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30th-Jan-2008 10:58 pm - hammer time
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What I am thinking at the moment (along with 1/365 of the cinema-going population of the planet):

Holy crap! Cloverfield takes place on my birthday!
15th-Jan-2008 01:10 pm - family = excellent
Here's a trio of Christmas presents I received from (L to R) Xander, Amanda and Finn. They know me pretty well, hey?



The robot is another Fatman like the ones I received for my birthday in 2005. Combined with the Daleks and proto-Cyberman from last year, plus a couple of others I haven't snapped yet, I'd say we're building up quite a metal menagerie.

(Advice from the future #4461: When the robots outnumber the humans--probably a good time to start worrying.)
24th-May-2007 02:34 pm - 14611 days and counting
Thanks again, everyone, for your congrats and best wishes. Apologies for not responding to every post. What a week it's been! I think I might very well be the luckiest fellow alive.

Speaking of lucky, we have three new additions to the family. I am treading carefully...

  • Tags:birthday, daleks
  • Music:stars of the lid - "and their refinement of the decline"
23rd-May-2007 08:54 am - the big 101000
It, HC Headshot, copernicus 2, outhouse, magic dirt, fly, saucer men, grattis, flight to mars, unleashed logo, Orphans head, gedosenki A, man from planet X, WOTF 23, saturn returns, crab monsters, fingers, cenotaxis, saturn title, psycho, changeling close, red moon, destination moon, zombie, boot, Movember 1, suicide pistol, squid, haiku, energy dome, inflatable dalek, beach, silent p, dalek & madonna, dog collar, earth ascendant, dalek & kylie, squid fancy, Movember 3, dirt 1, Movember - FZ wallpaper, city painting, south park, seth bullock, askew, aurealis head, Movember 2, glitter negative, trouvelot mars, Washington, destination: prague, gedosenki C, pink pills, Movember - FZ water, bert, Wig, bear, Mischevious, kev07, Lodo, tux, movember - wolfman, cosmic monsters, denied a voice, trouvelot nebula, russian egghead, sorry, kittens, blob, tubeway, glitter - not, unleashed, pirate, kb's party, gedosenki B, berserker, Movember - FZ black, hanging mountains, quantum lolcat, beast with 10000 eyes, Gazza, cenotaxis - audible, killers from space, destroy all monster, cosmic man, wedding 1, magritte, invaders from mars, robot, fringe ticket, in the name of the law, gary numan ticket, goldfrapp A&E, copernicus, giant claw, numan's eye, green sun, trouvelot jupiter, simpsons, Imre, PEN, saturn returns - audible
[info]psycho_warbaby has given the game away. Today is my 40th birthday, and I am planning to eat my own bodyweight in chocolate.

Thanks to all the responses to my last post. It's been an amazing week. I'm honoured to have such good friends in the LJsphere helping me celebrate it.
9th-Nov-2006 03:16 pm - a small coincidence
It, HC Headshot, copernicus 2, outhouse, magic dirt, fly, saucer men, grattis, flight to mars, unleashed logo, Orphans head, gedosenki A, man from planet X, WOTF 23, saturn returns, crab monsters, fingers, cenotaxis, saturn title, psycho, changeling close, red moon, destination moon, zombie, boot, Movember 1, suicide pistol, squid, haiku, energy dome, inflatable dalek, beach, silent p, dalek & madonna, dog collar, earth ascendant, dalek & kylie, squid fancy, Movember 3, dirt 1, Movember - FZ wallpaper, city painting, south park, seth bullock, askew, aurealis head, Movember 2, glitter negative, trouvelot mars, Washington, destination: prague, gedosenki C, pink pills, Movember - FZ water, bert, Wig, bear, Mischevious, kev07, Lodo, tux, movember - wolfman, cosmic monsters, denied a voice, trouvelot nebula, russian egghead, sorry, kittens, blob, tubeway, glitter - not, unleashed, pirate, kb's party, gedosenki B, berserker, Movember - FZ black, hanging mountains, quantum lolcat, beast with 10000 eyes, Gazza, cenotaxis - audible, killers from space, destroy all monster, cosmic man, wedding 1, magritte, invaders from mars, robot, fringe ticket, in the name of the law, gary numan ticket, goldfrapp A&E, copernicus, giant claw, numan's eye, green sun, trouvelot jupiter, simpsons, Imre, PEN, saturn returns - audible
The first time I read Sir Arthur C Clarke's A Fall of Moondust, I was excited to see that two of the characters, Pat Harris and Robert Bryant, shared my birthday, May 23rd. This coincidence of dates sent a little shiver through my innocent, pre-teen brain. The odds against that (I thought) must be, well, outstanding! Of course, they're not at all. That book has sold hundreds of thousands of copies and 1/365th of the readership all had experienced the same moment as me.

Anyway, today, on receiving a copy of Frank Zappa's "new" album Trance-Fusion, I'm pleased to see the very same date singled out as another nexus of coincidence, it being the date on the disc from the master engineer and also the date on the Master Tape check sheet, separated by twelve years. And it's still the date of my birthday. (Funny, that.) So there you go. I may not be an innocent pre-teen any more, and these two incidents might be separated by three decades or more, but I still get a bit of a tingle...

PS. Fly in the sky: fashion for the free-falling, here and here. In space, no one can get away with being a frump any more.
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