First Daily Email from Boise

Hey all. i added some new people to my email list, welcome! if you dont want any more, just let me know, i wont be offended. and also let me know if you want these sent to a different email address or something like that. i have two or more email addresses for several of you, and its easy enough to fix. also if you know anyone else who might enjoy these, let me know that too. and also, 17th warders, please give my email address to all your friends, as im not on the list and i may lose contact with almost all of you now because of that.

So i didnt write Friday or Saturday for reasons having to do with me cleaning/driving. but here i am now writing an email in the middle of the night (well for most of us its still the middle of the day, but my family is in bed!). Friday was Lovers Day, Take A Chance Day, and World Laboratory Animal Day. Saturday was Arbor Day (i bet all the Oregonians knew all about that one), and Pig In A Blanket Day. And today is National Zucchini Bread Day and East Meets West Day. Too bad in my case, i just said goodbye to everyone i knew from the East, so really its just East Remeets East and West Remeets West Day. pity, some of my favorite people are from Maryland and Virginia and other far away lands. And to prepare you for tomorrow, so that you can start your celebrations early, Monday is Hug An Australian Day (missionaries going to Australia count too), National Pretzel Day, and Richter Scale Day.

Yesterday was the birthday of Barbra Streisand and Chipper Jones and Kelly Clarkson and Benjamin Whorf (he had a lot of crazy ideas about the Hopi Indians and their view of the world. he also did a lot with linguistics, but mostly i think he was crazy)

Todays birthdays are:
Oliver Cromwell, 1599
Guillaume Coustou Sr., 1677
Giovanni Marco Rutini, 1723
Peter Il'yich Tchaikovsky (Stud List candidate), 1840
Guglielmo Marconi (Definitely Stud List Material), 1874 (inventor of the radio, Stud List candidate)
Ella Fitzgerald, 1918 (singer of the "Is It Live Or Is It Memorex" jingle)
Marre, 1920 ("Reformer Of The Bar")
Bertrand Tavernier, 1941

Happy Deathday to:
Ratherius of Verona, 974
Don Juan Alvarez, 1607
Nicolas J Pelletier, 1792 (first man ever to be guillotined!)
Louis-Sebastien Mercier, 1813
Frederick "William" Herschel, 1822 (astronomer... shudder, shudder)
Max Drischner, 1971
Art Fleming, 1995 (Jeopardy host)

And things that happened today in history:
Thimble patented, 1684
Paul Julius Reuter uses 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices, 1850
Ground broken for Suez Canal, 1859
Battle of Lavaca, 1861
Battle of New Orleans, 1862
Battle of Marks' Mill, 1864
Tokyo opens for foreign trade, 1867 (Perry really screwed things up over there)
Latest date for measurable snow in NYC (3"), 1875
Sigmund Freud opens practice, 1886 (Freud really screwed some things up too)
Spain sends 20,000 soldiers to Morocco , 1927
Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes first guide dog for the blind, 1928
Red army completely surrounds Berlin, 1945
Drunk driver kills 10 children in Asse Belgium, 1966
NFL moves goal posts & adopts sudden-death playoff, 1974
Wings disbands, 1984 (i like the term "disbands" referring to a band...)
Mario Lemuix (Stud List candidate) ties NHL playoff record of 4 goals in 1st period, 1989
Boris Yeltsin elected, 1993
14" of snow in Southern Calif, 1994
Ken Griffey Jr hits his 250th HR, 1997

Ok, so for everyone who is still not familiar with the Stud List, its a big fatty list of everyone i can think of who is/was extremely influential to humanity, such as Copernicus (just for you, Liz!), William Wallace, Sidhartha, Mohammed, etc. so i keep track of all these people and ive got about 550 or 600 so far, and im looking for more, so if you have any ideas of people i may not have thought of yet, let me know. Im going to put out a master list someday soon, hopefully by the end of April, i might put it up on my new website (which i have under my name, but have not started working on yet. i dont really know what im doing, maybe if some of you have experience, or would like to do it for me, let me know.) This list is uber-roxxorz, i cant wait to finalize it, i just dont have the time. i dont have any performers on the list yet, as ive been mostly focusing on military and political leaders. so far i have a few scientists, but not many, and i have very very few musicians, artists, and writers. so send me your input and i'll most likely put them on The List.

I have decided that there are far too many English majors. sitting through my bro. in law's graduation (yes i did go to it, i dont really hate my family like some of you probably think) was quite tedious because it was long and it was all because of the insane number of English majors. there were only about 20 in Linguistics and only 2 in English Language. That will be nice when i graduate, i imagine. if i ever graduate. i dont know that i will. even though ELang is only like 45 credits or something absurdly easy like that, i will end up taking a bunch of foreign language classes and lots of humanities and music and i will get sidetracked and i will probably go to school until im 35. but at least i will enjoy my time at byu. and i will pay dearly for it too. but thats ok.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
William G. McAdoo (1863 - 1941)
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
whoa, i just realized that today i woke up in a bed for the first time in over a month. i stayed at my grandparents house and had the worlds best waffles for breakfast (yes, they were much much better than anything the cannon center ever offered) and i had scrambled eggs (made with actual eggs!) (and cheese!) (and the salt and pepper was cooked in for best flavor!) and then i went to a volleyball tournament featuring a girl from my home ward, and then i proceeded to ride back to boise with my parents. i listened to four cds on the way home, they were Five Iron Frenzy's "Proof That The Youth Are Revolting", The Notwist's "Neon Golden", Cat Stevens' "Greatest Hits", and a Jimmy Eat World mix. Good times, good times. And im sure you all care... and when i got home, i emailed and instant messaged and thats really about it. how very dull. next week i will probably be doing real things though, im not really a loser. i think. but in any case, im going to bed now. have a good Sunday, everyone.