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Apr 28, 2019 Week: 18 \ Day: 118
86004: H 73° \ L ° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind: 10mph\Gusts: 15mph Visibility: 10 mi
Nearest wildfire: 129mi. Nearest lightning: 301mi
Record High: 80°[1992] Record
Low: 13°[1970]
Mar Averages: 59°\28°
(3 days with
rain)
Today’s Quote
Ten people who speak make
more noise
than ten thousand who are
silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Random Tidbits
Washington
Irving used the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon when he published The Sketch-Book, a
collection of short stories and essays, including "The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle."
Alice
Binney, wife of company co-owner Edwin Binney, coined the word Crayola by
joining craie, from the French word meaning chalk, with ola, from oleaginous,
meaning oily.
Observances This Week
National Dance Week: 19-28 Link
National Park Week: 20-28 Link
International Dark Sky Week: 22-28
National Scoop The Poop Week: 24-30
World Immunization Week: 24-30
National Tattoo Week: 24-29 Link
Fiddler's Frolic: 25-28
AFRMA (Fancy Rat & Mouse) Days: 26-28 Link
Interstate Mullet Toss: 26-28
National Dream Hotline: 26-28
National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW): 27-5/4 Link
National Park Week: 20-28 Link
International Dark Sky Week: 22-28
National Scoop The Poop Week: 24-30
World Immunization Week: 24-30
National Tattoo Week: 24-29 Link
Fiddler's Frolic: 25-28
AFRMA (Fancy Rat & Mouse) Days: 26-28 Link
Interstate Mullet Toss: 26-28
National Dream Hotline: 26-28
National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW): 27-5/4 Link
Observances for Today
National Pet Parent's Day Link Link
National Superhero Day Link
Pinhole Photography Day Link
Workers Memorial Day
World Pinhole Photography Day
National Superhero Day Link
Pinhole Photography Day Link
Workers Memorial Day
World Pinhole Photography Day
My Rambling Thoughts
Spring has
certainly sprung here at 7000’. Sat on my deck this morning to read my articles
for tonight’s discussion.
The articles were
very informative about our relations with our southern neighbor. There is a solution
to our differences. One would be to a better understanding of the why we have
so many drugs coming from Mexico and why we have so many illegals coming to the
US for work. The US policy on the hiring of illegals is not working. Businesses
are finding many ways to get around the several systems we have set up. And the
war of drugs and other US policy on drugs are not working. It is not just a
Mexico problem, it is a US problem. So many Americans look at the illegal
immigration problem as ‘How to we control it’ rather than ‘Why are they coming?’.
And on drugs the US needs to ask, “Why are so many Americans buying the drugs?”
Without demand, there would be no supply.
Over the years I
have had bird poop dropped on my various vehicles. This morning, I was shocked.
About half of the rear window were hit with lots of it. The roof had even more.
The bumper even got hit with the dribbles. None of the other vehicles that were
parked overnight had any. At first, I thought someone had walked by my vehicle
and slung a milkshake on the window. It’s a nice day outside, so the 20+ minute
cleanup was not that disgusting.
PUZZLE OF THE DAY
Answer at the bottom of this page
A train just leaves a station and enters a
tunnel. Where is the best place for a claustrophobic person to sit?
Today’s Significant Historical Events
1200’s
1253 Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk,
propounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the first time and declares it to be the
essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
1600’s
1611 Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal
University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, oldest
existing university in Asia and largest Catholic university in the world
1700’s
1789 Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS
Bounty against its captain William Bligh in the South Pacific
1800’s
1818 US President James Monroe proclaims naval
disarmament on Great Lakes and Lake Champlain
1855 1st veterinary college in US incorporated
in Boston
1919 1st jump with US Army Air Corps (rip-cord
type) parachute (Les Irvin)
1947 Thor Heyerdahl & "Kon-Tiki"
sail from Peru to Polynesia
1967 The Douglas Aircraft Company behind
schedule with deliveries of the DC-8 and DC-9 and close to bankruptcy agrees to
merge with the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation to form McDonnell Douglas
1973 Over 6000 Mk. 82 500 pound bombs detonate
over 18 hrs in a railyard in northern California. 5500 structures damaged, town
of Antelope destroyed, with every building reduced to foundations. Leads to
Transportation Safety Act (1974)
1994 Aldrich Ames, former CIA officer & wife
Rosario plead guilty to spying
2000’s
2001 Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's
first space tourist.
