Jun 30

 

 

 

Jun 30, 2021   Week: 27    Day: 181

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 40%

Local: H 75°\ L 50°

Wind:  8mph/ Gusts:  4mph

Low EXTREME Risk of Fire: 

Active fire:  24mi Nearest Lightning: 12mi.

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

 

Today’s Quote

 

Random Tidbits

 

The moon is never really full. The disk of the moon can only appear 100 percent sunlit from Earth when it is diametrically opposite to the sun in the sky. But that, of course, is impossible because at that moment the moon would be positioned in the middle of the Earth's shadow and in total lunar eclipse. In fact, in any month where there is no eclipse, there should be an ever-so-slight sliver of darkness visible somewhere on the lunar limb throughout those hours when the moon is passing through "full" phase; close inspection will usually reveal that moon is not fully illuminated but is indeed gibbous or slightly out of roundness.

 

True Things

 

Weird Animals

-- In Victoria, British Columbia, photographer Tony Austin was out for a nature walk on May 31 when he ran across an inexplicable sight: A murder of crows had landed close by, and one was sort of flopping around in the dirt. "It would sort of ... hop into the air and ... then hop back onto the gravel," Austin said. As Austin grew nearer, he saw that the bird was covered with ants. He was concerned for the bird's welfare, but when he posted a picture on a Facebook page for bird enthusiasts, he was relieved, NPR reported. The crow was "anting" -- spreading ants on its feathers and wings. Experts aren't clear about why birds do this; it may be related to cleanliness or to share the ants' defensive secretions of fungicides, miticides and insecticides. [NPR, 6/7/2021]

 

Idioms Origins

 

Dependability

An advertising guy named Theodore MacManus started working for Dodge Cars in 1914.

Cars were new, lots of things often went wrong with new technology, but he read positive letters that came from Dodge Owners, and they used the ‘dependable a lot.

Based on that, he invented the word ‘Dependability’.

 

Weekly Observations

 

Tour de France Link

26- 7/18

National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness

27 -7/4

Windjammer Days Link

27-7/3 

National Tire Safety Week Link

28-7/4

 

Today’s Observations

 

 

Asteroid Day
California Avocado Day 
Link
Disabled Veterans Day 
Link
Ice Cream Soda Day

Leap Second Time Adjustment Day
Meteor Watch Day

National Mai Tai Day

National Outfit Of The Day Day Link 
National Parchment Cooking Day Link 
NOW (National Organization For Women) Day
Social Media Day 
Link

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

First Monsoon today. Not a lot of rain but everything counts. I had to remember that the wipers on my ride would remove the falling rain. For over a year I have only used the wipers to clear the pollen from the windshield before I started driving. Happy to find out they also work while I am driving.

I was hoping the Suns would end this part of the finals with a win. It wasn’t in the cards. Their loss should excite them to play better.

It sure is looking like the Condo Association was lax in repairs prior to the building collapse in Florida. They are throwing around a $5million price tag that condo owners would have paid to fix the building. I also heard a figure of $100,000 per unit to fix the infrastructure to the building. That is a nice chunk of money that most residents would have had a hard time paying. I can see the letter now:

Dear Resident of Condo # 615,

Over the past few years, we have kept your Condo fees low. We will be raising your condo fee to fix some infrastructure issues we have been avoiding to repair. Your previous monthly fee was $125/month. Your new monthly fee, beginning in July 2021, will be $$20,000/month until the repairs are paid for. We expect that to be in Dec. 2022. Thank you for choosing these condos for your home.

Your elected Condo President

Climate change is getting real. The weatherman is running out of adjectives to explain the current heat waves around the US. Words like ‘historic’, ‘unpresidented’, ‘unheard of..’, ‘never before seen’ are being overused. For a while it was the South West area, now it is the North East and North West. I sympathize with those in the new heat wave, at least the heat wave last month in the south west was a ‘dry’ heat.

 

2 New Puzzles Everyday

Answer: bottom of the page

 

 

ARREST

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WEAR

UNDER

 

 

Historical Events

 

1805 – The Michigan Territory was organized

1831 – A patent for a platform scale was issued to brothers Erastus and Thaddeus S. Fairbanks of St. Johnsbury, Vermont.

1859 – Jean-Francois Gravelet, known as Emile Blondin, became the first daredevil to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.

1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate (Huxley-Wilberforce debate or the Wilberforce-Huxley debate) at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History took place.

1886 – The United States Division of Forestry was recognized and established by an Act of Congress

1894 – The Tower Bridge across the River Thames in London was officially opened.

1905 – Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.

1906 – The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.

1908 – The Tunguska Event happened near Lake Baikal, Russia. Destroying 830 square miles in Eastern Siberian Taiga. It was probably a big meteor. Or was it?

1921 – President Warren G. Harding appointed former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.

1953 – The first Chevrolet Corvette rolled off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.

1966 – The National Organization for Women (NOW) was founded.

1971 – Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the US Constitution, reducing the voting age to 18, putting the amendment into effect.

1972 – The first leap second was added to the UTC time system.

1987 – Iran-Contra hearings aired during daytime television, pre-empting most programming.

2019 – Donald Trump became the first sitting American President to visit the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the Demilitarized Zone (North Korea).

 

Birthdays Today

 

@92 – Lena Horne, American singer (d. 2010)

65 – David Alan Grier, American comedic actor

@62 – Harry Blackstone Jr., magician, author (d. 1997; pancreatic cancer)

62 – Vincent D’Onofrio, American character actor

55 – Mike Tyson, American boxer

36 – Michael Phelps, Olympic swimmer

35 – Alicia Fox, American wrestler and model

 

Puzzles Answer

 

You‘re under arrest                                                         long underwear

 

 




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