12 December

12 December 2022

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 51 Day 346 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 41° \23° 
Wind 8mph \ Gusts 17mph  Air Quality: Fair \ Very Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 384mi \ Nearest Lightning 429mi
Dec Averages for Flagstaff: 43° \ 17° `
Sunshine

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

Andisop (Meteorological Fiddling): 5-24   Link
Computer Science Education Week: 5-11 Link
Human Rights Week: 10-17

Daily Observations

Gingerbread House Day
Green Monday Link 
International Day of Neutrality
International Universal Health Coverage Day
National Ambrosia Day
National Cocoa Day  
International Day of Neutrality
International Universal Health Coverage Day
National Ambrosia Day
National Cocoa Day  Link
National Ding-A-Ling Day Link
National Lost Day Link
National Poinsettia Day
National 12-hour Fresh Breath Day
Our Lady of Guadalupe Link

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Sunny Day and a bit breezy.

Some weather guys are saying 5-10” of snow starting around midnight and continuing until Tuesday morning. Others are saying ‘light snow’ early Monday morning. As usual, the citizens of our little mountain town have learned to just wait and see.

Broncos play the Chiefs later today; Cards play Monday night.

It is time to have a scientific study: Does DNA have a role in Republican politicians who lose elections and then claim ‘voter fraud’? Keri Lake, the AZ Republican for Governor, who lost last month, has now filed a lawsuit that the election should be overturned. What a waste of taxpayer money.  

Favorite Memes

Did you Know?

Lincoln Borglum spent his young adulthood assisting his father on Mount Rushmore, ultimately overseeing the monument’s completion. To increase worker morale, on game days Lincoln parked his car close to the hoist operator and left the radio tuned to baseball; the hoist operator then phoned game updates to those stationed on the mountain. In 1938, Lincoln started recruiting amateur baseball players to work on the monument, and soon founded the Rushmore Drillers. Six days a week, practices followed the 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. work shifts, and games were played on Sundays. The team was good enough to make it to the semifinals of the State Amateur Baseball Tournament in 1939, but the Drillers disbanded when the government declared Mount Rushmore finished in 1941. 

Slang Origins

1933: Apple

Meaning: city

Have you ever wondered why New York City is sometimes called “The Big Apple?” In the 1930s, “apple” referred to any big city. The construction of the Empire State Building at the beginning of the decade, the tallest building in the world at the time, helped New York stand out as the biggest of all.

Corny jokes

5. What did the policeman say to his belly button?

You’re under a vest.

….

6. Why did the man get hit by a bike every day?

He was stuck in a vicious cycle.

Historical Events

1787 – Pennsylvania became the second state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1901 – Guglielmo Marconi sent the first Atlantic wireless (radio) transmission (three beeps) from Cornwall, England, to Newfoundland, Canada.
1913 – Originally stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris on August 11, 1911: Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece The Mona Lisa was recovered from Vincenzo Peruggia.
2015 – Paris Agreement relating to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was adopted.

Birthdays Today

99 – Bob Barker, American game show host
@88 – Ed Koch, American politician, 105th Mayor of New York City (d. 2013)
“You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it’s good for one’s self-respect to be a punching bag.”– Ed Koch
@82 – Frank Sinatra, American singer, and actor (d. 1998)
“The best revenge is massive success.”– Frank Sinatra
85 – Connie Francis [Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero ], American singer, actress
@80 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter, illustrator (d. 1944)
“I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.”
– Edvard Munch
@79 – Edward G. Robinson, American actor (d. 1973; cancr)
82 – Dionne Warwick, singer
73 – Bill Nighy, English actor
@72 – Henry Wells, co-founder of Wells Fargo and American Express (d. 1878)
70 – Cathy Rigby, American gymnast
65 – Sheila E. (Sheila Cecelia Escovedo), American singer-songwriter, drummer
47 – Mayim Bialik, American actress
“I don’t want to say everything happens for a reason, but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.”– Mayim Bialik
@22 – Otto Warmbier, American student imprisoned in North Korea (d. 2017)