Jul 21

 

 

 

Jul  21, 2021 Week: 30 Day: 202

Ave. Sky Cover: 20%\Visibility: 10 miles

Local Temp:  82°\ 52° Wind: 3mph\ Gusts: 6mph

Low risk of fire Active fire: 70mi. \ Lightning: 61mi.

Jul Averages: 82°\51° (9 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

 

 

Random Tidbits

 

The American Dietetic Association (ADA) concludes that a vegetarian or vegan diet is healthier than one that includes meat. They note that vegetarians have lower body mass indices, lower rates of death from heart disease, lower blood cholesterol levels, lower blood pressure, lower rates of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and less prostate and colon cancer.

 

True Things

 

-- In Gillette, Wyoming, a 62-year-old man called the Campbell County Sheriff's Office on June 24 to ask why he hadn't been arrested the day before, when officers raided his home. Undersheriff Quentin Reynolds asked him why he ought to be arrested, and the man admitted that he had used methamphetamine -- which might shed light on the fact that his house was never raided and there had been no plans to arrest him. He also told officers that 10 men were following him, the Associated Press reported. Deputies caught up with him as he was driving and arrested him for driving under the influence of a controlled substance. [Associated Press, 6/28/2021]

 

Idioms Origins

 

Toast

Bill Murray gave TOAST the meaning of YOU’RE DEAD in Ghostbusters. Bang. You’re Toast. The best part is, he made it up on the spot.

 

Weekly Observations

 

Rabbit Week	15-21
Hemp History Week Link National Moth Week Link	17-23
Captive Nations Week Everybody Deserves A Massage Week Link  National Independent Retailers Week Link   National Zoo Keeper Week Link	18-24
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week	18-25
International Lace Week Link	19-23
National Baby Food Week Link	21-24

 

Today’s Observations

 

Legal Drinking Age Day Lowest Recorded Temperature Day (-128.6F Antarctica) National Be Someone Day National Be Someone Day Link National Creme Brûlée Day National Hot Dog Day National Junk Food Day No Pet Store Puppies Day Take Your Poet to Work Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Looks like another monsoon this afternoon. The two storms yesterday were nice and cooling.

Another commercial space flight this morning. This time it was Blue Origin funded by Jeff Bezos. I don’t care that some are saying they aren’t ‘really’ astronauts because they didn’t orbit. This time it included Jeff, an 18-year-old young man and an 82-year-old woman who trained in the 60’s to be an astronaut. Space flights are moving more quickly now. Yeah!

I read yesterday that some DIA flights were delayed or postponed due to haze from the Oregon fires. WOW!

A few months ago Microsoft announced a big hack into their programs. Everyone thought ‘Russia’ again. Turns out, now the experts are saying it was China. They are much bigger traders with the US, so no sanctions, so far. Still it a rogue attack and should not be allowed.

 

2 New Puzzles Everyday

Answer: bottom of the page

 

Another one thing

Pri               son

 

 

Historical Events

 

356 BC – The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, was destroyed by arson.

1865 – In Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt, in what is considered as the first western showdown.

1902 – Willis Carrier showed his air conditioner concept in Buffalo, New York.

1918 – German submarine attacked Orleans, Massachusetts, hitting a tugboat and four barges, as well as striking the beach with shells. This was the only time that the continental United States was shelled during World War I.

1919 – The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.

1925 – In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.

1949 – The United States Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO).

1961 – Gus Grissom piloting, Liberty Bell 7, became the second American to go into space.

1979 – Jay Silverheels became the first Native American to have a star commemorated in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1983 – The world’s lowest temperature in an inhabited location was recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica (-128.6 °F, -89.2 °C).

2011 – NASA’s Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135.

2012 – Erden Eruc completes the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world, via several boats.

2013 Philippe of Belgium becomes King of Belgium after his father King Albert II's earlier abdication

2020 Stage 1 of the controversial filling of Blue Nile River dam announced completed by Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed

 

Birthdays Today

 

@81 – Don Knotts, American actor, screenwriter (d. 2006)

@78 – Janet Reno, American lawyer, politician (d. 2016; Parkinson’s)

73 – Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) [Steven Demetre Georgiou], English singer-songwriter, guitarist

73 – Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist

@61 – Ernest Hemingway, American novelist, short story writer, journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961; suicide)

64 – Jon Lovitz, American comedic actor

@63 – Robin Williams, actor/comedian (d. 2014; suicide)

@49 – John Gardner, novelist, essayist, critic (d. 1982; motorcycle accident)

43 – Josh Hartnett, American actor

 

Puzzles Answer

 

One thing after another                                                  Prison break