TODAY’s “Geez”: 1913 - 17th amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote
Free Rambling Thoughts…
OK, I get it, Red Flag Warning. While it was sunny most of the day, one couldn’t enjoy the outside with the strong winds. I had to bring in all my deck decorations before they got destroyed. This kind of day is no fun, for sure. Tomorrow will be the same. No rain, just friggin’ wind and another Red Flag day. For those who don’t know about Red Flag Days it means low humidity, high winds, and a good chance for wildfire if anyone is careless.
It’s Mother’s Day and I hope everyone with Mothers was able to connect. I connected with my brother and for some reason, both of us have had our mom on our mind more than usual for Mother’s Day. We both miss her and my dad very much. Laura surprised her mom by flying into Chicago this morning. Very nice.
I am getting frustrated with posting on this site. Every so often, I do the blog and it won’t post, or will only post one sentence. I use three different browsers every day: AOL, IE9, and Chrome. When I upgraded to IE9, the blog just freezes up, so I moved to AOL. AOL is so out of touch with innovation, one still can’t simply zoom in like on Chrome or IE9. After trying AOL twice last night, and once this morning, I finally tried Chrome and it worked. The problem with Chrome is that my calendar and phone are synced to my gmail account..as required by Android. My blog uses a ymail account address, and Blogspot won’t accept gamil work as my default for the blog. That means that I have to sign in and out to post. I spent some time today looking for a new site to post on, but haven’t had any luck yet. Change is difficult.
I am officially tired to the bin Laden ‘event’ as it is now being called. The man was crazy and headed many many evil events. I am not sorry that he is dead. However, I also remember the photos on 9-11 and 9-12 that showed followers of bin Laden oversees cheering and celebrating the fall of the towers. I was appalled and angry by those photos. Then a week ago, when the news hit the American airways, people in our country were seen cheering and celebrating throughout the US. I’m sure those images were seen around the world. I get the eye for an eye mentality, that doesn’t make it right. I’m sure the followers were just as angry and as appalled when they saw our country celebrating. Obama did not come out of the White House to address the cheering crowds, and when he went to Ground Zero he laid a wreath and the entire process was done in silence. Obama gets it. It’s too bad more Americans don’t follow his lead.
Trivia Quiz…(answers at the end of psot)
In 1998 who did Vanity Fair describe as "simply the world's biggest heart throb?"
Who first gave Buster Keaton the nickname Buster?
Arnold Bax said one should try everything once except incest and what?
What was Jean Harlow's first film?
Where did Bob Dylan first play in public?
Who did Joe Louis beat when he first became world champion.
How old was little Mo when she first won Wimbledon?
Which American said, "Boy George is all England needs; another Queen who can't dress?"
How did poet and critic John Berryman meet his death?
Wish singer wrote the novel Amy The Dancing Bear?
What do k.d. Lang's initials stand for?
Which Soviet was swapped for Gary Powers who was shot down over the USSR?
Zoom-ed in Picture…Can you Identify what this is? (Answer at end of post)
Hmmmmm…
>Percentage change in the average value of an American home since 2006: -25
>Percentage change between 1929 and 1933: -25.9
The First Time…
Jean François "Blondin" Gravelet 1859 --- 1st person to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
Jules Leotard 1859 --- world's 1st flying trapeze circus act. Performed at the Cirque Napoleon in Paris, without safety nets.
William Carney 1863 --- 1st African American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor (on July 18,1863 at Fort Wagner, S.C.)
Rebecca Lee Crumpler 1864 --- 1st African American woman to receive an M.D. degree in the US. She graduated from the New England Female Medical College.
Somewhat Useless Information…
***A bubble, like a balloon, is a very thin skin surrounding a volume of air. The rubber skin of the balloon is elastic and stretches when inflated.
*** If you blow a bubble and close the opening by flipping the wand over, the tension in the bubble skin tries to shrink the bubble into a shape with the smallest possible surface area for the volume of air it contains.
*** Since bubbles always try to minimize surface area, two bubbles will merge to share a common wall. If the bubbles are the same size as the bubbles to the left, this wall will be flat. If the bubbles are different sized, the smaller bubble, which always has a higher internal pressure, will bulge into the larger bubble.
*** If you ever try to blow bubbles with just pure water, it won't work. The surface tension in plain water is just too strong for bubbles to last for any length of time. One other problem with pure water bubbles is evaporation: the surface quickly becomes thin, causing them to pop.
*** When two waves of light combine, the waves can meet each other crest-to-crest, adding up and reinforcing the effect of each other, or they can meet crest-to-trough, cancelling each other out so that they have no effect. When they meet crest-to-trough, for every "up" vibration in one wave, there is a corresponding "down" vibration in the other wave. This combination of equal ups and downs causes complete cancellation or interference. Interference is responsible for the color of bubbles.
*** If you let a bubble hang from a bubble wand for awhile, the interference colors begin forming horizontal stripes - because the bubble film is thicker at the bottom than at the top, forming a wedge shape. As the bubble drains, the wedge of bubble solution gets thinner and thinner.
Yeah, It Really Happened…
RENSSELAER, N.Y. - Police in New York state said a man who wrongly believed there was a warrant for his arrest jumped from a car, ran across train tracks and jumped into a river. Rensselaer police said a vehicle was pulled over on East Street for a possible traffic violation and a 21-year-old passenger, whose name was not released, ran from the car, ran across tracks near an Amtrak station and jumped into the Hudson River, the Albany (N.Y.) Times-Union reported Thursday. Police said the man, who was pulled from the water about 250 feet downstream, erroneously believed there was a warrant for his arrest. "He just took a swim for no reason at all," Deputy Police Chief James Frankoski said. The man, who was taken to Albany Medical Center Hospital for examination, may face charges of trespassing and resisting arrest, police said.
