Jun 21

 

 

 

Jun 21, 2021   Week: 26    Day: 172

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 30%

Local: H 91°\ L 56°

Wind:  9mph/ Gusts:  16mph

Low Moderate High EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  23mi Nearest Lightning: 87mi.

Jun Averages: 70°/42° (1 day w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. Herman Melville

 

Random Tidbits

 

Rice is a symbol of life and fertility, which is why rice was traditionally thrown at weddings.

Brown rice is whole grain rice, with the inedible outer hull removed; white rice is the same grain with the hull, bran layer and cereal germ removed. Red rice, gold rice, black rice and purple rice are all whole rices, but with a differently pigmented outer layer.

 

Humor: Robots

 

Quick, get me a broom!

What’s the worst a robotic vacuum cleaner can do, right? Let Jesse Newton count the ways for you. Newton took to the Web to share that his new puppy had pooped on the floor at 1:30 in the morning while he and his wife were asleep. How did he know the exact time? “Our Roomba runs at 1:30 a.m. every night,” he wrote. “And it found the poop. And so began the Pooptastrophe. The Poohpocalypse. The Pooppening.” The robot vacuum spread the puppy’s load throughout the house, decorating floorboards, furniture legs, and rugs, “resulting in a home that closely resembles a Jackson Pollock poop painting.” Another potentially scary thing? Here’s what your robot vacuum might know about your house.

 

True Things

 

Animal Antics

EuroWeekly reported that on Feb. 24, a routine Sudanese Tarco airline flight from Khartoum to Doha, Qatar, was forced to turn around about a half-hour after takeoff when a stowaway cat caused a midair emergency. The cat gained entry to the cockpit and became aggressive, attacking the crew, who were unable to restrain it, prompting the pilot to return to the airport. Officials believe the cat got onto the airplane while it was parked overnight in a hangar in Khartoum. [EuroWeekly News, March 2021]

 

Weekly Observations

 

National Week of Making Link National Nursing Assistants Week Link Waste and Recycling Workers Week Link	17-23
Animal Rights Awareness Week Link    Link Greencare For Troops Awareness Week National Play Catch Week  Old Time Fiddlers Week Link Carpenter Ant Awareness Week  Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week Link   Lightning Safety Awareness Week Link  National Craft Spirits Week Link  National Mosquito Control Awareness Week Link   Universal Father's Week	20-26
Old Time Fiddlers Week	21-26
National Insect Week National Pollinator Week Link	21-27

 

Today’s Observations

 

Cuckoo Warning Day  Daylight Appreciation DayGo Skateboarding Day Link Go Skateboarding Day International Yoga Day Link Make Music Day Link   National Daylight Appreciation Day National Day of The Gong  National Energy Shopping Day  National Peaches & Cream Day National Sea Shell Day National Selfie Day Link Tall Girl Appreciation Day  World Giraffe Day  Link World Handshake Day Link  World Humanist Day World Hydrography Day  Link World Music Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Another HOT day.

A nice Father’s Day. I was invited to Andy & Faith’s for lunch. His adopted daughter brought her son to spend a week with Andy. Good to see Kayla and Logan again. Good food and good conversation.

We also watched the first half of the Suns v Clippers game. Phx looked good and got the win.

And another small brush fire behind Sam’s Club in Flag. Only 1/3 acre and stopped quickly. That is about 5 miles from my place.

 

2 New Puzzles Everyday

Answer: bottom of the page

 

look       U leap

AGENT AGENT

 

 

Historical Events

 

1834 – Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent (#X008277) for his grain reaping machine,

1877 – The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants convicted of murder, were hanged in Pennsylvania prisons, in Schuylkill County and Carbon County.

1893 – The first Ferris wheel premiered at Chicago’s Columbian Exposition, and could hold up to 2000 people on 36 cars and was 264 feet tall.

 

1913 – The first successful parachute jump from an airplane by a woman was made by Georgia Broadwick, age 18, over Griffith Field, Los Angeles, California.

1940 – The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

1948 – Columbia Records introduced the long-playing record album (33 1/3 revolutions per minute) in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York. The first was released in 1949 – ML 4001, Nathan Milstein performing the Mendelssohn violin concerto.

 

2004 –SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.

2006 – Pluto’s recently discovered moons were officially named Nix and Hydra.

2015 Hackers ground 1400 passengers by attacking IT system at Warsaw Chopin airport in Poland

2020 New archaeological discovery announced near Stonehenge of a large circle of shafts surrounding a village 2500 BC, largest prehistoric structure in Britain

2020 Saudi Arabia bans international visitors from making the Islamic Hajj pilgrimage in 2020 due to COVID-19

 

Birthdays Today

 

@89 – Jane Russell, American actress (d. 2011)

42 – Chris Pratt, American actor

 

Puzzles Answer

 

Look before you leap                                                       Double Agent