At 09:09:09 on 09/09/09
A fairly silly and completely uninteresting post: given that I was born on a 09/09, this is a special birthday since this is the year of the six nines! (I cannot explain this irrational appeal digit alignments have for me since those are arbitrary divisions of time, nothing more, since I am not turning 99 in any basis, and since I could not see the point in celebrating the turn of the century in 2000…) Obviously, I am not the only one to see this date as a bit special, as shown by this post and that post.
Xi'an's Og 
November 7, 2011 at 8:08 pm
[…] for my talks both at CREST this afternoon (in ½ an hour!) and in Madrid [on Friday 11/11/11=16, magical day of the year, even though I will not be speaking at 11:11…] for the Workshop Métodos Bayesianos 11 (no major […]
October 10, 2010 at 10:22 am
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August 6, 2010 at 12:37 am
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October 9, 2009 at 12:18 am
[…] Darjeeling I get from the local supermarket… Since I got those two wonderful bags as a B’day present, as well as another bag of Rooibos red tea, I can testify of their incredible taste and […]
September 10, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Concerning interesting dates, one month ago, around noon, it was
12:34:56 on the 7/8/9 ;-)
September 10, 2009 at 8:46 pm
But it was not my birthday then…!
September 9, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Silly posts? Here I am !!!
Happy Birthday!
P.S. They are serious stuff though, birthdays…