"Shake it like a polaroid picture..."

Ok, no prize for today's name that band.  that would be lame.  I was just looking through the songs i have on my compy and thats one of them.  Mmmmm, I am eating spaghetti right now.  I made it last night, and there are massive leftovers because my brothers didnt eat any...  And i donated blood and voted, so now i think i'm a good citizen for at least a while.  sometimes i have to do things like this so that i dont become a sociopath or something.  I heard that it's hard for sociopaths to get government jobs like ruling the world and so forth.  froth.  what are some things that are frothy?  dishsoap, laundry soap, all manner of soaps, shaving cream, hot chocolate in a blender (i imagine that would be pretty frothy, i've never tried. yet.), root beer floats, bubble baths, the ocean(s), beer.  My mom says that sometimes people describe the stock market as being frothy, also whipped cream is frothy, and egg whites when beaten at high speeds, like merengue.  Things that are definitely not frothy: beef steaks, spinach, my little brothers, steel wool, gasoline, cherry trees, leather, and blood (i think, i've never seen it foam).

 

Today is Sally Ride Day.  Ride sally, ride...
Today's birthdays and deaths are irrelevant.  except for lots of them...

Birthdays:

Alexander Pushkin, 1799
Peter Cushing, 1913 (acted in Dracula, Star Wars, Dr. Who, etc.)

That baby who was born without a brain, 1788

 

Deaths:
No one that I care enough about to write down.

 

Worthless words for the day:

jejunosity - adj., Jejuneness, naievete
cap-a-pie - adv., **FIRST TO TELL ME THE DEFINITION WINS!!

 

Irish Gaelic word for today:

beo (BYOE - rhymes with Joe)
beo = alive, living

Usage:  Tá siad beo. (TAW SHEE-uhd BYOE) = They are alive.
           Tá siad beo bocht. (... BOXT) = They are living in poverty. (literally, they are alive poor)
           Slán beo! (SLAWN BYOE) = Take care! (lit., healthy alive!) - a nice way to sign off on a message

History: Sanskrit "jivas", Latin "vivus", Old Irish "béo" and Welsh"byw" all derive from the hypothetical Indo-European word *gwiwo(living). English cognates are "vivid", "survive" and "quick"(!).

 

I hope you guys are all taking notes on the "Focal an Lae".  We could all learn this wonderful language together, and talk to each other as in code.  Or you could all think I'm crazy for attempting to learn another language and become Irish.

 

Qououtes!

"If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it."
     Emerson Pugh

"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."

     Pablo Picasso

"Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first."

     Peter Ustimov

"One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind."

     Robert Collier

"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years."

     Bertrand Russell

 

Ok I have to leave now, to go somewhere...  probably crazy...  i think i'll go drive aaaaround.  ['eI-,raund] emphasis on the "aaaa" pronounced like 'may' or 'hate'  aaaaround!  practice saying that a few times.  aaaaround!  i'm off now.  see you aaaaround.

Brian

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