Aug 17, 2021 Week: 34 Day: 229
Ave. Sky Cover: 40%\Visibility:
10 miles
Local Temp: 81°\ 55° Wind: 5mph\ Gusts: 10mph
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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National Environmental Services Week: Link |
2-20 |
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Elvis Week Link |
11-17 |
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National Aviation Week |
15-21 |
Daily Oberservations
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Black
Cat Appreciation Day I
Love My Feet Day! Massachusetts
Day--Nonprofit Day Thrift
Shop Day Vanilla
Custard Day |
Favorite Memes
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My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Last
night about 8pm the monsoon gave my place a nice rain with lots of lightning
and thunder.
Just
announced today: Lake Meade, the US largest reservoir, will cut water
distribution to AZ, NV, and CA in 2022. Not a good announcement for farmers and
residents of Phoenix, Vegas, and Tucson.
TCBS
opened its doors to students last week with alternating online and in person
classes. I got a call this morning from a very reliable source that one student
in one class tested positive on Friday. I sure hope they find a quick solution.
60
Minutes had
a story on ‘autonomous’ trucks…with no human on board. They are still in the
testing stages and still have a human ‘back-u[‘ driver. One of the makers
expects to have them on highways, without humans, by the end of 2021. I hope
their testing becomes much more transparent and that regulatory agencies are
getting the real picture of this new technology.
Facebook
and Google are currently laying 7500 miles of underwater cable for Internet connections
in Japan, Taiwan, Guam, Philippines, Indonesia and Singapore. Wow!
Biden's speech does not resolve any of the issues. Sad.
Historical
Events
1807
– Robert Fulton’s steamboat begin its first trip between Albany and New York
City.
1945 Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta declare
Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) independent from the Netherlands
1946 George Orwell publishes "Animal
Farm" in the United Kingdom
1960 Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens
in Moscow
1978
– Maxie Anderson, Larry Newman, and Ben Abruzzo became the first people to make
a transatlantic trip across the ocean, landing in Miserey, France after a 137
hour trip from Maine.
1998
– President Bill Clinton made the statement “It depends on what your meaning of
‘is’ is”.
2012
Gay pride events are banned for a century in Moscow
2020
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the 1st US college to send
students home and convert to online classes after 135 COVID-19 cases detected
Birthdays
Today
@87 – Mae West, American comedic actress (d.1980)
78
– Robert De Niro, American actor
61
– Sean Penn, American actor
@49 – Davy Crockett, American soldier, politician (d. 1836; at
Alamo)
