Only one day each year!

Its that time of the year …

Among the gifts I received … a helmet to surf with. I have been making off-hand comments about how dangerous the surf is getting when crowded and that I might have to wear a helmet – more and more surfers are doing so now. I would never have done it myself though – there is still some pride! But now I have to!

And, … a year’s supply of my favourite Indian hand-made sandalwood soap – our house is very fragrant this evening!

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The number of candles on the cake represent a complex non-linear function of my age.

On the same day in 1917, the first jazz record titled Dixie Jass Band One Step was recorded by the Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jass Band in Camden, New Jersey (the spelling Jazz was a few years off yet). Here is the original recording.

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  1. Dear Bill,

    !!!

    I wish you a happy birthday and a great year ahead . . . a great decade ahead ! May you see full employment and equity in the near term. Here’s another Indian “gift” – a wish in Hindi, the national language of India:

    जन्मदिन मुबारक हो – ढेर सारी शुभकामनाएं।

    (Janamdin Mubarak Ho – Dher Saari Shubhkaamnaayein: Happy birthday and lots of well wishes)

  3. Happy Birthday Professor William (Bill) Mitchell. I hope it is everything you could ask for and more. It’s mine on Wednesday. Keep Smiling 🙂

  12. Happy birthday Professor Mitchell and thank you for all your great work.

  17. Dear All

    Thanks for the nice wishes. I appreciate them. Even the one in German!

    best wishes
    bill

  20. I would judge you a mere youngster, Bill! “To stay young requires the unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods”….Lazurus Lng in Robert Heinlein’s Time Enough For Love

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