Confederate Sharpshooter

Yes, joy of joys, today's date is a perfect square: 3/3/09. (3x3=9)

Read more here. And, of course, you'll be needing one of these.

If you've never used a slide rule, find someone old enough to show you how, and then think really hard about this: A bunch of guys with nothing more than slide rules, trig and log tables, and courage took us to another world in less than a decade... and along the way designed the first working electronic computers, space Satellites, intercontinental communications, and a whole lot more. In short, they changed the world. We need more men like that today.