Happy Birthday Mathew!

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Many will doubtless note (or have it pointed out to them) that today is 10/10/10.

Which in binary - 101010 - is equivalent to 42 in decimal notation.

As is well known, 42 is the answer to the universal question of life, the universe, and everything.

It also happens that today is my grandson's birthday.

Coincidence?

I think not.


Cheers...

Comments

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

Ah, congratulations.

I, too, probably think about numbers a little more than the average schmoe. It is true that I carefully examined the calendar with my father and chose 8/8 as a date for my wedding. Importantly, it had the added bonus of being a full moon. If you are especially inquisitive, that would probably be enough info to determine which year it was. However, I had no personal selective option with the date for my son's birth, which was 9/9.

Have you ever noticed how many family birthdays fall on other members' birth dates? My husband's is on his grandfather's, one son's is on his father's mother's birthday. Next you get to factor in everybody's whose is the day after or before something. Mine is the day before Pearl Harbor Day, Eric's (he of 9/9 fame) is the day after my brother's as well as the same as my grandmother's. And it used to drive my mother crazy that my father always remarked on how her birthday was the day after Bastille Day, my father's personal distaste for anything French not a secret.

But the 10/10 = 42 thing would have been right up my son Tobin's alley. Again, congratulations for the alignment of the stars.

[daphnis.livejournal.com]

Matthew looks like a very bright-eyed squirrel, indeed, and probably does have the answer to the Universe (this one, at least) in his brain-box somewhere. My eldest (only boy) is loaded with ideas and abilities ~ he's a 10 Oct guy from '67 ~ and I'd guess 42 is a great number for him, too.