Mar 26

 

 

Mar 26, 2021   Week: 13    Day: 85           Visibility: 10 miles

Local: H 48°\ L 27°                                     Ave. Sky Cover: 60%                      

Wind:  9mph/ Gusts:  20mph                     Nearest Lightning: 1224mi.                                                        

Low Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  449mi

Record: 73°[1988]  Record: -8°[1902]  

Mar. Averages: 53°/23° (6 days with moisture)            

Today’s Quote

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

~Dr. Seuss

Random Tidbits

A person burns essentially the same amount of calories whether they run or walk a mile. Running just gets a person to a destination faster.

It would take, on average, 1 hour and 43 minutes of walking to burn off a 540-calorie Big Mac.

A Little Something to Think About

If extra-fine means ‘even finer than fine’, and extra large ‘even larger that large’ why doesn’t extraordinary mean ‘even more ordinary than ordinary?

If seagulls fly over the sea, do bagels fly over the bay?

Weekly Observations

Lent [Christian]	Thru 4/3
Passiontide	21-4/3
National Cherry Blossom Festival Link	20-4/10
American Chocolate Week Link Consider Christianity Week International Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination Passion Week National Agriculture Week National Animal Poison Prevention Week Link  Link National Inhalant/Poisons Awareness Week Link   Link National Poison Prevention Week National Protocol Officer's Week World Folktales & Fables Week	21-27
Wellderly Week	21-28
National Physicians Week  Link	25-31

 

Today’s Observations

Greek Independence Day[1821]

Legal Assistants Day
Live Long and Prosper Day

Make Up Your Own Holiday Day

National Nougat Day

National Spinach Day

Purple Day Link
Spinach Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

It’s a windy day but no moisture yet. Roads are dry and most of the snow has melted. More snow expected, if not today, then tomorrow…a couple of inches.

President Biden had his first real news conference. It was very educational.  I’m sure the naysayers will find fault. I didn’t agree with all he said, but he treated the reporters with respect and answered the questions as a politician often does.

I don’t understand why the guy made his first court appearance in Boulder and did not have to enter a plea. Is it because more charges are pending? I guess I have watched too many crime shows where everything is wrapped up in one hour.

VP Harris has a noticeably big job ahead in dealing with the border crisis. The best news was that she is going to find fixes for the root problem…in many Central American countries. That includes poverty, gangs, corruption, and hurricanes. After visiting many 3^rd world countries and working on the Navajo reservation, I know that things must be extremely bad for people to flee their homeland. To be honest, many don’t know any other way of life. I’m sure there are people that are telling them life is better in other places. Some teach their religion as the answer, others promise to help if they pay. In order to stop these massive caravans, we have to deal with the problems at their home country.

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

A teacher writes six words on a board: “cat dog has max dim tag.” She gives three students, Albert, Bernard and Cheryl each a piece of paper with one letter from one of the words. Then she asks, “Albert, do you know the word?” Albert immediately replies yes. She asks, “Bernard, do you know the word?” He thinks for a moment and replies yes. Then she asks Cheryl the same question. She thinks and then replies yes. What is the word?

 

Historical Events

1169 – Saladin became the emir of Egypt.

1812 – A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coined the term “gerrymander” (named after Governor Elbridge Gerry) to describe oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection.

1830 – The Book of Mormon was published in Palmyra, New York.

1895 – The Phantoscope, an early motion picture projector that enlarged film images for viewing by large groups, was patented (#536,569) by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat.

1916 – Robert Stroud (The Birdman of Alcatraz) stabbed and killed a prison guard in Leavenworth Kansas. He was sentenced to Alcatraz for the murder.

1920 – This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald was published.

1931 – Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland. It was bankrupt in 2002.

1953 – Dr. Jonas Salk announced that he had successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes polio.

1997 – After the 1995 discovery of the comet Hale-Bopp, 39 members of the ‘Heaven’s Gate’ cult committed suicide to more quickly join the aliens on the ‘other side’ of the comet.

1999 – The ‘Melissa worm’ infected Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems.

2005 The Taiwanese government calls on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China. Around 200,000 to 300,000 attend the walk.

2006 Burma's military junta officially names Naypyidaw, a new city in Mandalay Division, the new capital (Yangon previous capital)

2015 Richard III of England (1452-1485) is reburied at Leicester Cathedral in England, after being discovered under a carpark in Leicester in 2012

2017 Anti-corruption protests in Russia result in hundreds arrested including opposition leader Alexei Navalny

2018 E-commence group Alibaba Group and US car maker Ford unveil a car vending machine without sales people 5 stories high in Guangzhou, China

2019 European Parliament votes for changes to copyright laws, making internet companies responsible for copyright infringements

2019 Michelle Obama's biography "Becoming" sells over 10 million copies according to its publisher Bertelsmann

2020 American cases of COVID-19 exceed all other countries on this date, with 81,578 cases and 1,180 deaths (New York Times)

 

Birthdays Today

91 – Sandra Day O’Connor, American lawyer and jurist

87 – Alan Arkin, American actor

@83 – Leonard Nimoy, American actor (d. 2015)

81 – James Caan, American actor

81 – Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House

77 – Diana Ross, American singer-songwriter

73 – Steven Tyler, American singer-songwriter

72 – Vicki Lawrence, American actress and singer

@71 – Guccio Gucci, Italian fashion designer, founded Gucci (died in 1953)

@71 – Thomas Lanier Tennessee Williams III, American playwright, and poet (d. 1983; OD)

71 – Martin Short, comedian

64 – Leeza Gibbons, American talk show host and television personality

57 – Curtis Sliwa, American activist, founded Guardian Angels

53 – Kenny Chesney, American singer-songwriter

36 – Keira Knightley, English actress

Puzzle Answer

Dog. Albert knows right away because he has one of the unique letters that only appear once in all the words: c o h s x i. So, we know the word is not “tag.” All of these unique letters appear in different words, except for “h” and “s” in “has,” and Bernard can figure out what the word is from the unique letters that are left: t, g, h, s. This eliminates “max” and “dim.” Cheryl can then narrow it down the same way. Because there is only one unique letter left, the letter “d,” the word must be “dog.”