"I want to be where yaks can run free"

Hey all-

Name that band!!!  Name this guest writer!!! (both for a prize, unless brian can't think of one)

Brian has actually gotten a life.  Hard to believe, but true.  So on a few days my brother Andy and I will be taking his place.

Now I'll just make something up that sounds like something Brian would say:  If any of you can find any yak pictures and send them to me, I'll be very happy.  All I can find is a big fatty yak with an arrow pointing to its back that says 'this is posterioir'.  I'll go look posterior up in the OED really quick. Posterior: Later, subsequent in time; opposed to prior. Wow.  The yak's back is posterior to what exactly???

And now for your quotes:

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
Chester Bowles (1901 - 1986)

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
Happy birthday to:

1566 - James I Stuart, king of Scotland (James VI)/England (1567/1603-25)
1608 - Thomas Fuller, England, literary (History of the Holy War)
1782 - John Bray, composer
1783 - Thomas Sully, US portrait painter (Queen Victoria)
1842 - Carl Johann Adam Zeller, composer

Happy Deathday to:
1730 - Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer, dies at 49
1822 - John Bray, composer, dies on 40th birthday
1993 - William Golding, author (Lord of the Flies, Nobel 1983), dies at 81

Today in history:
0987 - Louis IV, crowned king of France
1464 - French King Louis XI forms postal service
1963 - 2 Russian space missions return to Earth
1984 - "Weird Al" Yankovic gives free live performance at Del Mar Fair (cool guy)

Worthless word of the day: Bork
Word of the day: ameliorate: to make or become better; improve

Focal An Lae: maith
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)
Wow. Irish is the coolest!

In case you don't know me, I'm Michael Harris, Brian's 12 year old brother. So if you're bored and have nothing to do, email me at maharris@gmail.com and go to my just-created-blog-thing-with-only-one-post http://maharris.blogspot.com.  Peace out everyone, and may the force be with you.

-Michael "Brian" Harris

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