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23.

When you turn 1, you’ve probably got the whole walking thing down.

When you turn 2, people stop counting how old you are in months, and you can probably talk a bit.

When you turn 3, you’re considered a “sophisticated talker”.

When you turn 4, you begin to develop personal tastes and interests.

When you turn 5, you’re ready to start school.

When you turn 7, you’ve probably started to lose some baby teeth.

When you turn 10, you’re done with elementary school.

When you turn 11, you’re a “pre-teen”.

When you turn 12, you have puberty to “look forward to”.

When you turn 13, you’re officially a teenager.

When you turn 14, you’re done with middle school.

When you turn 15, you’ve probably started dating.

When you turn 16, you can start to learn to drive.

When you turn 17, you can drive late at night, if you took Driver’s Ed.

When you turn 18, you can vote, buy cigarettes, and you’re done with high school.

When you turn 19, you realize you’re getting old because it’s your last year of being a teenager.

When you turn 20, you KNOW you’re old because it’s the first time you’ve had the tens digit on your age change.

When you turn 21, you can drink – legally, anyhow.

When you turn 22, you’re done with undergraduate college.

And when you turn 23, all you can think to do is post to your blog.

Happy birthday to me.

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Another Martha Thought

I predict it will be two days or less until someone has set up a “FREE MARTHA” t-shirt operation somewhere on the web.

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Martha Is Obviously Psychic

The big news story yesterday was hard to miss, even if you try your best to act like a shut-in and never turn on the news channels: Grand Jury Indicts Martha Stewart. This, unsurprisingly, made a number of people happy, as there’s nothing the world seems to want more than to see Martha get some comeuppance.
Then this morning, as I was checking Technorati (is there a verb for this? Technorating?) and bloghopping, I found a link on Jason Kottke’s site for MarthaTalks.com, a very Martha-ish site (look at the clean design and use of the same shade of green everywhere!) where Martha and her lawyer try and explain that while she may be able to make a perfect strawberry soup, she’s just not the sort of person to commit stock fraud.

I simply returned a call from my stockbroker. Based in large part on prior discussions with my broker about price, I authorized a sale of my remaining shares in a biotech company called ImClone. I later denied any wrongdoing in public statements and in voluntary interviews with prosecutors. The government’s attempt to criminalize these actions makes no sense to me.

And yet something struck me oddly about this site, the way it does when you hear slightly minor chords in the movies and you just know that the protagonist is going to uncover something crucial. Instinctively, I fired up the Terminal and did what I had to do…
[iMac:~] remy% whois -h whois.networksolutions.com marthatalks.com
And there it was right in front of me.

Record created on 02-Jun-2003.

Martha was indicted on June 4th. The domain name was registered two days before that.
Did Martha have inside information that she was going to get indicted?