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today hopefully i wont slack off like i did yesterday. today is Plan Your Epitaph Day, and Sorry Charlie Day. i personally am a big fan of planning my own epitaph. and tomorrow is No Housework Day and World Health Day. rock on. also today is the Elvish New Year, celebrated by the good citizens of Valinor, Rivendell, Lorien, and the many other woodland realms, including my dorm room, and most likely a few others. i have now met five girls from David John (not the ghetto, elizabeth) that are most likely throwing a party today.

And i have a question for you all. some of you i already asked, forgive me. i found a website the other day that claims to have a recording of every classical work ever. and i was looking around and i remembered the advise that kevin brinkerhoff and amy honka offered me: "check out Mahler" and i was looking around and i realized that they had over a thousand recordings by Mahler, and i am utterly confused and i was wondering which ones are worth looking at. i will have to end up paying for it, but not much. most cds are around $6-10 so that shouldnt hurt me too much. so if you have a favorite song/symphony/anything by gustav mahler, let me know.

Famous Birthdays for today are:
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, 1671 (i think i put him on a few days ago, but as there are discrepencies about the actual birthdate, and i am not a Rousseau scholar, i just put him down wherever i find him. if you want the truth, you can go look him up and let me know what you come up with)
Johann Friedrich Kranz, 1752
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, 1806 (very cool chica, definitely one of my heroes)
Friedrich Robert Volkmann, 1815
James Augustine Healy, 1830 (first black Roman Catholic bishop)
Johan H C Kern, 1833 (i learned about this guy in Ling 330)
Butch Cassidy, 1866
Willem Pelemans, 1901 (guess his nationality!)
Bob Marley, 1945
Gerald Diduck, 1965 (um, go oilers?)
Olaf Kolzig, 1970 (here's a guy worthy of emulation. cool name. even cooler job. look him up)

And famous deaths for today are:
Methodius, 885
Richard I, the Lion-hearted, 1199 (stud list!!)
Jacques de Bourbon, count of Marche, 1362
Willem Van de Velde, 1707 (he was 73 when he died, yet they called him Willem the Young...)
William Strickland, 1854 (i like this guy's style, check it out)
Julia Faye, 1966
Igor F Strawinsky, 1971 (what a stud! if only he wasnt a communist)
Agatha Uwilingiyimana, 1994 (first woman Prime Minister in Africa, assassinated by chauvinist pigs)
Juv‚nal Habayarimana, 1994 (president of Rwanda, the same country Agatha Uwilingiyimana was from. Rwanda had/has issues.)

And famous things that happened today in history:
Ringbearers honored at the Fields of Cormallen, T.A. 3019 (this really is a big deal)
Battle at Pollentia, 402 (Roman army under Stilicho beats Visigoten, or "Visigoths" to those who are not acquainted with O.N. or O.G.)
Lailat-ul Qadar, 610 (the night the Quran descended to earth)
Fire in Venice, 1106 (i read an entire chapter in my book about fires in medieval times, and the people were more afraid of fires than they were of the plague)
France declares war on Netherlands, 1672
Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards, 1722
English militia shoots prisoners, 100's killed, 1815
Mormon church organized, 1830
Cornerstone laid for 2nd Mormon temple, Nauvoo, 1841
Battle of Sayler's Creek, 1865 (also Skirmish of High Bridge)
Brigham Young marries his 27th & final wife, 1868 (yah lots of Mormon history today, sorry)
1st plastic patented, 1869
Kodak Camera on sale for 1st time, 1889
Andy Bowen & Jack Burke box 7 hrs 19 mins (111 rounds, no winner), 1893
Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City dedicated, 1893
1st modern Olympic games open in Athens Greece [3/25 OS] American James Connolly wins the 1st Olympic gold medal in modern history, 1896 (yes i put this up on march 25th too, note the note above)
1st animated cartoon copyrighted, 1906
1st credit union forms in US, 1909
US declares war on Germany, 1917
1st film shown on an airplane (British Air), 1925
Twinkies invented, 1930 (i hear Twinkies do amazing things in microwaves)
Teflon invented, 1938
Montreal Canadiens score 3 goals in 56 seconds in playoff game against Detroit, 1954 (HAHAHA!!!! DETROIT SUCKS, AND I HATE THEM ALL!!!!)
Mihir Sen swims Palk Strait between Sri Lanka & India, 1966
Yankee Ron Blomberg becomes 1st designated hitter, he walks, 1973
Fastest hat trick by Washington Capitals 3 mins 26 secs (Stan Gilbertson), 1975
Gordie Howe completes a record 26th season, 1980 (hes on my stud list for sure)
Soccer ball juggled non-stop for 14:14 hrs, 1986
NJ Devils' 1st playoff game; lose to Isles 4-3 OT in 1st round, 1988 (HAHAHa!!!! DEVILS LOST!!!)
Orel Hershiser ends his record 59 consecutive scoreless streak, 1989 (stud)
Subhana becomes 1st Australian woman to become a Zen teacher, 1991
Supreme Court Justice Blackmun (Roe v Wade) resigns, 1994

phew, i didnt give up today. and there was some pretty snazzy stuff that happened too. so today i wore shoes. its sad but true. the manager lady in the cannon center yelled at me for the second time, which makes three times total and i could tell she was pretty unhappy about my rule-breaking. and she told me i couldnt come back anymore if she caught me again without shoes. so sad. and i decided that my desire to eat is much much stronger than my desire to go barefoot, so i guess i have no choice but to comply.
All you provo people should come to the symphony orchestra concert tonight. its free, and i want to go, but its lame to go alone. and you should also come to my university chorale concert at 7:30 april 13th. its also free. and its in the DeJong. and you can see other cool people besides me. i know at least ten cool people who are singing that night, and im sure there are others. so come. if you or anyone you know are having concerts etc. in the near future, let me know and i will advertise.

and now for your daily quotes.


God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.
Anonymous, Graffito
The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.
Alex Levin
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959) (stud list)
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
Poul Anderson (1926 - )
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
Steven Wright (1955 - )
It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.
Abigail Van Buren (1918 - )
A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
Robert M. Hamilton
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
Italian Proverb
A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men
Rhoald Dahl
so those are your quotes for today and yesterday. hope you are satisfied. thats my goal, to try to please everybody. i hear thats the key to failure. so yah. have a good day. email me pictures of logs, answers to riddles and perhaps small animals.