May 27

 

 

 

May 27, 2021   Week: 22    Day: 147                     

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 90%

Local: H 69°\ L 36°

Wind:  3mph/ Gusts:  6mph

EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  159mi Nearest Lightning: 583mi.

May Averages: 68°/34° (3 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

George S. Patton

 

Humor

 

Just keep driving. When something changes, you’ll know you’re out of Nebraska.

 

Real Cities

 

Okay, Oklahoma is a town along the east bank of the Verdigris River in Wagoner County, Oklahoma. The population was 620 at the 2010 census, a 3.9 percent increase over the figure of 597 recorded in 2000

The name Okay was adopted on 18 October 1919 after the "O. K. Trucks" brand of oil tankers made at a factory built there in 1915 by the Oklahoma Auto Manufacturing Company

 

True Things

 

Devil in the Details

An unnamed teenager in Thailand was excited by the surprisingly low price he found online for an Apple iPhone, and even though the shipping seemed a little high, he went ahead and ordered it, Oddity Central reported. The surprise came when he received a box nearly as tall as he was and found inside a coffee table shaped like an iPhone. The teen posted photos of his acquisition on social media and admitted he had been so anxious to snag the bargain that he didn't read the listing carefully. [Oddity Central, 3/23/2021]

 

Weekly Observations

 

National Playground Safety Week Link
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week 
Link

Thru 30  

National African Violet Week
National Backyard Games Week

National Safe Boating Week
World Schizophrenia Awareness Week
Link

 

23-29

Healthy and Safe Swimming Week Link
International Learn To Swim Week
Link
National Fragrance Week
Link

24-30  

Undergraduate Research Week Link 

24-28 

Mule Days  Link   (Moved from April)
Week of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing Territories:

 

25-31

Fleet Week (NY)

26-31

 

Today’s Observations

 

 

Cellophane Tape Day
Eat More Fruits & Vegetables Day
  Link
Joe Cool Day
Link

National Grape Popsicle Day

National Italian Beef Day

Sun Screen Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

I woke up to an overcast sky. Checked the weather report, yep…overcast and no precipitation in the forecast.

It took 5 days before the House Republicans spoke about MTG’s ridiculous statement regarding the holocaust. A tad late. A whole lot of babble that really said nothing.

I’m glad I don’t live in Texas. The governor is set to sign a bill that will require no background checks, no training, and no need for a carry permit or license to carry a handgun. The wild west seems to be having a revival.

Another mass shooting…this time in San Jose, CA. One of the only good things from Covid was there were no mass shootings during the quarantine.

The news media went bonkers yesterday about the newest Trump revelations. I’ll not be holding my breath for an indictment.

I have always wondered where the Covid virus came from. It is the only way science will be able to prevent another outbreak. I hope that they find out if it was from a lab or from a live market. It is so unfortunate that both sides have politicized this issue so much. I have always known that ‘science’ is, and always has been ‘evolutionary’. I also understand that many in the public have always questioned ‘science’. I don’t understand why this is the way humans react.

 

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

Enter the eight remaining numbers from 1 to 16 exactly once in the blank swquares so that the sum of the four number in each row, each column, and the two diagonals adds up to 34.

 

 

2

3

 

5

 

 

8

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7

 

 

 

 

15

1

 

Historical Events

 

1199 – John (December 24, 1166 – October 19, 1216) became King of England. He’s the one who signed The Magna Carta, which was the first document to offer people individual rights.

1796 – The patent (#X0116) for a piano was issued to James Sylvanus McLean of New Jersey, for “an improvement in piano fortes.”

1890 – Two U.S. patents (#428,750,#428,751) for the first jukebox were issued to Louis Glass and his business associate, William S. Arnold for a “coin actuated attachment for phonographs.”

1919 – Pyrex glass was issued a patent (#1,304,623). The inventors, Eugene C. Sullivan and William C. Taylor for Corning Glass Works.

1930 – Masking Tape was patented (#1,760,820) by Richard G. Drew of St. Paul, Minnesota for his employers, 3M.

1931 – Auguste Piccard and Charles Knipfer took man’s first trip (in a pressurized cabin) into the stratosphere when they rode their balloon to an altitude of 51,800 feet.

1933 – The Walt Disney Company released the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge, connecting San Francisco with Marin County, California opened. Today was “Pedestrian Day” – cars were allowed the following day.

1967 – The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy was launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.

1986 – Dragon Quest, the first major role-playing video game, was released in Japan.

1987 – U2 played in Rome so loud that they set off earthquake alarms in 2 different neighborhoods.

1994 – The National League and American League Baseball MVPs were Jeff Bagwell and Frank Thomas, respectively. Jeff and Frank were both born on the exact same day: May 27, 1968.

1998 – Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier was sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.

1999 The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo

2012 A NATO airstrike kills a family of eight, including six children, in Afghanistan

2013 The largest flag ever made at 5 tons with 44 miles of thread is unveiled in Romania

2016 3 ships in 3 days sink carrying immigrants across the Mediterranean, drowning over 700 people

2020 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Hong Kong no longer has autonomy from China, doesn't merit special trade relationship, in note to Congress

 

Birthdays Today

 

98 – Henry Kissinger, German-American political scientist, politician, Nobel Prize laureate

@93 – Christopher Lee, English actor (d. 2015)

86 – Lee Meriwether, American model and actress, Miss America 1955

@82 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, American businessman, philanthropist (d. 1877)

@82 – Vincent Price, American actor (d. 1993)

@56 – Rachel Carson, biologist, environmentalist, author (d. 1964; cancer)

@39 – [James Butler]’Wild Bill’ Hickok, folk hero (d. 1876; shot in card game)

 

Puzzle Answer

 

16

2

3

13

5

11

10

8

9

7

6

12

4

14

15

1

 

 

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