Aug 3

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Aug. 3, 2019 Week: 31 \ Day: 215

86004:   H 81° \ L 57° \ Average Sky Cover: 60% 

Nearest wildfire:  5mi. Nearest lightning:  43mi

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  6mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 91°[1994]   Record Low: 37°[1956]

Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 day with rain)

Today’s Quote

The aim of education is the knowledge,

not of facts, but of values.

William S. Burroughs

Random Tidbits

Empire State Building. Finished in 1931, it towers 1,250 ft over New York City. Until the first tower of the World Trade Center was finished in 1972, it was the world's tallest building.

Itaipu Dam. Built by Brazil and Paraguay on the Parana River, the dam is the world's largest hydroelectric power plant. Completed in 1991, it took 16 years to build this series of dams whose length totals 7,744 m. It used 15 times more concrete than the Channel Tunnel.

CN Tower. In 1976, the tower became the world's tallest freestanding structure. It looms about one-third of a mile high (1,815 ft) above Toronto, Canada. A glass floor on the observation deck lets you look 342 m down to the ground.

Observances This Month

Get Ready for Kindergarten Month
Golf Month
Happiness Happens Month Link
Motor Sports Awareness Month
National Breastfeeding Month Link
National Catfish Month Link
National Crayon Collection Month  Link
National Goat Cheese Month Link
National Immunization Awareness Month Link
National Panini Month  Link 
National Minority Donor Awareness Month
National Read A Romance Novel Month
National Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month
National Traffic Awareness Month
National Truancy Prevention Month Link
National Water Quality Month Link  Link 
National Wellness Month Link
National Win With Civility Month
Neurosurgery Outreach Month

Observances This Week

1-4

Lollapalooza Link 

1-7

International Clown Week Link
National Cleanse Your Skin Week  Link
National Minority Donor Awareness Week
Simplify Your Life Week
World Breastfeeding Week Link

1-9

International Mathematicians Week

2-4

Satchmo Days  Link
2-11

Gallop International Tribal Indian Powwow Link
Sturgis Rally Link

Observances for Today

Campfire Day

Friendship Day Link 

Grab Some Nuts Day

International Hangover Day Link
Mead Day Link 
National Clown Day
National Disc Golf Day (  Link
National Jamaican Patty Day   Link
National Mustard Day ) Link
Sandcastle Day 
Watermelon Day  Link

My Rambling Thoughts

A small wildfire has broken out on Observation Mesa, home of Lowell Observatory…the place where Pluto was discovered. It’s about ½ acre and hoping it is put out quickly.

I had a nice lunch with Mary yesterday. We caught up on her month in Oregon and my trip on the Trans-Siberian. Cheryl will be in town next week so we can celebrate Mary’s July 4 birthday.

My guests left last night and left their Hulu password so I can now watch Hulu. Nice way to repay me for their stay. Since they were no problem.

A neighbor asked for a ride to the Dr. this morning. He got hurt on the job and is doing a re-check. I was only gone about an hour, so that too was no problem.

I wondered what is going on in Puerto Rico. With no approval for Sec. of State, and the next in line not wanting it, and the House there just approved the nomination for Sec. of State, but the Senate can’t confirm it until Monday, and the idiot Governor is set to leave at 5p today. What a mess.

Here in the mainland, threats of more tariffs on Chinese goods, DOW having a bad day. Not a big surprise.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

In 2000, a 40-year-old doctor told his son that when a little boy he decided to be a doctor by seeing an internet web site about performing a heart transplant on a puppy with a defective heart so that the puppy would live a normal life. I then thought that I would be a doctor so that I could help people in a similar way. What is the defect in this story?

Today’s Highlighted Historical Events

1492 - Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain towards, he expected, Asia.

1769 - The La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California were discovered.

1852 - Harvard University won the first Boat Race against Yale University. The race was the first American intercollegiate athletic event

1900 - The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company was founded.

1926 - The first traffic lights in Great Britain were installed at Piccadilly Circus.

1936 - Jesse Owens won the 100 meter dash, beating 'the world's fastest man' Ralph Metcalfe at the Berlin Olympics.

1946 - Santa Claus Land, the first modern themed amusement park, opened in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.

1958 - The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus traveled under the Arctic ice cap.

1963 - #1 Hit August 3, 1963 - August 9, 1963: The Tymes - So Much in Love

1968 - #1 Hit August 3, 1968 - August 16, 1968: The Doors - Hello, I Love You

1977 - Tandy Corporation announced the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers. The basic model originally shipped with 4 KB of RAM.

1985 - #1 Hit August 3, 1985 - August 23, 1985: Tears for Fears - Shout

1996 - #1 Hit August 3, 1996 - November 8, 1996: Los Del Rio - Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)

Highlighted Birthdays Today

Isaiah Washington, actor (56)

Martin Sheen, actor (79)

Tony Bennett, singer (93)

Martha Stewart, business woman (78)

Jay North, actor (68)

Billy Bob Thornton, actor, filmmaker (63)

Tom Brady, football (42)

James Hetfield, musician- Metallica (56)

Evangeline Lilly, model, actress (40)

John C. McGinley, actor (60)

Puzzle answer:

The internet did not exist when the doctor was a little boy.