds use to be a way of passing a few minutes for me back in highschool. That and working out what the gravitational attraction between me and that cute girl was when she sat 1 meter away from me. I was very bored you understand :)

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  4. Turning 100000 by Dancing+Tree · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My longtime friend and present housemate (which sometimes puts a strain on the long time friend part b-) just turned 100000 which is 32 in binary (and also appropiate since he's a programmer). The only thing special we did for it is that I got the house ready for the party and took care of guest services (arranging and supplying much food as opposed to putting out a few bags of chips on a table recently swept clean by a forearm).

    Me, I'm turning 100010 this February fourth which means that I was born 2 4 68 (if you signify dating in the American system). Having a nice simple progression sure makes it easy to remember when you were born. b-)

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