Today is National Dog Day. Nothing, nothing, loves you unconditionally
like a dog. When we come home each day Duke is just as excited as if we had
been gone for a year and finally returned. This day is set aside to bring
awareness to the massive number of dogs that require rescue each year. There is
no need to buy a puppy mill dog or pay huge money for a purebred dog, there are
thousands of dogs without a home and they will love you, unconditionally, until
death do you part. You know Mickey’s pal, go see him now.
Henry Dircks was born on this day in 1806 in Liverpool England. Dircks
was an engineer who is thought to have been the main architect of a projection
trick known as Pepper’s ghost. Pepper’s ghost is the illusion used to create
the visual magic in the ballroom scene in The Haunted Mansion. It’s awesome how
a trick over 100 years old can still amuse and amaze today.
Don LaFontaine was
born on this day in 1940 in Duluth, Minnesota. LaFontaine may be the most
successful voice actor of all times. It seems that at one point he was the
voice on every movie trailer in every movie theater. His biography mentions
over 5,000 movie trailers and over 350,000 television commercials, network
promos and video game trailers. Most importantly, in our little part of the
world, he did the trailer for Meet the
Robinsons, my favorite Disney movie. Let’s enjoy Tomorrowland (Todayland in
the movie) and remember a prince among announcers.
On this date in 0580
the Chinese invent toilet paper. Thank you.
On this date in 1843
Charles Thurber patented the typewriter. Samuel Clemens was on of the first to
adopt the typewriter to produce his stories. Prior to this, novels were
generated by hand. Visit Tom Sawyer Island at The Magic Kingdom as a tribute to
typewriter generated prose.
Remember, your best
excuse is always: waiting for your dreams to come true.
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