August 19, 20223 yr "Imagine you're a fish, swimming in a pond. You can move forward and back, side to side, but never up out of the water. If someone were standing beside the pond, watching you, you'd have no idea they were there. To you, that little pond is an entire universe. Now imagine that someone reaches down and lifts you out of the pond. You see that what you thought was the entire world is only a small pool. You see other ponds. Trees. The sky above. You realize you're a part of a much larger and more mysterious reality than you had ever dreamed of." - Blake Crouch, Dark Matter novel :: Happy birthday, SV!
August 22, 20223 yr Thank you, guys! This year I actually DO feel a bit older as I've gotten glasses... My sight is now officially old. That said, I do look very respectable with glasses.
August 22, 20223 yr We're all pretty much dinosaurs for twenty-something runts anyway, but what do they know about anything? And, it's a known fact - if you recall Donald Sutherland's character in Space Cowboys - that wearing glasses won't keep you from going on space missions.
August 7, 20232 yr Time's a thief; he steals away Many blossoms of to-day. Joys he steals and also tears, Pilfers hopes and filches fears. May the rascal steal from you Only what you want him to! Time's a giver and he brings Sometimes weights and sometimes wings; Now his gifts are lasting fair, Now they vanish in the air. May the rascal give to you Only what you want him to! - Thief and Giver poem by Amos Russel Wells :: Happy birthday, Zombie!
August 12, 20232 yr Sorry for not congratulating you sooner, Z, but I REALLY DO wish you a happy, peaceful, devoid-of-natural-disasters birthday.
August 19, 20232 yr "'Do you ever wonder if -- well, if there are people living on the third planet?' 'The third planet is incapable of supporting life', stated the husband patiently. 'Our scientists have said there's far too much oxygen in their atmosphere.'" - Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles :: A very happy birthday to you, SV, you wondrous cosmic seedling!
August 8, 20241 yr Was that the turning of a page? How hath thou escaped so adeptly the passage of time? You notice not the going of an age, In your eye - all this - is mere pantomime, The clock can never be your cage, For you are always on your prime! :: Happy belated birthday, Zombie!
August 19, 20241 yr "If you ask 'Should we be in space?' you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space." - Frank Herbert :: May your voyages ever continue, SV. Happy birthday!
August 29, 20241 yr Crap, totally missed this thread... Vacations should be banned, I tell you. So, a Happy Birthday to you, Zombie, and thank you for remembering me!
August 7, 2025Aug 7 "A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough." - Benjamin Franklin :: Have a good one, Zombie!
August 10, 2025Aug 10 Thanks Mr T! Had a good day. Too warm for beer so I had a soda instead. I did get a lot of beer as presents though, so there will be drinking involved eventually. - Zombie
August 14, 2025Aug 14 On 8/29/2024 at 8:49 AM, Space Voyager said: Crap, totally missed this thread... Vacations should be banned, I tell you. So, a Happy Birthday to you, Zombie, and thank you for remembering me! Ooook, this seems to be the norm, again I was on vacation and missed the happening. Sorry Z, you just have such a vacationy birthday! 😇 Have a great one, man, may all your plastic seals hold, may the flowers never droop, may you visit your family as much as you want, and may all this bring many monetary benefits! Also, may the health serve you well!
August 19, 2025Aug 19 "The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become." - William Gibson, Pattern Recognition :: So, look at it this way, SV - here you are, a living legend! Happy birthday!!
September 1, 2025Sep 1 Shit, how does this thread elude me for weeks?!?!?! Thank you, Thor! Love the quote.
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