Mon 11 Jan 2010
So today is my birthday. It’s ALSO a super cool date in the Roman calendar, as written by people from the US. People who write dates down in a reasonable day-month-year format please read this post on November 11th of this year.
So, today’s date:
Right off the bat, it’s an anagram. Same backwards as forwards. Pretty fun. But it’s so much more.
It’s an ambigram! That’s when an image is the same even when you rotate it 180 degrees.
It’s the same flipped horizontally
and vertically.
It kind of goes without saying, but it’s also the same mirrored at the midpoint horizontally
and vertically.
This post has no real content, and I’m kind of sorry for that, but I’m a big nerd and I think this is neat.
Oh, also, it’s binary for 30.
January 12th, 2010 at 12:22 am
It would be cooler if 01/11/10 were your 30th birthday instead of your 28th. Just sayin’.
January 12th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
Yeah Ian, be older!
January 19th, 2010 at 10:09 am
But then we couldn’t trust him!
January 26th, 2010 at 1:04 am
Yep, I guess there’s only 2 good years left in him!
February 14th, 2010 at 9:27 am
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t it a palindrome, rather than an anagram?
February 14th, 2010 at 11:45 am
It is a palindrome, and not an anagram, but it IS an ambigram, which is a different thing. Ambigrams are about the physical shapes of words or phrases, where even when looked at from a different direction (usually upside down) they still say the same thing. It’s not a palindrome, which is about the order of the letters, an ambigram is about the physical shape of the letters.
February 23rd, 2010 at 11:32 am
It also says “OH HO”… just sayin’.