"Money is like us in time, It lies but can't stand up. Down for you is up..."

Name that band!! This one will earn you points with me if you get it!
Today is: National Receptionist Day and Dance Like A Chicken Day. Seriously I want everyone to do this for me. It would be sooooo cool to know that all of my friends are sillies.
Tomorrow I won't be able to get an email out probably, cuz I'll be camping, so here are tomorrow's holidays too: Hug Your Cat Day, Police Memorial Day, and National Chocolate Chip Day.

Happy Birthday:
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, 1686
Robert Owen, 1771
Harry Joseph Chick Daugherty, trombonist (Spike Jones & City Slickers), 1915
Heloise, 1919
Robert Jarvik, 1946 (inventor of the Jarvick 7 artificial heart)
Robert Zemeckis, 1948
Gillian Anderson, 1968 (FIRST TO TELL ME HER MOST MAJOR TV ROLE WINS)
Ken Belanger, 1974
Jayna Hefford, 1977

Happy Deathday:
Pachomius, 347 (Egyptian monastery (Coenobieten) founder)
Nicolaus von Amsdorf, 1565 (seriously if anyone knows of cool reformers, let me know, im researching that right now)
John van Speijk, 1832
Megan Lloyd George, 1966
Hugh Griffith, 1980
Hugh Beaumont, 1982
Mohammed Munir, 1985 (FIRST PERSON TO TELL ME WHAT HE DID WINS)
William Randolph Hearst, 1993

Today in History:
1st smallpox inoculation administered, by Edward Jenner, 1796
1st admission charge at a football game, Harvard beats McGill 3-0, 1874 (anyone remember BYU vs. Utah?)
Vaseline is 1st sold, 1878
1st Olympics in US are held (St Louis), 1904
Flagpole at the White Sox ballpark breaks during pennant-raising, 1906
Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death, 1921
USSR launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule, 1960
Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations, 1963
Skylab launched, 1st Space Station, 1973 (I assure your majesty, this spacestation is fully operational...)
"Little Shop of Horrors" is released in Germany, 1987 (hehehe)
Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet's 2nd most sr spiritual leader, 1995 (so what do the Chinese do? they kidnap him...)
Last episode of Seinfeld on NBC, 1998 (commercials cost $2M/30 seconds)

Words of the Day: (I'm going to be a lazy today, sorry folks)

Objurgatrix
"Objurgatrix comes from the verb objurgate, to
chide or rebuke harshly, and means a scolding,
sharp-tongued, shrewish woman, a Xanthippe."
- C. H. Elster, There's a Word for It!


maith (MAHH) [Note: "th" in Irish is pronounced "h"]
maith = good

Usage: Adjectives follow the noun in Irish, and adjectives following a feminine noun are subject to mutation:
fear maith = a good man
bean mhaith = a good woman (WAHH)

Maith is also a noun, meaning "the good, what is good", for example, in the common phrase for "thank you":
go raibh maith agat (guh ruh MAH-huhguht)
(lit., may there be what-is-good at-you)

History: Maith descends from the Indo-European root *ma- (good), via the Common Celtic *mati-. The earliest evidence we have for this word is on the Coligny Calendar, a bronze plaque of Gaulish provenance, where the auspicious months are marked "MAT". Modern Breton "mat" (good) is a cognate. A distant cognate is "mature".

And your Influential Person of the Day:
René Descartes: French philosopher (some of my favoritest people are French philosophers!) and mathematician. Cognito Ergo Sum was his creation. Cool guy.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04744b.htm (provided by our friendly Catholic Encyclopedia. I think this is the coolest online reference book ever!)

"In science, Descartes discarded tradition and to an extent supported the same method as Francis Bacon, but with emphasis on rationalization and logic rather than upon experiences. In physical theory his doctrines were formulated as a compromise between his devotion to Roman Catholicism and his commitment to the scientific method, which met opposition in the church officials of the day. Mathematics was his greatest interest; building upon the work of others, he originated the Cartesian coordinates and Cartesian curves; he is often said to be the founder of analytical geometry. To algebra he contributed the treatment of negative roots and the convention of exponent notation. He made numerous advances in optics, such as his study of the reflection and refraction of light. He wrote a text on physiology, and he also worked in psychology; he contended that emotion was finally physiological at base and argued that the control of the physical expression of emotion would control the emotions themselves. His chief work on psychology is in his Traité des passions de l'âme (1649)."

So there's Descartes, awesome stuff...
Here are some good Icelandic poems if you can find the translations, kudos to you. With a little practice reading alongside english, the Icelandic really starts to make sense.

Mér Vantar Kraftaverk Því Ég Er Að Drukkna Syndir.

Læstur Er Lokaður Inn Í Búri
Dýr Nakinn Ber Á Mig
Og Bankar Upp Á Frelsari
Ótaminn Setur Í Ný Batterí
Og Hleður Á Ný

Í Kjaftinum Sem Rífur Upp Gamalt Gróið Sár
Er Orðinn Ryðguð Sál
Rafmagnið Búið
Mig Langar Að Skera
Og Rista Sjálfan Mig Á Hol
En Þori Það Ekki
Frekar Slekk Ég Á Mér
Aleinn Á Ný

And the regular quotes of the day:


Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
George Burns (1896 - 1996)
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Okay, thats all for today, i'm tired and i still have to mow the lawn and make some phone calls and finish watchin lawrence of arabia and go camping today. feel free to email me, i love hearing from all of you. and some of you havent talked to me in like a month, thats not very nice :'(

go raibh maith agat (FIRST TO TELL ME WHAT THIS MEANS WINS)