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Category: Personal
Posted on: March 9, 2007 9:04 AM, by PZ Myers
Whoa, I asked for poems for my birthday, I got poems. That was quite a response, and it had me regretting the fact that I didn't demand money. I could have retired by now.
On top of that, GrrlScientist, Bora, and Archy are compiling lists of birthday greetings, so I can just pop over there and browse through everything you people have written. It brings a tear to the eye, it does, especially since this is a day demanding I do lots and lots of work and not leaving me much time for cruising through the web.
Next week, though, I'll return the favor: there's Lynn Margulis's blog tour on Monday, and since it's Spring break and I'll actually be able to relax with some free time, I've got a couple of science posts to scribble up — cool stuff with weird invertebrates.
Comments
Readers interested in Margulis' decent from the HIV=AIDS dogma should note that there is a new article discussing this issue in the latest New Yorker. It focuses particularly on Peter Douchebag (I mean Duesberg - sorry) and the South African Government.
Posted by: scott | March 9, 2007 9:24 AM
should read: "dissent" not decent... if had said "indecent" I suppose it would have been Freudian !!!
Posted by: scott | March 9, 2007 9:25 AM
Fifty! That's not bad for an invertebrate.
Posted by: Rebecca Watson | March 9, 2007 9:34 AM
Darwin turns 200 in two years. You're almost there, PZ! Keep to it, maybe you can catch up to him!
Posted by: Joshua | March 9, 2007 9:42 AM
Happy Birthday! You're only three months older than my dad. You guys could have been classmates.
Keep up the good work, enjoy life, and here's to another fruitful fifty, Dr. Myers!
Posted by: Kseniya | March 9, 2007 9:48 AM
Money? Nah, poetry's all I can afford for the nonce.
So, is the cake gonna be squid-shaped? Will calamari be served? Open bar?
Enjoy your day.
Posted by: Krystalline Apostate | March 9, 2007 9:57 AM
Happy Birthday.
Posted by: dorid | March 9, 2007 9:59 AM
Happy 50th birthday, PZ.
Posted by: Larry Moran | March 9, 2007 10:04 AM
Only fifty?
fusilier, who's been using AARP mailers as landfill for some time now.
James 2:24
Posted by: fusilier | March 9, 2007 10:43 AM
Happy Birthday, PZ.
Posted by: Juliana | March 9, 2007 11:03 AM
Happy birthday, PZ! You are now 5 squids worth of tentacles.
Posted by: TheBlackCat | March 9, 2007 11:07 AM
Aha! We have a birthday in common. I past the half-century mark four years ago with no fanfare.
Happy Birthday!
Posted by: Dave | March 9, 2007 11:09 AM
Happy Birthday PZ!
Posted by: ricky | March 9, 2007 11:15 AM
Happy Birthday, PZ. Enjoy your spring break (they don't give one to us grad students).
Posted by: The Disgruntled Chemist | March 9, 2007 11:31 AM
Hah, you old fogey! *I* don't pass the Big Five-Oh for almost another three months!
Happy B'day ;-).
Posted by: Eamon Knight | March 9, 2007 11:37 AM
This isn't epic poetry and it gets less and less funny every year. If that was too depressing, maybe this will make up for it.
Posted by: Mena | March 9, 2007 12:01 PM
Happy birthday! I raise 8 tentacles of beer in your honor!
Posted by: kristi | March 9, 2007 12:06 PM
I see that your Birthday message is prominently displayed on Richard Dawkins' site. Aren't you special!!
Hey, you deserve it. Hope you rock on for another 50.
Cheers. Best Wishes. Happy B-Day.
Posted by: Smart_Cookie | March 9, 2007 12:25 PM
You're a single day older than Osama bin Laden. I don't know where I'm going with this, but there it is.
Posted by: Niobe | March 9, 2007 1:10 PM
Niobe, have you ever looked at this site? They don't include Osama bin Laden for some reason though, kind of ironic for a site called "Dead or Alive" IMHO...
Posted by: Mena | March 9, 2007 1:22 PM
Happy birthday, PZ!
Posted by: jason | March 9, 2007 2:12 PM
happy birthday, pz myers!
http://tinyurl.com/ywuasj
Posted by: toomanytribbles | March 9, 2007 3:26 PM
Happy Birthday, PZ. Since this isn't the poem thread, I'll use that as an excuse not to write one. But maybe you'd like to have some of this cake. I don't think Chuck would mind sharing.
Posted by: Theo Bromine | March 9, 2007 3:43 PM
Happy Birthday PZ, ">"Scrptural violence can foster aggression" (Nature, subscription only sorry)
Posted by: Ian Musgrave | March 9, 2007 5:18 PM
Munged URL in last post ">Scriptural violence can foster aggression
Posted by: Ian Musgrave | March 9, 2007 5:19 PM
it may be, but it is a large nice eye :-)
Zorionak Zuri! (happy b-day in Basque, for a change)
Posted by: Alvaro | March 9, 2007 6:34 PM
So back in August I discover that I share a birthday with your daughter. I don't find too many of those August 30th birthday people. And what do I find today when I pull up the ol' Pharyngula? You share a birthday with my wife. Strange universe, this, no?
Posted by: Steveyd | March 9, 2007 7:37 PM
happy b-day old man!! :-)
We miss ya over at IIDB!
Cheers.
Posted by: FastLane | March 9, 2007 8:06 PM
Hey, I meant to ask: you giving out any kind of beneficence for the best poem?
Posted by: Krystalline Apostate | March 9, 2007 9:24 PM
More Birthday Greetings, PZed.
Could you please put a link to your The Proper Reverence Due to Those Who Have Gone Before posting in the Taste of Pharyngula sidebar? Everyone coming here should have a chance to read it. I am grateful to Mike, the Questionable Authority, for his link to it.
Posted by: JohnnieCanuck | March 9, 2007 9:52 PM
Happy Birthday, PZ. Live long and prosper.
Isn't it striking to reflect on the subjectively perceived length of the second quarter century versus the first? Welcome to your sixth decade. I suspect you'll enjoy it.
And thank you for this blog and your insane rate of posting and the long overdue threads of needful and quite satisfyingly challenging comments that have been instigated.
Posted by: Crudely Wrott | March 9, 2007 10:05 PM