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Happy Birthday C.S. Lewis

Blessings, and thanks for Narnia, as well as many other things, such as Mere Christianity.

My favorite story about C.S. Lewis is the one where he claims to have become a Christian while walking to the zoo with his brother. As he set out for the zoo, he was not a Christian. By the time he reached the zoo, he was a Christian. He relates this story himself, and it very nearly seems to undermine almost everything he ever said about Christianity. Except if you know anything about his writings about Christianity, you know that he was unquestionably serious. More serious than you're likely to be able to imagine without walking to the zoo.

Blessings.

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Frank Herbert's Birthday Is Today

I would title this "Happy Birthday Frank Herbert," but the man is dead, so that hardly seems appropriate.

In any case, Dune remains one of the strangest damn books I've ever read, and one of the most powerfully engaging and moving and fabulous. If you haven't read Dune, you should, even if you are too far above science fiction (with your head in the clouds) to read it.

Also? Mr. Herbert was born in Tacoma. It takes some doing to become a best-selling novelist from Tacoma. And that may be enough right there for me (and you) to mention it.

[link Frank Herbert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]

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Happy Birthday Jimmy Carter

America did not invent human rights. In a very real way human rights invented America. --Jimmy Carter.

[From Jimmy Carter Library and Museum]

Keep up the good fight, Jimmy.

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Happy Birthday UNIVAC

You know, when a computer has a birthday, i ought to be recognized.

on June 14, 1951 -- the U.S. Census Bureau officially put into service what it calls the world's first commercial computer, known as UNIVAC I.

CNN.com - 50th anniversary of the UNIVAC I - June 14, 2001

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