Julie Leung posted a great nostalgic photo of the Fisher-Price “record player” (remember those?) that tinkles out music box notes read from plastic discs. How funny the same toy makes us both nostalgic–she played with this when she was a little girl, but my nostalgia is for being a young mom buying the Fisher-Price toy for my daughters!
Meanwhile, my kickball pal Kevin Lawver is off at SXSW (without me this year) and thinking about his upcoming thirtieth birthday!
Hmmmm, what was I doing just pre-thirty? Was I campaigning for social justice with a bumper sticker on my Fred Flintstone mobile? And what was the big cause back then? Something like “Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt”*?
(Thanks to Suw, by the way, for her link to all this useful Latin!)
* When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults.
http://www.lawver.net/archive/2005/03/08/h10_favorites_from_last_week.php
http://www.lawver.net/archive/2005/03/09/h08_the_thing_i_keep_forgetting.php