Confusion. And a meme.

[active_apathy]

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.

Comments

[theshadowlurker.livejournal.com]

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.

Except "We hold these truths to be self-evident" was in the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.

Silly active_apathy.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Well, um, yes, but your political system is broken and weird and does its best to ensure that the people are never represented ever. Also, I have teh sleepy.

[theshadowlurker.livejournal.com]

That's no excuse.

Or well maybe it is but um pshhh excuses are for sissies.

...

Or something like that.

[timba.livejournal.com]

1943 - Keith Richards, guitarist.

I got Santana. Yay guitars?

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Yay indeed.

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

*pouts*
Why do you get Alfred Bester and Antonio Stradivari?

...Spielberg...live-action Tintin films...Starring Tom Hanks as Captain Haddock.
Whut? >:(

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Because I do. Also, I now wonder if that's who former Serenity mechanic Bester was named for.

Exactly. I want to go and shout something along the lines of "thundering typhoons" at their casting people.

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

That would be cool (if unfortunate for the late A. Bester). Bester from Babylon-5 is named after him, too (in fact, I think psi-cop Bester's first name is Alfred).

Casting folk? Poltroons! Invertebrate iconoclasts!

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Alfred Bester from Babylon 5 is named after Alfred Bester, who wrote a psi-cop kind of book. So, twofold fangeeking from the B5 writers.

Carpathian caterpillars! Infernal mileage merchants! Nitwitted ninepins! Dunderheaded Ethelreds!

[crackedwraith.livejournal.com]

A warlord named 'Ouchi' is like his parents were psychic.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Indeed. It's said all who dared to oppose died with his name upon their lips.

[leila82.livejournal.com]

1978 - Katie Holmes, carefully supervised devoted partner of one of the Silliest of the Scientologists.

This is very significant. I'm not sure what it signifies, but in my mind, it's significant. Yay no-caffeine.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

It may mean that it's a day that needs more vitamins. Or that I need a 'silly scientologists' icon.

[tears-of-nienna.livejournal.com]

SAL/CAMPI/IGNIS OT3!!

*geeky Roman history squee*

But wait, wouldn't it be OTIII? XD

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

They didn't understand why they wrote it that way, and carried that puzzlement with them for the rest of their days. But there was fire, so they didn't mind too much.

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

UVT (una vera triga)?