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Uncommon Birthdays?
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?
I turn 9000 days old on my brother's birthday this year!
Scary? Strange? Cool? I'm not sure...
python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
Let's see, 10 Gigaseconds, 10 000 000 000 seconds, divide with 60, 166666666,66~ minutes, divide with 60 again, 2777777,77~ hours, divide by 24, 115740,74~ days, divide by 365 and you get 317 years, holy crap slashdot has some true IT dinosaurs!
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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.
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
I use to have a funny sig, but slash cut it off, and I forgot what the punchline was.
Well, I'm turning eleventy-one on the same day my nephew is turning thirty-three, so I think we're going to hold a big joint party. I've got a big surprise planned for the ending - so keep your eyes peeled.
Actually, although he was born on December 25th according to the calendars in use at the time, he was born on January 4th by current standards.
My birthday is 5/5. I found out after marrying my wife that her birthday is 8/8. My firstborn's birthday is 11/11 (which if you add 5 and 8 you get 13, is octal for 11). It's too bad my other kids didn't follow pattern, as my stepson's birthday is 5/24 (May 2-4, a big drinking party day for you non-Canadians), and my youngest son's birthday is 2/7, which really isn't special other than that is his birthday. :-)
My age in hex, I hadn't thought of that before... 1a this year...
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-)
:::Horrendous Experiences Make Amusing Anecdotes:::
...and hate it every time.
I doctored one of those "I am 10" badges by adding a 9 in the upper-right hand corner, to read "I am 10^9".
You can see the invitation on my web site (PDF, 55kb) for a while.
11.0010010000111111011010101000100010000101101000
since i was born on sept 26th, and i had my 33rd birthday, on the 26th of jan, i became 33 1/3 ... or an LP..
One of the few benefits of hitting 41 (?! - can't be!) is that day 15k is less than a month later, and within a year my mom will be boasting to her neighbors about latest antics of her 500-month-old.
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H L Mencken