{"id":350,"date":"2002-04-17T01:28:08","date_gmt":"2002-04-17T06:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=350"},"modified":"2015-07-15T01:14:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T06:14:59","slug":"im-hexed-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2002\/04\/17\/im-hexed-once-again\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m hexed once again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\">Dave<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/scriptingnews.userland.com\/backissues\/2002\/04\/16#le9d6d43af8d7346730bbcbfab8a3a466\">chuckles<\/a> at the hexadecimal nature of <a href=\"http:\/\/decafbad.com\">0xDECAFBAD<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This year is the last year for some time that I&#8217;ll be able to fall back on hexadecimal as the obfuscator of my antiquity, for today, I turn 0x29.  <\/p>\n<p>I can cry far and wide:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"blog\">\n<big><b>Today I am 29!<\/b><\/big><small><i>(in hexadecimal)<\/i><\/small>\n<\/div>\n<p>But next year I turn 0x2A.  Maybe that&#8217;s why 42 is the meaning of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.douglasadams.com\/cgi-bin\/genetic\/run.cgi?\/news\/index2.dna\">life, the universe and everything.<\/a>  I won&#8217;t be able to use the hex trick again until April 17th, 2009, when I turn 0x30.  <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s gotta be a term for those years of lost hexadecimal innocence between (decimal) 42 and 47.  How about <b>The Alpha Years<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave chuckles at the hexadecimal nature of 0xDECAFBAD. This year is the last year for some time that I&#8217;ll be able to fall back on hexadecimal as the obfuscator of my antiquity, for today, I turn 0x29. I can cry far and wide: Today I am 29!(in hexadecimal) But next year I turn 0x2A. Maybe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}