2004 Shrek the sheep from Tarras, Central Otago,
New Zealand, is finally shorn live on TV after 6 years avoidance; the fleece
weighed 27 kg (60 lb)
2018 Indian government announces electricity has
now reached every Indian village
Birthdays Today
1758 James Monroe,
(d. 1831: @73)
5th US President (1817-25),
born in
Monroe Hall, Virginia
1878 Lionel Barrymore [Blythe],
(d. 1954:
@76: heart attack)
American actor (Free Soul, Dr Kildare),
born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1908 Oskar Schindler,
(d. 1974: @66)
Austrian businessman and subject of the novel
"Schindler's Ark" and the film "Schindler's List",
born in Zwittau, Austria-Hungary
1916 Ferruccio Lamborghini,
(d. 1993: @76)
Italian automobile manufacturer,
born in Cento, Ferrara
1926 [Nelle] Harper Lee,
(d. 2016: @89)
American author (To Kill a Mockingbird),
born in Monroeville Alabama
1928 Eugene M. Shoemaker,
(d. 1997: @69: car crash)
American planetary scientist and geologist
(Shoemaker-Levy comet),
born in
Los Angeles, California
1930 Carolyn Jones,
(d. 1983: @53: colon cancer)
American actress (Morticia-Addams Family),
born in Amarillo, Texas
1937 Saddam Hussein Abd
al-Majid al-Tikriti,
(d. 2006: @69: executed)
President of Iraq (1979-2003),
born in Al-Awja, Iraq
1964 L'Wren Scott
[Laura Bambrough],
(d. 2014: @49: suicide by hanging)
American fashion designer and partner of Mick
Jagger,
born in Salt Lake City, Utah
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70’s
78- Ann-Margret,
Swedish-American actress (Bye Bye Birdie,
Tommy),
born in Valsjöbyn, Sweden
60’s
69- Jay Leno,
American comedian and TV talk show host (Tonight
Show),
born in New Rochelle, New York
50’s
59- Elena Kagan,
American Supreme Court Judge,
born in NYC, New York
40’s
45- Penélope Cruz,
Spanish actress (Vanilla Sky, Waking Up in
Reno),
born in Madrid, Spain
30’s
38- Jessica Alba,
American actress (Dark Angel, Sin City) and
businesswoman (The Honest Company),
born in Pomona, California
Historical Obits Today
90’s
@90-2007 Robert "Dabbs" Greer,
American actor (Gunsmoke, The Green Mile, Little
House on Prairie)
70’s
@78-2007 Tommy Newsom,
American saxophonist and bandleader (Tonight Show),
dies of bladder/liver cancer
@77-1999 Arthur Leonard Schawlow,
American physicist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize
in Physics for his pioneering work with lasers,
dies of leukemia
@76-1999 Rory Calhoun
[Francis Timothy McCown],
American actor (Blue & Gray, How to Marry a
Millionaire),
dies of emphysema
60’s
@61-1945 Benito Mussolini
[Il Duce],
Fascist Italian dictator (1922-43),
shot by communist partisans
30’s
@35±-1721 Mary Read,
English pirate who operated in the Caribbean,
dies of a violent fever while in prison and likely
still pregnant
@30-1980 Tommy Caldwell,
American rocker (Marshall Tucker Band),
dies in a jeep crash
Puzzle answer:
In the back. See, the train is still
accelerating as it is leaving the station, so the train will be moving faster
when the back of the train enters the tunnel.
