‘Tis the Season
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Dec
11, 2020 Week: 50 Day: 346 |
Local:
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40°\ L 25°\Average Sky Cover: 90% |
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Wind: 0mph\Gusts: 0mph |
Nearest
lightning: 165mi.; Active fire: 59mi |
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Low Risk of Fire |
Visibility: 10mi |
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Record: 68°[1950] Record: -11°[1961] |
Nov
Averages: 44°/\17° (5
days with moisture) |
Today’s Quote
Do not seek to follow
in the footsteps of the wise.
Seek what they
sought.
Matsuo Basho
Random Tidbits
The countdown Fritz Lang used to create suspense in
the rocket launch scene of his 1929 silent film 'Frau im Mond' didn't just
change film history - it also inspired NASA to use countdowns before its own
blastoffs. It's not exactly a race against the clock though. NASA can feel free
to pause the clock to check mechanical difficulties.
A little humor
Q: Where do you find a turtle with no legs? Anywhere
you put him
Two cheese trucks smashed into each other. Debris (the brie) was
everywhere.
True Things
Charlene Stanton passes a book donation box in
the Roxbury Park neighborhood of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on her daily walks,
and told WTAJ on Nov. 18 that lately she's become concerned about the bags of
raw meat she regularly sees left hanging on the side of the box. She has seen
both fresh and frozen meat left at the box, and someone keeps taking them,
which alarms her "because so many ... illnesses could be caused by leaving
meat out unrefrigerated." Officials suggest donating food to a food bank,
rather than leaving it at a book collection site.
Observations This Week
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Andisop (Meterological Fiddling)…………. |
5-24 Link |
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National
Hand Washing Awareness Week… |
5-11 Link |
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Recipe
Greetings For The Holidays Week… |
5-11 |
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Older
Driver Safety Awareness Week…….. |
5-11 Link |
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Computer
Science Education Week:………. (Always week with 12/9. Birthday of
Admiral Grace Murray Hopper.) |
6-12 Link |
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Human Rights Week:………………………………… |
10-17 |
Observations for Today
Day Of The Horse
Gingerbread Decorating Day
Gingerbread House Day
International Mountain Day
International Shareware Day
Kaleidoscope Day
Magnum P.I. Day
National App Day Link
National Day of The Horse Link
National “Have a Bagel” Day
Noodle Ring Day
National Sobriety Day Link
Official Lost and Found Day
UNICEF Birthday [1946]
My Rambling Thoughts
Woke up this morning to cloudy sky, dusting of snow. By 7a, the snow
was gone and it was a a gentle female rain. It’s December…I’m at 7000’, how can
there be rain? Even so, any moisture is appreciated.
I’m not happy about all the ads on FB, and now Instagram. I enjoy What’s
App so I can talk to my brother in Mexico. They are all free and easy to use.
Yes, Facebook now owns them all. These are social media sites…not news sites. If
you don’t like that they censor some content, don’t use them. No one requires you
to sign up. That being said, I don’t like that FB has bought some sites to
prevent competition, but they are simply a business. A boycott might work if it
is large enough. [Here in Flag, years ago, we had 5 different movie theater
locations around town…most had two or three screens. Then Harkin’s came to
town, and they had lower prices, more screens, and over about 3 years all the
other theaters closed. Few, if any, in Flagstaff were happy about this change.
However, now some 5 years later, anyone can go to one location with lots of
parking and lots of screens. It is sad that there are no independent theater
owners anymore here, but when the pandemic ends, we still have a great theater experience.
It’s the same with FB.] Let someone else come up with a new social media site,
and if they don’t want to sell to FB, then don’t sell.
I find it strange that many conservatives don’t want government involvement
in much of anything, but when some conservatives decide FB is not being
friendly to their ideas, that want government intervention.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
A man pushes his car to a hotel and
tells its owner that he is bankrupt. Why?
Historical Events
1769 – Venetian Blinds were patented in London by Edward Bevan in
England.
1816 – Indiana became the 19th US state.
1844 – Dr. Horace Wells became the first person to have a tooth
extracted after receiving an anesthetic (Nitrous Oxide) for the dental
procedure, by Dr. John M. Riggs.
1882 – Boston’s Bijou Theater had its first performance, the first
American playhouse lit with electricity.
1911 – In Stockholm, Sweden, Marie Curie became the first person to be
awarded a second Nobel prize.
1936 – Britain’s King Edward VIII abdicated the throne in order to
marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.
1946 – The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
(UNICEF) was founded.
1964 – Singer Sam Cooke was shot and killed by the motel manager of
the Hacienda Motel, where he was staying.
1967 – The Concorde, a British/French venture; the world’s first
supersonic airliner, was unveiled in Toulouse, France.
1968 – The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, featuring the Rolling
Stones, Jethro Tull, the Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and the Dirty Mac
with Yoko Ono, was filmed in Wembley, London.
1972 – Apollo XVII astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt landed
on the moon for the final Apollo mission.
1997 – More than 150 countries agreed at a global warming conference
in Kyoto, Japan, to control the Earth’s global-warming “greenhouse gases.” (The
Kyoto Protocol)
2008 – Bernie Madoff was arrested for bilking clients for at least
hundreds of millions, and probably billions, of dollars.
2010 – The first customer delivery of a Nissan Leaf (an all-electric
vehicle) was made at by a dealer at Petaluma, California.
Birthdays Today
89 – Rita Moreno, Puerto
Rican-American actress, singer, and dancer
@89 – Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn, novelist, political prisoner (d. 2008)
@86 – David Brewster,
Scottish physicist, inventor of the Kaleidoscope
@76 – Tom Hayden,
American politician (d. 2016; stroke)
80 – David Gates,
American singer-songwriter
77 – John Kerry, American
politician
76 – Brenda Lee, American
singer-songwriter
71 – Teri Garr, American
actress
66 – Jermaine Jackson, American
singer-songwriter, Jackson 5
@64 – Fiorello La
Guardia, New York politician (d. 1947; pancreatic cancer)
62 – Nikki Sixx (Frank
Carlton Serafino Feranna Jr.), American bass player
53 – Mo’Nique (Monique
Angela Hicks), American comedian
Puzzle Answer
He’s playing
Monopoly.
Enjoy the Holiday
