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(pictured above: mango smoothie and blueberry muffin)

Everything tastes better when it’s free!

I’m so glad I looked up birthday promotions a couple weeks ago. (Especially since you have to sign up for these a week in advance, presumably to encourage people to give their *actual* birthdays and not just whatever the current day is.)

(I mean, I had to subscribe to their respective newsletters, but I have a dedicated email address specifically for receiving newsletters from people who might give me free stuff, so no big deal. And both stores were on the way to the Chinese takeout place, so the fuel cost was negligible.)

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#adventures in human capitalism #birthday #oh look an original post #food

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(I was going to submit this to @justice-turtle, but it looks like they​ don’t have a submit option? I’ll ping them instead.)

Happy birthday! Just because I’m not nearby doesn’t mean I can’t sing to you. I don’t think I could manage voice chat (tbh, I barely managed this), but I did some asynchronous singing for you.

(I’m so terrible at breaking silences that I recorded this in my shed, so
that the complete isolation could take the edge off the stifling. But hey, I got there in the end!)

*birthday hugs*

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#and many moooore #justice turtle #oh look an original post #that excuse for communication called speech #birthday #(so I was looking at the public birthday tag to see if I should avoid being in it) #(and apparently it’s also Mickey Mouse’s birthday) #(it’s the anniversary of the premiere of Steamboat Willie)

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sinesalvatorem:

thebaconsandwichofregret:

weepingdildo:

Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

No guys you don’t understand.

The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.

So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.

This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.

That’s not sad, that’s awesome.

*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing

Human Beings: These Are My People

(You can hear what the song would have sounded like here.)

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#Mars #Curiosity #proud citizen of The Future #neat #I hadn’t known about this #but I looked up the video

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justice-turtle:

shitthesignssay:

Let’s be frank,

we’re all creepy strangers on the internet that don’t know shit about each other.

Reblog with your birthday so your followers know when to send you some nice birthday themed hate mail!

“#which is technically today since it’s past midnight here #though I haven’t been to bed yet so for me it’s still yesterday”

Ah yes, the Tumblr Timezone. ^_^

When I was a kid, I referred to this as “[Surname] Time”, because of my family’s habit at the time of staying up until 2 or 3 in the morning. It generally only came up when I was writing diary entries after midnight. (When I experimented with all-nighters around age nine, I considered the new day to begin at dawn, and wrote the dates on my diary entries accordingly.)

That being said, when it’s turning someone’s birthday we do traditionally sing “Happy Birthday” to them at midnight.

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#time #reply via reblog

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erisender:

my birthday cake this year. based off of this text post

Ooh, a loophole for never-having-been-born curses!

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#pregnancy #birthday #removal day #about once a year #(at irregular intervals) #Mom tells the story of how her doctors pressured her into an unnecessary C-section #and she’s still mad at them for it #but to be fair if they’d waited for me to come out on my own I’d have almost certainly been a Sagittarius #and that would have gone *badly* #The Great Night Vale Fandom Assimilation of 2013 #in which Brin has a food poisoning phobia #(also my birthday would have been firmly within the Christmas season and that would suck too)