"Leave at your own chosen speed, I'm not the one you want babe..."

Name that band!! (oh, yesterday I had a plethora of responses and the correct answer was indeed Carl Orff's Carmina Burana's first movement, O Fortuna. Jordan is the winner for that. wurd up dawg)

Hagol! (hello in OE) Sorry I haven't done much personal stuff lately, it's been all random facts. But today, I'm going to just type whatever comes into my head. You know those markers that smell like fruit and things? Well, they don't taste like fruit. One day I licked every single color, and none of them tasted like they smelled (this was after smelling all of them, maybe I wasn't thinking straight) And the dark green one will turn your tongue blue. Interesting, no? And my dad says I'm not allowed to experiment with our toaster. He's heard of the SPT experiments and things too... check out this link Hehe, I found this after thoroughly exploring www.toaster.org another high quality site. I'm sure I've included the link before, but I'm also not everyone went there and has since forgotten, and are now glad for the reminder . So thats it. I'm going to include another link that I've already shown the world, but I'm thinking not all of ya's got it. It's this French dude playing horns French Guy Playing Horns hehehe! I love it... Oh! And here is the cool Kodak Picture Of The Day: Click Here It's pretty sweet, no? It's Sarajevo City Hall taken by Sulejman Omerbasic. What a cool picture, seriously. At first I thought it looked like Singapore, but it really wasn't at all. Oh and this is one of my new favorite sites :) :) :) HeeHee! I know at least a couple of you will get a HUGE kick out of this!
I'm still upset about my library situation. I would like to read more, but there is nothing to read. In Provo I could go to the library, pick a floor, any floor, walk randomly around for 15 minutes and find an exxellent book to read, but here in Boise, I can walk randomly around the library for 3 hours and find only raff. That's my dilemma. I don't even think the BPL carries normal books like anything by Geoffery Chaucer, or Johann Wolfgange von Goethe, or Edward Gibbon, or John Dryden, or Procopius... I could go on forever like that. Its really a depressing situation. Boise is stifling and oppressive. *cry, cry*

Sooo... Today's Holidays: International Museum Day (GAH!!! I WISH WE HAD DECENT MUSEUMS IN BOISE!!! our art museum is really quite frightening and then the only other museum here that i know of is that lame historical museum next to the "library" that basically covers the only time period in earth's history that i abhorr. "What does it take to get a drink in this place..." Oh well...), No Dirty Dishes Day, and Visit Your Relatives Day.

Today's Birthdays:
Hugh Clapperton, 1788
Nicholas II, 1864 (if you're into the whole Russian history thing, check out http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/pdf/E3e_CZAR.pdf
Bertrand Russell, 1872
Frank Capra, 1897 (Stud Listed!)
Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, 1945 (this dude played a mean cricket!)
William Wallace, <--- 1949 NAME HIS BAND FOR A PRIZE!!
Jari Kurri, 1960
Marty McSorley, 1963
Darren Van Impe, 1973


Today's Deaths:
Alexander III (The Great.), 323 (Yah, Emperor of Macedonia meant something back then!)
Erik IX Helgi (The Saint), 1160 (If you have never read about the Christianization of Scandinavia, do it now. NOW!!)
Johann K Amman, 1724
GUSTAV MAHLER!!!!!, 1911
Daws Butler, 1988 (He did the voices of Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, etc.)

Today in History:
Montreal Canada founded, 1642
Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of his invention, the lawnmower, 1830 (in the words of one man, "Saturdays are destroyed forever" XD)
Massachusetts rules all school-age children must attend school, 1852 (hehe, now weekdays are destroyed forever too!)
US passes Selective Service act, 1917 (grrrr....)
TNT explosion in chemical factory in Oakdale PA kills 200, 1918
Jacqueline Cochran is 1st woman to break the sound barrier, 1953
"If You Wanna Be Happy" by Jimmy Soul hits #1, 1963
Gene Roddenberry suggests 16 names including Kirk for Star Trek Captain, 1965
"Canterbury Tales" closes at Eugene O'Neill NYC after 122 perfs, 1969 <--- FIRST TO NAME THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR OF CANTERBURY TALES WINS A BIG OL' FATTY PRIZE!!

So that was a little bit fun. I got way sidetracked just writing the last three paragraphs. I was looking everything up and it cost me about 45 minutes. Oops :)

Words of the day:

Cromulent: 1. A nonsense word used in an ironical sense to mean
legitimate, and therefore, in reality, spurious and not at all legitimate. First used by Miss Hoover on The Simpsons. 2. A word to be added to the OED at a future date meaning exceptionally fast. I first learned it from Cambell but I forget where it really originates. It's probably Cambell's word, at the least, someone that Cambell knows.

Raffish: adj., 1 : marked by or suggestive of flashy vulgarity or crudeness
*2 : marked by a careless unconventionality : rakish
"Raffish sounds like it should mean "resembling the raff." But what is "raff"? Originally, "raff" was rubbish. That term derives from the Middle English "raf," and it was being used for trash and refuse back in the 1400s. At around the same time, English speakers were also using the word "riffraff" to mean "disreputable characters" or "rabble." The origins of "riffraff" are distinct from the "rubbish" sense of "raff"; "riffraff" derives from an Anglo-French phrase meaning "one and all." By the mid-1600s, the similarities between "raff" and "riffraff" had prompted people to start using the two words as synonyms, and "raff" gained a "rabble" sense. It was that ragtag "raff" that gave rise to the adjective "raffish" in the late 1700s." <--- Courtesy of Merriam-Webster's Dictionary.

accede \ak-SEED\, intransitive verb:
1. To agree or assent; to give in to a request or demand.
2. To become a party to an agreement, treaty, convention, etc.
3. To attain an office or rank; to enter upon the duties of an office.
FIRST TO IDENTIFY CORRECTLY ALL THE MORPHEMES IN THIS WORD WINS A PRIZE!!
novercal (NO-vur-kuhl) adjective
Of or relating to a stepmother; stepmotherly.

Focal an Lae (that's Word Of The Day in Irish Gaelic!)


Word: rua (ROO-uh)
Meaning: rua = reddish, red-haired, rust-coloured
Usage: fear rua = a red-haired man
capall rua = a chesnut horse
Máire Rua = Red-haired Mary
pingin rua = a copper penny
Níl pingin rua aige. = He hasn't got a red cent.
History: Rua comes from Old Irish "rúad", which harks back to the Indo-European root *reudh- (red, ruddy). Forms in the other Celtic languages are Scots Gaelic "ruadh", Manx Gaelic "ruy", Welsh "rhudd", and Breton "ruz". English cognates include "red", "ruddy", "rouge" and "rust".

Quotes of the Day!

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
Paul Harvey
If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.
John A. Wheeler
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)

Not too many quotes today, but that's ok once in a while right? especially since I have today a special treat. Thanks to Jordan, I've got this list:
Ten Words You Simply Must Know
Seriously, a good list. And if you like that link, also try this one: http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/ and then click the Word List link on the left side.

Well, thats all for today friends, have a good one, keep it real.
Brian David James Milford Tennyson Esbern Freak Shadowboy Harris