"I'm high as a kite, I just might stop to check you out..."

UGh, iths only 8 :00 and i'm alltead y up

 

Wow.  lets try that again...

Ugh, its only 8:00 and i'm already up.

There.

 

Today is *sigh* not a holiday.  Sorry everyone.

 

Oh, random thought.  lots of you probably got that little MSN email 9 message in your inboxes, and, well, I was really bored so i read it and clicked all the links and I accidentally got interested in a new reality show based on msn messenger.  I'm a horrible pathetic slob.  Is there a cure?  I like the characters...  *cry/laugh*

 

Happy Birthdays:

Ibn Khaldun, 1332 (those Arabs had it together)

Maximilian I Jozef, 1756

Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1794 (B&O Railroad dude/rich dude.  I want to own a railroad and be rich)

Julia Ward Howe, 1819 (wrote Battle Hymn of the Republic)

"Wild Bill" Hickok, 1837 (actually James Butler.  that just doesnt ring like Wild Bill Hickok, does it?)

Emiel van der Straeten, 1887

Mario del Monaco, 1915

Yasuhiro Nakasone, 1918 (read about japanese political history if you've never done so)

Henry Kissinger, 1923

Siouxsie Sioux, 1957 (crazy Britons)

Ray Sheppard, 1966

Richard Park, 1976 (leading his Penguins to glory...)

 

Happy Rest In Peaces:

Achsah Young, 1647 (first woman known to be a witch.  now how do they know this?  its a pity "Good Omens" wasnt written until ca.1991)

Jeremiah Carlton, 1790 (laziest man in history, heir to a large fortune at 19 went to bed & stayed there for next 70 yrs, died at 89)

Jeffrey Hunter, 1969 (Thus ends Christopher Pike of Star Trek Cage)

Pud Brown, 1996

 

Aaaaaaaand today in history:

Denmark & Sweden sign ceasefire, 1660 (I would bet that if all of Scandinavia united they could take over the world in as little as three months)

St Petersburg founded by Peter the Great, 1703 (**WHAT IS IT CALLED NOW?)

Bubonic Plague breaks out in SF, 1907 (Haha, bubos!)

Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster, 1919

Richard Drew invents masking tape, 1930

1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field Va, 1931

Piccard & Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon, 1937

Supreme Court declares FDR's Natl Recovery Act unconstitutional, 1935

Golden Gate Bridge dedicated, 1937

1st black light is sold, 1961 (hehe, i have one of those in my room)

3 NJ businessman purchase NHL Colorado Rockies, & get approval to move them to NJ Meadowlands (Devils), 1963

     (SEE?!? THEY CORRUPTED SOMETHING INCREDIBLE AND TURNED THEM INTO THE NEW JERSEY DEVILS!  THIS IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS MUTILATING ELVES AND TURNING THEM INTO ORCS!!  YOU JUST DON'T DO THAT KIND OF THING AND EXPECT GOOD RESULTS!!  NEW 

JERSEY IS THE GREATEST EVIL OF OUR TIME!!)

 

John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol, 1981 (he didnt die because acetamenophines will only induce coma, unless you mix it with something else)

1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole, 1997

 

AAAAAAAAAAAnd today's random question of the day... Lionesses have no manes, how do they know when they've grown up?

 

And another one.  these are so fun!  If you were a pirate how would you avoid laughing when saying "the poop deck"?

 

Heeehee!  i read through these all day!

 

Do you believe that forks are descendants (or evolved from) spoons?

You've just inherited a manufacturing plant that specializes in plastics.  what do you make?

Your superpower is that you smell like dandelions whenever someone lies.  How do you conceal your secret identity?

Your hand has been replaced by a rubber stamp.  What does it say?

You forgot your mom's birthday.  What can you make out of super glue and olive pits?

If you were a cannibal, what would you wear to dinner?

You've rented a sky-writer to propose to your significant other, but it's completely overcast.  What do you do?

You've written a hit musical.  How will you keep the fame from going to your head?

 

And thats all, i really need to do something else.

 

Your worthless words for the day:

Spadassin - a duelist; fighter; a bully

Fetor - a strong, offensive smell; a stench

 

Not so many good words anymore.  I used to get a really good one every day in my email, but this week's theme is something like "coined words" so some of them are useless.  Like today's is "heebie-jeebies".  I checked my email and I didn't learn anything.  I don't want that to ever happen again.

 

Quotes!  (one of my favorite parts of each day... :D)

"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."

          Abba Eban (1915 - 2002)

"It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem."

          Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)

"Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important."

          Eugene McCarthy (1916 - )

"All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why."

          James Thurber (1894 - 1961)

"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

          Olivier

"The man who has no imagination has no wings."

          Muhammed Ali (1942 - )

"Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true."

          Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."

          Henry Peter Brougham

"I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people."

          Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

 

Mmmmm quotes.  So I was looking at peoples' profiles that i dont know, and there are some really strange and probably really cool people out there.  someday i want to be able to say that I know everyone.  I guess that would make it easier to get into power.  i dont know anyone that actively dislikes me.  as far as i know.  i think im probably pretty easy to get along with, so if i meet/get along with everyone, then I'll have the path to power paved with gold.  thats a good goal.  let me meet your friends.

 

I heard that natural fertilizers are better than chemical based ones.  And in the newspaper it says that some dude's shoe shop in Boise (ewwww, i just capitalized boise!  boise boise boise boise.  there, i hope that is enough to undo what i did)  is closing.  I don't know why that's important, I just report my random findings.

 

Have a good day everyone.  I made it my goal to finish Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by 1 pm today, and its now 9:15 and i'm on chapter 2... So i'd better get going.  Actually it's not really worth it.  I'll fail.  unless i don't try.  they say that trying is the first step toward failure, you have to admit the truth in that.  But as i have nothing relevant to say anymore, goodbye.

Brian "The Yellow Dart" Harris (yes i stole that nickname from Kyle Smith...)

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