Saturday, July 29, 2006

7/29/06
I have to start packing for Band Camp. I'm leaving Monday and coming back Saturday. I might not get to post tomorrow because I have to work at the Air Show in the morning and if my brother sees the computer open, he'll take it for the day.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that the family Caponiidae is unique among spiders because its members usually have two eyes?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1030 - King Olaf II fought and died in the Battle of Stiklestad, trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes.
1900 - Italian American anarchist Gaetano Bresci assassinated King Umberto I of Italy.
1947 - ENIAC, the world's first all-electronic digital computer, was turned on; it remained in continuous operation until October 2, 1955.
1954 - The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, was published in the United Kingdom.
1957 - The International Atomic Energy Agency was established.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

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Friday, July 28, 2006

7/28/06
45 HOURS. I have not been on the computer for 45 hours thanks to my computer addicted brother. Yesterday I had to take the ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery). I scored an 83 (preliminary) where passing is 31. Also, yesterday night, my section (Trombones) went to eat Frosties at Wendy's. Everyone but me went by car, me by bike. I don't know if this is stupid or not but I go to band practice by bike now even though I live about 3.5-4 miles away. Our band is marching in the
Air Show Parade tonight.

DID YOU KNOW...
... that the Chapleau Crown Game Preserve in northern Ontario, Canada is the largest game preserve in the world?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1794 - Reign of Terror leader Maximilien Robespierre was guillotined.
1914 - Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, starting World War I.
1976 - The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 magnitude flattened Tangshan, China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
1990 - Alberto Fujimori became President of Peru.
1996 - The remains of the prehistoric Kennewick Man were discovered.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

7/26/06
This entire week, I've been getting sick in the afternoon. Band has been depressing me because I feel like throwing up. Even though I haven't yet, I know i will. I believe if evryone would move faster and get set, I wouldn't be able to think about my sickness and be able to continue but everyone gets in a blob, not a block.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that Tropical Storm Bilis caused 625 deaths and $2.5 billion (2006 USD) in damage to the Philippines, Taiwan, and China, making it the most damaging storm of the 2006 Pacific typhoon season so far?

TODAY IN HISTORY
811 - Bulgarian forces led by Krum defeated a Byzantine invasion in the Battle of Pliska, killed Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I and severely wounded his son and co-emperor Staurakios.
1139 - After a victory over the Almoravid Moors in the Battle of Ourique, Afonso the Conqueror was proclaimed the first king of an independent Portugal.
1822 - José de San Martín met with Simón Bolívar in Guayaquil to plan for the future of South America.
1887 - L. L. Zamenhof published Unua Libro, the first publication to describe Esperanto, a constructed international language.
1953 - Fidel Castro led an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

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Tuesday, July 25, 2006

7/25/06
Hi everybody. This is the first time I've been on the computer in almost 48 hours. Still promoting KEO. To answer LB's question, that is what the spaccraft will look when it is in out space. Congradulations to Floyd Landis who won the Tour de France.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that Clara the rhinoceros, the fifth living rhinoceros to be seen in Europe in modern times, became famous during a seventeen year tour of Europe from 1741 to 1758?

TODAY IN HISTORY
306 - Constantine I was proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
1261 - The Latin Empire ended when Michael VIII Palaeologus and his Nicaean forces captured Constantinople to re-establish the Byzantine Empire.
1909 - French aviator Louis Blériot made the first crossing of the English Channel in a heavier-than-air flying machine.
1978 - Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham, England.
2000 - Air France Concorde Flight 4590 crashed after takeoff in Paris, killing 113 people.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

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Sunday, July 23, 2006

Midnight 7/23/06
I stay up way too late. Here is something everyone should do. There is a space time-capsule being launched in 2007 and you can put 6000 characters about yourself, life, and other things. The space-time capsule is known as KEO. It was named the project of the 21st century. It is supported by UNESCO and the European Space Agency. It will come back to earth in 50,000 years. Just click on the picture below.





