October 3 - Technical Drumming

It's October 3rd and well, according to a website in the USA it's "National Techies Day".

Now, a techie... is that someone who works specifically in tech?  Or is just any tech enthusiast?  I think I fall into the latter category.

It's also the birthday of one of the ... well I'll call techie drummer.  Tommy Lee.

Growing up as a Crue fan, just loved the driving beat of the band and if you'd seen them in concert, Tommy really did some 'funky stuff'.  Putting himself in a cage and spinning it, or rotating the drums etc... that's some techie stuff right there.

This year, Tommy turns 61.

September 19 - They love the C

 Oh that old joke... what's a pirate's favourite letter?  

You'd think it'd be the 'R'... for that Robert Louis Stevenson'esque style of speech that we now associate with pirates 'arr!' (which, prior to that, didn't seem to exist)

BUT

Pirates... they really love the C

Get it?

#DadJoke

Well, it's International Talk Like a Pirate Day

March 6 - periodic new York isn't New York

Before this date in 1834 the place we now call Toronto (or trawna... t-dot...) used to be called York, Upper Canada.  But the municipality incorporated as the new name of Toronto.

Neat.

In 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev presents to the Russian Chemical Society his new method of displaying the elements in a 'table' format.