Almanac of Absurdities for August 24, 2010

Sleepy resort towns Pompeii and Herculaneum are abruptly buried in volcanic ash on this day in the year 79 AD when Mt. Vesuvius erupted on a nice summer day. It's Orson Scott Card's Birthday, if you're hip to that, also Rupert Grint's Birthday, (Good young actor whose name would have been changed in old Hollywood.) as well as Kenny Baker,'s birthday, he was the actor inside R2-D2. National Waffle Day too.