Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Birthdays (no figure skating parties, please)

Oh oh! Another silly piece of web trivia. This one wants your birthdate.

Last friday was my 36th birthday.

25 August 1970

Your date of conception was on or about 2 December 1969 which was a Tuesday.

You were born on a Tuesday under the astrological sign Virgo (me: actually on the cusp of Leo and Virgo. The signs have shifted since).
Your Life path number is 5.

Life Path Compatibility:
You are most compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 1, 5 & 7.
You should get along well with those with the Life Path numbers 3 & 9.
You may or may not get along well with those with the Life Path number 8.
You are least compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 2, 4, 6, 11 & 22. (note: My husband of 12 years is a 6)

The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2440823.5.
The golden number for 1970 is 14.
The epact number for 1970 is 22.
The year 1970 was not a leap year.

Your birthday falls into the Chinese year beginning 2/6/1970 and ending 1/26/1971.
You were born in the Chinese year of the Dog.

Your Native American Zodiac sign is Bear; your plant is Violets.

You were born in the Egyptian month of Paopy, the second month of the season of Poret (Emergence - Fertile soil).

Your date of birth on the Hebrew calendar is 23 Av 5730.

The date of Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 29 March 1970.
The date of Orthodox Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 26 April 1970.
The date of Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent) on your birth year was Wednesday 11 February 1970.
The date of Whitsun (Pentecost Sunday) in the year of your birth was Sunday 17 May 1970.
The date of Whisuntide in the year of your birth was Sunday 24 May 1970.
The date of Rosh Hashanah in the year of your birth was Thursday, 1 October 1970.
The date of Passover in the year of your birth was Tuesday, 21 April 1970.
The date of Mardi Gras on your birth year was Tuesday 10 February 1970.

As of 8/30/2006 2:59:21 PM EDT
You are 36 years old.
You are 432 months old.
You are 1,879 weeks old.
You are 13,154 days old.
You are 315,710 hours old.
You are 18,942,659 minutes old.
You are 1,136,559,561 seconds old.

Celebrities who share your birthday:
Kel Mitchell (1978)Claudia Schiffer (1970)Rachael Ray (1968)
Billy Ray Cyrus (1961)Tim Burton (1958)Elvis Costello (1954)
Willy DeVille (1950)Gene Simmons (1949)Rollie Fingers (1946)
Regis Philbin (1933)Sean Connery (1930)Monty Hall (1923)
Leonard Bernstein (1918)Mel Ferrer (1917)Van Johnson (1916)
Ruby Keeler (1909)Clara Bow (1905)


Top songs of 1970
Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & GarfunkelI'll Be There by Jackson Five
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head by B.J. ThomasClose to You by Carpenters
My Sweet Lord by George HarrisonI Think I Love You by Partridge Family
Ain't No Mountain High Enough by Diana RossAmerican Woman by Guess Who
War by Edwin StarrLet It Be by Beatles


Your age is the equivalent of a dog that is 5.14833659491194 years old. (You're still chasing cats!)

There are 360 days till your next birthday
on which your cake will have 37 candles.

Those 37 candles produce 37 BTUs,
or 9,324 calories of heat (that's only 9.3240 food Calories!) .
You can boil 4.23 US ounces of water with that many candles.

In 1970 there were approximately 3.7 million births in the US.
In 1970 the US population was approximately 203,302,031 people, 57.4 persons per square mile.
In 1970 in the US there were approximately 2,158,802 marriages (10.6%) and 708,000 divorces (3.5%)
In 1970 in the US there were approximately 1,921,000 deaths (9.5 per 1000)
In the US a new person is born approximately every 8 seconds.
In the US one person dies approximately every 12 seconds.

In 1970 the population of Australia was approximately 12,663,469.
In 1970 there were approximately 257,516 births in Australia.
In 1970 in Australia there were approximately 116,066 marriages and 12,198 divorces.
In 1970 in Australia there were approximately 113,048 deaths.


Your birthstone is Peridot

The Mystical properties of Peridot

Peridot is used to help dreams become a reality.

Some lists consider these stones to be your birthstone. (Birthstone lists come from Jewelers, Tibet, Ayurvedic Indian medicine, and other sources)

Sardonyx, Diamond, Jade


Your birth tree is

Pine Tree, the Particularity

Loves agreeable company, very robust, knows how to make life comfortable, very active, natural, good companion, but seldom friendly, falls easily in love but its passion burns out quickly, gives up easily, many disappointments till it finds its ideal, trustworthy, practical.



There are 117 days till Christmas 2006!
There are 130 days till Orthodox Christmas!

The moon's phase on the day you were
born was waning crescent.

Saturday, August 19, 2006

Incredible Country Music!

This morning, I was reading the New York Times—like I do every morning—and I read this article on the Music Row Democrats. This is a group of songwriters and record co executives who are saying "Country Music isn't just by and for conservatives." They're giving out this long album of country songs in return for a $20 donation.

So, being a country music fan, who knows very well that not ALL fans of country music are re-state conservatives, I wandered over. They have a FREE web feed for the music and It's FANTASIC. This isn't just pathetic, political hack music. It's great country. "Two Paper Town" gave me chills! "I'm Takin' My Country Back" is a great honky tonk two-step. I'm not a donater—though I've given more money to political causes in the last 2 years than ever before— But I HAD to have this album. It's GREAT. "Thou Shall not Kill," is giving me chills again.

Tha sad thing? This music will NEVER see the light of day on country radio. More than one of these songs could be number ones. They're that good... not just as politcal speech, but as damn good country music. This incredible music. Chilling music. Music for the heartland. Music for the angry. Music for the principled. Blue or red, go listen.

Oh, and get this... Toby Keith, Mr. Angry American himself—he's a DEMOCRAT.

If you got $20 and you love country music, and you buy ONE album this year, go "buy" this one.