Happy Birthday, Zeke!
 

Unless the birthday system is still overly-screwy, I do believe it's Zeke's birthday!

Happy birthday and muchos pie :D

Happy Birthday Z :) *hands over pie*

Happy Birthday, Zeke! Have four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. And one to grow on.

qoSlIj DatIvjaj! :D or Hronia Polla!

Happy birthday, dude, and shame on you for not mentioning it to anyone.

Next year's the quarter century, and it's all downhill from there.

/Eyeore

Be well on this day of a meaningless anniversary, fleshy one.

Gatac

Happy Birthday, Z.

Mince pie to you.


Or apple, if you like...

Thanks, everybody! I was expecting to spend today marking papers, but I managed to get them done yesterday (all 359 of them), so today I can take it easy.

I don't do a lot to celebrate my birthday here in Waterloo, as I don't know many people here. But I'm going to do two things I haven't done in a while. First, I'm going to order pizza tonight. I did that a lot when I first moved out, but this year I've been forcing myself to spend less on food.

The other thing I want to do is have a #5mv chat. I have no idea why we stopped doing those; I think we just sorta petered out. But Xeroc's site is still working fine, so I'll be there at 9:30 EDT or so, and I hope some of you guys can join me.

I also have an update I'm working on which should be pretty cool. 23 is one thing, but surely now that I'm 24 I'll be able to keep focused and finish it....

Lucky for you I can't set my watch back to BC time.

Woo! Happy birthday, Zekeybuns!

Aw man, I hate being reminded about how old we're all getting.

Plus, when you're older than the birthday boy, you feel really wretched.

yay happy b-day zeke...I hope you get a lot of pie today :D

Shut it, random nonsensical method of transport, you're making me feel all zimmery!

:p

Edit: Also, how far away is EDT from GMT?

Edit 2: Aww, dang, I missed it :(

Zimmery? That's a new one...

How'd the chat go? Was that on irc?

hey when was that chat???
in "real" time?

About six months.

The logs should be available somewhere. Actually, I think if you log in to Xeroc's site (by following the link in Zeke's post, which is where it was, Nate) you can read our wittiness and see how awesome we were that evening.

It wasn't in real time. Zeke stole a time counterfeiter from Temporal Investigations and created five minutes of fake time that you can fit an hours' worth of conversation in. How do you think he created the site? :)

Eastern Standard Time is GMT minus five hours , but I think it's six for Daylight (or something like that -- it's one of those things I'm likely to get backwards, if I'm not engaging the brain carefully.) (Edit: Sa'ar's covered that bit, I now realize.)
Meh, neither you nor the young punk have much to worry about for a while, there. http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...lies/grmbl.gif

It'd be neat if we could set aside, let's say, two half-hours a week to meet in a chat. Two sessions just to cover the fact that not everyone is in the same timezone, ergo not everyone is awake and able to access their computers simultaneously. Point-by-point instructions and/or a FAQ would also help.

The icy hand of thirty's upon you already?

You don't seem a day over 29 and 11 months :p

Now would seem to be the time to give some support to an old classic of the Trek fandom world. A quote from Jim Wright's Delta Blues review of Twisted:

"The usual inanities are exchanged: "You don't look a day over one," "This must have cost you a week's worth of replicator rations!" "Two, actually, but who's counting?" ad stupidum. But it's a birthday party, where IQs are traditionally checked at the door."

Happy belated birthday, Zeke! I totally suck at baking, but have a pie. Don't have one I made, though. Especially if it smells like almonds.

I have horrible timing. I missed it. Again. My bad chat-timing streak holds! But I agree with having people drop into it whenever. We need more wacky.

You can't have too much wacky. Unless you're at a funeral or something. But then again, I'm the kind that laughs at a funeral :). Go Semisonic!

Actually, I've only been to one funeral in my life, and I was too young to comprehend it.

Happy Late Birthday, Zekeybuns!

I bring you this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...numberpiMd.jpg

That looks too good to eat. Did you get that photo someplace, or did you actually know the baker?

It's a thing I found on the web, alas. Seeing something like that for real would be quite fun (and eating it all the better).

Maybe if it wasn't apple. I'm more of a raspberry or key lime fan.

A Philistine, clearly. http://www.terranbbs.net/phpBB2/images/smiles/death.gif

No, Minnesotan. :)

Seriously, where did you find a Grim Reaper smilie, and how do you make it?

Don't tell me they don't have apples in Minnesota. I know better.

May we burn him?

Who, Mudshark? Infinite Improbability? Both, just to be sure?

Perhaps the last choice, just, as you say, to be sure.

I can tell you in advance that I'm not made out of wood, so I'm not a wizard. :)

Or a yacht, I suppose.

^One would assume so.

NTL: But why should we take your word for it? You quite clearly weigh the same as a duck.

That would be a mighty heavy duck.

Oh, and I'm not being defensive, I weigh exactly what I should for my height.

From the "Wish I'd Thought of It At the Time" file: Nate, that chart you're reading is in inches, not centimetres.

Well atleast you bumped the thread for me so that I don't have to feel guilty about posting to wish you a very happy belated birthday. :D

Oh, I'm wounded, Z. In a Lancelot's-squire-Conrad sort of way, of course. :)

We can always wish a happy unbirthday. Happy Unbirthday, Katy! Happy Unbirthday, Zeke!