Yesterday was my 4 0 t h b i r t h d a y.

Happy birthday. I get to put that one off for another year (actually a year and two days: I turn 39 Wednesday).

I'm a fan of Adler too, which is why I made sure there was a decent bio of him here after he died. But the primary criticism of him--that his choice of books is outdated--is entirely fair, I think. For example, I cannot imagine any list of the greatest books in history without Dawkins "The Selfish Gene", or Hofstadter's "Godel, Escher, Bach". 0