General
Reading, knitting, crocheting, making jewelry, learning new things. RAVELRY!
Music
Counting Crows, Ingrid Michaelson, Barenaked Ladies, Jill Sobule, Greg Laswell, Joshua Kadison
Movies
Clueless, Serenity, Moulin Rouge, V for Vendetta, Princess Bride, My Neightbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, The Phantom of the Opera, Elf, Rent, South Park - the Movie
Television
Life, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Battlestar Galactica, Chuck, Saving Grace, Crossing Jordan, Grey's Anatomy, Bones, Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly
Books
Mercedes Lackey, C.E. Murphy, Harry Potter, Elizabeth Bear, Sarah Monette, Stephen King, Patricia Cornwell, Orson Scott Card, Katherine Kurtz, Diana Wynn Jones, Isaac Asimov, SF/Fantasy!
Comments
Feb 16 2008 3:56 PM
Here's some who share your birthday (from http://www.brainyhistory.com/daysbirth/birth_february_16.html):
The first cloned calf named "Mr. Jefferson" (1998 -- I make these lists for everyone; a cloned calf is a first!); NFL running back Jerome "The Bus" Bettis (1972); a Miss Universe (1971); a playmate (1970); a member of Duran Duran (1961); "You cannot be serious. . . " John McEnroe (1959); rapper Ice-T (1958); Star Trek's LeVar Burton (1957); singer James Ingram (1956 -- He sings "Just Once."); "Greatest American Hero" actor William Katt (1950 -- We sang that show's theme song as children.); a Surinamese poet (1949); North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il (1942); a cosmonaut (1937); Sonny Bono (1935); t.v. actor Hugh Beaumont (1909 -- knew the double entendre: "Ward, I think you were a little hard on the Beaver." better than anybody); the first women's world chess champ (1906); father of documentary film, "Nanook of the North" Robert Flaherty (1884); composer Johann Strauss (1866); founder of Jehovah's Witnesses (1852); our 18th vice president (1812); Rhaticus (1514 -- that's just a cool name.)
And (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_16):
a princess of Luxembourg (1991 -- pop. of Luxembourg is less than 500,000); a Korean rapper (1979); Wayne Gretsky's brother (1967); a member of Slayer (1963); member of Def Leppard (1960); model Margaux Hemingway (1954 - 1996); Richard McDonald (1909 -- I think of McDonald's); F.L.O.T.U.S. Julia Grant (1826); a philosopher named Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (1802); an emperor of China (1032)
And (from http://library.thinkquest.org/2886/feb.htm):
February 16th is "Do a Grouch a Favor Day." (I'm not doin' that.)
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Dec 13 2006 10:55 PM