birthday meme

[arguchik]

i'm having a productive day so far. i'm doing laundry and working on my dissertation. i decided to take a short break for this (ganked from maeveh) because it seemed kinda cool...

Your Birthdate: February 9

You are a born idealist, with more pet causes than you can count. You prefer be around others, both when working and while relaxing. Generous and giving, you believe you can change the world one person at a time. You're open minded and tolerant. People feel like they can tell you anything. Your strength: Your go-with-the-flow flexibility Your weakness: Your flair for the over dramatic Your power color: Pine green Your power symbol: Circle Your power month: September

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

hmmm. ok.

added later: i fooled around with the generator on that site, and it comes up with the same blurb for any birthday that falls on the 9th of any month. i discovered this because i started plugging in birthdays for my family members.* when my mother's birthday (november 9) returned the idential profile to mine, i got suspicious and started testing it because, while my mother and i share some similarities, we aren't that much alike.

*interestingly, all of my family members' birthdays fall on or within a day of a date ending in 9. my sister jan pointed this out to me when i was a little kid. here is the pattern, from the beginning of the year to the end:

february 9 (me); april 10 (my sister anne); april 19 (my brother pat); june 28 (my sister jan); august 29 (my sister barb); september 19 (my father); and november 9 (my mother). of course we weren't actually born in this order (i'm the youngest, M&D the oldest, but otherwise my siblings' birthdays actually do occur in descending age order over the course of a year). i've always thought this was weird...the annual pattern rises and falls: 9-10-19-28-29-19-9.

another oddity: jan and my cousin jim are the only two left-handed people in my extended family. they both have the same birthday (june 28); and their initials are JMC (jan) and JCM (jim).

Comments

[maeveh.livejournal.com]

I have a feeling they're using some form of numerology to come up with the blurbs ... or, the more likely theory, they're a) making these blurbs up and b)too lazy to create a blurb for every day of the year :-)

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

it looks to me like they came up with 31 different blurbs, one for each day of the month. i checked several random dates in the month of january, and they were all different, but when i changed the month and left the day the same, the blurb also stayed the same.