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Kathy Kinney
There's a lot I could say, but...mmm, I don't really have time today to get into it. There's work and Arlekin's game this evening, and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rozberk is coming down this weekend (hooray!), so I don't know if I'll have the time until Sunday. Either way, thanks for all the thoughts and wishes, and especially the comments about the minefield topic on racial...you know, ideas. It's given me a lot to think about the past few days.
Anyway, here are memes.
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
I thought this was just too cool for school, so of course I have to do it! I already know quite a bit about what's happened on my birthday but according to Wikipedia there's a lot I *don't* know.
FACTS
1806 - Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire.
1945 - World War II: the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima. An atomic bomb codenamed Little Boy is dropped by the American B-29 Enola Gay on the city of Hiroshima in Japan at 8:16 a.m., killing 80,000 outright with another 60,000 dead by the end of the year due to fallout sickness. Ultimately, about 200,000 die due to the atomic bomb.
2002 - Manindra Agrawal et al prove the long standing number theory conjecture in the article entitled "Primes in P".
BIRTHS
1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)
1970 - M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-born film director, writer, producer, and actor
DEATH
2004 - Rick James, American musician (b. 1948)
Apparently, a lot of royalty and about five Popes also died on my birthday. For some reason, I find this amusing.
1. Books - Yeah, go for the obvious right off the bat. I'm a bibliophile, and I love the fact that I have a humble library full of books I haven't gotten around to reading yet. Send more, and I'll be a friend for life. :)
2. Rabbits - Not real ones, but, you know...art, pictures, bookmarks, figurines, posters, what-have-you. Never get tired of 'em. ;)
3. Food - I love food. I love good cooking. I make no bones about it. It's almost a religious experience for me, the art of preparing and then eating something. I seldom feel more content than I do after a really great meal.
4. Art - Yeah, I'll admit to being kind of shallow here. I like having my characters drawn. I don't like to make a *big* deal about it, because the bread and circuses that is the furry art scene, but, really...who doesn't?
5. Movies - As much as I love movies, my DVD collection is pathetically small. I've got a few of my favorites, but I really should make a list of movies I just need to own.
So there you have it!
Speaking of movies,bamboofae and I saw The Corpse Bride last night. It was surprisingly good; the story itself was incredibly straightforward and the villain was inconsequential (really, they could have explored the idea of loving two women a bit more and that would have been fine), but the characters were really endearing and the songs were pretty damned catchy. Stupid Danny Elfman. :)
We also saw this little documentary called My Date With Drew, which was so so incredibly sweet. This fellow decides to spend $1100 he won from a game show (in which Drew Barrymore was the winning answer) to try and get a date with her in 30 days. He's had a crush on her since the age of 7, and he figures that the serendipity was no accident, that it's finally time to go for it. Throughout the movie he tries to angle it as an 'average Joe reaches for the unattainable' kind of deal, and within the context it really works. I don't want to give away the ending, but I will say the look on his face at one point, when all the work pays off (when he least expects it to), is just priceless. :)
Good night last night.
rozberk is coming down this weekend (hooray!), so I don't know if I'll have the time until Sunday. Either way, thanks for all the thoughts and wishes, and especially the comments about the minefield topic on racial...you know, ideas. It's given me a lot to think about the past few days.Anyway, here are memes.
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
I thought this was just too cool for school, so of course I have to do it! I already know quite a bit about what's happened on my birthday but according to Wikipedia there's a lot I *don't* know.
FACTS
1806 - Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire.
1945 - World War II: the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima. An atomic bomb codenamed Little Boy is dropped by the American B-29 Enola Gay on the city of Hiroshima in Japan at 8:16 a.m., killing 80,000 outright with another 60,000 dead by the end of the year due to fallout sickness. Ultimately, about 200,000 die due to the atomic bomb.
2002 - Manindra Agrawal et al prove the long standing number theory conjecture in the article entitled "Primes in P".
BIRTHS
1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)
1970 - M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-born film director, writer, producer, and actor
DEATH
2004 - Rick James, American musician (b. 1948)
Apparently, a lot of royalty and about five Popes also died on my birthday. For some reason, I find this amusing.
1. Books - Yeah, go for the obvious right off the bat. I'm a bibliophile, and I love the fact that I have a humble library full of books I haven't gotten around to reading yet. Send more, and I'll be a friend for life. :)
2. Rabbits - Not real ones, but, you know...art, pictures, bookmarks, figurines, posters, what-have-you. Never get tired of 'em. ;)
3. Food - I love food. I love good cooking. I make no bones about it. It's almost a religious experience for me, the art of preparing and then eating something. I seldom feel more content than I do after a really great meal.
4. Art - Yeah, I'll admit to being kind of shallow here. I like having my characters drawn. I don't like to make a *big* deal about it, because the bread and circuses that is the furry art scene, but, really...who doesn't?
5. Movies - As much as I love movies, my DVD collection is pathetically small. I've got a few of my favorites, but I really should make a list of movies I just need to own.
So there you have it!
Speaking of movies,
bamboofae and I saw The Corpse Bride last night. It was surprisingly good; the story itself was incredibly straightforward and the villain was inconsequential (really, they could have explored the idea of loving two women a bit more and that would have been fine), but the characters were really endearing and the songs were pretty damned catchy. Stupid Danny Elfman. :)We also saw this little documentary called My Date With Drew, which was so so incredibly sweet. This fellow decides to spend $1100 he won from a game show (in which Drew Barrymore was the winning answer) to try and get a date with her in 30 days. He's had a crush on her since the age of 7, and he figures that the serendipity was no accident, that it's finally time to go for it. Throughout the movie he tries to angle it as an 'average Joe reaches for the unattainable' kind of deal, and within the context it really works. I don't want to give away the ending, but I will say the look on his face at one point, when all the work pays off (when he least expects it to), is just priceless. :)
Good night last night.