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Wishing the happiest of happy birthdays to my one and only sire!

Personally, I think the more significant anniversary would be of the day he was spawned, two days hence, but as by then I'll be on a boat and perhaps not quite as broadbandy, I'll grudgingly acknowledge that atpotch might have reason to celebrate today. And so I'll join in wishing one of the wisest and best friends I have a happy birthday!

I'm out the door for the huge freaking trip through the Baltic sea and up the Norwegian coast. My connectivity will be spotty for the next five weeks (!) though if I can find WiFi broadband in the middle of the Libyan desert, Talinn ought to have no secrets from me. Still, I expect that there might soon be a few posts that contain (the one true ( Read more... )

I think this was the first ATPo Gathering at which people called each other by their given names more often than by their posting names. One could argue that this signifies greater bonds of intimacy growing across what had been a rather anonymous medium, or one could mention that going from the Board to LJ means that we have trouble dealing with ( Read more... )

Having landed at Cleveland Hopkins at eight this morning, dozing through only one disc of Aaron Copland and some of "Bring the Noise," and coming after two straight nights of no more than four hours of sleep and a solid week of no more than six, I'm far too exhausted to write a recapitulation of the 2006 ATPo Gathering with concision, coherency or ( Read more... )

I suppose I'm not going to write that substantial update I'd been planning before I leave for Tahoe. Oh, well, I had something planned about nostalgia. Speaking of which, I wonder if Jane Austen wasn't the correct high-toned author to whom to turn in my current mood of happy self-recrimination. And since I'm looking for dense doorstops to carry on ( Read more... )

On my return flight from Memphis to Cleveland, my napkin was this:


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We scheduled the meet with atpolittlebit and ladyhelix for last Saturday without realizing that it would be the third game of the Cavaliers-Pistons series. As Cleveland had looked hapless against Detroit, getting blown out in the first game and being dominated in the second, I wasn't too put out about that, but I did resolve to keep an eye on the tv at PF Chang's. Well ( Read more... )

Are they separated at birth or just both former students at the same Shaolin monastery?


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