This is Week 45 of 2010►Day 312 with 53 days left.
Flagstaff Weather: H—59°; L—34°; RH—30%; —fair sky and wind—17 mph w/ gusts to 25
QUOTE FOR THE DAY—unknown
No one needs a smile as much a person who fails to give one
FREE RAMBLING THOUGHTS
I did a whole bunch of laundry, rearranged my bedroom furniture and flipped the mattress. Then I worked on trying to figure out why google won’t recognize my additional storage space in my blog. I found a site that will tell me for $38. Not to that point yet. So I went back and removed all the pictures of my most recent trip. I did figure out that I can easily make the pictures have fewer pixels without changing the original. That used to be a big deal. Thank you Windows 7. I will be going back and putting the new smaller pictures on the site, which is one way to solve the problem—I hope. I did know that while I was downloading the pictures that the site was taking the originals as it took forever to download them. Live and learn I say.
The Cardinals were ahead until the last quarter and then they blew it. The Broncos didn’t play. I half watched the Cards game while cleaning up. Glad I am not a big football fan.
Now that daylight time has ended for everybody else, I forgot that many of the cable channel’s shows are now an hour off. Our local alphabet channels do not change their show times. However, our cable channels like CNN and MSNBC are really a west coast feed and now that AZ is not the same time as CA, so my shows are all off by an hour. The biggest inconvenience will be either using the DVR for the Daily Show or watching it the next afternoon. I won’t be staying up till 12:30a to watch it every night. It also means my Sunday morning news shows are now late morning, early afternoon shows. I did watch them today and am more concerned than I was before about the results. I get it, that the voting populace wants a more conservative government. Every new congress person, every new governor, every new senator said that we need to stop spending money. The really scary part is the follow up question—what government program would you cut? Every single one said they would vote to stop government waste. When pressed for which waste, there was silence. Every American would like to cut ‘government waste’—it is great for campaigning. I think they should have suggestions. Historically the voters have wanted to cut waste—just not in programs they benefit from. We are in very scary times. I sure hope the new congress can look to the future and pull us out of this boondoggle we are in.
HOLY MACKEREL: 1984»The first attempt to rescue two crippled satellites took place as the space shuttle Discovery lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (The mission was accomplished on November 14th.)
JEOPARDY PUZZLE—(1984 games)(answers below) Super Heros
$100-He's been played by Reeves & Reeve
$200-Still seen in Thanksgiving parades, Wally Cox gave this hero his voice
$300-His theme was the following: http://www.j-archive.com/media/1984-11-29_J_11.mp3
$400-His archenemy, Dr. Sivana, nicknamed him "The Big Red Cheese"
$500-Originally Reed Richards, his wife Sue, The Human Torch & The Thing
SOMEWHAT USELESS INFORMATION—a hodgepodge
~There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo.
~The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card.
~Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.
~Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
~The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
~The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
UNUSUAL NEWS ITEM
STATESVILLE, N.C. - A North Carolina restaurant said it will attempt to break a Guinness World Record by distributing Groucho Marx glasses at a high school football game. Brandon Sutton, owner of Groucho's Deli, said workers will hand out 5,500 pairs of Groucho glasses Friday at the Statesville High School football game against West Iredell, The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer reported Thursday. Sutton said he is aiming to set a Guinness World Record for "most people wearing Groucho Marx glasses." The owner said photographs and videos will be taken of the halftime record attempt and official Guinness counters will be placed at the entrances.
A LITTLE LAUGH
Marketing VP: Why haven't you kept me up-to-date on this account?
Ops Guy: I've cc'd you on every e-mail I sent to them!
Marketing VP: I don't have time to read my e-mails. There's too much information in them. If you send me an important e-mail, give me a call to let me know I need to check it.
FOUND ON ‘YOU TUBE’
GREY MATTER PICTURE
This is a close up of what object?
