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Journal heliocentric's Journal: My age, you pick! 41

Journal by heliocentric

Ok, I've been in too many discussions lately where people have wanted to know my age. Whether it's dealing with annoying little punks or discussing certain odd portions of my family, it's been a topic.

So, I have decided I will let you decide my age that I will use when I'm online. This is not a poll to find who can guess closest to my actual; this is where you vote what age you would like me to be. I, however, get to set some limits here: we can't have ballot stuffers inputting negative ages making me unborn, or excessively high values making me undead. Only votes within the range of 18 and 55 (inclusive) will be considered.

You are to guess an age in years and I will find the mean and the median values and then I get to pick which one I like (if I use the mean I'll probably truncate if needed). I will then retain the Month and Day of my real birthday and adopt the year from your votes (current year minus selected age) to create my online persona. Votes will be accepted up to one week following this journal going live. I will then post the exciting results.

There are a few of you out there who may have seen some little piece of plastic I claimed was a driver's license, here you are not asked to guess what age represents my spin count for Earth orbits around the Sun (even though I am Heliocentric, but I digress) rather what age I exhibit, act like, or generally fit in with. If you met me today how old would you think I am? I would ask that those with some honest knowledge of my true age abstain unless your vote is knowingly made as a number fitting with the criteria I just listed. A concern is that when those of you who know me in real life place a vote, others may place a greater weight on those guesses when forming their own opinion. Please make your own unbiased decision.

This isn't an invitation to stalk me, or to hold me down and cut me open to count the rings, this isn't a competition for accuracy, and there are no awards.

I will now provide you with several misleading as well as highly informative clues as to my real age. All items listed are true as of this posting. Feel free to post questions and I will make fun of you, I mean consider posting updates with info.

I share my real birthday with a famous redheaded SCI-FI actress (officially she was born blonde and dies her hair red).

My current drivers license does list a date at the top denoting "Under 21 Until XXXX."

My parents are retired and my dad plays in a senior citizen's orchestra.

I am unwed and I have no children, but I am the uncle of two. My sister (only sibling, and not a twin) is in her mid 30s.

The age bound of the women I have dated (current ages, not age at the time of relationship) is [24,47]. (The bound has been updated from the inacurate [24,46] I had originally listed, my appologies)

My favorite TV show is The Prisoner and it was on TV in the 1960s.

I graduated with a BS degree in 2000.

During and after high school I played in a swing band and I have toured Europe twice with them. We also played as the band on a cruise ship during one summer. The group has released at least two albums.

I write with a fountain pen.

I play with trains.

When I was growing up, the family car we had came with the standard AM radio and there was one light denoting "turn signal" that flashed the same if you were turning left or right.

I have had bifocals in addition to regular corrective lenses for several years.

My hair started to go grey about 3 years ago.

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  • 28 (Score:2)

    by arb ( 452787 )
    That's the age I tend to use when needed...
  • my guess would be about 26-27
  • I'd say you're easily in your early thirties.

    The question, of course, is whether you're older or younger than your sister. My guess is either 33 or 36, depending upon you being the older or younger brother of Ms. Names-Her-Kids-GodAwful-Things.

    Of course, you act like you're 12 sometimes. But that's a different story altogether. And usually, you're attempting to be funny. If I had to guess based upon your level of maturity displayed, I'd have to say 27-29.

    That enough guesses for you?

  • Like 36-38.

    The BS degree in 2k threw me off (that's why I got mine), but I'm sticking to my gut, here.

  • 55 (Score:2)

    by turg ( 19864 ) *
    Just to skew the results, I say 55
  • 35 is a good online age. You could always join the likes of gmhowell and be a lithe, black lesbian ballet dancer. 24 might be a better choice in that case.
  • Would your Birthday be August 9? Age = 34
    • I agree.

      It seems that you've been living two lives. One life, you share the birthday of ... Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number, pay your taxes, and you... help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias "heliocentric" and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a real birthday, and one of them does not.

      • That post is funny on the obvious matrix level, it's even funnier if you know the person MagnetarJones is guessing I share my birthday with.
      • Sorry to hear... (Score:2) by $$$$$exyGal (638164) on Saturday February 15, @07:57PM (#5310862) (http://slashdot.org/~$$$$$exyGal/journal/#naked | Last Journal: Wednesday May 28, @08:59PM) Sorry to hear you don't like my journal. Maybe you don't like naked chicks? Wait a second. Are you the gay porn troll? If you are, I don't have a problem with the gay part, just the troll part. I've slept with several (ok, 2) lesbians in the past, so I don't have any problem with gay people whatsoever. Or maybe you don't
  • I would stick with the average on here and go with 29. My office poll ranges from 26-33 though.
  • My hair started turning grey back in high school, so the 3-year-ago grey hair thing didn't throw me off. Graduating with the BS in Y2K makes me feel that you were 23-25 at the time, so you must be around 28.
  • Who cares? I certainly don't. So why am I replying? To be part of the crowd.

    45. Just for kicks.
  • I have know helio for some time and have interacted with him this may prove challenging.

    I give you an age of 31 for the online persona.

    But i think you really are about 26.
  • I don't want to blow the suprise mainly because I know heliocentric personally and I went to school with him but ...
    Hint: I got my BS in 1999 and I will be 30 in a month
    ;-)
  • that your birthday is december 19, and that you are therefore 27 years old. that'll be for real and online age, as i see no good reason to make them separate.

    milla jovovich was has naturally brown hair, but i hope still don't you'd mind sharing her birthday.
    • Wrong actress, but good guess. I'll add your vote of 27 to the tally.

      Be seeing you.
      • i knew it was wrong from your description, but she's my favorite actress who's been in a sci fi film with red hair.

        (for a better guess, is your birthday on the 22nd of a month?)
        • (for a better guess, is your birthday on the 22nd of a month?)

          Only if you begin the first of the month on a date other than the number one or just don't count in order.

          Ok, this is the last one of these guess that I will respond to... if I keep going I'll have to divulge secret info, namely the information currently known as my "actual birthday." In the future I will swear to my internet voted birthday.
  • 42. Not because of the Hitchhiker thing, but because it's a good age for a man. Old enough to know better, but still young enough not to care. Nevermind all these young pups clamoring for 20-something!!

    ....Bethanie....

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