DID YOU KNOW...
...that The War Illustrated was a WWI magazine first published eighteen days after the United Kingdom declared war on Germany?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1881 - The International Federation of Gymnastics, the world's oldest international sport federation, was founded in Liège, Belgium.
1952 - King Farouk of Egypt was forced to abdicate by army officers in the Free Officers Movement.
1967 - The 12th Street Riot began in the predominantly black inner-city area of Detroit, Michigan, United States.
1970 - Qaboos (pictured) overthrew his father Said Bin Taimur to become the Sultan of Oman.
1986 - Sarah Ferguson married Prince Andrew at Westminster Abbey, joining the British Royal Family as the Duchess of York.
2001 - Megawati Sukarnoputri became the first female president of Indonesia.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

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Saturday, July 22, 2006

Evening Update 7/22/06
What a long night last night. The Reds' Ken Griffey Jr. hit a bases-loaded 1 out single that won the game at 1:15 AM. And the Reds currently lead 3-0 in the bottom of the 1st.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that today is Pi Approximation Day because 22/7 equals an appprozimation of pi?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1099 - First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon was elected the first Protector of the Holy Sepulchre in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1456 - Forces under John Hunyadi lifted the Siege of Belgrade and defeated an Ottoman invasion into the Kingdom of Hungary.
1933 - Wiley Post became the first pilot to fly a fixed-wing aircraft solo around the world.
1946 - An Irgun bomb destroyed the headquarters of the British Mandate of Palestine at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 90.
2003 - Coalition forces attacked a compound in Mosul, Iraq, killing two of Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Qusay, the "aces of hearts and clubs" on the U.S. list of most-wanted Iraqis after the invasion of Iraq.

PHOTO OF THE DAY

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Friday, July 21, 2006

I'm Thinking About Adding a Daily Picture
Just as the title says, what do you guys think?
Here is an example

It is basically a nice picture to look at.
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Thursday, July 20, 2006

Really Early in the Morning Update 7/20/06
The Reds finally completed their game. Even with band pratice, I only missed 1 1/2 innings.

Well, GN, during the NY trip with the band, JJ and I were doing those warm-ups at rest stops. We even got Andershane to do it at one reststop. I didn't embarass myself with the new moves. It took me 1/2 the time we practiced it to figure it out. I must say though, the music "Let's Dance" is worse than last years "When the Saints March Around the World." I really wish we would just play "Land of a Thousand Dances." Oh yea, something important happend today.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that the 1990 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships was the only World Championship to permit bodychecking in women's ice hockey?
My personal opinion "Bring back bodychecking and fighting. Who doesn't love fights in hockey."

TODAY IN HISTORY
1402 - Forces under Timur defeated the Ottomans in the Battle of Ankara and captured Sultan Bayezid I.
1866 - The Austrian Navy led by Wilhelm von Tegetthoff defeated a much larger Italian fleet in the Battle of Lissa.
1944 - Claus von Stauffenberg and others in the German Resistance attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
1969 - The Apollo 11 lunar module landed on the Sea of Tranquillity, where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon.
1976 - The Viking 1 spacecraft landed on Mars.
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Morning Update 7/19/06
Band Starts today and I'm not physically ready for it. I have to go to a meeting at 11:30, then deliver newspapers at 3:00 and then go to band from 6-9. Life is starting to get busy. I don't know if I want it this busy. I don't think I'll be able to eat before band.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that The Colgate Comedy Hour was a musical variety television show which ran on the NBC television network from November 1950 to December 1956, and was the first colour television broadcast?

TODAY IN HISTORY
711 – Roderic and the Visigoths in Iberia were defeated in the Battle of Guadalete by Moorish Umayyad invaders led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad.
1553 – Lady Jane Grey was replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after holding that title for just nine days.
1848 – The two-day Women's Rights Convention opened in Seneca Falls, New York, United States.
1870 – France declared war on Prussia, starting the Franco-Prussian War.
1947 – Burmese nationalist Aung San was assassinated.
1979 – Sandinista rebels overthrew the US-backed government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Because I felt like posting this

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