Happy 11/11/11!

Allysen and I have been trying for a while to figure out how to celebrate 11/11/11. For about the last year, I've had a strange knack for glancing idly at a clock and discovering that the time was 11:11. (Again? This is weird.) I wasn't doing it intentionally at all, though after a while it became hard not to look at a clock and hope that it would be 11:11. Anyway, that gave me a special desire to celebrate November 11, 2011 (11/11/11), a truly cool date.

It turns out that where Allysen works, a lot of brainy, creative people had the same idea. She called me and said, "You have to come in and see it." I did. These people are amazing. They had decorative pillars arranged in pairs all over. They had placards spelling out 11.11.11 in a bunch of different languages, including binary and Morse code.

 11.11.11 in Korean

 

 11.11.11 in Urdu (I think)

  

11.11.11 in ???

They renamed all the floors.

Among the special elevenses in the world:

• There have been 11 Doctor Whos.
• There have been 11 Star Trek movies.
• The Apollo 11 mission landed the first men on the Moon.
• In M-theory, there are 11 spatial dimensions.
• The sunspot cycle is 11 years.
• There are 11 thumb keys on a bassoon. 
• The sports soccer, football, cricket, and field hockey all field 11 players to a team. 

We're going to settle in for a movie and fish and chips, and plan on popping open a bottle of something fun at 11:11 p.m.

Happy 11/11/11, everybody!