Wednesday, July 24, 2013

edacity \ih-DAS-i-tee\, noun:

• the state of being edacious; voraciousness; appetite.

Edacity comes from the Latin root edāci- which meant "gluttonous."

I AM ERROR 

• The old guy from Zelda II who lives in a gigantic house (which looks small from the outside) in Ruto. He is totally useless (only one hint later) and keeps saying " I AM ERROR". Its actually due to poor translation that his name as ERROR, his real name is actually Errol which makes a little more sense but the piss-poor translations of the NES days turned that last L into an R, thus the enigmatic ERROR... "

"I AM ERROR" ~ Errol in Zelda II 

Trivia

What is the name of the three-day music festival held annually on the banks of Loch Ness, home of Scotland’s fabled Loch Ness monster?

• RockNess.

History

• Detroit: La Ville d'Etroit, or "city of the strait," was founded by Antoine de la Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac, a French fur trader (1701)
• Brigham Young: seeking a safe haven, the Mormon leader and his followers arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake, in what is now Utah (1847)
• kitchen debate: US vice president Richard Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev debated the merits of capitalism vs. communism in a replica of an American kitchen, set up at the American National Exhibition in Moscow (1959)
• Watergate: the US Supreme Court ordered President Richard Nixon to turn over incriminating subpoenaed White House recordings (1974)

Birthdays

• Simon Bolivar 1783
• Alexander Dumas 1802
• Amelia Earhart 1898
• Chief Dan George 1899
• Cootie Williams 1908
• Vera (Salaff) 1910
• Frank Silvera 1914
• Bob Eberly 1915
• Bella Abzug 1920
• Alexander H. Cohen 1920
• Billy Taylor (Billy Taylor Trio) 1921
• Jaqueline Brookes 1930
• Doug Sanders 1933
• Rudy Collins (Dizzy Gillespie Quintet) 1934
• Pat Oliphant 1935
• Ruth Buzzi 1936
• Mark Goddard 1936
• Dan Hedaya 1940
• Barbara Jean Love (Friends of Distinction) 1941
• Cris Sarandon 1942
• Roger Lafreniere 1942
• Heinze Burt (The Tornadoes) 1942
• Robert Hayes 1947
• Michael Richards 1949
• Lynda Carter 1951
• Lynval Golding 1951
• Pam Tillis 1957
• Robbie Grey (Modern English) 1957
• Kadeem Hardison 1965
• Laura Leighton 1968
• John P. Navin Jr. 1968
• Jennifer Lopez 1970 - Singer, actress
• Summer Glau 1981
• Anna Paquin 1982
• Mara Wilson 1987