13 April 2002

Operation Pedro Pan Well that sort of puts the bruhaha about Elian Gonzalez in a new perspective... 9:23:21 PM     WABC Silver Dollar Sound Survey for Week of 23 October 1962 And these are some hits that everybody was hearing around that time... 9:14:37 PM     Learnin' about Cuba...havin' some food.. This is one of the things that my parents got to hear the day I was born. 9:13:24 PM     Over the Hill Gifts No. I don't consider my self on any sort of geo-physical turning point. No. I don't want anyone to buy me any of this crap. Yes. I will soon be one who has been around the sun 2 score. (the noun, although the verb is good, too) 9:07:25 PM     Motel 6 The year was 1962. The place was Santa Barbara, California. For just $6.00 per night, you could stay at the first real budget motel designed for the no-frills traveler. Thus the name Motel 6. 9:03:52 PM     40th Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest goes to Denise Yennie I don't know Denise Yennie, but I do like those buttermilk biscuits! 9:00:01 PM     10th Avenue/West 40th Street Okay, not an anniversary of any sort, but I was born near here, well actually about 40 miles away....coincidence? Yes, purely coincidental. 8:53:41 PM     40th Anniversary of Glenn's Orbital Flight My gantry is in sub-planar lox, prevailing G-force will countervail remaining T-time as long as any high Q squib or scrub is de-factored from the telemetry on my trajectory...(bzzzzjkct....frezzp) 8:49:08 PM     Smoking and Health Report So I had been enjoying cigarettes since I was 14, but after reading this, and thinking about the other movie where Russel Crowe is sort of chubby, maybe it's time to turn over a new leaf...oh that wasn't even intentional... 8:46:01 PM     Grand Prix Yes, the Pontiac Grand Prix 1962 Limited Edition is now available again for everyone who couldn't drive straight out of the womb. 8:43:12 PM     Computer Games SpaceWar! (yes, with an exclamation point) was written in 1961, so, yes, I am fudging this one a bit, but it dovetails so nicely with what we have so far (reading chronologically mind you). And if you wan't to play, well, here is a simulation of the PDP-2 running this seminal artifact. 8:38:30 PM     the Peace Corps Wow, what a mess the planet would have been in now it there wasn't this sort of organisation fighting for not fighting.  (and although that probably comes across really ironic and snarky, it's not meant that way!) Okay, this is a little bit fudged, but that was their editorial decision, not moi. 8:32:40 PM     007 a.k.a James Bond.  Yes, the very first film with our favorite international man of mystery was released in 1962... I will flatter myself and consider my brief military career as a gesture to this icon... 8:28:18 PM     the 40th So my 40th is coming up and what better way to while away an evening than to see what a google on "40th" brings up....so here we go 8:24:46 PM

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