Tally-mark birthday tee
Kudos to the blogger at House on Hill Road for making this awesome tally-mark birthday tee for her daughter. I want one with 38 tallies next year!
Kids really have the best ideas! Sometimes they aren't really practical, but they are always creative. About a month ago, we were driving in the car and she said she wanted tally marks on her birthday shirt. Perfect! Of course, it was 6:30 on the morning of her birthday when I finally got around to making it. Some things never change. I do know what I am going to do for Jane's shirt (also her idea). I have two and a half weeks to do that one. Let's see if I can avoid procrastination. Probably not. (Just me trying to be realistic).
Tally - ho! (via Craft)
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Shoot, does this mean tie-dye is coming back?
Does anyone else do binary birthday candles? My circle of friends started when I was 27 - we put 5 candles on the cake, lighting the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th. This year I'll be lighting the 1st and 4th of 6 candles.
Brilliant in its simplicity.
I again call for the creation of parenting.boingboing.com -- I think you guys would do a superb job in creating a blog that's a celebration of the wonderful aspects of parents (and of living childhood)... Far better than the generally depressing and far-too-often negative about their children "mommyblogs" that are out there.
RIKCHIK - congratulations - I have a feeling Nine is going to be an awesome year for you!
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@rikchik - Yes, we do binary candles, too. Fewer candles is nice. But as morcheeba points out, you really ought to be reading your candle position from right to left (1st is the ones place, 2nd is twos, 3rd is fours, 4th is eights, etc.)
Next february 10 I want a shirt with 25 of this kind of tally marks. We use it here, mostly, to mark points on card games, as the wikipedia article says. Especially Truco. Ok, I'm such an awful Truco player, but, isn't life a game anyway?
@Lenore, @Morcheeba - wouldn't you say the first digit in the number 2008 is 2, just like the first letter in Rikchik is R?
Do goth/emo kids start out with eighty or so (black) stripes, and tear one off on each birthday?
That is genius. Very very cute. May I steal that idea for my own kid?
Of course you post this today. My youngest turned 7 on Saturday. I don't dare show her this thread.
@Rikchik - sure the first digit in 2008 is 2, but that is obviously a year and we think about that kind of number a little differently. The logical first digit you talk about for a binary number is the one in the ones place. But if you really want to be clear, just write it out! On the cake it should look a little like i11i11 since the unlit ones (presumably representing zeros) stay taller.
I think we agree on the actual candle presentation. Asking around at work, I found a few people who agree with you two that binary digits are special and indexed from the right, but most people seemed to agree with me that whether it's decimal, binary, octal, or septimal that the "first" digit is the one on the left, signifying the largest amount.