Mar 14

 

 

Mar 14, 2021     Week: 12    Day: 73                         Visibility: 1 mile

Local: H 29°\ L 20°\Ave. Sky Cover: 90%                Wind:  4mph/ Gusts:  9mph

Nearest Lightning: 186mi.                                           Very Low Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  500mi

Record: 71°[2017]  Record:-4 °[1990]   Mar. Averages: 53°/23° (6 days with moisture)            

Today’s Quote

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon,

but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Random Tidbits

Being chased is one of the most common dream symbols in all cultures. It means you're feeling threatened, so reflect on who's chasing you (they may be symbolic) and why they're a possible threat in real life.

Falling is a common dream symbol that relates to our anxieties about letting go, losing control, or somehow failing after a success.

A Little Humor

Knock, knock----Who's There?----A Little Old Lady----A Little Old Lady who?

All this time, I had no idea you could yodel.

True Things

Apparently, there is a company you can hire to send annoying packages to people anonymously. Nothing outright dangerous, but distracting, humiliating and insulting. Things like so-called 'glitter bombs' and fake poop. The company clearly caters to cowards who don't have the guts to send fake poop to their enemies themselves. Well, one victim of these tasteless pranks decided to bring the law into his mail order feud.

A New Jersey man has filed suit against a prank company based in New York, alleging they mailed him a chocolate penis, a glitter bomb and other packages meant to shock, offend and frighten him.

Weekly Observations

Lent [Christian]

Thru 4/3

Women of Aviation Worldwide Week

7-14

Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign

11-17

World Rattlesnake Roundup

12-14

Campfire USA Birthday Week

Teen Tech Week

14-20

 

Today’s Observations

Check Your Batteries Day

Daylight Saving Time Begins
International Ask A Question Day
International Day of Action for Rivers
Link
International Day of Mathematics
Link
Learn about Butterflies Day

MOTH-ER Day
Mothering Sunday Link
National Pi Day  Link

National Potato Chip Day

Rueben Day

Save a Spider Day Link
Write Your Story Day 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Cloudy and light snow. There was a clear sky from 9:15am until 9:42am this morning. Roads are wet but clear. Happy for the moisture.

I am so happy I don’t have to deal with Daylight time. I do feel sorry for my many friends on the reservation and around the country who wake up at 2am to change their clocks. If some do it when they go to bed on Saturday, they will wake up stunned by the blinding light. For those that wake up, you will remember. Many of you will be singing Cher’s ‘If You Could Turn Back Time’.

Change is so difficult. The AZ legislature proposed a that would require a 3rd party investigation in all deadly force incidents involving police officers. It will die before a vote because the Maricopa County Sheriff wrote an editorial that the ‘bill was poorly written.’

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

Same Russian Roulette situation, same gun but two bullets are put in consecutive chambers. Should you tell the bad guy to spin the chambers again?

 

Historical Events

44 BC – Casca and Cassius decided that Mark Antony should stay alive during the Caesar assassination the next day.

1794 – Eli Whitney was issued a US Patent (#X0072) for his cotton gin.

1839 – Sir John Herschel referred to ‘photography’- his new word – in a lecture to the Royal Society

1899 – Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin was issued a US Patent (#621,195) for the invention of his “Navigable Balloon,” the rigid airship, known as the Zeppelin.

1900 – The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard. No country uses it today (2016).

1936 – The first all-sound film version of Show Boat opened at Radio City Music Hall.

1947 – The US signed a 99-year lease on naval bases in the Philippines.

1950 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation instituted the “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” List

1958 – The Recording Industry Association of America awarded the first Gold Record (500,000 sold) to Perry Como for Catch A Falling Star.

2011 – Aflac Insurance fired Gilbert Gottfried, the voice of the Aflac Spokesduck, for an offensive online tweet about the Japan earthquake.

2017 European Court of Justice rules companies can ban staff from wearing religious symbols, including headscarves.

2018 NASA twin study finds that Scott Kelly is no longer identical to his twin brother after one year in space, 7% of his genes altered

2019 US Senate passes resolution overturning President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration.

2019 Google announces its employee Emma Haruka Iwao has broken the world record for calculating pi, to 31.4 trillion digits, on pi day using Google Cloud.

2020 Longest-ever scheduled passenger flight by distance by Air Tahiti Nui from French Polynesia to mainland France 9,765 m (15715 km) due to COVID-19 and it was domestic.

Birthdays Today

88 – Michael Caine, English actor and author

88 – Quincy Jones, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and producer

@81 – Hank Ketcham, American author, cartoonist, created Dennis the Menace (d. 2001)

@76 – Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, engineer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955; aneurysm)

73 – Billy Crystal, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

@37 – [John Luther]Casey Jones, American engineer (d. 1900; train crash)

24 – Simone Biles, gymnast

Puzzle Answer

No. With two bullets, you have two chances in six (or one in three) to get hit with a bullet before he fires the first time. Because we know the previous round was one of four empty chambers, that leaves four positions the gun could now be in, with only one followed by a bullet; therefore, leaving you with a one in four chance the second round will fire. Since one in four is better odds than one in three, he shouldn’t spin again. 

 

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