32

Another 365.25 days of orbiting our resident ball of fire has come to a close and I've survived! Yay me!

It's been an erm... interesting year... I broke my arm, I went to China, my car broke down on a lonely highway at night, my iPod got stolen, I watched some cool movies, tried champagne for the first time, baked a cake, joined Google+, and endured the usual drudgery of work.

32 years... a fine number! Some fun facts:

• 32 is a power of 2! My favourite type of number!
• 32 is the number of teeth on an adult human. *CHOMP*
• 32 is apparently a happy number. Beats being a sad number!
• 32 is the number of completed, numbered piano sonatas by Ludwig Van Beethoven, one of my favourite classical composers.
• 32 is the atomic number of germanium which is widely used in optics and semiconductors including transistors. This is cool.
• 32 is the freezing point of water in degrees Fahrenheit at sea level. Cool... or maybe just cold.

Happy Birthday to me! Here's hoping for an awesome year ahead.

(Number facts from Wikipedia)

Happy Birthday to Me

Well I've completed my 31st orbit around the Sun. Wheeeeeeeeeee.......

What's happened in the past year? Let's see...  got a promotion of sorts, lots more work, my parents finally moved from my crummy home town, I got 4Mbps internet, bought a few gadgets and stuff, and... that's about it.

To celebrate, here are a few fun facts about the number 31:

• 31 is a prime number, and not just any prime number, but a Mersenne Prime which is a prime number 1 less than a power of 2. I enjoy powers of two, so this is cool.
• 31 is the number of ice cream flavours from Baskin-Robbins. Ice cream is always good and I like Baskin-Robbins better than that overpriced and overrated Häagen Dazs.
• 31 is the atomic number of gallium. Gallium is widely used in light-emitting semiconductors. I like LEDs, so this is cool.
• The sum of the digits of the 31st Fibonacci number (1346269) is 31. Creepy.
• 31111111111111111111111111111111/31 is prime. That's 31 1s on the numerator. Cute.
• 31 has the first two digits of pi and pi³ is allllmost 31. Pi is fun.

And here are some people who share my birthday:

• H.P. Lovecraft (1890) - Creepy horror writer
• Isaac Hayes (1942) - Composer of the Shaft theme. I can dig that.
• John Noble (1948) - Actor who played Denethor in LOTR and Walter Bishop in Fringe! I like Walter a lot. He's so funny and cute.
• Jonathan Ke Quan (1971) - Short Round from Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom.
• Misha Collins (1974) - Castiel from Supernatural. The most amusing Supernatural character by far.

Happy Birthday to me!

(Number facts from Wikipedia and  Prime Curios!)