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TODAY’s “Geez”
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1805 - Lewis &
Clark reach Pacific Ocean, 1st European Americans to cross continent
1850 - Lord Tennyson
becomes British poet laureate
1893 - 1st newspaper
color supplement (NY World)
1928 - 1st issue of
Time magazine, Japanese Emperor Hirohito on cover
1965 - Kellogg's Pop
Tarts pastries created
1947 - 200"
mirror arrives at Mt Palomar
1989 - US beats
Trinidad, 1-0 qualifying for 1990 world soccer cup finals it was US' 1st
qualification since 1950
♪♪ Happy Birthday To:♪♪
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Free Rambling Thoughts
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Sure was a windy Friday
here in Flag. It’s been a while, but memories came back quickly. I was out and
about this morning and it was tolerable but not enjoyable. Sam’s was cranking
up for the Thanksgiving holiday with free food samples throughout the store.
Nice.
Travel sure ain’t what
it used to be. I heard a story on NPR this morning that helped explain the
changes…and surprise…it’s all about money. I noticed on my last trip that the
pre-boarding was different, but wasn’t sure what was going on. Now, thanks to
NPR I know. I noticed that first class passengers still board first. I noticed
that ‘families and those traveling with small children’ wasn’t heard. It was
the platinum card holders next. Then the gold card holders, then the purple
card holders, then the pink card holders, then the Zone passengers. I like an
aisle seat when I travel so I’m always zone 456. I’ve discovered that that means
bin storage is usually gone or very limited by the time I get on. With the
increase cost of checking luggage, most people take advantage of the one carry
on and one personal item—like a purse. We ain’t talkin’ a small evening clutch—we’re
talking a fully expanded, stuffed, beach bag with stuff hanging out. Women,
men, small children all carry the ‘personal item’ along with the largest carry
on allowed. I learned that since the airline started charging for advanced seat
assignments, families are no longer sitting together, unless the family shells
out bucks to be together….great idea…a four year old sitting several rows away
from a parent with total strangers. NPR talked about changing seats once aboard…just
try and find someone with a window or aisle seat agreeing to move to a middle
seat for a 4 hour flight. Also for kids, milk is no longer a choice as a
beverage…even if you pay. Of course, in order to make flying more profitable,
the airlines have cut the number of flights so the good ol days empty seats is
gone forever. The last few times I’ve flown in or out of Flagstaff, the 16
passenger plane is always full…and the carry on bins are the size of a car’s
glove box are always full. I am so happy that my flying days are always to an
adventure, and not for business. I just got an email from Ellie that our flight
from Houston to Kenya in late June has been cancelled…I thought the Ethiopian
trip was a fluke, but I guess even international schedules are subject to early
cancellation. And Hamdy says the flight could change again. Of course we will
have a flight the next day…when the plane will be overflowing. It also means
that my flight to Houston can’t be made too early. Oh well. Adventures are
still the only way to travel.
Trivia Quiz…(answers at the end of post)
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1.
Originally, ENIAC, the world's first
"modern" computer was constructed to do what?
2.
The Los Angeles Police Department
developed a computer program to help solve homicides. What was it called?
3.
The first computer used for weather
research was named what?
4.
The displays commonly found in notebook
and laptop computers are called what?
5.
After breaking into physicist Tsutomu
Shimomura's computer on Christmas in 1994, what legendary hacker was taken
down?
6.
What personal computer became a video
production system with the addition of New Tek's Video Toaster?
7.
Digital Equipment Corporation sued what
computer chip manufacturer claiming it stole the technology to develop the
Pentium Pro?
8.
What was the name of the computer
language named after a French philosopher and mathematician?
9.
What was the name of the computer
company that was named after the founder's memories of a summer in an Orchard
in Oregon?
Wuzzles…What concept or phrase do these suggest? .
NEW: Rules of Thumb
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Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
- If you're taking a multiple choice test and you don't know the right answer to a question: 1) Choose the longest answer; 2) Eliminate the answer that includes the words "always" or "never;" 3) Choose B or C because test makers avoid A and D.
