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Hey all, I did pretty much nothing all day yesterday. I made the lawn look nice and other than that, I just kind of loafed about. Today is Babe Ruth Day and Tell a Story Day (awww... now I miss all my bedtime stories with mallory et al.)

Happy Birthday to:
Johann Adam Reincken, 1623
Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, 1724
Edward Gibbon, 1737 (STUD OF ALL STUDS!!!)
Ulysses S Grant, 1822
Edward Whymper, 1840 (first man to climb the Matterhorn) (which is also the coolest ride in Disneyland, one week, my brother and I rode it approximately 40 times)
Frederick Rand Weissman, 1912
Doug Sheehan, 1949

Happy Deathday to:
Willem, bishop of Utrecht, 1076 (this "bishop" murdered Earl Floris I)
Ferdinand Magellan, 1521 (killed by Phillipino natives)
Zebulon M Pike, 1813 (remember Pike's peak?)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1882 (jerk)
Julius Sterling Morton, 1902 (founder of Arbor Day)
Gordon Armstrong, 1959 (inventor of the baby incubator, is that worthy of Stud List appelllation?)
Phil King, 1972 (Blue Oyster Cult band member shot in the head while gambling)
Mohammed Daud, 1978

And some things that happened today in history:
Pope Julius II excommunicates Italian state of Venice, 1509
British Parliament passes Tea Act, 1773
Fire destroys half of Charleston, 1838
West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US, 1861
Cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered, 1865 (I know a guy who's going there this fall for graduate school)
Romeo et Juliette premiers, 1867 (I seem to remember playing the overture once...)
Sierra Leone declares independence from UK, 1961
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd cello concert, 1966 (ahh. Shostakovich)
Accident at nuclear reactor Willow Island, WV, 1978
Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king (3,509), 1983
7th longest NHL game: NJ Devils beat Buffalo Sabres (125 min 43 sec), 1994
I got my first cavity filled, I got all of my shots, I listened to Mahler's 2nd Symphony (again), I talked to brooklyn and marc online, I ate some soup, and I went to the library (actually the library part hasnt happened yet, but I have to say that it did so that my mom will have to let me go. I wouldn't want to have lied to everyone :), 2004


And today's quotes:

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
Unknown
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)

I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged of others' religion by their lives, for it is from our lives and not from our words that our religion must be read. By the same test must the world judge me.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) <== STUD

I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffible idea I seek to express.

Caldwell O'Keefe
A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
A little and a little, collected together, become a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop makes an inundation.
Saadi (1184 - 1291)
Hey I hope everyone is having a good day, and that you are all having more fun than I am. Its noon, and I have yet to do anything. Email me so that I'm not bored, ok?
B'arris