My Daily Banana

 

 

 

Photo of the Day:

 

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose
(Quotation from the Sacred Emily, a poem written by Gertrude Stein in 1913
Here you can read the poem Sacred Emily
Anyone who reads the poem from the beginning to the end in one go will earn my respect)

 

 

Event of the Day:

 

18th July 1968

 

Intel is founded in Mountain View, California

 

 

Birthday of the Day:

 

18th July 1895

 

George "Machine Gun" Kelly

 

An American gangster born in Memphis, Tennessee

 

I only know him from a James Taylor song "Machine Gun Kelly" written by Danny "Kooch" Kortchmar

A beautiful song for a rough and reckless robber, kidnapper and bootlegger

 

Died on this Day:

 

18th July 1954

 

George Francis Barns Jr. aka Machine Gun Kelly
 

 

He died from a heart attack while serving a jail sentence in Leavenworth Prisson, on his birthday

 

Thoughts:

 

Today I was in a moody! Nothing was right, I got up had a shower and had to lie down again 'cause I was so tired; well it didn't brighten my day up.

My poor colleagues; it's Thursday which meant we had our Lunchtime gymnastics and they wanted photos to be taken for the Bilfinger magazine. (Information; the firm for which I work belongs to the Bilfinger Group.) I wasn't in the mood for this and told them so; only a few weeks ago I wrote about our gymnastic group in my blog and for this purpose I had taken loads of photos.

They weren't good enough, ok, so I let them use my camera to take some photos themselves. These were so miserable, that I took it in my hand and shot some photos myself.

Have a look and judge yourself which are more interesting, I won't tell which photos I took; I'll just number them:

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Enough of this niggly mood,
I will leave you,
but beware I shall be returning tomorrow