Today would have been Dad’s 62nd birthday. There’s really not much more I can add to that, so let’s just get to the friday5.org Friday Five. 1. What was the last thing you filled out a written application for?When I went to the BMV to renew my driver’s license earlier this month I think I only had to sign a sheet after the attendant asked me a bunch of questions, so I won’t count that. The last written applications of any kind I can remember…
My apologies for going silent for a whole week like that, but between business surrounding Dad’s death and work for school I haven’t had a moment’s rest for a very long time. I’ll have an update on that over the weekend, but for now I wanted to make sure I got a Friday Five in here. On this day in 1994, version 1.0.0 of the Linux kernel was released. I actually remember some friends of mine from local BBSes talking about Linux back in the…
Two of them on this day, in fact, both going back to the Steelers’ glory days of the seventies. Franco Harris was born on this day in 1950, Lynn Swann on this day in 1952. This is particularly important to me right now because Harris was one of two men (William Shatner, of all people, being the other) Mom had a crush on when I was growing up. Mom says that there’s no way she’ll ever remarry, but seeing Harris’ name pop up on Wikipedia…
Getting back to my normal activities is probably one of the things I need to do here in order to get healthier, so I’ll do the Friday Five this week. A few weeks ago when I realized that I’d be doing a Friday Five on Leap Day, I kind of peaked ahead at Wikipedia’s listing for this day to see if there was much of anything I could pull for the usual historical opener. I found some stuff that I thought I might be able…
This week’s Friday Five at friday5.org is just too cheesy for me to attempt, and the only date-related thing I can really talk about today is that it’s YouTube’s third birthday. In place of that meme, I’ll link to you my Johari and Nohari windows, if any of you would like to fill them out or look at the results. Johari, Nohari