May 10

 

 

 

May 10, 2021   Week: 19    Day: 130                     

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 50%

Local: H 74°\ L 36°

Wind:  12mph/ Gusts:  18mph EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  96mi Nearest Lightning: 356mi.

May Averages: 68°/34° (3 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle

 

“Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.”

– Bono

 

Random Tidbits

 

A hobbit-like species of human lived about 18,000 years ago. About the size of a 3-year-old, they lived with pygmy elephants and 10-foot-long lizards.

 

Humor

 

Want to join a militia? Idaho’s your state. Here are some terms to learn:

Commander: Whoever starts the unit.

Second in Command: His best friend.

Auxiliary Commander: His wife.

Captain: New guy.

Militia Headquarters: The basement of whoever has the fax machine.

Squad: Guys in the ambulance who come out when a militia member accidentally shoots himself during training.

 

Real Cities

 

Free Soil, Michigan is a village in Mason County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 144 at the 2010 census.

The current village is actually the second settlement in Mason County to be named Free Soil. There are still a few homes in the area now known as "Old Freesoil". The railroad was extended to Free Soil around 1882, and the village was incorporated in 1912. The community derives its name from the Free Soil Party.

 

True Things

 

Everyone's a Critic

Jason Harvey, 50, of Romford, England, has been fined about $3,800 after his east London town council received 150 complaints from neighbors about his Saturday-night karaoke parties. "It has been a nightmare," said one neighbor. "It was so loud, and his singing was terrible." Noise officers told the Evening Standard they received specific complaints about Harvey's covers of Dire Straits' "Sultans of Swing" and Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton's "Islands in the Stream." Harvey, who said he would appeal the fine, defended his voice: "I admit I'm no singer, but I have a go. I would have a couple of people over and they loved all that." [Evening Standard, 2/26/2021]

 

Weekly Observations

 

Ramadan	Thru 5/11
International Wildlife Film Week Link	Thru 5/15
National Playground Safety Week Link National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week Link	Thru 30
(World) Dystonia Awareness Week Link	3-11
National Nurses Day and Week Link  Link	6-12
National Public Gardens Week  Link	7-16
Economic Development Week Link Food Allergy Awareness Week Link Hurricane Preparedness Week Link National Hospital Week: 9-15 Link National Nursing Home Week National Return To Work Week National Women's Health Week Link  Link	9-15
Reading is Fun Week  Link   Salute to Moms 35+ Week Salvation Army Week Work At Home Moms Week	9-16
National Etiquette Week	10-14
American Craft Beer Week Link National Stuttering Awareness Week  Tick Awareness Week  Universal Family Week	10-16

 

Today’s Observations

 

Clean Your Room Day Link
Dia De La Madre
National Golf Day thru 12 Link
National Hamster Day Link
National Lipid Day (Dyslipidemia) 
National Liver and Onions Day

National Women's Check-up Day Link 
Shrimp Day

Windmill Day

World Lupus Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Fairly cloudy with lots of wind.

I watched Netflix until almost 2am and got up about 7am. It is a lazy day for sure.

A major pipeline to the East Coast has been completely shut down after a ransomware cyberattack. I’m sure gas prices will rise across the country because of this. Our country really needs to recognize that while the internet machine has opened up many new things…some good and some bad…there needs to be safeguards in place. We are all vulnerable. While cyber security may be expensive, it is not as expensive as having your entire system shut down.

That rocket is believed to have landed in the Indian Ocean. No loss of life or property reported. Since it didn’t really hurt anybody, many countries will not want to spend the extra money to have a safe re-entry. Sad.

 

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

90. What can’t be put in a saucepan?

 

Historical Events

 

1503 – Columbus stumbled across the Cayman Islands and dubbed them Las Tortugas, after the numerous sea turtles.

1824 – The National Gallery in London opened to the public.

1849 – A riot ensued at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 22 and injuring over 120

1860 – The discovery of two new elements – cesium (Cs) and rubidium (Rb), was announced by German chemists, Robert Bunsen and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff to the Berlin Academy of Scientists.

1869 – Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads completed the Transcontinental Railroad.

1876 – The Centennial Exposition opened in Philadelphia

1877 – US President Rutherford B. Hayes has the White House’s first telephone installed in the ‘telegraph room.’

1879 – America’s first archaeological society was formed in Boston Mass., the Archaeological Institute of America.

1893 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883. Scientifically, it is a fruit.

1924 – J. Edgar Hoover was named acting director of the Bureau of Investigation (now the FBI).

1975 – Sony’s Betamax, the first home videocassette recorder, went on sale in Japan

1980 – The US Government gave Chrysler a $1.5 billion loan.

1994 – Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was sworn in as the first black president of South Africa.

2013 – One World Trade Center became the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, at 1,776 feet.

2016 Indian fertility clinic announces that a 70-year-old woman has successfully gave birth to a baby boy

2017 USGS releases a report saying that some glaciers in Montana have receded by 85% in the last 50 years

2017 US President Donald Trump shares classified information about ISIS plot with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the Oval Office

2017 Apple becomes the first company to be worth more than $800 billion

2018 New record auction price for a Latin American artwork of $9.76 million for Diego Rivera's "The Rivals"

2018 China announces plans for the world's largest weather-control mechanism, rain-inducing machines for the Tibetan Plateau (area the size of Alaska)

2019 US begins raising tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese imports to 25% after trade talks fail

Birthdays Today

 

@88 – Fred Astaire, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1987)

@69 – Nancy Walker [Anna Myrtle Swoyer], character actress (d. 1992; lung cancer)

@63 – David O. Selznick, American director, producer (d. 1965; heart attacks)

61 – Bono, Irish singer-songwriter, musician and activist

@26 – John Wilkes Booth, actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1865; shot)

@21 – Sid Vicious, English singer and bass player (d. 1979; OD)

 

Puzzle Answer

 

Its lid