Guffaw…or at least smile…
The first day at my new health club I asked the girl at the front desk, "I like to exercise after work. What are your hours?"
"Our club is open 24/7," she told me excitedly, "Monday through Saturday."
Searchin’ “You Tube” I found…
Daybook Information
…Happening This Week:
6-12 National Nurses Day and Week
7-15National Tourism Week:
8-14
National Hospital Week * National Nursing Home Week * Reading is Fun Week * Salute to Moms 35+ Week
9-15
National Return To Work Week * National Women's Health Week * National Etiquette Week * National Stuttering Awareness Week * Universal Family Week
«TODAY IS
Accountant's Day or Accounting Day
Armed Forces Military-Amateur Crossband Communications: SSB voice tests and copying the Secretary of Defense message via digital modes. These tests give Amateur Radio operators and short wave listeners an opportunity to demonstrate their individual technical skills and to receive recognition from the Secretary of Defense and/or the appropriate military radio station for their proven expertise
Lost Sock Memorial Day
Romania: Independence Day (1877)
Russia: Victory Day (WWII and defeat of Nazis)
Israel: Yom Ha'Atzma'ut ( Independence Day)
Today’s Events:
… IN ARTS
1946 - 1st variety show on TV "NBC's Hour Glass," premieres
1961 - FCC Chairman Newton N Minow criticizes TV as a "vast wasteland"
1992 - Final episode of "Golden Girls" airs on NBC-TV
… IN ATHLETICS
1958 - Botvinnik recaptures world chess championship
1984 - White Sox & Brewers play 8:06, game, longest timed baseball game
… IN BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1457 BC - Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC) between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh. It is the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
1754 - 1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or Die"
1868 - The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded
1874 - The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, plying two routes
1887 - Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London
1925 - Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem laid 1927 - Canberra replaces Melbourne as the capital of Australia
1932 - Piccadilly Circus, 1st lit by electricity
… FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1735 - The first debate on "The Walking Purchase" takes place in Pennsbury. Thomas Penn and James Logan meet with Delaware Chiefs, including Nutimus and Tedyuscung.
… IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
1502 - Columbus left Spain on his 4th & final trip to New World
1671 - Col Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels
1936 - Italy takes Addis Abba, annexing Absynnia (Ethiopia)
1994- South Africa's newly elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country's first black president
… IN SCIENCE & RELIGION
1899 - Lawn mower patented
1939 - Catholic church beatified the 1st Native American, Kateri Tekakwitha
1960 - US is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally
1965 - Luna 5 launched (USSR) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon (fails)
… IN US POLITICS
1862 - US Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis MD to Newport, RI
1914 - Pres Wilson proclaims Mother's Day
1945 - World War II: Hermann Göring is captured by the United States Arm
1970 - 100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War
1977 - Patty Hearst let out of jail
… ARTISTS: AUTHORS: COMPOSERS…
1860 - James Matthew Barrie, Scottish novelist (Margaret Ogilvy, Peter Pan)
1916 – William Pene du Bois American author and illustrator of children's books (21 Balloons, Bear Party, Lion
1893 - William Moulton Marston, American psychologist, writer (co-creator, Wonder Woman)
…ATHLETES
Mike D'Antoni New York Knicks head coach turns 60 years old
1928 - Pancho Gonzales American tennis player; U.S. Open single's champion 8 times between 1953 and 1961
…ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS…)
Candice Bergen, Actress ("Murphy Brown"), turns 65
Albert Finney, Actor, turns 75Glenda Jackson, Actress, turns 75
Billy Joel, Rock singer, musician, turns 62
… ENTREPRENEUR & EDUCATORS
1910 - Barbara Woodhouse, dog training expert
Mike Wallace, Broadcast journalist ("60 Minutes"), turns 93
…POLITICIANS
1800 - John Brown American abolitionist; led raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry in 1859
John Aschroft, Former attorney general, turns 69
…SCIENTISTS / THEOLOGISTS
1873 - Howard Carter, British archaeologist (found King Tutankhamen's tomb)
1837 - Adam Opel, German manufacturer (cycling, motorcars)
Today’s Obits:
1657 - William Bradford, Governor (Plymouth Colony, Mass), dies at 67
1998 - Alice Faye, American actress dies at 83
2010 - Lena Horne, American singer and actress dies at 93
2004 - Alan King, American comedian dies of lung cancer at 77
1968 - Marion Lorne, actress (Aunt Clara-Bewitched), dies at 81
1931 - A[lbert] A[braham] Michelson, US physicist (1907 Nobel), dies at 78
2001 - James E. Myers, American songwriter (Rock Around the Clock) and producer dies at 82
1914 - C.W. Post, American food manufacturer commits suicide at 60
ANSWERS:
Trivia Quiz
In 1998 who did Vanity Fair describe as "simply the world's biggest heart throb?"
Leonardo DiCaprio
Who first gave Buster Keaton the nickname Buster?
Houdini
Arnold Bax said one should try everything once except incest and what?
Folk dancing
What was Jean Harlow's first film?
Hell's Angels
Where did Bob Dylan first play in public?
Gaslight Cafe, Greenwich Village
Who did Joe Louis beat when he first became world champion.
James J. Braddock
How old was little Mo when she first won Wimbledon?
17
Which American said, "Boy George is all England needs; another Queen who can't dress?"
Joan Rivers
How did poet and critic John Berryman meet his death?
Drowned himself
Which singer wrote the novel Amy The Dancing Bear?
Carly Simon
What do k.d. Lang's initials stand for?
Kathryn Dawn
Which Soviet was swapped for Gary Powers who was shot down over the USSR?
Rudolph Abel
Close Up Picture
…AND THAT’S ALL FOR NOW
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