The nerdy passing of time

On Monday, October 17th, I will be 16,000,000 minutes old. Want to know your age in prime birthdays, Venusian years, or fortnights? Check out Matt Parker's collection of links explaining How To Celebrate the Nerdy Passing of Time.

Maggie Koerth-Baker is the science editor at BoingBoing.net. She writes a monthly column for The New York Times Magazine and is the author of Before the Lights Go Out, a book about electricity, infrastructure, and the future of energy. You can find Maggie on Twitter and Facebook.

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Donald Petersen

I shall celebrate the occasion of your Sweet 16th megaminute by consuming a full billion nanoliters of root beer. Skaal!
MDwebguy

You don’t look an instant more than 14,716,800 minutes, Maggie. Early best wishes to you!
trieste

In only 1.2675505 years (or 666,666.662 minutes) you will be 1 billion seconds old.
SamSam

Awww… the nerdiversary site reminder function doesn’t work, at least not for gmail:

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I want to be reminded when I turn a billion seconds old!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Chuck-Holt/100002566896916 Chuck Holt

Yes, but will bars honor your Venusian or Mercurian birthdays when it comes to those free drink offers?
http://twitter.com/Listener43 Listener43

Properly, that would be Venerian years, not Venusian. /pedant
SonOfSamSeaborn

Ace! I hit a 222,222 and an 800,000,000 this morning!

Edit: No I didn’t. I’m trying to do this stuff and I can’t even read dates correctly.
TooGoodToCheck

wow, there’s some cool stuff on that site. I love that it’s not too base-10-centric.

Also, I have to set a reminder for myself – shortly after you turn 68, you will turn 2^31 seconds. The idea of overflowing a signed int caries a lot of weight for me.