Sunday, August 17, 2008

[1786 - Davy Crockett, frontiersman, politician, born near Limestone, Tennessee]

[1882 - Samuel Goldwyn (Schmuel Gelbfisz), movie pioneer, born in Warsaw, Poland]

[1888 - Monty (Edgar Montillion) Woolley, actor, born in New York City]

[1892 - Mae West, Actress, Film Star, born in Brooklyn]

[1917 - Isabel (Eloise Gwendolyn) Sanford, Emmy Award-winning actress, born in New York City]

[1923 - Larry Rivers (Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg), artist, born in Bronx, New York]

[1987 - Rudolph Hess, Nazi war criminal, dies at age 93 in Spandau Prison]

So Little Time

The nanosecond is so very small.
If you stop to think of it,
You won't see it at all.

But nanosecond has shorter cousins.
To make just a single nano,
Takes picos by the dozens.

If picoseconds aren't brief enough,
To satisfy your short timing span.
Squeekosecond; it's over before it began.

William's Whimsical Words:

If time is money, and money is the root of all evil; is time evil?

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