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My little sister will turn 30 next year on 10/10/10, which is pretty cool on a number (no pun intended) of levels, mainly 10 + 10 + 10 = 30. This got me to thinking that being born on the first day of October, I’ve never really had one of those cool birthdays like 01/02/03, 07/07/07, etc. When the first two numbers you have to work with are 10/01, what cool thing can you possibly come up with?

Being a programmer, the first thing that struck me is that my birthday is all binary digits (1001). I already missed 10/01/01 so looking ahead I determined I’ve got two more binaries birthdays coming up in 2010 and 2011. Check this out … I’m 37 now, so that means on my next two birthdays, the 8-bit binary representation of my birthday will match my age!

10/01/2010 = 00100110 = 38

10/01/2011 = 00100111 = 39

That’s some serious geek cred right there. 😀