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Sarah/Katherine ([personal profile] truepenny) wrote2010-11-25 12:57 pm

5 things: Thanksgiving

1. As today is my birthday, I observe that the true and valuable purpose of Facebook is birthday greetings. I'm not being sarcastic. I'm very grateful and very touched at how many people are wishing me a happy birthday, and I'm very grateful that Facebook makes it so easy for them.

2. Amazing photographs (1): Astronaut Douglas H. Wheelock's pictures from the ISS. My particular favorite is No. 17. (Link via [livejournal.com profile] papersky.)

3. Amazing photographs (2): This picture of an ornithopter is going to turn into a story someday. The rest of the ornithopter pictures (just keep scrolling down until you run out of ornithopters) are also fantastic. (Link via [livejournal.com profile] jaylake.)

4. [livejournal.com profile] mirrorthaw is playing weird covers for me again. Ska "Crazy Train," bossanova "November Rain," the weirdest-assed weird-ass cover of "King of the Road" I have EVER heard.

5. Tobias Buckell has a smart post about the American Thanksgiving, and how its origins and cultural mythology are kind of problematic and off-putting, but the idea, of taking a day to think about the things you're grateful for, is a good one. And, yeah. What he said.

This is probably a good place to mention, btw, that Pat Rothfuss is doing his Worldbuilders fundraiser for Heifer International again this year. I don't even know what awesome stuff Pat has in his hat this year. But Thanksgiving seems like a good day to think about giving to others.

Our plans for today involve staying in and not doing much, except for the food. (Love is the plan, the plan is food.) Given how exciting/hellish things have been for us recently, this feels like the right thing to do. I'm grateful we can do this, and I'm grateful my life has put me here to do it.

I hope all of you Americans have a very happy Thanksgiving with people you love. And I hope all you non-Americans have a very good November 25th. Which, you know, is a perfectly cromulent day to have a good one of.

[identity profile] avidreadergirl.livejournal.com 2010-11-25 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

And

Happy thanksgiving!

[identity profile] matociquala.livejournal.com 2010-11-25 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
HIPPO BIRDIE!

[identity profile] britmandelo.livejournal.com 2010-11-25 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday! Many good wishes for your next year.

[identity profile] modlin.livejournal.com 2010-11-25 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!

I love those photos from the space station. I also love this lightened version (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap101115.html) of one of them, where you can see the awesome astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson looking contemplative.

Also, those ornithopter pictures are incredible. I want to frame them and put them on my wall.
Edited 2010-11-25 19:48 (UTC)

[identity profile] ashcake.livejournal.com 2010-11-25 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy Birthday and many more!
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[personal profile] aedifica 2010-11-25 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!

I would be very interested to hear what artists did those particular crazy covers.

[identity profile] mirrorthaw.livejournal.com 2010-11-26 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
You can find 5 covers, including the ska one, here: http://www.covermesongs.com/2010/11/five-good-covers-crazy-train-ozzy-osbourne.html
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[personal profile] aedifica 2010-11-29 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, neat. Thank you! (And hey, there's Carbon Leaf in there!)

[identity profile] hermetic.livejournal.com 2010-11-25 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy Birthday, and a Happy Thanksgiving!

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ 2010-11-25 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I've had a pleasant 25th Nov. so far, so thank you. And Happy Birthday.
kari

[identity profile] cmpriest.livejournal.com 2010-11-25 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!
[:: throws confetti ::]

[identity profile] tekalynn.livejournal.com 2010-11-25 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday and happy Thanksgiving!

[identity profile] renenet.livejournal.com 2010-11-25 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy Birthday!
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[personal profile] sovay 2010-11-25 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!
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[personal profile] marycatelli 2010-11-25 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Many happy returns of the day!

[identity profile] rysmiel.livejournal.com 2010-11-25 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday !

[identity profile] lyonesse.livejournal.com 2010-11-26 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
happy birthday! and for the hobbit-trad gift of the links :)

(Anonymous) 2010-11-26 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
焼きたては美味しいと思う。
いっぱいつくって余ると、サラダやサンドイッチにする。
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[personal profile] pameladean 2010-11-26 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!

P.

[identity profile] saltypepper.livejournal.com 2010-11-26 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday and may you enjoy many many more.

[identity profile] animeserena.livejournal.com 2010-11-26 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
I'll come out of hiding for a bit to wish you a happy birthday :)

[identity profile] remote45.livejournal.com 2010-11-26 09:06 am (UTC)(link)
It's not often you have the chance to actually say Happy Birthday (and know they will actually see it!) to a writer whose work you truly love, so in true Thanksgiving Fashion I am grateful for the chance to wish you a very happy birthday and hope you have many, many more.

[identity profile] ohari.livejournal.com 2010-11-26 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, crap, I can't believe I missed it!
Happy Birthday!