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Happy birthday, Nate!

Happy birthday, Craig!

RIP Minnie Minoso, another pioneer in terms of race relations in professional sports. http://www.wsj.com/articles/minnie-minoso-mlbs-first-black-latino-star-dies-1425232870 My dad, who grew up watching him play and was a huge White Sox fan for his entire life, just thought the world of him and always felt that he should have made the Hall of Fame. They had their chance again this year (via the veterans committee) and yet again blew it. Now that he's dead, I'm sure the schmucks will finally elect him in like they did several years ago with Ron Santo.

...and a kitchen table when eating Mexican or Chinese food.

Happy birthday, Naaman!

Not a trekkie either, but Spock was an iconic character who has always reminded me of the simpler times and of my happy, small town childhood. You played him oh so well Mr. Nimoy. RIP.

RIP Earl Lloyd, who died today at age 86. He was the NBA's Jackie Robinson. He broke the color barrier in 1950 and like Jackie was always a gentleman and remained a true ambassador of his sport throughout his life. http://www.nba.com/sixers/community/earl_lloyd_050208.html

Happy birthday, Ed.

Happy birthday, Steve.

Happy birthday, Dan.

Happy birthday!

For your valentine. http://elitedaily.com/news/world/edible-anus-chocolate-butthole-mold/932939/ The video at the bottom of the page is kind of funny, although he looks too much like some of my Santa friends. This isn't comforting.

RIP, Dean Smith. One hell of a basketball coach, and from all accounts, an equally good man. http://www.unc.edu/spotlight/carolinas-dean-smith-passes-away-age-83/

Happy birthday, Jeff.

RIP Joe. You strived for excellence and in so doing created something of value, enjoyed tremendously by many. Hard to find any serious fault in a life lived in that fashion.

Actually, I think they all know how horrid the Yoko thing was but were just making fun of Katy Perry. But you're right, it's a slightly older crowd (for the most part) at the SH Forums and a lot of them are died hard Beatles types. Plus, they hate pretty much anything that has happened in the music world from Madonna forward and certainly would not think it's "cool" to like Katy Perry because it would go against their code as much as would drinking a Bud if you're a beer douche. I'm personally indifferent to Katy Perry. She does seem at least marginally talented as a vocalist in a plain vanilla kind of way, and has put out some well produced music, plus she comes across with a great desire to be wholesome (she referred to herself as an All-American Girl twice in the interview segment they aired during the game) and I'm not at all opposed to that as a change to pace these days. Felt bad for the people in the audience at the Yoko thing who all (I'd hope reluctantly) applauded at the end of it. Yes, I forced myself to watch the whole thing.

Edited for those who missed the painfully obvious.

This is who John Lennon married. But as someone said over at the Steve Hoffman forum, it's still better than listening to Katy Perry:

On the recurring topic of amazing libraries: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/40-most-impressive-libraries-around-the-world.html

Did you have to stay sober all night to do so much work, Mikey?

A worthy message about not giving a fuck... http://markmanson.net/not-giving-a-fuck

Some funny shit at The Onion: http://www.theonion.com/articles/nations-sound-engineers-gather-to-talk-about-their,27057/