Kid Bastard Rules All

And my daughter's awesome too.

Today is my birthday. Woot me.

They rock, because they got me a sporty MP3 player for when I go walking or hiking, AND I got another GIG of RAM for this stupid machine. YAY! Now I'm not plodding along here anymore! This machine now SCREAMS.

Yay! Now I can play some serious games without freezing. Happyhappy joyjoy!

People I share a birthday with:

• Ewan McGregor (yum)
• Al Gore
• Christopher Walken
• Richard Chamberlain
• Shirley Jones
• Cesar Chavez
• Joseph Haydn
• Rene Descartes (not so yum since he's been dead for centuries)
  

On my birthday:

• 1776 Abigail Adams wrote her famous "Remember the ladies" letter to her husband, John, urging him to include women as he helped construct the US Constitution. He didn't. (fucking bastard)
• 1870 Thomas P Mundy became first black to vote in US (Perth Amboy NJ) [props to Jersey!]
• 1900 The first car advertisement to run in a national magazine appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.
• 1918 First daylight savings time in US goes into effect (dammit!)
• 1921 Albert Einstein lectures in New York on his new theory of relativity
• 1932 Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine
• 1933 German Republic gives power to Hitler
• 1959 The Dalai Lama, fleeing the Chinese suppression of a national uprising in Tibet, crosses the border into India, where he is granted political asylum
• 1965 US ordered the first combat troops to Vietnam
• 1966 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in New York NY (feh, we kicked your asses on 08/29/04)
  
• 1967 Jimi Hendrix begins his tradition of burning his guitar
• 1969 George Harrison and Patti Boyd are fined £250 each for illegal drugs
• 1971 William L Calley Jr sentenced to life for My Lai Massacre
• 1976 New Jersey Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected from respirator (exactly 19 years before Terri Schiavo dies)
• 1982 Rock group Doobie Brothers split up
• 1989 Donald Trump purchases Eastern's Northeast Shuttle
• 1991 Danny Bonaduce attacks a transvestite prostitute in Phoenix AZ
• 1995 Microsoft Bob, a much ballyhooed "social interface" from Microsoft, started shipping.