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Happy Birthday To Me!

I’ve been negligent with writing but I blame this on my recently passed birthday. Speaking of birthdays, I wanted to show you somthing I found humourous and delightful!

You know when it’s your birthdy and you log into your email and/or facebook you get little happy birthday messages? Espcially from forums where you have to enter your date when you register. They are kind of cute!

Hello Minifig,

We at GameBattles would like to wish you a happy birthday today!

I’m pretty sure this is actually an option built into most forum software (send user birthday greeting? yes).

I think I got the BEST one from the least-expected sources: OSAP.  OSAP is the Ontario student loans organization that I [unfortunately] owe money to.  I logged in just to check my [nearly non-existent!] balance and noticed that I had “1 message(s) waiting” in my message centre. The message centre usually only tells me important facts such as: “The day your payment is due to come out falls on a Saturday, so funds will be taken out the following business day.”  On this particular day, however it had this message, click on the image to see in a larger, readable size:

Thank

This is awesome for a few reasons:

1. You don’t really exepct any sort of niceties from this type of service. It’s just something you do, like banking, and… well it is banking.
2. There isn’t even an exclamation mark. It’s so matter of fact. It’s like they don’t know how to be joyous but they tried.
3. The text above the message reads: “Please read the 1 message(s) below and take the appropriate actions, if required”. – What are the appropriate actions for happy birthday? Having a good time with friends that involves cake? If so then I did take the appropriate actions

It made my day though!

Another thing that made my day earlier this week was this awesome post on Buddyhead, a music blog:

posted by Travis Keller of Buddyhead.

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