Mar 14, 2021 Week: 12 Day: 73 Visibility: 1 mile
Local: H 29°\
L 20°\Ave. Sky Cover: 90% Wind: 4mph/ Gusts:
9mph
Nearest
Lightning: 186mi. Very Low Risk of Fire: Active
fire: 500mi
Record: 71°[2017] Record:-4 °[1990] Mar. Averages: 53°/23° (6 days with moisture)
Today’s Quote
The
sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon,
but
its echo lasts a great deal longer.
~Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Random Tidbits
Being chased is one of
the most common dream symbols in all cultures. It means you're feeling
threatened, so reflect on who's chasing you (they may be symbolic) and why
they're a possible threat in real life.
Falling is a common dream
symbol that relates to our anxieties about letting go, losing control, or
somehow failing after a success.
A Little Humor
Knock, knock----Who's There?----A Little Old Lady----A Little Old Lady
who?
All this time, I had no idea you could yodel.
True Things
Apparently, there is a
company you can hire to send annoying packages to people anonymously. Nothing
outright dangerous, but distracting, humiliating and insulting. Things like
so-called 'glitter bombs' and fake poop. The company clearly caters to cowards
who don't have the guts to send fake poop to their enemies themselves. Well,
one victim of these tasteless pranks decided to bring the law into his mail
order feud.
A New Jersey man has
filed suit against a prank company based in New York, alleging they mailed him
a chocolate penis, a glitter bomb and other packages meant to shock, offend and
frighten him.
Weekly Observations
|
Lent [Christian] |
Thru 4/3 |
|
Women of Aviation Worldwide Week |
7-14 |
|
Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign |
11-17 |
|
World Rattlesnake Roundup |
12-14 |
|
Campfire USA
Birthday Week Teen Tech Week |
14-20 |
Today’s Observations
Check Your Batteries Day
Daylight Saving Time Begins
International Ask A Question Day
International Day of Action for Rivers Link
International Day of Mathematics Link
Learn about Butterflies
Day
MOTH-ER Day
Mothering Sunday Link
National Pi Day Link
Rueben Day
Save a Spider Day Link
Write Your Story Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Cloudy and light snow. There was a clear sky from 9:15am until 9:42am
this morning. Roads are wet but clear. Happy for the moisture.
I am so happy I don’t have to deal with Daylight time. I do feel sorry
for my many friends on the reservation and around the country who wake up at
2am to change their clocks. If some do it when they go to bed on Saturday, they
will wake up stunned by the blinding light. For those that wake up, you will
remember. Many of you will be singing Cher’s ‘If You Could Turn Back Time’.
Change is so difficult. The AZ legislature proposed a that would
require a 3rd party investigation in all deadly force incidents
involving police officers. It will die before a vote because the Maricopa
County Sheriff wrote an editorial that the ‘bill was poorly written.’
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
Same Russian
Roulette situation, same gun but two bullets are put in consecutive chambers.
Should you tell the bad guy to spin the chambers again?
Historical Events
44 BC – Casca and Cassius
decided that Mark Antony should stay alive during the Caesar assassination the
next day.
1794 – Eli Whitney was
issued a US Patent (#X0072) for his cotton gin.
1839 – Sir John Herschel
referred to ‘photography’- his new word – in a lecture to the Royal Society
1899 – Count Ferdinand
von Zeppelin was issued a US Patent (#621,195) for the invention of his
“Navigable Balloon,” the rigid airship, known as the Zeppelin.
1900 – The Gold Standard
Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard. No
country uses it today (2016).
1936 – The first
all-sound film version of Show Boat opened at Radio City Music Hall.
1947 – The US signed a
99-year lease on naval bases in the Philippines.
1950 – The Federal Bureau
of Investigation instituted the “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” List
1958 – The Recording
Industry Association of America awarded the first Gold Record (500,000 sold) to
Perry Como for Catch A Falling Star.
2011 – Aflac Insurance
fired Gilbert Gottfried, the voice of the Aflac Spokesduck, for an offensive
online tweet about the Japan earthquake.
2017 European Court of
Justice rules companies can ban staff from wearing religious symbols, including
headscarves.
2018 NASA twin study finds that Scott Kelly is no longer identical
to his twin brother after one year in space, 7% of his genes altered
2019 US Senate passes
resolution overturning President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration.
2019 Google announces its
employee Emma Haruka Iwao has broken the world record for calculating pi, to
31.4 trillion digits, on pi day using Google Cloud.
2020 Longest-ever scheduled passenger flight by distance by Air
Tahiti Nui from French Polynesia to mainland France 9,765 m (15715 km) due to
COVID-19 and it was domestic.
Birthdays Today
88 – Michael Caine,
English actor and author
88 – Quincy Jones,
American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and producer
@81 – Hank Ketcham, American author,
cartoonist, created Dennis the Menace (d. 2001)
@76 – Albert Einstein,
German-American physicist, engineer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1955; aneurysm)
73 – Billy Crystal,
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
@37 – [John Luther]Casey Jones, American engineer (d. 1900; train crash)
24 – Simone Biles,
gymnast
Puzzle Answer
No. With two
bullets, you have two chances in six (or one in three) to get hit with a bullet
before he fires the first time. Because we know the previous round was one of
four empty chambers, that leaves four positions the gun could now be in, with
only one followed by a bullet; therefore, leaving you with a one in four chance
the second round will fire. Since one in four is better odds than one in three,
he shouldn’t spin again.
