Mar 8

 

 

Mar 9, 2021    Week: 19    Day: 68                 Visibility: 10 miles

Local: H 58°\ L 31°\Ave. Sky Cover: 5%         Wind:  12mph/ Gusts:  20mph

Nearest Lightning: 1950mi.                           Extreme Risk of Fire:  Active fire: 595 mi

Record:70 °[1989]  Record:[1964]                 Mar. Averages: 53°/23° (6 days with moisture)            

Today’s Quote

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.

~George Carlin

Random Tidbits

The One Dollar bill: The obverse picturing the eagle is a bit easier to explain. The bird holds 13 arrows to show the nation's strength in war, but it also grasps an olive branch with 13 leaves and 13 olives that symbolize the importance of peace. (The recurring number 13, which also appears in the stripes on the eagle's shield and the constellation of stars over its head, is a nod to the original 13 states.)

A Little Humor

What does a farmer put on his sunburned pigs?

Oinkment.

Weekly Observations

Lent [Christian]

Thru 4/3

Celebrate Your Name Week
Girl Scout Week Link 
National Dental Assistants Recognition Week Link
National Procrastination Week
National Schools Social Work Week 
Link 
National Words Matter Week

No More Week Link

Read an E-Book Week Link

Save Your Vision Week Link

Termite Awareness Week

Women in Construction Week  Link 
Words Matter Week

 

 

 

 

 

7-13

Women of Aviation Worldwide Week

7-14

 

Today’s Observations

Barbie Day
Crabmeat Day

Get Over It Day Link
Joe Franklin Day

Meatball Day

National Crab Day

National Get Over It Day

National Meatball Day
National Urban Educator Day  Link
Napping Day

Organize Your Home Office Day
Panic Day

Unique Names Day  Link  

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A nice day even if it is a bit windy. I had a nice walk around the neighborhood before the wind picked up.

Quite an interesting 60 Minutes last night. The story I enjoyed the most was on space travel. The pertinent question was how the United States makes the missiles that take people and things into space. Many at NASA are happy that private business wants to do it…like Elon Musk. It makes sense to them because then taxpayers don’t have to foot the bill. Since NASA is funded by Congress to get taxpayer money, Congress approves all their expenditures. Senators from states where missiles are produced were afraid that voters in their states would lose jobs if private enterprise made the missiles. You can guess who will be making the missiles that will take us back to the moon. A case of politics vs science.

Andy is back in Flag, and Faith stayed in Indiana for another couple of weeks, thanks to on-line learning she can still work. Her dad passed 2 days before his 91st birthday and on the same date that Andy lost his son last year. She has 3 sisters and a brother. All are doing well, but lots to do as her dad lived in the same place for decades. Faith’s mom passed a couple of years ago.

My ophthalmologist is very thorough. Every year he does a test of my peripheral vision called a ‘visual field test’. One eye at a time you stare into a machine that has an orange dot. While staring at the orange dot, white lights appear at various distances around the orange dot. The patient clicks a button whenever a white dot is seen. It takes about 5 minutes per eye. For some reason I despise this test. It is boring, it is hard not to have my eye look where the last white light flashes. Anyway, I took the test this morning. I still don’t like it.

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

There are three people (Alex, Ben and Cody), one of whom is a knight, one a knave, and one a spy. The knight always tells the truth, the knave always lies, and the spy can either lie or tell the truth. Alex says: “Cody is a knave.” Ben says: “Alex is a knight.” Cody says: “I am the spy.” Who is the knight, who the knave, and who the spy?

Historical Events

1611 – Johannes Fabricius, a Dutch astronomer, discovered sunspots.

1822 – Charles M. Graham of NY was issued the first US Patent (#X03472) for artificial teeth.

1841 – The US Supreme Court ruled that the African slaves who seized control of the Amistad slave ship had been illegally forced into slavery, and thus were free under American law.

1858 – The first US Patent (#19,578) for a street postal mailbox was patented by Albert Potts, of Philadelphia.

1945 – 300 B29 bombers dropped nearly 500,000 cylinders of napalm and petroleum jelly on Tokyo creating a 40-sq-km firestorm that killed over 100,000 and maimed another million. It was the most destructive single bombing in history, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs.

1959 – Barbie debuted. Barbie’s appearance was modeled on a doll named Lilli, which was based on a racy German comic strip character.

1985 – The Tyler Civitan Club was the first to partake in the Adopt-a-Highway Sign Program, erected on Texas’s Highway 69.

1989 – A Geomagnetic Storm affected Quebec’s electrical transmission system.

1997 – Christopher Wallace, AKA Biggie Smalls, AKA the Notorious B.I.G., was shot to death at a stoplight in Los Angeles. Rapper Suge Knight has been eyed as the killer. Suge was also accused of running over (and killing) Terry Carter in January 2015.

2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.

2015 US President Barack Obama signs an executive order declaring Venezuela a national security threat to the US

2020 Italy announces it is locking down the whole country due to a spike in COVID-19 cases with 10,040 cases and 630 deaths

Birthdays Today

@88 – Mickey Spillane, American crime novelist (died in 2006)

85 – Mickey Gilley, American singer-songwriter and pianist

@79 – Marty Ingels, American actor and comedian (d. 2015; stroke)

76 – Robin Trower, English rock guitarist and vocalist (Procol Harum)

@64 – Bobby Fischer, American chess player (d. 2008; kidney failure)

@54 – Raul Julia, Puerto Rican-American actor (d. 1994; stomach cancer)

50 – Emmanuel Lewis, American actor

Puzzle Answer

We know Ben isn’t telling the truth, because if he was, there would be two knights; so, Ben could be either the knave or the spy. Cody also can’t be the knight, because then his statement would be a lie. So that must mean Alex is the knight. Ben, therefore, must be the spy, since the spy sometimes tells the truth; leaving Cody as the knave.

 

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