Today is my 32nd birthday. If the human race only had two fingers, we would live in a fantastic world based on binary and I would be 100,000 years old today.
Thankfully, humans have ten fingers on each hand, thus making my birthday completely insignificant. (That said, I’m not too crushed; it would be really difficult to hold a fork to eat your birthday cake if you only had a finger on each hand.)
(Although honestly, to give you an idea of the mindset that I’m in: I just spent 45 minutes just staring at a textbox on my laptop, trying to think up something constructive or positive or clever to say. But what was once eloquently blogged about so many years ago is now just kinda bottled up deep inside, because, at this point, I’m not really sure if there’s any mind-blowing revelations to declare anymore.)
14 responses so far ↓
José Marques // Nov 17, 2008 at 9:19 am
Happy b-day Ernie, hugs from Portugal.
Jeffrey // Nov 17, 2008 at 10:17 am
Nobody said you have to be mind-blowing. Even at your least interesting you’re more interesting than 99% of blogs out there.
GDad // Nov 17, 2008 at 1:18 pm
When I was 32, I pretty consistently told people that I was two-to-the-fifth. I would laugh when non-computer types would start counting on their fingers.
Jamie // Nov 17, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Hoppy burfday!
Jess // Nov 17, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Happy Birthday! And I do hope you find happiness for the day and the year and many more to come.
While we’re at it, don’t forget to come visit us sometime! We’ll give you to NY tour!
In the meantime, have fun out there on the west coast! xoxo
Jesse // Nov 18, 2008 at 8:37 am
yay! happy bday! I love this post and will be stealing this fact in 6 months!
let’s hang out soon!
b // Nov 18, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Happy B-day E-man! You still have 8 more years to 40.
GDad: You sound like a hoot!
a // Nov 18, 2008 at 8:58 pm
10 fingers on EACH hand? COOOOL!
Happy 100,000th. I celebrated the same this summer
Thomas David Baker // Nov 19, 2008 at 9:17 am
Last binary birthday until 2^6 Ernie. And if you make the one after that well played. Eek, mortality!
Bee // Nov 19, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Happy 100,000th Birthday Ernie!
George McCracken // Nov 19, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Happy 11th anniversary of your 21st Birthday.
And many more.
Lil // Nov 19, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Did you check your snail mailbox yet?
Nik // Nov 20, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Actually, I think you would be 10,00,00 years old…
Charles // Nov 20, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Happy birthday, Ernie. And if we had ten fingers on *each* hand, you’d still be jailbait.
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