Mar 9, 2021 Week: 19 Day: 68 Visibility:
10 miles
Local: H 58°\ L 31°\Ave. Sky Cover: 5% Wind:
12mph/ Gusts: 20mph
Nearest Lightning: 1950mi. Extreme Risk of Fire: Active fire: 595 mi
Record:70 °[1989] Record:
0°[1964] Mar. Averages: 53°/23° (6 days with moisture)
Today’s Quote
Weather
forecast for tonight: dark.
~George
Carlin
Random Tidbits
The One Dollar bill: The
obverse picturing the eagle is a bit easier to explain. The bird holds 13
arrows to show the nation's strength in war, but it also grasps an olive branch
with 13 leaves and 13 olives that symbolize the importance of peace. (The
recurring number 13, which also appears in the stripes on the eagle's shield
and the constellation of stars over its head, is a nod to the original 13
states.)
A Little Humor
What does a farmer put on his sunburned pigs?
Oinkment.
Weekly Observations
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Lent [Christian] |
Thru 4/3 |
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Celebrate Your Name Week Read an E-Book Week Link Save Your Vision
Week Link Termite Awareness
Week Women in
Construction Week Link |
7-13 |
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Women of Aviation Worldwide Week |
7-14 |
Today’s Observations
Barbie Day
Crabmeat Day
Get Over It Day Link
Joe Franklin Day
Meatball Day
National Get Over It Day
National Meatball Day
National Urban Educator Day Link
Napping Day
Organize Your Home Office Day
Panic Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
A nice day even if it is a bit windy. I had a nice walk around the
neighborhood before the wind picked up.
Quite an interesting 60 Minutes last night. The story I enjoyed
the most was on space travel. The pertinent question was how the United States
makes the missiles that take people and things into space. Many at NASA are
happy that private business wants to do it…like Elon Musk. It makes sense to
them because then taxpayers don’t have to foot the bill. Since NASA is funded
by Congress to get taxpayer money, Congress approves all their expenditures.
Senators from states where missiles are produced were afraid that voters in
their states would lose jobs if private enterprise made the missiles. You can
guess who will be making the missiles that will take us back to the moon. A
case of politics vs science.
Andy is back in Flag, and Faith stayed in Indiana for another couple
of weeks, thanks to on-line learning she can still work. Her dad passed 2 days
before his 91st birthday and on the same date that Andy lost his son
last year. She has 3 sisters and a brother. All are doing well, but lots to do
as her dad lived in the same place for decades. Faith’s mom passed a couple of
years ago.
My ophthalmologist is very thorough. Every year he does a test of my
peripheral vision called a ‘visual field test’. One eye at a time you stare
into a machine that has an orange dot. While staring at the orange dot, white
lights appear at various distances around the orange dot. The patient clicks a
button whenever a white dot is seen. It takes about 5 minutes per eye. For some
reason I despise this test. It is boring, it is hard not to have my eye look
where the last white light flashes. Anyway, I took the test this morning. I
still don’t like it.
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
There are three people (Alex, Ben and Cody), one of whom is a knight,
one a knave, and one a spy. The knight always tells the truth, the knave always
lies, and the spy can either lie or tell the truth. Alex says: “Cody is a
knave.” Ben says: “Alex is a knight.” Cody says: “I am the spy.” Who is the
knight, who the knave, and who the spy?
Historical Events
1611 – Johannes Fabricius, a Dutch astronomer, discovered sunspots.
1822 – Charles M. Graham of NY was issued the first US Patent
(#X03472) for artificial teeth.
1841 – The US Supreme Court ruled that the African slaves who seized
control of the Amistad slave ship had been illegally forced into slavery, and
thus were free under American law.
1858 – The first US Patent (#19,578) for a street postal mailbox was
patented by Albert Potts, of Philadelphia.
1945 – 300 B29 bombers dropped nearly 500,000 cylinders of napalm and
petroleum jelly on Tokyo creating a 40-sq-km firestorm that killed over 100,000
and maimed another million. It was the most destructive single bombing in
history, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs.
1959 – Barbie debuted. Barbie’s appearance was modeled on a doll named
Lilli, which was based on a racy German comic strip character.
1985 – The Tyler Civitan Club was the first to partake in the
Adopt-a-Highway Sign Program, erected on Texas’s Highway 69.
1989 – A Geomagnetic Storm affected Quebec’s electrical transmission
system.
1997 – Christopher Wallace, AKA Biggie Smalls, AKA the Notorious
B.I.G., was shot to death at a stoplight in Los Angeles. Rapper Suge Knight has
been eyed as the killer. Suge was also accused of running over (and killing)
Terry Carter in January 2015.
2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39
flights.
2015 US President Barack Obama signs an executive order declaring
Venezuela a national security threat to the US
2020 Italy announces it is locking down the whole country due to a
spike in COVID-19 cases with 10,040 cases and 630 deaths
Birthdays Today
@88 – Mickey
Spillane, American crime novelist
(died in 2006)
85 – Mickey Gilley, American singer-songwriter and pianist
@79 – Marty Ingels, American actor and comedian (d. 2015; stroke)
76 – Robin Trower, English rock guitarist and vocalist (Procol
Harum)
@64 – Bobby Fischer, American chess player (d. 2008; kidney failure)
@54 – Raul Julia, Puerto Rican-American actor (d. 1994; stomach cancer)
50 – Emmanuel Lewis, American actor
Puzzle Answer
We know Ben isn’t telling the truth, because if he was, there would be
two knights; so, Ben could be either the knave or the spy. Cody also can’t be
the knight, because then his statement would be a lie. So that must mean Alex
is the knight. Ben, therefore, must be the spy, since the spy sometimes tells
the truth; leaving Cody as the knave.
