Mar 25, 2021 Week: 13 Day: 84 Visibility: 10 miles
Local: H 47°\
L 21° Ave.
Sky Cover: 75%
Wind: 4mph/ Gusts:
9mph Nearest
Lightning: 224mi.
Very Low Risk of Fire: Active fire:
932mi
Record: 72°[1988] Record: -1°[1913]
Mar.
Averages: 53°/23° (6 days with moisture)
Today’s Quote
Idealism increases in
direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
~John Galsworthy
Random Tidbits
Given that the world is
about 25,000 miles in circumference and that the average walking rate is 3
miles per hour, it would take a person walking nonstop approximately 347 days
to walk around the world.
A Little Something to Think About
If fatty means full of fat shouldn’t skinny mean full of skin?
If something valuable possesses value, shouldn’t something invaluable
lack value?
Weekly Observations
|
Lent [Christian] |
Thru 4/3 |
|
Passiontide |
21-4/3 |
|
National Cherry Blossom Festival Link |
20-4/10 |
|
American Chocolate Week Link |
21-27 |
|
Wellderly Week |
21-28 |
|
National Physicians Week Link |
25-31 |
Today’s Observations
International Day of
Remembrance of The Victims of Slavery and The Transatlantic
International Day of The Unborn Child Link
International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members Link
Lobster Newburg Day
Maryland Day [1634 with
1st arrival of Europeans]
Medal of Honor Day
National Day of
Celebration of Greek & American Democracy
National International Waffle
Day
National Medal of
Honor Day
Old New Year's Day
Pecan Day
Waffle Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
There was a little over an inch of snow when I woke up. Even though it
is cloudy, it is warm enough to melt the snow quickly. I’m hoping it absorbs
into the ground before it evaporates.
The Fiesta Bowl Kindness Arizona Caravan stopped by our town
yesterday. They renovated the Flag High Teacher’s Lounge with a new refrigerator
and furniture, they donated $10,000 to NACA [Native Americans for Community
Action], and stopped at locally owned pizza place, ordered pizza and gave every
employee there a $300 tip. Very nice for sure.
I’m hearing all the Republican senators dismissing any bill that might stop gun violence in America, even as they send their prayers to the survivors. Here’s an idea, save your prayers and come up with something that will stop this horrific violence.
In the Genius
Aretha episode I watched last night, Aretha is watching TV as RFK is speaking
about the assassination of her friend MLK. It reminded me how long we have been
dealing with unsettling killings by disturbed people…since I was an adolescent.
There has to be an answer to stop needless killings.
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
There are three crates, one with apples, one with oranges, and one
with both apples and oranges mixed. Each crate is closed and labeled with one
of three labels: Apples, Oranges, or Apples and Oranges. The label maker broke
and labeled all the crates incorrectly. How could you pick just one fruit from
one crate to figure out what’s in each crate?
Historical Events
421 – The city of Venice
was founded.
1655 – Saturn’s largest
moon, Titan, was discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
1807 – The Slave Trade
Act became law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
1811 – Percy Bysshe
Shelley was expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet
The Necessity of Atheism.
1911 – The Triangle
Shirtwaist Company factory burned in New York City, killing 145 workers. The
disaster helped bring forth more laws and regulations protecting employees.
1957 – United States
Customs seized copies of Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl on grounds of obscenity.
1965 – Civil rights
activists, led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their
4-day, 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
1984 – Television Special
Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever introduced Michael Jackson’s ‘moonwalk’
during his performance of Billie Jean.
1990 – The Happy Land
nightclub fire was an arson fire that killed 87 people in The Bronx, New York
City.
1995 – WikiWikiWeb, the
world’s first wiki was published online by Ward Cunningham.
2001 – Bjork wore her
now-famous ‘swan dress’ to the Oscars.
2006 Protesters demanding
a re-election in Belarus following the rigged Belarusian presidential election,
2006 clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among
several protesters arrested.
2017 Largest banana split
ever, at 8,040 meters long, is made in Innisfail, Australia
2018 North Korean leader
Kim Jong Un begins surprise trip to Beijing by train to meet Chinese President
Xi Jinping
2019 NASA cancels a planned historic all-female spacewalk because
it doesn't have enough spacesuits to fit women
2020 Spain's death toll
from COVID-19 overtakes China's at 3,434 to become then second worldwide behind
Italy with 7,503 deaths with a worldwide toll of 20,836
Birthdays Today
95 – Gene Shalit,
American journalist and critic
78 – Paul Michael Glaser,
American actor
@77 – Howard Cosell, American broadcaster, journalist,
author (d. 1995; heart attack)
@76 – Aretha Franklin, American
singer-songwriter, Queen of Soul (d. 2018; pancreatic cancer)
74 – Sir Elton John,
English singer-songwriter,
@61 – Hoyt Axton, American
singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1999; heart attack)
59 – Marcia Cross,
American actress
39 – Danica Patrick,
American race car driver
Puzzle Answer
Pick a fruit from the crate marked Apples and Oranges. If that fruit
is an apple, you know that the crate should be labeled Apples because all
the labels are incorrect as they are. Therefore, you know the crate marked
Apples must be Oranges (if it were labeled Apples and Oranges, the Oranges
crate would be labeled correctly, and we know it isn’t), and the one marked
Oranges is Apples and Oranges. Alternately, if you picked an orange from the
crate marked Apples and Oranges, you know that crate should be marked Oranges,
the one marked Oranges must be Apples, and the one marked Apples must be Apples
and Oranges.
