For the Elephant of Arrogance

A description on a dictionary: "A fully bilingual portable reference
for home or travel." Someday I will be that dictionary. Possessing
all knowledge and wisdom, traveling with you, homing with you.
Groovy!

Did you guys know that the Strait of Gibraltar is named after one of
the Arab generals who led the attack on Spain back in the 700s?
Gebel-al-Tarik. Kinda looks the same, I guess. It's been a while, I
guess changes are one of those natural things that happen. Does
anyone know if there are lots of Muslems in Spain now?

And does anyone know if the term "Methodist" is relating to a specific
method, or if it relates at all to the Constantinopolitan monk by the
name of Method? It would definitely make more sense if the Methodists
were like the Greek Orthodox folk, but I don't really know much about
either group. Did you know that the monk Method's brother was also a
monk, and that he invented the Cyrillic alphabet? It's basically just
modified Greek letters, but it was the first written language of the
various groups of Slavs, and it is still used by the Bulgarians,
Serbians and Russians, and I'm sure some others. It's a little hard
to imagine a group of people as late as 800 AD having no written
language, but I guess there are still people without literacy. Hmm.

Happy Checkers Day. I've never been a big fan of the game of
Checkers, but I'm sure it has merit. See the following site for a
brief, BRIEF history of Checkers.
http://www.indepthinfo.com/checkers/history.shtml
One of my earliest memories comes from the school year of 1994-95. I
was in Mrs. Walker's class. This is the first class I ever recieved a
C in, but that is immaterial. This was also the first class I had
with Carl and Kevin. We wreaked havoc on the civilized world of
McMillan. We made our swings hit the other swingers, and we tracked
mud into the classroom and on several occasions, Mrs. Walker made us
take our shoes off. That was the birth of my love of bare feet. We
were also nerds, thus, we loved Star Wars. We invented a new form of
Checkers called Star Wars Checkers. The rules were simple, you each
placed your pieces on different colors, and you could move any of the
non-diagonal directions. So when you jump, you stay on your own
color, jumping horizontally or forward, etc. In retrospect, it was
pretty stupid and whoever went first inevitably won. But MAN what a
great game it was! That is one of my first memories of Carl and
Kevin. Wurd up guys. I think I probably still have some of Carl's
pogs from his party that year. We should hang out sometime.

I have made a grievous error. I realized this morning on my way to
work that yesterday, September 22nd, was Frodo and Bilbo's birthday.
How could I have forgotten? It is one of those dates that has forever
etched itself into my memory because of all the time I spent
converting the blasted Shire Reckoning into our modern measurements.
It is a date I have celebrated with many. Take last year for example,
Austin, Stephen and I hosted a little birthday party and invited Laura
and Stephanie, whom we had met the night before. Hah! Now I thought
of something else... I met Laura the night before because I had gone
on a date! Fancy that! But I don't even remember my date's name,
that was the only time I ever saw her. I got talked into going on a
big group Cops & Robbers date by DT and I dragged Austin along too.
So we were just kinda running around campus randomly when we ran into
another group going to the CC to play some games. This group included
the two aforementioned humans of the female gender. So we joined them
and played some Taboo or something similar. We learned that we all
had much in common, so it was pretty fun and funny. That was when we
decided that Laura and Stephanie would make a good addition to our
otherwise pathetic little birthday party. We met in Stover lobby and
played LotR Risk, courtesy of Randy Brown, and had some ice cream,
courtesy The Blaze. Good times, good times...

Frugivorous- Feeding on fruit, such as birds, insects, etc.

I am definitely not frugivorous. I don't much appreciate fruit like
most "normal" people do. I mostly only like grapefruits, raspberries,
pears (not canned), and tomatoes. I much prefer vegetables. Raw
only. None of this "let's steam everything" garbage. Just put
everything in a bowl, fresh, and call it good. I especially like
broccolli. Just so, you know, on my birthday you can send me some in
a package. Or something.

That's about all I can bring myself to write today. As you can tell,
it was more full of memory than usual. That makes for a very draining
email. And also, I'm hungry. It's chimichanga time.

Brian Harris

P.S. I made up a new smiley. I call it the Grecan Smiley, because,
well, just look at that nose! It could also be a Steward of Gondor
Family Line nose. Did you all notice the resemblance between Boromir
and Faramir? You could tow a ship into shore with those probosci!
Here it is... :~) Austin and Canada could also tell you who else it
resembles, but I'm not going to just blurt it out. That would be
rude.