Tuesday, May 25, 2004

"All the world is grooving on Banapple gas..."

Name that Band!
 
Well, I haven't done one of these in about 5 days, so I'm a little rusty.  I think I'll get back in my groove by recounting the holidays between last Thursday and now.  Jeez, thats a lot of holidays...  here goes.
 
The 21st (I think that was Friday) was National Memo Day and National Waiters and Waitresses Day.  Saturday the 22nd was Buy A Musical Instrument Day.  Oh, how I long for musical instruments.  My brother takes my old trombone to school every day.  I was thinking about maybe starting a little trombone band to play in the mall for money.  maybe thats a bad idea, i dont know.  let me know if you're interested (and in boise).  Sunday the 23rd was International Jazz Day (anyone seen Calle 54?) and Penny Day.  Monday the 24th was National Escargo Day, and today is Missing Children's Day and Tap Dance Day. Hehe, good times, good times...
 
I noticed that coming up on the 28th is Amnesty International Day.  This is one of those cool yet overlooked clubs.  We had a chapter in my high school, but I didn't actually know anyone who was in it.  I'm not sure anyone WAS in it.  But I was checking out their website, and I'm not going to join their little organization but they have some good thoughts.
 
Today's Births:
Camillus de Lellis, 1550
Christian August Jacobi, 1688
Friedrich Johann Eck, 1767
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803
John Raleigh Mott, 1865 (organizer of YMCA and Nobel winner 1902)
Igor Sikorsky, 1889 (inventor of the hepliclopter)
Eddie Maxwell, 1912 (anyone know the song Yes We Have No Bananas?)
Robert Ludlum, 1927
Roger Bowen, 1933
Ian McKellen, 1939
Frank Oz, 1944
Mike Myers, 1963
David Shaw, 1964 (defenseman for TB Lightning. sad day, philly lost on saturday)
 
Today's Deaths:
Pope Boniface IV, 615
Aldhelmus of Ealdhelm, 709
Edmund the Older, 496
Pope Gregory VII, 1085
Hendrik V, 1125 (last Salische German king)
Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, 1917
Symon Petlyura, 1926
Gustav Theodore Holst, 1934 (he's one of those cool Gustavs who make me want to change my name or perhaps name my firstborn son Gustav.  I'll have to find a wife willing to name a child Gustav...)
Patty Smith Hill, 1946 (she wrote the song we all sing on peoples' birthdays)
Muhammad Fadhel, 1997
 
And today's history:
Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, 1787
Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years hard labor for being a sodomite, 1895
Eyre M Shaw, 1900 (oldest Olymic gold medal winner ever, in yachting)
Babe Ruth suspended 1 day & fined $200 for throwing dirt on an umpire, 1922
Henry Ford stops producing Model T, 1927
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Haurietis aquas, 1956
JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade, 1961
Isley Brothers release "Twist & Shout", 1962
Gateway Arch in St Louis dedicated, 1968
"Return of the Jedi" released, 1983
 
So I had a thought while I was writing these in.  The NHL situation right now is a little troubling.  The bad news: Colorado, Boston, and Vancouver are all long dead.  Vancouver made a nice effort, the others didnt even try.  And Philadelphia held out a long time against the #1 seed Tampa Bay, but alas, they lost in game 7.  So now we're left with Calgary Flames and Tampa Bay Lightning.  Which is really too bad.  The only good news is that the New Jersey Devils and Detroit Red Wings are all long dead as well.  I wouldn't really have minded if Dallas or Minnesota or even Nashville had won, but Calgary and Tampa Bay just doesn't do it for me.  Oh well.  I'll watch the finals anyway, although I don't really care who wins.  And whoever I root for always seems to lose anyway.  I started the season by cheering on the Pittsburgh Penguins and they embarassed themselves.  So I tried cheering for TB against the Flyers so that TB would lose, but it didn't work.  I think I'm a curse.
 
Today's Word(s) of the Day:
Potvalient - bold or courageous under the influence of alcohol
Riparian - relating to or living on the bank of a natural watercourse or sometimes of a lake or tidewater
Agrestic - Pertaining to fields or the country; rural; rustic
 
Irish-Gaelic Word of the Day:
Dia (JEE-uh or DyEE-uh) - noun, god
Usage:
   Usually appears capitalized
   The all-purpose greeting in Irish is "Dia Duit!" (JEE-uh Ditch) or its more colloquial Dia Dhuit (JEE-uh gwitch - find an Irish speaker to demonstrate that last word)
   This means God to you/for you.  And the canonical reply is "Dia 's Muire Duit!"  (JEE-uhs MwIH-ruh Ditch), "God and Mary to you"
History: Old Irish "día", Sanskrit "devas" and Latin "deus" all derivefrom the hypothetical Indo-European word *deiwos (god), from the root*dei- (to shine). Modern cognates are "deity" and "divine".
 
Quotes of the Day:
"You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light."
          Vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768 - 1848)
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
          Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
"Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy."
          Spike Milligan
 
That's going to have to do for quotes.  I'm tired and lazy and my mom doesn't want me to spend all day in front of the computer.  It's already noon, and I have been on the computer since I woke up.  Bleh.  at least I got my website thingy fixed up.  Oh yah, I got me a new place to put my Daily Emails because I was having lots of issues with my cableone hosted site.  So now they can all be found at http://fricative.blogspot.com  I'm still working on getting my stud list put up there, but soon enough it will be there.  Complete this time.  About 100 of my names got cut off last time I tried to post them online.  That was a little upsetting.  A lot upsetting.  I haven't been at all happy with cableone/my computer/the internet lately, but I'm dealing with it rather well I think: give up and run away and start something else.  yah.
 
Um here's a link.  Hope you enjoy it, it's the Encarta list that I selected for today.
And here's your picture for the day.
And... have a good day.  I'm out of things to ramble about and I haven't had breakfast yet.  I think I will have cheese.  Mmmmm, Tillamook Medium Cheddar.... the best!

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