Happy birthday, Professor Althouse

Credit where credit is due. If anyone deserves credit for the mere being of this weblog, it's Althouse.

Thanks, Professor!

See if this will go around for yourself and all the great commenters:

Here's a cake, swiped from someone [Janet Margul?] on GEnie so long ago that I no longer have any idea, in the old ascii boxology style:

            ()     ()     ()    ()    ()
            ||     ||     ||    ||    ||
            ||_____||_____||____||____||
          (|VvVvVvVvVvVvVvVvVvVvVvVvVvVv|)
          (|\@/\@/\@/\@/\@/\@/\@/\@/\@/\|)
           |  *   *  *  *  *  *  *  * * |
     ______|____________________________|______
    (((((((((((((((((((((3))))))))))))))))))))))
    (((((((((((((((((((((3))))))))))))))))))))))
     |                                        |
     |                                        |
     |\@/\@/\@/\@/\@/\@/\@/\@/\@/\@/\@/\@/\@/\|
     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

It's a digital cake, so it can't get stale.