Wednesday, September 13, 2006

9/13/06
I'm starting to wear down from school already, usually it takes about 3 months (Thanksgiving Break) but it's been only a month. I'm not able to think perfectly clear and I'm not able to concentrate perfectly. Anyways, I still love talking to all those who read this. I really have nothing to talk about except band practice today. Well, we are practicing for Miami University Band Day in which bands will participate in a parade and half-time show for the Miami (OH)-Kent St. game. I definitly don't think we will be ready. But we also went back to our Earth, Wind & Fire show. No one remembers it and no one likes it (at least I don't). I want to do the senior show again but can't. Oh Well, Ta Ta For Now.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that Charlie Williams, one of the first black football players in Britain after the Second World War and later Britain's first well-known black comedian, responded to heckling by saying: "If you don't shut up, I'll come and move in next door to you"?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1503 - Michelangelo begins work on his David.
1788 - The United States Constitutional Convention sets the date for the country's first presidential election, and New York City becomes the temporary capital of the U.S.
1985 - Nintendo releases its smash-hit Super Mario Bros.
1988 - Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere (based on barometric pressure).
1999 - Bomb explodes in Moscow, Russia. At least 119 people are killed.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Photo taken by a Lockheed U-2 spy plane of the San Cristobal MRBM launch site in Cuba, November 1962, after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Although this image was taken days after the crisis had ended (October 28), this image has become iconic of the crisis to the point where it is often cited incorrectly as having been taken during the crisis.
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Tuesday, September 12, 2006

OK, now I'm going to bed, as soon as I posted, the Reds won on a walk off!
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Concession Stand Work
I didn't have to go because the game was rescheduled for next Tuesday. Anyways, right now I'm watching the Cincinnati Reds and the San Diego Padres in extra-inning affair.

Ta Ta For Now
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9/12/06
Hey, everyone. Um, regarding my 3-day themes, if you would like to suggest one, just private message me and I'll make that theme the theme of 3 days.

Well, I have to work at the concession stand tonight for the band and I hate doing it but oh well. I will try not to mess up people's food.

Hope everyone's day goes well. Ta Ta For Now.
3-day theme: Mission Impossible


DID YOU KNOW...
...that Major-General F.F. Worthington, father of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps, was buried with his wife in his own memorial park at Canadian Forces Base Borden, which also serves as home to the tank collection of the Base Borden Military Museum?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1683 - Great Turkish War: Polish troops led by Jan III Sobieski joined forces with a Habsburg army to defeat the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vienna.
1933 - Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceived of the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
1942 - The Laconia incident: A U-boat sank RMS Laconia with a torpedo off the coast of West Africa and attempted to rescue the passengers, which included some 80 civilians, 160 Polish and 268 British soldiers and about 1800 Italian POWs.
1977 - South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko was killed in police custody.
1992 - Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Peruvian Maoist guerrilla organization Shining Path, was captured in Lima.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Bruno Senna drives a Dallara F304 Formula Three (F3) car during a support race at the 2006 Australian Grand Prix. F3 has traditionally been regarded as the first major stepping stone for Formula One hopefuls—it is typically the first point in a driver's career at which most of the drivers in the series are aiming at professional careers in racing rather than being amateurs and enthusiasts.
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Monday, September 11, 2006

For LB
If you've been to LittleBirdie's site today, she has a story on Mariah. And since that stupid comment thing won't let me comment. I'm going to post it. First off, Mariah started to talk to me during band camp. I really didn't apperciate the way she talked to me, she acted as a superior. Now, she is a freshman who doesn't even march correctly (at least during band camp) and she' trying to give orders to one of the seniors and the most experienced section in the band, the low brass (AVG: 2.75 years experienced). Then she became annoying, not bringing water to practice and then asking for mine which this promptly brought an agreement between the Trombones and the Clarinets that Mariah would have to talk through LB if she wanted to talk to us. And since we are the most experienced in the band, we know the worst characters in the band. Last year (2005), it was Josh and Matt of the trumpets. Now we all agree that it is Mariah since at least the trumpet players know there place. So LB, my advice to you is to cut connections with Mariah. It's for your own good. I'm sure GN is more important than Mariah and Maraih needs to learn her place. And Maraih needs to learn to never disturb me when I'm listening to Cincinnati Reds baseball. It's not a good thing.
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9/11/06
Well, good morning. As you all know, I usually have a "Today in History" spot on here nad today, 21 years ago, was a great day in Cincinnati Reds history and in MLB history. Pete Rose became the all-time hit king in MLB. Also as we all know, this date is a sad time in American history, with the attacks. Yet it is a great day in Scottish history as the William Wallace lead a sucessful attack at the Battle of Stirling Bridge. My point here is that this day has many different meanings for different people. PUT PETE IN THE HOF.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that the Civilian War Memorial in Singapore was built in 1967 in memory of the civilians massacred during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore from 1942 to 1945?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1297 - Scots under William Wallace defeated English troops in the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
1857 - Paiutes and Mormon militias killed about 120 California-bound pioneers in a wagon train in the Mountain Meadows massacre.
1922 - The British Mandate of Palestine began.
1973 - A military coup in Chile headed by Augusto Pinochet overthrew the government of President Salvador Allende.
1985 - Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobb’s all-time hit record with his 4,192nd hit, a single to left-center field off San Diego Padres pitcher Eric Show.
2001 - September 11 attacks: Three passenger airliners were hijacked to destroy the World Trade Center in New York City and part of The Pentagon in Washington, D.C.; a fourth aircraft crashed in Pennsylvania. In total, almost 3,000 people were killed.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Panoramic view of the old town of Salzburg, Austria over the River Salzach as viewed from the Festung or Hohensalzburg Fortress. The birthplace of Mozart, Salzburg lies at the northern boundary of the Alps and was the setting for the film The Sound of Music, which was based on the life of Salzburg resident Maria von Trapp. The city has a long history, with traces of human settlements dating back to the Neolithic Age. Today, it is a popular tourist spot, especially for skiers in the winter.
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Sunday, September 10, 2006

