It’s my birthday!

December 29, 2017 • 7:26 pm

In India, at least. I have to say that because otherwise it’s gonna be just another day–I travel to the IISER campus in the Western Ghats, about 1.5 hours from Trivandrum, and am promised some sightseeing.  I may even see wild Asian elephants, which (along with leopards) live around the campus and must be kept out by an electrified fence. I’ll take photos. My main job, however, is to give a research talk and interact with students and faculty.

Here’s a very clever birthday card I just got from reader Pliny the in Between, featuring my favorite cartoon character, Angry Catman (my superhero alter ego, derived from a nasty comment made by a creationist). Click to enlarge, but the caption says, “Tracking the progress of the laser pointer, Angry Catman realized that his birthday had not been forgotten.” Thanks, Pliny!

Oh, and note the Indian background. . .

67 thoughts on “It’s my birthday!”

  5. We only have one birthday, the rest are just anniversaries. 😉

    So glad that you were born Jerry, and that you are who you are, and that you are a voice of reason in this world of superstition and ignorance.

    2. What a great birthday wish Colin!

      I feel the same Jerry, but you know that.

      Hari hari (Maori for Happy Birthday) to a special honorary Kiwi.

  7. Happiest Birthday Jerry! Thank you for making my life so much richer. I’ve gained so much from your website….

  10. Happy birthday! I hope 2018 is a year of great productivity and many tasty adventures for you!

  13. Happy Birthday and all the BEST in 2018…..and thank you sincerely for your wonderfully educational and entertaining daily posts….. Hal 

  14. Happy Birthday Prof. C.

    Keep up the public outreach on rationality, catz, fud, fairness & sciency stuff
    It is appreciated widely & it helps many more than we’ll ever know!

    THANK YOU!

  15. Great “card” from Pliny. Happy Birthday Jerry! It’s cool you’re observing it in exotic India this year. Keep on keepin’ on as one of my favorite idioms go.

      1. I wanna see you dress as Angry CatMan next Halloween! That would be an excellent costume.

        Happy Burfday!

    3. And then a movie!! Happy birthday to the only deity and super-hero that matters, PCC(E) AKA ANGRY CAT MAN.🎂🍰🍾

  19. Now, when, actually, was this post made? On the penultimate or antepenultimate day of December (we had some sort of discussion about this earlier)? What I’m wondering is where the international date line is. It’s still the 29th here in the Benighted States, so it’s antepenultimate. But if it’s already the 30th in India, it’s penultimate there.

    Anyway, I hope you’re having one whoop-de-doo Happy Birthday, in a beautiful country with super-duper good food. Let this birthday be a joyful and memorable one!

  23. Happy Birthday P.C.C.! May a pair of boots with King Cobra shafts and crocodile vamps find their way to your tired toes and ease your journey home.

  25. Happy Birthday from the Antipodes! Enjoy the food and the potential wildlife sightings, and please when you can, share the photos with us.

  28. Elephants, leopards, a research talk, and interaction with students and faculty in Western Ghat might be “just another day” for you. For me it would be a lifetime event.

    Happy birthday.

  31. Happy Birthday,

    Thank you for your books and your work. You uphold the ideals of the Enlightenment. I try to do the same in my domain. Keep up the good work. Onward!

    John

  35. Happy Birthday, Jerry! I recently bought both your books, started reading *Faith versus Fact* and am enjoying it a great deal. Trying to finish it before I start in on *Why Evolution is True* but I may not be able to resist!

  36. Happy Birthday!! You are the best. You’re a beautiful man like Sean Carroll and D.J. Grothe. May you have the best day ever! <3

  39. Happy birthday, and thanks for giving me something interesting to read every morning. I would sing you a chorus of “Happy Birthday to You”, but can’t afford the Warner Music Group copyright fees.

  46. I can’y not add to all the preceding birthday wishes. Have a most excellent day,P.C.C.(E.)

  50. Happy Birthday Jerry. I didn’t know who you were until I heard Matt Dillahunty mention you and your latest book. I’ve been following you ever since. You’re a smart guy and a prolific twitterer. I enjoy your wide ranging interests. Bill

  53. Congratulations on surviving another orbit of an ordinary rocky planet around a yellow dwarf star located in an ordinary spiral galaxy in an ordinary group of galaxies in an ordinary galaxy cluster.

    But…there nothing ordinary about you! Happy, happy birthday.

  54. Just want to add my wish for a happy date of birth! Plus a healthy 2018.

    I have entered the days of birth, wedding if any, and decease of all my relatives in an Excel spreadsheet. This allows me to list them according to their relationship, current age, age reached and several other criteria.
    Since the Windows calender starts in 1900, I had to alter the formula for Paul, my eldest uncle, born on December 29, 1899.
    .-

  55. Happy Birthday, Jerry! You’re a real stand-up guy. I’m so glad you’re in warm climes, as you wouldn’t like the deep freeze the folks in Chicago and we north of the border are suffering through. It’s been a bloody awful and protracted Arctic freeze. Bring home some warm weather with you, eh!

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