SOME CALENDAR INFORMATION
¤ Weekly Observances ¤
7-13: National Nurse Practioner's Week, Pursuit of Happiness Week, National Rad Tech Week , Fraud Awareness Week, Dear Santa Letter Week, National Young Reader's Week, World Kindness Week
14-20: American Education Week, Geography Awareness Week, National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week, National Global Entrepreneurship Week
19-25:National Farm-City Week
21-28: National Bible Week, National Family Week, National Game & Puzzle Week, National Teens Don't Text and Drive Week, Better Conversation Week, Church/State Separation Week
¤ Today’s Observances ¤
Dunce Day
Abet and Aid Punsters Day: Share a Pun and ignore the groans
Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day
National Parents As Teachers Day
World Orphan’s Day
World Urbanism Day
Montana: Admission Day (1889): 41st state
¤ Top 10 songs of 1964 ¤
Click on Song Title to see and hear the original
¤ Today’s Births ¤
╬ THE ARTS
Mary Hart, 59, television host
Margaret Mitchell, writer (Gone With the Wind)—in 1900
Patti Page, 83, singer (“Doggie in the Window”), born Clara Ann Fowler
Bonnie Raitt, 61, singer
Bram (Abraham) Stoker, author: Dracula—in 1847
♦♦Actors♦♦
Esther Rolle, actress (Florida-Good Times, Maude)—in 1922
Joe Flynn, actor (McHale's Navy)—in 1924
╬ ATHLETICS
Edgardo Alfonzo, 37, baseball (Mets, Giants, Angels, Blue Jays)
Angel Cordero Jr, 68, jockey (won over 6,000 races)
╬ BUSINESS & EDUCATION
Christie Hefner, 58, business executive (Playboy)
Gordon Ramsay, 44, chef, television personality (“Hell’s Kitchen,” “The F Word”), born Glasgow, Scotland
Morley Safer, 79, journalist (“60 Minutes”)
╬ POLITICS
Driss Basri, Moroccan Interior Minister—in 1938
Nguyen Khanh, 83, Prime Minister of South Vietnam
╬ SCIENCE & RELIGION
Christiaan Barnard, South Africa, surgeon (performs 1st heart transplant)—in 1922
Sir Edmond Halley, 1st to calculate comet's orbit (Halley's Comet)—in 1656
Margaret Rhea Seddon, 63, MD/astro (STS 51D, STS 40)
¤ Today’s Obituaries ¤
Wendell Corey, actor (11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl), cirrhosis @ 54—in 1968
Dorothy Kilgallen, columnist (What's My Line?), undetermined: suicide, murder, accidental overdose @ 52—in 1965
Norman Rockwell, artist, @ 84—in 1978
Duns Scotus, who coined the word "dunce", @ 43 in 1308
Kam Tong, actor (Have Gun Will Travel -as Hey Boy), @ 62 in 1969
¤ Today’s Events ¤
╬ THE ARTS
1793»Louvre in Paris, opens
1900»Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie" is published
╬ ATHLETICS
1959»The ‘Big E’, Elgin Baylor of the Minneapolis Lakers, scored 64 points and set a National Basketball Association scoring mark.
╬ BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1789»Bourbon Whiskey, 1st distilled from corn (by Elijah Craig, Bourbon KY)
1837»Mount Holyoke Seminary in Massachusetts-1st US college founded for women
1910»William H. Frost of Spokane, Washington patented the insect exterminator
╬ INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1978»The Area Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Vincent Little, ratifies a fourth amendment to the Constitution and By-Laws of the Shoalwater Bay Indian Organization in Washington State.
╬ POLITICS (US)
1910»1st Washington State election in which women could vote
1933»FDR creates the Civil Works Administration
1983»Martha Layne Collins (D) elected 1st female governor of Kentucky
…Presidents elected
1864»Abraham Lincoln elected to his 2nd term as President
1892»Grover Cleveland (D) elected President
1904»President Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B Parker (D)
1932»Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) elected President for 1st time
1960»JFK (MA-D-Sen) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) for President
1988»George Bush (R) beats Mike Dukakis (D) for Presidency
╬ POLITICS (International)
1950»1st jet-plane battle of Korean War
1987»11 die as a bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded at Ulster Remembrance Day Service
╬ SCIENCE & RELIGION
1895»Wilhelm Rontgen discovers x-rays
1997»The mighty Yangtze River (China’s largest) was successfully diverted in preparation for the construction of the Three Gorges Dam
GREY MATTER ANSWERS
↔ JEOPARDY
$100-He's been played by Reeves & Reeve:
Who is Superman?
$200-Still seen in Thanksgiving parades, Wally Cox gave this hero his voice
Who is Underdog?
$300-His theme was the following: http://www.j-archive.com/media/1984-11-29_J_11.mp3
Who is Mighty Mouse?
$400-His archenemy, Dr. Sivana, nicknamed him "The Big Red Cheese"
Who is Captain Marvel?
$500-Originally Reed Richards, his wife Sue, The Human Torch & The Thing
Who are the Fantastic Four?
↔ PICTURE
A pedestrian "Walk" light
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