The Rest Is History

[robotnik2004]

I'm sorry I'm too busy to give this historic anniversary the long and loving treatment it deserves, but:

It isn't often that the world changes, in a way that's so big and dramatic and unmistakable that everybody in the world sits up and takes notice, that everybody everywhere is conscious they are experiencing History with a big History Channel capital-H. The world itself seems smaller at these moments, as we sense our connection to each other and to history and to all time. And when one of those real, history-pivoting moments happens, 9 times out of 10 the event is something bad--an assassination or a disaster or a sneak attack. How many times in an average life does the whole world change for the better, overnight? Those moments are worth remembering.

I met Lisa (papersource) ten years ago today. Happy anniversary, baby.

What did you think I was talking about?

(Further reading.)

Comments

[bryant]

Intense awesome. Best to you both!

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

Rock.

[editswlonghair.livejournal.com]

Ha! Well played, you rogue.

Congrats!

[theclevermonkey.livejournal.com]

I was faked out, in a good way.

Congratulations!

[foxtown.livejournal.com]

Ya got me.

Grats!

[athenalindia.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[equine-cocoon.livejournal.com]

I think she likes you! Also, lest we forget, it's the 334th anniversary of Gottfried Leibniz employing integral calculus for the first time to find the area under a function y = ƒ(x). It only took him 9 years to get around to publishing it, coincidently synchronicitally around the same time of Newton's partial publication of uhhh similar infinitesimality. Of course, Sir Isaac got all the boss attention because he was a snappy dresser. An important historical lesson in itself: Publish first, and wear a tight sweater!