Happy 100000th!
You might not think a 32nd birthday is as significant as, say, a 30th, or a 40th, because it doesn’t end in a zero, but if so, then you’re not thinking like a programmer. You see the old “base 10″ (“decimal”) numbering system might work well for humans who are used to it, but computers use “base 2″ a.k.a. “binary”. This makes 32, which in binary has a magnificent 5 zeros (100000), a very significant birthday if you happen to be a giant geek.
If you grew up with Warren, you might recognize the cake’s likeness to a very old computer made by Mattel, called an “Aquarius”. Warren remembers this computer (plus a “200 in 1 Electronic Project Lab” from radio shack) as marking the beginning of his inner geek. So this seemed an appropriately geeky cake for a geek’s 100000th. And it turned out pretty well.
Here are the boys, ages 111, 101, and 10, admiring their dad’s great antiquity. Also another cake can be seen below, which was both more tasty and also better suited to the more decimally oriented.
Dan, Kari, and their boys came over to celebrate. Dan, Warren, and the boys played some vintage Nintendo games with some nostalgic value.
Isaac and Owen enjoy the best part of any birthday party.
Alex and Kari.
One of Warren’s gifts was this miniature remote controlled helicopter which Warren can be seen here struggling to keep airborne.
Bummer that we have Wednesday church again and couldn’t make it :-( Glad he still gets older in our absence ;-)
That reads as if Warren wrote it–did he?
Anyway, I thought I would comment on the cake. It only reminds me of the original Aquarius if each party guest was required to type 198+ lines of program (perfectly)in order to eat a piece!
Hope your 10000th birthday was as good as the 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000th will be!
That’s hilarious! I’ve never heard of such a thing (and honestly am very confused…numbers!) Glad Warren had a great birthday!!
Yes, Melissa. Warren wrote it. Warren knew you’d notice even though it’s written in the third person. You might be thinking Warren’s vain, and he did feel kinda weird writing it in the third person, but the rest of the blog is written from Lynn’s perspective. So Warren couldn’t very well say “I” or people would be all confused.
Love, Warren
P.S. My original Aquarius died way back in the late 80s. The one in the pictures is one I found on ebay some time ago that I got for nostalgia. It used to work, but when I tried to get it working for the birthday to give everyone the opportunity to type in hundreds of lines of code perfectly, it didn’t work anymore either.
It was a fun night and the cake looked great!
Yeah, well, I don’t think I have ever heard Lynn use the phrase, “Decimally oriented” ;-)
Yes, well I had the same question as Melissa. Reading the text as though Lynn had written it, I was pretty impressed!
I surely remember that Aquarius computer. Dad’s father sent it to us from AZ. He had received it as a gift somehow and didn’t want it. Greg Smoker helped Warren not only play with it but actually program it. We were all amazed that Warren would spend literally hours writing a code which produced a stick man walking across the screen!
Warren, you’re becoming quite the cake decorator. I can’t wait to see what your next creation is!