agent of entropy

did some gardening this morning, and in a few minutes (after lunch & coffee) i'm going to go try my hand at riding western again.


in the meantime, here's the wikipedia/birthday meme:

events:
202 BC -- The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal.
1512 -- Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).
1781 -- Major General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington and Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de Rochambeau, at Yorktown, Virginia, ending the American Revolutionary War.
1987 -- (Black Monday) Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%.
2003 -- Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.

birthdays:
1910 -- Jean Genet, French author (d. 1986)
1945 -- Divine, American actor (d. 1988)
1945 -- John Lithgow, American actor

deaths:
1745 -- Jonathan Swift, Irish author (b. 1667)
1937 -- Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1871)
1950 -- Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet (b. 1892)

from etotheipi: What Punctuation Mark Are You?
"You are secure in your elegance, knowing that you, and only you, have the power to mark the skill or incompetence of the craftsman. You have no natural enemies; all fear you."
( The Semicolon. )

awww, yeah.
but really, this is getting ridiculous. time for sleeping.

the first one that popped up:

iridium
through terror and shame
of many kinds and coming
out like a pirate

( lj haiku toy )