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Posted by: dougs_better_half Dec 23 2005, 12:04 PM

A big Happy Birthday to Doug (djellison) who is 14.34 years (9597 sols) old today (I hope, my maths is a little rusty!)

All my love from your better half.

Am sure he'll be feeling suitably embarrassed now

Helen

Posted by: Nix Dec 23 2005, 12:16 PM

OOOHH ! Happy Birthsol Doug -you can take a sol off now, ONE!

Nico

Posted by: TheChemist Dec 23 2005, 12:34 PM

Happy Birthday Doug, and many happy Sols to you and Helen

<quietly>Let me add to the embarassment </quietly>

Posted by: ustrax Dec 23 2005, 12:45 PM

A very very Happy Day to you Doug!
It is so well deserved...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v352/ustrax/DOUG.jpg

May you and your better half have a day full of smiles, love and good surprises.

Posted by: dvandorn Dec 23 2005, 01:07 PM

Have a good one, boss! You deserve it.

Oh, and have I mentioned lately how grateful I am that you set up this site? Great thanks!

-the other Doug

Posted by: helvick Dec 23 2005, 02:17 PM

Good one Helen

Doug - Happy birthday! And I'd like to add my thanks to those of the others for your outstanding achievement in creating and maintaining this incredible site.

Posted by: dot.dk Dec 23 2005, 02:31 PM

A happy birthday to you Doug! And thank you for this great great place on the web!

Enjoy the day and all the best for many more (Mars) years

Edit:

You almost deserve this one

Posted by: PhilCo126 Dec 23 2005, 04:03 PM

Happy Birthday... Bonne Anniversaire... Sretan Rodendan...

Posted by: djellison Dec 23 2005, 04:18 PM

I've recieved a few Planetary Geology books ( exactly what I wanted ) AND....the cake is a work of utter genius on Helen's part - I'll post photo's later

Thanks for everyone's kind words - this place is hard work sometimes, but my god it's worth it I cant accept thanks for this place without saying thanks to my Admin team - they've not been around long, but they're helping a lot

Doug (aged 27.002739726027397260273972602739726 )

Posted by: Bill Harris Dec 23 2005, 04:20 PM

Happy BirthSol. And thanks for all you've done!

--Bill

Posted by: lyford Dec 23 2005, 04:22 PM

Happy Birthday, you young whipper snapper!

Posted by: RNeuhaus Dec 23 2005, 04:55 PM

Have a great day with your birthSol aniversary

Rodolfo

Posted by: tedstryk Dec 23 2005, 05:24 PM

Happy Birthsol! May this be the beginning of another great year of Mars-roving!

Posted by: um3k Dec 23 2005, 06:04 PM

Have a birthday cookie!

Posted by: chris Dec 23 2005, 08:59 PM

Doug,

Happy Birthday, and many thanks for all your work in making this such a great place.

And purely to prevent any embarassment, by, for example, confusing you with the *other*
Doug, I present the following photo of you getting ready for your "33 cameras" talk to
the BAA.



Chris

Posted by: djellison Dec 23 2005, 09:47 PM

Ahh - ye old 33 Cameras Talk..seems like a long time ago now

I've got another London talk coming up in Jan

Genius work on the cake by Helen, way better than the Racing Car one I had when I was 13

Doug

Posted by: dilo Dec 23 2005, 10:20 PM

Congratulations Doug, 3^3 years...
And great cake, Helen!
I would like a slice with blueberries!!

Posted by: Bjorn Jonsson Dec 23 2005, 10:45 PM

Happy birthsol !

A highly impressive cake, absolutely great work. Unluckily for me it's clear that it will be impossible for someone to give something comparable to me on my birthday next month because given my interest in the Cassini misison it would have to feature that mission. Given the nature of the Cassini mission the spacecraft would have to be disjoint from the cake suspended in mid-air which is impossible - also I'm only a bit more than one year old .

Posted by: AlexBlackwell Dec 23 2005, 11:06 PM

That is a cool cake, and appropriate one for a MER fan. BTW, is that the LEGO version of MER?
Are the cake's layers constructed to mimic the stratigraphy at Meridiani? Maybe the blueberries could be embedded, with some spilling out. And don't forget the sulphuric acid

Posted by: djellison Dec 24 2005, 12:39 AM

mhmghamgmmmmmhgmhmahmhmmmmhwhghrfffmahmghfff

Sorry - mouth full of sulphate rich dep....sorry, mouth full of CAKE

The MER model is this one - http://www.lansbergen.net/eng/ - somehow, despite the fact that we live and work together, Helen managed to find it, print it, cut it out, make it - AND modify it to include the STS107 dedication on the back of the HGA and I didnt have a CLUE.

Right - time for some Hematite conc.... Maltesers

Doug

Posted by: dvandorn Dec 24 2005, 03:18 AM

Looks great -- a chocolate cake with sulfate evaporite frosting!



-the other Doug

Posted by: jamescanvin Dec 24 2005, 06:52 AM

Just to Join the chorus: Happy birthday Doug! Have a great 28th year, I'm 3/4 of the way through mine, and I think it's the best one I've had, hope yours is too!

Cheers,

James

P.S. Awsome cake Helen!

Posted by: brianc Dec 24 2005, 07:42 AM

Hippo Bathday Doug

Thankyou for all your hard work in making this a very special place on the web !

Posted by: PhilCo126 Dec 24 2005, 05:46 PM

um3K
Superb red cake, I especially like the polar cap


Chris
Thanks for putting a face on the name


Helen
A great cake indeed … congratulations!


Doug
Planetary Geology books … interesting … curious to know which ones?

( A good one is NASA SP-469 The geology of the terrestrial planets )

Philip