Hmmmmm
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- Percentage of Egyptians who say that improving economic conditions is ‘very important’: 82
Somewhat Useless Information .
- From 1961–1966, the American TV network NBC carried a karaoke-like series, Sing Along with Mitch, featuring host Mitch Miller and a chorus, which superimposed the lyrics to their songs near the bottom of the TV screen for home audience participation.
- There are various disputes about who first invented the name karaoke. One claim is that the karaoke styled machine was invented by Japanese musician Daisuke Inoue in Kobe, Japan, in 1971.
- Inoue was asked frequently by guests in the Utagoe Kissa, where he performed, to provide a recording of his performance so that they could sing along on a company-sponsored vacation. He made a tape recorder that played a song for a 100-yen coin. Instead of giving his karaoke machines away, Inoue leased them out so that stores did not have to buy new songs on their own.
- Karaoke machines were initially placed in restaurants and hotel rooms; soon, new businesses called karaoke boxes, with compartmented rooms, became popular. In 2004, Daisuke Inoue was awarded the tongue-in-cheek Nobel Peace Prize for inventing karaoke, "thereby providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other."
- Roberto del Rosario, a Filipino inventor, who developed a sing along system in 1975 and patented it in the 1980s called his sing-along system "Minus-One," holds the patent for the device now commonly known as the "karaoke machine". Following a court battle with a Japanese company which claimed to have invented the system, del Rosario's patents were issued in 1983 and 1986, a decade after the device was supposedly invented.
- Early karaoke machines used cassette tapes, but technological advances replaced this with CDs, VCDs, laserdiscs and, currently, DVDs. In the late 1980s and 1990s, Pioneer Electronics dominated the international karaoke music video market, producing high quality karaoke music videos.
Yeah, It Really Happened .
WEITERSTADT, Germany -
Police in Germany said a motorist in a Yoda costume was unable to use his Jedi
powers to get out of charges stemming from a drunken driving incident.
Investigators said the 42-year-old Weiterstadt man, whose name was not
released, had apparently been out celebrating Halloween Saturday night, dressed
as the "Star Wars" character, and struck a pedestrian while driving
home early Sunday morning, the Berliner Kurier reported Monday. Police said the
driver was stopped about two minutes after striking the pedestrian, who
sustained minor injuries, and was forced to walk home when officers took his
license. The man is facing drunk driving, negligent injury and hit and run
charges, police said.
Guffaw…or at least smile
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For a couple years I 've
been blaming it on lack of sleep and too much pressure from my job, but now I
found out the real reason: I'm tired because I'm overworked.
The population of this
country is 237 million. 104 million are retired. That leaves 133 million to do
the work. There are 85 million in school, which leaves 48 million to do the
work. Of this there are 29 million employed by the federal government, leaving
19 million to do the work. 2.8 million are in the Armed Forces, which leaves
16.2 million to do the work. Take from the total the 14,800,000 people who work
for State and City Governments and that leaves 1.4 million to do the work. At
any given time there are 188,000 people in hospitals, leaving 1,212,000 to do
the work. Now, there are 1,211,998 people in prisons. That leaves just two
people to do the work. You and me. And you're sitting at your computer reading
jokes.
Searchin’ “You Tube” I found
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TWA AIRLINES VINTAGE TV COMMERCIALS
Daybook Information
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…Happening This Week:
13-19 American Education Week
Geography Awareness Week
National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week
National Global Entrepreneurship Week
18-24
National Farm-City Week
TODAY IS
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Equal Opportunity Day
Family Volunteer Day
Have A Bad Day Day
National Adoption Day
National Day of Play
National Survivors of Suicide Day
World Toilet Day
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Monaco--National
Holiday
Puerto
Rico--Discovery Day (1493)
Today’s Events
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ARTS
1861 - Julia Ward
Howe committed "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to paper
1980 - CBS TV bans
Calvin Klein's jean ad featuring Brooke Shields
ATHLETICS
1953 - US Supreme
Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business
1984 - NY Met Dwight
Gooden, 20, is youngest to be named NL Rookie of Year
BUSINESS
1911 - NY receives
1st Marconi wireless transmission from Italy
1916 - Samuel
Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures (the company later became
one of the most successful independent filmmakers)
1955 - National
Review publishes its first issue
EDUCATION
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1794: According to the
Jay Treaty and Northwest Territory Treaty, Indians can cross borders.
