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December 2022
Daily Almanac for
Flagstaff
Week 51 Day 348 \ Ave. Sky Cover 90% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 26° \7°
Wind 4mph \ Gusts 11mph Air Quality: Fair \ Very Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 131mi \ Nearest Lightning 893mi
Dec Averages for Flagstaff: 43° \ 17° `
Today’s
Quote
Weekly
Observations
Andisop (Meteorological
Fiddling): 5-24 Link
Computer Science Education Week: 5-11 Link
Human Rights Week: 10-17
Christmas Bird Count Week: 14-1/5 Link
Halcyon Days: 14-28
Daily Observations
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
I
woke up to light snow. It has been overcast with that light snow starting and
stopping most of the day. It is not adding to the accumulation.
Not
really knowing what to expect, I headed out to buy some groceries…just in case.
Main roads were dry, side streets were icy with cinders already laid. The main
roads use chemicals to stop the ice…and kill any vegetation in its path. Side
streets are always cinders…to protect the environment.
The
Cardinals are now 4-9 after a loss to the Patriots on Monday Night Football.
For
some reason the US is not as prevalent in the continent of Africa as Russia and
China. The latest news report says that now the Russians are hiring African
mercenaries to fight in Ukraine. After 7 visits to various parts of Africa, I
certainly saw the Chinese influence in the modern airports and some highways. I
also learned that if the local government defaults on the debt that built anything,
it becomes Chinese property. The US sends lots of aid, in the form of grain and
food stuffs to various African countries. Sadly it is a known practice that the
Russians stick their label on the donations before it reaches the people.
Favorite
Memes
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Did you
Know?
Donkeys and
dolphins are sometimes used as guard animals.
Dogs tend to
make great guard animals, but they're not the only creatures that you can count
on to watch your back. In fact, donkeys, dolphins, geese, ostriches, emus,
llamas, and alpacas are also used as guard animals around the world - doing everything
from protecting sheep to patrolling harbors for the U.S. Navy.
Slang
Origins
1935: Tizzy
Meaning: highly excited, distracted, or
worried state of mind
President Franklin Roosevelt spent most
of his presidency trying to help the U.S. economy recover. In 1935, he passed
his Second New Deal, more aggressive than his previous attempts. This included
the Social Security Act, and the debate over it still throws American politics
into a tizzy today.
Corny
jokes
9. What’s the
difference between the bird flu and the swine flu?
One requires tweetment
and the other an oinkment.
….
10. Why do people say
“break a leg” when you go on stage?
Because every play has
a cast.
Historical
Events
1287 – St. Lucia’s flood: The Zuiderzee
sea wall in the Netherlands collapsed, killing over 50,000 people.
1780 – Alexander Hamilton married
Elizabeth Schuyler at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York.
1900 – Max Planck presented a theoretical
derivation of his black-body radiation law. (Quantum Mechanics)
1962 – NASA’s Mariner 2 became the first
spacecraft to fly by Venus.
2017 – The Walt Disney Company announced
plans that it would acquire 21st Century Fox, including the 20th Century Fox
movie studio, for $52.4 billion.
Birthdays
Today
@87 – Morey
Amsterdam, American actor (d. 1996)
@86 – Don Hewitt,
American journalist, and producer, creator of 60 Minutes (d. 2009)
73
– Cliff Williams, bassist (AC/DC)
@69 – Patty Duke,
American actress (d. 2016; ruptured intestine)
@62 – Nostradamus,
French astrologer, seer, physician (d. 1566; gout/edema)
“I had determined to go as far as declaring in abstruse and puzzling
utterances the future causes of the “common advent”, even those truly cogent
ones that I have foreseen. Yet lest whatever human changes may be to come
should scandalize delicate ears, the whole thing is written in nebulous form,
rather than as a clear prophecy of any kind.”– Nostradamus
@62 – Charlie Rich,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist (d. 1995; embolism)
57
– Ted Raimi, American actor
@55 – Lee Remick,
American actress (d. 1991; cancer)
@54 – Tycho Brahe,
Danish astronomer (d. 1601; burst bladder)
“Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.”– Tycho Brahe
@53 – Lindley
Armstrong "Spike" Jones, American singer, bandleader (d. 1965;
emphysema)
34
– Vanessa Hudgens, American actress
“If people don’t like me for whatever I do, for being me, then
that’s too bad. I don’t want to change to be something that I’m not for other
people to like me.”– Vanessa Hudgens
31
– Offset, American rapper
