What is a good present for someone's 10,000th day?

May 1, 2009 10:24 PM

What is a good present for someone's 10,000th day?

I'm going to a party for my sister's 10,000th day on the planet. Yay! What's an awesome numerically/mathematically-themed present? Must be something I can buy easily-ish in NYC tomorrow, and concept is more important than content.

posted by unknowncommand to shopping (17 comments total)

A huge block of ice to symbolize the roughly 10,000 years since the last ice age.
posted by schyler523 at 10:25 PM on May 1 [1 favorite]

100 squares.
posted by dersins at 10:31 PM on May 1

10K gold jewelry.
posted by MegoSteve at 10:31 PM on May 1

A time machine made of a fridge box, with a big dial on the front set to each thousand days before now (1000, 2000, ...) and pictures of her at/around each of those days.
posted by mdonley at 10:33 PM on May 1 [2 favorites]

Well, there is no zip code 10000, but I do know there is a 10001, and it happens to be in NYC... roughly around Koreatown. Get her a gift card from a restaurant there with its address visible?

A Mahjong set? Each of the nine Mahjong character suit tiles represents ten thousand (wan) coins, or one hundred strings of one hundred coins.

An Isis statue, as she was The Lady of Ten Thousand Names?

A framed print out of the first 10000 prime numbers?
posted by strixus at 10:39 PM on May 1 [1 favorite]

How about a hundred dollar bill?
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 11:03 PM on May 1

10,000 Days is a Tool album.
Ten Thousand Days is a Hungarian film.

I wish I had realized it was my ten thousandth day. That's pretty great!
posted by Casuistry at 11:04 PM on May 1 [1 favorite]

How about a hundred dollar bill?

You mean ten thousand pennies.
posted by jjg at 11:09 PM on May 1 [3 favorites]

I've always though 80*365 = 29200 was rather morbid. So I'd avoid 1/3rds unless you're into that sort of thing.
posted by jeffburdges at 12:12 AM on May 2

Oops, I mean 80 * 365.25 = 29220
posted by jeffburdges at 12:13 AM on May 2

Along with the other musical suggestions, there is always 10,000 Maniacs.
posted by TedW at 6:36 AM on May 2

It's the sort of thing I usually roll my eyes at, but if you can find some of this bottled water (and I would think that if any city would have it it would be NYC) this would be an aproopriate time to serve it.
posted by TedW at 6:42 AM on May 2

And here is a place in New York that seems to have it, for only $30 a bottle! What a bargain(rolls eyes)!
posted by TedW at 6:49 AM on May 2

Casuistry: I was going to suggest doing what my friends have done, and celebrate your 33 1/3 birthday, but checking your profile, it looks like I'm about 5 months too late. :-(
posted by fings at 8:21 AM on May 2

A portrait of Salmon P. Chase?
posted by hangashore at 8:22 AM on May 2

A 10000 Yen banknote. They're quite pretty.

Failing that, an HP 33s calculator. Everyone should know RPN, and no-one will every borrow it.

(and yay, I thought it was just me who celebrated birthdays every thousand days ...)
posted by scruss at 11:36 AM on May 2

10000 is 16 in binary. If she's a nerd she'd appreciate anything you could do with that. Also, both 10,000 and 16 are squares. Which is cool.
posted by monkeymadness at 12:54 PM on May 2