OK, I added the senior show songs along with a dancing Calvin and Hobbes.
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9/10/06
I really have nothing to say today.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that Rocco Petrone was the first non-German administrator of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1813 - War of 1812: An American fleet led by Oliver Hazard Perry scored a decisive victory in the Battle of Lake Erie.
1897 - A peaceful labor demonstration made up of mostly Polish and Slovak anthracite coal miners in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States, was fired upon by a sheriff's posse comitatus in the Lattimer Massacre.
1898 - Empress Elisabeth of Austria was fatally stabbed in Geneva, Switzerland.
1960 - Mickey Mantle hit what is thought to be the longest home run in major league baseball, an estimated 643 feet.
1990 - Africa's largest church, the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire, was consecrated by Pope John Paul II.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

This is the language I created so that I could get into Apparition Syndicate.
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Saturday, September 9, 2006

9/9/06
I'm so glad I didn't post last night because I would have been so angry. OK, as some/most of you know, I'm one of the supportive band members in the VBHSMB (Vandalia-Butler High School Marching Band). Well, the senior show went perfectly well, I think Mrs. Sherman complimented me on my playing for the first time (at least durning marching band). But the football game pissed me off. We were down 19-8 going into the 4th quarter, we missed a field goal with around 9 minutes to play, then we scored 2 TDs in the next 4 minutes to take the lead at 20-19. Then with 5 seconds left, the opposing team (Fairmont) scored a TD to make it 26-20 them. At this point, I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed. So on the kickoff, this is basically what happenend except not so many laterals and a TD was scored by us instead of what happenend in this play. . Yes, the other team was on the field and all that. But the officials ruled it not a touchdown and the fans went mad.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that Iranshah Âtash Bahrâm in Udvada, a town in Gujarat, India, is the holiest fire temple for the Parsi community?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1000 - King Olaf I of Norway fell overboard during the Battle of Svolder and disappeared in the Baltic Sea.
1513 - King James IV of Scotland was killed at the Battle of Flodden Field in Northumberland while leading an invasion of England.
1850 - As part of the Compromise of 1850, California was admitted into the United States as a free state.
2004 - A car bomb exploded outside the Australian embassy, killing at least 9 people and injuring 140 others in the Jakarta embassy bombing.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

This facsimile of the United States Declaration of Independence was produced in 1823 by William J. Stone using a wet-ink transfer process, where the surface of the document was moistened, and some of the original ink transferred to the surface of a copper plate which was then etched so that copies could be run off the plate on a printing press. Because of poor conservation of the original 1776 document through the 19th century, this engraving, rather than the 1776 original, has become the basis of most modern reproductions.
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Friday, September 8, 2006

Hey, everyone, sorry for not updating. Ever since I was sick, I've been behind in all my classes. Well, the senior show is tonight and I haven't lived up to my promise of posting music. But I do have this as a new theme.



DID YOU KNOW...
...that 6Q0B44E, a recently discovered satellite of Earth, is thought to be a large piece of space debris?

TODAY IN HISTORY
1331 - Stefan Uroš IV Dušan of the House of Nemanjiæ was crowned King of Serbia.
1504 - David, a marble sculpture by Michelangelo, was unveiled in Florence.
1888 - The inaugural season of The Football League in England began.
1900 - The Great Galveston Hurricane, one of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes, struck Galveston, Texas, killing at least 6,000 people.
1978 - Hundreds of demonstrators in Tehran were killed on Black Friday in the Iranian Revolution.

PICTURE OF THE DAY


A panorama of the Melbourne skyline and parts of the Melbourne Docklands from Yarra's Edge at twilight. The Docklands is an urban redevelopment project which will nearly double the size of the city's central business district when completed in 2015. The suburb is expected to become home to 20,000 people by completion, as well as a workplace for 25,000. The estimated number of visitors per day will be 55,000 (over 20 million a year).
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