"And the sign said, 'Long haired freaky people need not apply'..."

Name That Band.

 

Oh shmerz... today is Hug Holiday.  I refuse to participate.  No, I won't even "hug" anyone online.  I'm done hugging.  Possibly forever.

Get ready to celebrate Machine Day tomorrow.

 

Happy Birthday to:

Ben Jonson (1571)

Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847)

Jose Bernabe Marino Barreto y Casanova (1907)

Nelson Mandela (1918, STUD!!)

Scott Mellanby (1966, plays for Florida Panthers)

Joshua Jackson (1978, actor in Mighty Ducks)

Austin Call (1985)

 

Happy Deathday to:

Hendrik (1216, emperor of Constantinople)

James III (1488, King of Scotland)

Mary of Lorraine (1560, Pro-French regent of Scotland)

Dugald Stewart (1828, Scottish philosopher)

Machmud Shevket Pasha (1913)

John Wayne (1979)

Marjorie Newell Robb (1992, Oldest living survivor of Titanic)

 

Today in History:

Harderwijk becomes a city (1231)

England grants Sir Humphrey Gilbert a patent to explore & colonize US (1578)

Benjamin Franklin invents his Franklin stove (1742)

Capt James Cook discovers Great Barrier Reef off Australia (1770)

Charles Lindbergh is awarded the 1st Distinguished Flying Cross (1927)

Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" released (1937)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt serves hot dogs to the king of England at a dinner party (1939)

"Paint It, Black" by The Rolling Stones hits #1 (1966)

109th Belmont: Jean Cruguet aboard Seattle Slew wins in 2:29.6 (1977, most recent triple crown winner)

Freedomfest - Mandela addresses Wembley Stadium London (1988)

I ate Marshmallow Mateys for breakfast (2004)

 

Words of the Day:

Polyonymous: having or being known by many names

Obtund: to blunt, deaden, or dull

 

Old/Middle English Words of the Day:

Hlaftage: uncooked bread

Wem: to disfigure, mutilate, impair, or injure; to desecrate or violate; to stain or cause impurity

 

Yah, this is the first time I've done an Old English word of the day thing.  I didn't even really mean to.  I was just perusing the OED and I keep finding all these cool words.  And I can't get enough of them.  If I decide to do the English Language major, then I'm required to learn either Old English or Middle English (or both) so I'm excited for that.  And even if I don't major in ELang, I'll still take at least one of those.  I think they're on the optional list for the Linguistics major.  And my goal is to someday read Beowulf in its original form.  None of this "let's translate it for you AND put editorial notes in every three lines".  I can do that for myself.  Well, not yet.  In three years I can.

 

Bands that I feel like listening to today:  Pink Floyd, The Notwist, Van Halen, Flogging Molly, Linkin Park, The Deviates, Yellowcard, Led Zeppelin.

 

Bands that I really don't feel like listening to today: The Hippos, Rilo Kiley, Postal Service, The Aquabats, Good Charlotte, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Relient K.

 

Irish Gaelic Word of the Day:

teanga = tongue; language
Teanga names both the fleshy organ in our mouths and human speech:
   Teanga names both the fleshy organ in our mouths and human speech:

   teanga bheo (CHANG-guh VYOE) = a living language

   Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam. (CHEER guhn CHANG-guh, CHEER guhn AH-nuhm) = A land without a language is a land without a soul.  (I personally really like this quote.)

History: Old Irish "tengae" derives from Indo-European *dnghu [dot under the n, macron over the u] (tongue). Modern cognates are "tongue","language", "linguist" (these latter from Old Latin "dingua").

 

This is the book I want, but it's too expensive.

 

And here are your quotes for today:

"You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider."

          Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

"Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it."

          Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

 

I just spent the last fifteen minutes not typing.  I played with this little wire thing I found.  Right now it's shaped like an S with extra curves.  Its actually more like two S's on top of each other.  like that Nak symbol §.  Hopefully that shows up in your email.  It shows up on my screen but thats no guarantee.  Sometimes Hotmail is lametarded like that.  I never know what you're going to see.  I just guess.  Hopefully the text shows up.  I've had problems with that before.  My cousin wrote to me and said that she only was getting the subject lines.  Psh.  What gives?

 

And another reason I'm sick of Hotmail:  I keep having to delete things and make new accounts.  I don't like erasing my memories, and I'm afraid I'll forget people if I don't save some near-tangible memory of them.  Anyway, I'm done now.

-Brian

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