Jun 18

 

 

 

Jun 18, 2021   Week: 25    Day: 169

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 40%

Local: H 91°\ L 55°

Wind:  5mph/ Gusts:  11mph

EXTREME Risk of Fire: 

Active fire:  23mi Nearest Lightning: 1mi.

Jun Averages: 70°/42° (1 day w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Anne Sexton

 

Random Tidbits

 

India’s “Go Air” airline only hires female flight attendants because they are lighter, so they save up to US$500,000 per year in fuel.

At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.

 

Humor: Robots

 

Stop the presses!

News outlets are turning to artificial intelligence to create content, including weather and quarterly earnings reports, as well as sports recaps—anything data driven that doesn’t necessitate a human’s touch. But that doesn’t mean the results will be any better. In 2017, the Los Angeles Times published a story about a 6.8 earthquake that shook Santa Barbara, California. You would expect such a large quake to have gotten a lot of press coverage. And it did…in 1925, when the earthquake happened. Turns out the report was produced by a computer program called the Quakebot, which generates articles based on notices from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). When a staffer at the USGS was updating the historical data, the QuakeBot got a little confused.

 

True Things

 

Multitasking

Northern California plastic surgeon Scott Green surprised officials in Sacramento Superior Court on Feb. 25 when he appeared for a traffic trial via videoconference from what appeared to be an operating room, the Sacramento Bee reported. As clicks and whirs of medical equipment and suctions could be heard in the background, a courtroom clerk questioned his whereabouts, and Green, dressed in hospital scrubs, admitted, "Yes, I'm in an operating room right now. I'm available for trial. Go right ahead." Despite Green's repeated assurances, Court Commissioner Gary Link was skeptical: "I do not feel comfortable for the welfare of a patient if you're in the process of operating ... I don't think that's appropriate." The trial was rescheduled for later in March. California's Medical Board said in a statement it was investigating the incident. [Sacramento Bee, 3/1/2021]

 

Weekly Observations

 

National Flag Week

National Pet Wedding Week Link

National Right of Way Professionals Week Link

National Waste & Recycling Workers Week Link 

 

13-19

National Hermit Week

13-20

Meet A Mate Week
Men's Health Week  Link   Link 
US Open Golf Championship

 

14-20

Royal Ascot Link

15-19 

Community Health Improvement Week (CHI) Link

16-18  

National Week of Making Link
National Nursing Assistants Week
Link

Waste and Recycling Workers Week Link

 

17-23

 

Today’s Observations

 


Autistic Pride Day  Link
Clark Kent's Birthday (Superman) 
Link
Dollars Against Diabetes Day(s): 18-20 
Link
Go Fishing Day

International Panic Day

International Picnic Day

International Sushi Day
Jack Herer Day 
 Link
National Black America's Day of Repentence
National Cheesemakers Day

National Flip Flop Day  Link   Link  
National Splurge Day

Sustainable Gasteronomy Day
Take a Road Trip Day

Take Back The Lunch Break Day Link 
Ugliest Dog Day  
  Link  Link
Wear Blue Day 
Link  

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Another hot day. I broke down and go my portable cooler working. I have never used it in June and usually for just a few days in late July/early August here in Flagstaff. I had a big window cooler in Tuba that ran through most of June until early September. Guess I’m just changing with the times. Lightning is very close but only slight chance of moisture. Then the smell of fresh rain with a few sprinkles. We need more!

The good news is that our local fire is now 53% contained.

On this day in 1868, Navajos were released from captivity at Fort Sumner and allowed to begin the long walk back to their homeland. They arrived at Fort Wingate on Jul 23, 1868. A reason to celebrate for sure.

I still remember Khrushchev ponding his shoe at the UN and telling the world that they will bury us. Now all those years later it appears that Putin will continue that threat with ransomware.

Juneteenth is going to be a Federal Holiday…thanks to Congress. This marked the end of slavery in Texas. I had better learn more about this new holiday.

 

2 New Puzzles Everyday

Answer: bottom of the page

 

 

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Historical Events

 

1178 – A meteor crashed into the Moon or exploded between Earth and the Moon.

1812 – The U.S. Congress declares war on Great Britain, Canada, and Ireland, starting The War of 1812.

1815 – Napoleon defeated at Waterloo, in Belgium.

1923 – Checker Taxi put its first taxi on the streets of Chicago.

1928 – Aviator Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean, as a passenger.

1940 – Winston Churchill gave his “Finest Hour” speech.

1948 – Columbia Records introduced the long-playing (33 1/3) record album at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.

1965 – The first large solid-fuel rocket – a Titan 3C – was launched into orbit.

1983 – The space shuttle Challenger launched into space on its second mission, with Dr. Sally Ride, making her the first American woman in space.

1984 – Conservative talk radio host Alan Berg – “the man you love to hate” – was gunned down and killed in the driveway of his home in Denver, Colorado.

1986 US House of Representatives approves Bill to impose stricter sanctions on Apartheid South Africa

1994 Gay Games open in NYC

2015 Pope Francis blames human selfishness for global warming in his encyclical, named "Laudato Si (Be Praised), On the Care of Our Common Home"

2018 President Trump orders US military to set up sixth branch of the military - a space force

2020 US Supreme Court rules the Obama-era Dreamers Program (DACA), enabling undocumented migrant children ability to study and work, can stay

 

Birthdays Today

 

@84 – E.G. Marshall [Everett Eugene Grunz], character actor (d. 1998)

79 – Paul McCartney, English singer-songwriter

@71 – E.W. Scripps, publisher, founded E.W. Scripps Company (d. in 1926)

@70 – Roger Ebert, American journalist, critic, screenwriter (d. 2013; cancer)

@63 – Richard Boone, American actor (d. 1981; throat cancer)

@61 – Bud Collyer, actor, game show host (d. 1969; circulation issue)

45 – Blake Shelton, American singer-songwriter

 

Puzzles Answer

 

Lemonade                                                                            Misunderstood

 

 

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