2018 -- this 60th Birthday Year of ~msp -- will soon be only a fond memory (25 days left in December).

So why not celebrate Miller this year with us, before life passes you by.

It seems that an appropriate msp birthday gift would be a work which you create/present to honor and serve those things that Miller has honored and served.

How about doing your own public thing:

concert/session/work/performance/abstraction/external/help_patch ...

Your "birthday present" is actually offered to Pd-land and/or the community of your choice -- with no strings attached à la Pd as msp would have it.

Celebrate Miller if you like, as you like!

-- NB is the sort of (dis)organization that doesn't prescribe or proscribe or offer bounties etc. We just change the world. Very slowly. (And because Miller is a Founder and Board Member of New Blankets, we've been doing it better, since 2007.) So Celebrate *Miller @ 60* before the year ends, quodlibet ad lib et cetera.

Here's some seasoning for your birthday stew though:

New Blankets will make some "Best of Festive Awards" in cash to honor Miller's 60th. It's a simple game: You tell NB before Dec 31 how you honored Miller with your free/open/public effort this year and New Blankets then awards you some "Best of Festive" lottery tickets. (Double points if your team includes those "identifying as female" or bonus tickets for other criteria YOU deem important.)

On January 1, the New Blankets Plenipotentiary Awards Committee will count up how many lottery tickets we've given away. These tickets will all be eligible in a drawing for NB *Best of Festive Awards.* In cash. How much cash? No one yet knows the amount. However ... New Blankets will accept your (tax free) contribution if you yourself would like to make the Best of Festive Awards pot bigger. (In any case, NB will contribute/match up to $500USD on its own.-- So the pot might be as large as $1000USD shared among the lucky awardee/winners ... Who knows?

Of course, no one needs New Blankets to honor Miller on his 60th or to promote Pd-goodwill. We've already got Iohannes and Pd-list always ready :)

If you want to play the *Miller's Birthday Best of Festive* game and/or you want to know/concoct more rules for this game yourself , please send email to Pd-list and/or to this dedicated address if you like:

                       msp60@newblankets.org

NB will give you all the details and feedback you could hope for.