Jul 16,
2021 Week: 29 Day: 197
Ave. Sky Cover: 30%\Visibility:
10 miles
Local Temp: 75°\ 57°
Wind: 7mph\ Gusts: 5mph
Low risk of fire
Active fire: 28mi. \
Lightning: 11mi.
Jul Averages: 82°\51° (9 days
w/moisture)
Today’s Quote
Random Tidbits
• During a car crash, 40% of drivers never even hit the
brakes.
• When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly
less.
• Sitting straight up is bad for your back. You should slough
at an angle of 135 degrees.
True Things
Yeah, Science!
In a study published June
10 in the journal Green Chemistry, scientists at the University of Edinburgh in
Scotland announced a breakthrough. They had genetically engineered bacteria to
convert terephthalic acid -- a compound left over when plastic-eating bugs
(discovered in Japan in 2016) do their thing -- to vanillin, the primary
component of extracted vanilla beans that produces the taste and smell of
vanilla. Global demand for the chemical is far outpacing the world's supply of
natural vanilla beans. "Using microbes to turn waste plastics ... into an
important commodity is a beautiful demonstration of green chemistry," said
Ellis Crawford of the U.K.'s Royal Society of Chemistry. [The Guardian,
6/10/21]
Idioms Origins
Retsyn
Certs Breath Mints
have been around since 1956. When they first came out, they marketed themselves
as both a candy and a breath mint. Candies are subject to certain tariffs, and
they went back and forth in the courts finally deciding they were breath mints.
Those breath mints
contain ‘retsyn’, which sounds good, but it’s basically just homogenized
vegetable oil. It sounds scientific though.
Ribbit (frog sound)
Ribbit came from a
1965 episode of Gilligan’s Island. Mel Blanc provided the voice of the frog,
I’d have to call him the inventor. Before that, frogs were usually referred to
by their croaking sound.
Weekly Observations
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Tour de
France Link |
Thru 7/18 |
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Family Golf Week Link National Farriers Week National Vodka Week Link National Therapeutic Recreation
Week Link Operation Safe Driver Week Link |
11-17 |
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National Ventriloquism Week Link |
14-17 |
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National Cancer Survivor Sibling
Week Link |
15-18 |
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Rabbit Week |
15-21 |
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National Sweet Corn Week |
16-17 |
Today’s Observations
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Celebration
of The Horse Day National
Guinea Pig Day Link National
Personal Chef's Day Link |
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
The return of the monsoon. It has been 3 years since we have had a
good monsoon. It is so nice to have it back. I have already had two storms
today with significant rain…for the desert.
Our local flooding made the internet and national news. There is a
short video of a small car being pushed down the street by water. It hits a
truck and a car before stopping. No injuries, just some great footage for the
internet.
Mary and I had lunch at Olive Garden. It has been forever since we
ate there. The All-You-Can-Eat soup and salad was great. Mary is leaving next
week for 2 weeks at her beach house in Oregon. It will be a nice break for Mike
and Mary.
For the past month or so my CPAP mask has irritated by skin where it wraps around my nose/mouth. Skin is really red. I have tried lotions to no avail. I picked up my CPAP supplies and they had me call the respiratory therapist. He is sending some cloth covers for the facemask. I hope they help. It is embarrassing to have red skin around my mouth and nose.
2 New Puzzles Everyday
Answer: bottom of the page
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Historical Events
1661 – The first banknotes in Europe were issued by the Swedish bank
Stockholm’s Banco.
1769 – Father Junípero Serra founded California’s first mission, Mission
San Diego de Alcalá, later known as San Diego, California.
1790 – The District of Columbia was established as the capital of the
United States with the Residence Act.
1862 – David Farragut was promoted to rear admiral, becoming the first
officer in United States Navy to hold the rank.
1915 – The Boy Scout’s First Order of the Arrow ceremony took place
and the Order of the Arrow was founded.
1935 – The world’s first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma. The first US patent for the device was filed by Roger W. Babson, on
August 30, 1928.
1941 – Joe DiMaggio hit safely for the 56th consecutive game, an MLB
record that still stands.
1945 – (Manhattan Project) The US successfully detonated a
plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1951 – The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger was published
for the first time, by Little, Brown and Company.
1956 – Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closed its last
“Big Tent” show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1965 – The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opened.
1969 – Apollo 11 was launched from the Kennedy Space Center
at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
1994 – Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter, through July 22.
1999 – John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren
Bessette, died when the Piper Saratoga PA-32R aircraft he was piloting crashed
into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard.
2004 – Millennium Park was opened to the public by Mayor
Richard M. Daley.
2005 "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", the 6th book
in the series by J. K. Rowling, is published worldwide. 9 million copies sell
in 24 hrs
2014 Bashar al-Assad is sworn in for a third term as President of
Syria
2018 12 new moons discovered orbiting Jupiter bringing planet's moon
total to 79, by scientists at Carnegie Institution for Science
2018 Historic cemetery (1878-1911) announced discovered near Houston,
Texas, containing 95 remains though to be African Americans slaves
Birthdays Today
@88 – Orville Redenbacher, farmer, businessman, founded
Orville Redenbacher’s (died in 1995)
@82 – Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (died in 1990)
@64 – Joseph Jefferson
Jackson ‘Shoeless’ Joe
Jackson, baseball player (d. 1951; heart attack)
54 – Will Ferrell, American comedic actor
53 – Larry Sanger, American philosopher and businessman, co-founded
Wikipedia
50 – Corey Feldman, American actor
Puzzles Answer
Scrambled eggs paint
by numbers
