Thursday, March 08, 2007

Anticipating the joy

Lee said:
"Oh, happy birthday, Friday Melbourne time, Eolake."

Right! Friday 9 March is my birthday (44). And also the ten-year anniversary of DOMAI. Zippidy-doo-dah. :)
When I put up the first simple and small page ten years ago, I did not consider that the site might in 2007 be ten gigabytes and be known by millions. Actually I did not even consider it might last ten years, or even just be a commercial site. What fun.

Update March 10: Thank you to everybody. Yesterday was a hail storm of well-wishes for me and for Domai, by web, email, and phone. Then I had an excellent dinner at Laurie Jeffery's and friends'. He is justifiably proud of his cooking. Actually he is the best amateur cook I know. They put up 44 candles, and we all chatted long into the... evening. After all I'm middle-aged now, and I can't party til 1 AM like I did a couple of times when I was young.

19 comments:

Hannah said...

Happy birthday and congratulations! :)

Anonymous said...

Eolake you seriously rock. Happy Birthday. Hope you are spending it the way you want doing what you love to do.

Jim & Suzy

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

Thanks guys. By excellent coincidence I am invited over tomorrow for dinner at Laurie and Vicky's house, they are visited by Philippe Baud and family.

http://www.ljp.co.uk
http://philippebaud.com

Anonymous said...

Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rhum!
This calls for celebrating, aarrh!

Oh, Eolake, you dirty old man, you...
Here's to seeing you get older, dirtier, and manlier! A lot more.
But there's no hurry. :-)

I remember Mette quite well (no, not from 10 years ago! from posts on the blog). No wonder your site took off great, with such a first model. Lovely, natural, confident... just perfect. And a good friend, too! :-)))
Lucky you.

See you all in 2017.
Okay, Cap'n Sparrow, I'm all done, we can sail. 9-)
(Eye patch smiley)

laurie said...

Happy Birthday Eolake, a true Piscean. Creative. Sensitive. Aware of unseen depths, resourceful. Unbeholden to none but the enchanted Muse of Truth and Beauty. Thanks for sharing your self with the world.

Laurie

Anonymous said...

Hey, congratulations man! And congratulations to Domai too! I hope you will continue to share your wisdom and 'dirtyness' for many years to come.

(Apparently you are much older than I am. I won't be 44 until May!)

laurie said...

A Taurean bull?

You guys are babies next to me. I just turned 46.


Laurie

Anonymous said...

Laurie,

...and the world is your oyster? ;-)

I guess that makes you the pearl! :-D

Steve said...

Pisces are cool. Two of my close friends are Pisces and I tend to get along with them easily.

Happy birthday, Eolake. Congratulations on your success with DOMAI, but congratulations are also in order for the number of lives you've changed for the better because of DOMAI.

Steve - another Taurean bull

Anonymous said...

Happy Birthday Maestro. I'm 46 myself. Hey Laurie, there are pups among us lol.
Enjoy your day Captain Eolake.

Anonymous said...

A heartily beep beep beep from Monsieur Gen(eration 50plus).
Youngster you!

Beep!

And thanks for contributing to changing the world a bit.

Anonymous said...

Monsieur Beep said...
"And thanks for contributing to changing the world a bit."


Or, more correctly, a few kilobytes at a time. ;-)

Anonymous said...

But only a few at a time, really, in my dial-up connection internet world. Bit by bit. Every pixel. I sit in front of my screen (uhh uuhh uh ****scratching armpit), waiting for beauty to build up. Hint hint - domai.

Have a good weekend, with no sandstorms.

Anonymous said...

Have a good weekend, with no sandstorms.

impossible for them in the oil-gaurded war of babylon. sigh.
hey, btw, hannah person, did you notice your picture is off center?

Anonymous said...

Thanks for sharing your self with the world.

yourself.
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laurie said...

Hi anonymous,

no, I meant "your self".

Laurie

p.s. Are you being a curmudgeon again? Did you wish Mr. Stobblehouse a Happy Birthday? It's what this thread was all about. :)

p.s. I'm actually getting to like you.

DreamingWolf said...

Happy Birthday, Eolake! :-)

Anonymous said...

Eolake said: "After all I'm middle-aged now, and I can't party til 1 AM like I did a couple of times when I was young."

Welcome to the "...somethingPlus" Club, Eolake.

I'll never understand why all the celebrating has to be done outside daylight hours.
Could it be one more of those human features, which make us so outstandingly unique, just like carrying belching white sticks around in our mouths, for instance.
We certainly are funny creatures.

Anonymous said...

I'm only 36, and already I feel I'm no more a "youth". One terribly significant clue : I've started buying toys for my juvenile relatives, and not just for myself. There's no turning the clock back now! (Not that I'd want to.)

And I have much less endurance than a three year-old for wild, silly jump-around fun. This is a sure sign I'm becoming one of the "grown-up" old folks. In a child's book, at least.

Well, the important thing is, they won't see me as a grumpy old fart any time soon. I can be childish with the best. Even babies who can't talk the talk or walk the walk yet. :-)))

Hey! Who just said: "Say hello to Alzheimer's"? I heard that, you whippersnapper scallywags! I'm coming to get you. (As soon as I find my walking cane, that is.)