Aug 17

 

Aug 17, 2021 Week: 34 Day: 229
Ave. Sky Cover:  40%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   81°\ 55° Wind: 5mph\ Gusts: 10mph
Moderate risk of fire Active fire: 148mi. \ Lightning: 6mi.
Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

  

 

Weekly Observations

 

National Environmental Services Week: Link	2-20
Elvis Week Link	11-17
National Aviation Week National Chef's Appreciation Week Link	15-21

 

Daily Oberservations

 

Black Cat Appreciation Day I Love My Feet Day! Massachusetts Day--Nonprofit Day Thrift Shop Day Vanilla Custard Day

  

Favorite Memes

 

  

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Last night about 8pm the monsoon gave my place a nice rain with lots of lightning and thunder.

Just announced today: Lake Meade, the US largest reservoir, will cut water distribution to AZ, NV, and CA in 2022. Not a good announcement for farmers and residents of Phoenix, Vegas, and Tucson.

TCBS opened its doors to students last week with alternating online and in person classes. I got a call this morning from a very reliable source that one student in one class tested positive on Friday. I sure hope they find a quick solution.

60 Minutes had a story on ‘autonomous’ trucks…with no human on board. They are still in the testing stages and still have a human ‘back-u[‘ driver. One of the makers expects to have them on highways, without humans, by the end of 2021. I hope their testing becomes much more transparent and that regulatory agencies are getting the real picture of this new technology.

Facebook and Google are currently laying 7500 miles of underwater cable for Internet connections in Japan, Taiwan, Guam, Philippines, Indonesia and Singapore. Wow!

Biden's speech does not resolve any of the issues. Sad. 

Historical Events

 

1807 – Robert Fulton’s steamboat begin its first trip between Albany and New York City.

1945 Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta declare Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) independent from the Netherlands

1946 George Orwell publishes "Animal Farm" in the United Kingdom

1960 Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow

1978 – Maxie Anderson, Larry Newman, and Ben Abruzzo became the first people to make a transatlantic trip across the ocean, landing in Miserey, France after a 137 hour trip from Maine.

1998 – President Bill Clinton made the statement “It depends on what your meaning of ‘is’ is”.

2012 Gay pride events are banned for a century in Moscow

2020 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the 1st US college to send students home and convert to online classes after 135 COVID-19 cases detected

Birthdays Today

 

@87 – Mae West, American comedic actress (d.1980)

78 – Robert De Niro, American actor

61 – Sean Penn, American actor

@49 – Davy Crockett, American soldier, politician (d. 1836; at Alamo)