December
2006
Move over, 2006
We’re less than 90 minutes away from being part of the European Union. So, ladies and gentlemen, I give you this year’s highlights, as I remember them:
+The ETA declared in June a permanent ceasefire …
- … which they might have broken recently.
+The birdflu didn’t become the apocalyptic pandemic it was predicted to be…
- though 2006 saw its first proven human-to-human transmission.
+This year’s Eurovision had the most interesting winners ever…
- Thanks to the Finns cheating with the use of Skype.
+The Poincaré conjecture was finally proven.
- … but the prover refused the medal that went with it and left the field of mathematics.
+Humanity gets back two stolen Edward Munch paintings…
- … but loses one planet, Pluto.
+Saddam Hussein, Augusto Pinochet and Slobodan Milosevic kick the bucket…
- … but we see also the disappearance of Stanislaw Lem, James Brown, Pink Floyd’s Steve Barrett, Steve Irwin, Milton Friedman, Hungarian Ferenc Puskas , Ligeti György and Suto Andras, Romanian Laura Soica, Gica Petrescu and Silviu Brucan. Tom and Jerry and Green Lantern were orphaned.
For me and my family it was a nice year, full of love and traveling. I hope the next will be even better.
Happy 2007, everyone! (now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to take care of a certain champagne bottle 
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