Jan 4

 

Week: 2 Day: 4
Ave. Sky Cover:  5% Visibility: 10 miles Local Temp:   41°\ -5° Wind: 2mph\ Gusts: 4mph
Very Low risk of fire Active fire: 507mi. \ Lightning: 1892mi.
Jan Averages: 43°\17° (5 days w/moisture)

Today’s Quote

Monthly Observations

Oatmeal Month Link
Self-help Group Awareness Month
Self-Love Month
Shape Up US Month
Teen Driving Awareness Month
Train Your Dog Month Link   Link
Thyroid Awareness Month Link
Unchain A Dog Month Link
Walk Your Pet Month Link  Link
World Introvert Month Link
Worldwide Rising Star Month

Weekly Observations

1-7	Diet Resolution Week Silent Record Week
1-8	National Personal Trainer Awareness Week
2-8	Someday We'll Laugh About This Week: Home Office Safety and Security Week Link National Folic Acid Awareness Week Link Dating & Life Coaches Recognition Week National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week
4-7	No Tillage Week

Daily Observations

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Another cold nice but warming up nicely. I ran a few errands this morning. Roads were dry, except for my road and parking lots.

The Broncos lost; the Cards won. Cards are in the playoffs.

60 Minutes ran a story on the Richie Boys, a secret American intelligence unit who fought in World War II. Many of them were German-born Jews who fled their homeland, came to America, and then joined the U.S. Army. The Ritchie Boys, as they were known, trained in espionage and frontline interrogation. And incredibly, they were responsible for most of the combat intelligence gathered on the Western Front. After watching, I had to wonder why the military didn’t learn from these exploits and form such a group for the War on Terror. One 98-year-old Richie Boy said they learned early in the war that they got more useful information from being understanding than from the torture. It makes sense. A similar group could have prevented waterboarding and other torture methods we used. 

Favorite Memes

 

Historical Events

1865 – The New York Stock Exchange opened its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street in New York City.

1903 – Thomas Edison’s team filmed the electrocution of a murdering elephant, Topsy, to show the dangers of Alternating Current electricity. Topsy (circa 1875 – January 4, 1903) was a female Asian elephant who was electrocuted at Coney Island, New York.

1959 – The USSR’s Luna 1 became the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.

 

Birthdays Today

·        @84 – Isaac Newton, English mathematician, and physicist (d. 1727)

·        @78 – Jacob Grimm, German writer, Grimm’s Fairy Tales (d. 1863)

·        @71 – Floyd Patterson, American boxer (d. 2006; Alzheimer’s/cancer)

59 – Dave Foley, Canadian comedian, actor,

·        @43 – Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille (d. 1852; TB)

·        @45 – General Tom Thumb (Charles Stratton), American circus performer (d. 1883; stroke)