Anniversary

Today is the 10th anniversary of the day Mari-Rose and I met. What else was going on that day?

• Comet Hale-Bopp was in the sky.
• Blogging was very, very new.
• Tobacco lawsuit blah, blah, blah.
• A prothonary warbler and two caspian terns were spotted at Lake Sangchris (near Springfield)
• The thought du jour was about pornography.
• Cartoonist Ed Barker died at 46.
• It was decided that Jim Jorstad would continue development of the webpage for the University of Wisconsin Educational Media Technology Council.
• Harvard researchers discovered that "mere contact between proteins turns on genes" (ooh la la!)
• Priests with AIDS were eager to talk.
• D. Mark Catlett, Chief Financial Officer of the Veterans Administration, testified before Congress that the VA has "made significant progress toward automating the billing and payment processing of first-party medical receivables..."
• A car dealer provided the site for grandma's bone-marrow drive
• The top grossing movie in theaters was Anaconda. But the best movie was Sling Blade.
• A technology writer bemoaned "the lack of active conversation areas on the Web"
• Not all girls liked Barbie.
• You could consider "going to a friend and asking for a 'Gingrich,' that is, a loan of money from a friend at attractive terms."
• Leah Gotcsik presumably slept better after having bought a futon for $135.
• The St. Louis Cardinals were flying from Miami to Hawaii, to play a series against the San Diego Padres there. (Funny coincidence: Mike Shannon was talking about that very looooong flight during the game broadcast just a couple of days ago.)
• The Internet Public Library debuted Culture Quest!, where children could "join Olivia Owl and Parsifal Penguin as they tour the Web..."
• Massachusetts masons sent supplies to flood victims in Kentucky.

There was more, of course. That's just the first page of Google results!