1870: On the Wichita
River in Texas, Private James Anderson, Company M, Sixth Cavalry, will
"earn" a Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions in the pursuit
and subsequent fight with a group of "hostile Indians," according to
army records.
POLITICS [International]
1620 - Mayflower
reaches Cape Cod & explores the coast
1950 - US General
Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe
POLITICS [US]
1794 - Jay Treaty,
1st US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain
1874 - William Marcy
"Boss" Tweed, of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of defrauding city of
$6M [$114.2--2010USD], sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment
1903 - Carrie Nation
attempts to address Senate
1919 - US Senate
rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations
1944 - World War II:
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at
selling $14 billion ($171.6 billion in 2010 USD) in war bonds to help pay for
the war effort
1976 - Patty Hearst
is freed on $15 million [USD 2010-$57M] bail
RELIGION
1644 - 1st
protestant ministry society in New England
SCIENCE
1824 - Storm causes
St Petersburg flood, killing 10,000
Today’s Birthdays
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ARTISTS:
(AUTHORS, COMPOSERS,…)
1905 - Tommy
Dorsey, orch leader (Stage Show, Mahogany)
ATHLETES
1921 - Roy
Campanella, Brooklyn Dodger catcher (NL MVP 1951/53/55)
ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS…)
Dick Cavett, talk show
host is 75
1919 - George
Fenneman, Peking China, TV announcer (You Bet Your Life)
Jodie Foster, actor is 49
Dan Haggerty, actor
(Grizzly Adams) is 71
Allison Janney, actor
52
Larry King, talk show
host is 78
Meg Ryan, actor is 50
Ted Turner, broadcasting
mogul/owns (Atlanta Braves)/won America's Cup is 73
1889 - Clifton
Webb, American actor
1919 - Alan
Young, England, actor (Time Machine, Wilbur Post-Mr Ed)
ENTREPRENEURS & EDUCATORS
Calvin Klein, fashion
designer (Calvin Klein Jeans, CK) is 69
POLITICIAL FIGURES
1917 - Indira
Gandhi, Allahabad India, Indian PM
1831 - James A
Garfield, 20th Pres
1926 - Jeane J
Kirkpatrick, US ambassador to UN
SCIENTISTS & THEOLOGISTS
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Today’s Obits
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1915 - Joe
Hill, Labor leader/songwriter, executed for murder at 36
1703 - Man in
the Iron Mask, prisoner in Bastille prison in Paris, dies
1897 - William
Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian dies at 87
2007 - Dick Wilson,
American actor [Mr. Whipple] dies at 91
ANSWERS
Trivia Quiz
1.
Originally, ENIAC, the world's first
"modern" computer was constructed to do what?
a.
To compute ballistic trajectories for
artillery shells.
2. The Los Angeles Police Department developed a computer program to
help solve homicides. What was it called?
a.
HITMAN, for Homicide Information
Tracking Management Automation Network.
3. The first computer used for weather research was named what?
a.
MANIAC - Mathematical Analyzer,
Numerical Integrator and Computer.
4.
The displays commonly found in notebook
and laptop computers are called what?
a.
Liquid Crystal Display.
5. After breaking into physicist Tsutomu Shimomura's computer on
Christmas in 1994, what legendary hacker was taken down?
a.
Kevin Mitnick.
6. What personal computer became a video production system with the
addition of New Tek's Video Toaster?
a.
Amiga.
7.
Digital Equipment Corporation sued what
computer chip manufacturer claiming it stole the technology to develop the
Pentium Pro?
a.
Intel Corporation.
8. What was the name of the computer language named after a French
philosopher and mathematician?
a.
PASCAL.
9. What was the name of the computer company that was named after the
founder's memories of a summer in an Orchard in Oregon?
a.
Apple.
Wuzzle
Odd couple
Consequences
Sharp cheese
Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel
free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet
sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned
that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is out there,
many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events
occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be
totally accurate.
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