neato link told me this – (via isis)

You said your birthday is 2 / 2 / 1969

28 years old when Princess Diana died
26 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
25 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
24 years old at the time of the bombing of the World Trade Center
21 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
20 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
16 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
14 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh
14 years old during Sally Ride’s travel in space
12 years old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
10 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began
7 years old on the U.S.’s bicentennial Fourth of July
5 years old when President Nixon left office (I remember from about here on!)
3 years old when Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot
not yet 1 year old at the time the first man stepped on the moon

1 years old when All in the Family was first shown
3 years old at the time the TV series M*A*S*H began
6 years old when Saturday Night Live first aired
9 years old when CBS introduced Dallas
11 years old during the first airing of Hill Street Blues
13 years old at the time the first Cheers episode was televised
17 years old when L.A. Law was first aired on TV
18 years old at the time the series Married with Children began
19 years old when the series Roseanne started
22 years old in the month Home Improvement began
25 years old at the time the TV series Friends began

and when these movies were released in the U.S. your age was:
The Godfather: 3
American Graffiti: 4
Jaws: 6
Star Wars: 8
Animal House: 9
Star Trek: The Motion Picture: 10
ET: 13
The Terminator: 15
Top Gun: 17
Planes, Trains & Automobiles: 18
Steel Magnolias: 20
Home Alone: 21
Wayne’s World: 23
Jurassic Park: 24
Forrest Gump: 25
Toy Story: 26

and when these songs were topping the charts
and these events occurred your age was:
Me and Bobby McGee, Janis Joplin: 2
ABC TV premieres In Concert: 3
Time in a Bottle, Jim Croce: 4
I Shot the Sheriff, Eric Clapton: 5
Silly Love Songs, Wings: 7
Elvis Presley Dies: 8
Do Ya Think I’m Sexy, Rod Stewart: 10
Another Brick in the Wall, Pink Floyd: 11
John Lennon is shot to death: 11
MTV makes its debut: 12
Who Can it be Now, Men at Work: 13
The recording of We Are The World: 15
Walk Like an Egyptian, Bangles: 17
Didn’t We Almost have it all, Whitney Houston: 18
Back In The U.S.S.R. is released exclusively in Russia: 19
Nothing Compares 2 U, Sinead O’Connor: 21
Emotions, Mariah Carey: 22
Fleetwood Mac perform at Bill Clinton’s inauguration: 23
The Sign, Ace Of Base: 25
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opens: 26

addendum – find toto discussion from the old days.

8th grade dance with Shelly
8th grade dance re: “Refreshments incident”
insert ferry story
remark on todays fiasco re: data, repairs, food.

design changes? easy font, comfortable sizes.

Testing!!

and, good night!