Confusion. And a meme.

I keep meaning to post. Unfortunately, I keep forgetting to post, so this means no post, except that there is a post here now, because I'm posting so I have a post and I can say that I aten't dead.

Confused? Um... me too.

So! Mememememeness. Just 'cause everyone else is doing it. And here's some things that happened on my date of birth:

Arrivals:

• 1507 - Ouchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord. Honestly. A warlord named 'Ouchi'.
• 1863 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria. Later killed by the most incompetent assassins ever. Not even their cyanide worked.
  
• 1878 - Josef Stalin. I like to think I take disagreement a little better.
• 1890 - Edwin Armstrong, inventor of the FM radio. He spent the rest of his life wishing he'd invented something to let him tape songs off it.
• 1913 - Alfred Bester, science fiction author and winner of the first ever Hugo Award for The Demolished Man, which I haven't read. I have, however, read one of his short stories - Fondly Farenheit, which was fun and interesting.
• 1943 - Keith Richards, guitarist.
• 1946 - Steven Spielberg. Who is apparently working on a trilogy of live-action Tintin films. Starring Tom Hanks as Captain Haddock. Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles says I, and not in a happy way.
• 1963 - William Bradley Pitt, who really needs less introduction than Keith Richards.
• 1968 - Casper Van Dien, a US actor who's appeared in films such as Sleepy Hollow.
  
• 1971 - Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, tennis player, included here simply because her name is one of the few on the list with accented characters.
  
• 1978 - Katie Holmes, carefully supervised devoted partner of one of the Silliest of the Scientologists.

Departures:

• 1737 - Antonio Stradivari, an Italian maker of violins.
  
• 1787 - Francis William Drake, who is in fact not as famous as all the other Francises Drake to whom he is related.
• 1848 - Bernard Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano, Bohemian mathematician with a name of DOOM.

The list of dead folk is far less interesting.

Unclaimed Luggage:

• 218 BCE - The Carthaginians kick the Romans about the place. Later, the Romans get the last laugh, recorded as: SAL/CAMPI/IGNIS OT3!!!1!1!111!
• 1787 - New Jersey becomes the third US state to ratify the Constitution, after declaring that their people were satisfied that the truths had properly shown evidence for themselves. Insert far more apt joke here, and declare that I lose at awake.
• 1892 - The first performance of The Nutcracker is held in St Petersburg. The music is earmarked for later use in advertising and mobile phone ringtones.
• 1935 - The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Sri Lanka. The founding is celebrated at a Lapsang Souchong Pyjama Party.
• 1966 - Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered. Epimetheus was the one who made cute and fluffy and interesting animals while Prometheus was wasting time with all that designing people nonsense.
• 1997 - HTML 4.0 is published by the W3C (the World Wide Web consortium). Microsoft issues a press release saying "Standards? Pfft!". Near enough to 9 years later, HTML 4 still refuses to die.

And, well, that was fun.