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Flagstaff Today 37°:
9° Week 3 Day 16 Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Wind 11 mph Gusts 23 mph Cold Wind Active
Fire: 132 miles away Risk of Fire:
Moderate Nearest lightning: 1082 miles away Jan Averages: Temps: 44°\18°
Moisture: 4 Days |
Weekly Observations
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Cuckoo Dancing Week: 11-17 |
Idiom Week: 12-18 No Name Calling Week: 13-17 Link |
Daily Observations
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Appreciate
A Dragon Day Hot
Heads Chili Day |
Kid
Inventors’ Day |
Today’s Quote
Today’s Memes
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Thoughts for the day
Another cold morning. By noon it
warmed up to a sweltering 37°.
I bundled up and headed out around 10
to get a pedicure. There was an 84-year-old man in the nearest chair. He looked
at me and said “You always gotta take care of your feet. I know, I’m 84”. I told
him I agreed. My feet and I do feel much better.
I knew it was a dry winter.
Moisture
from Dec 2 to Jan 15 3
driest on record
0.1”
in 2024-25 0.02” in 2005-06 0.11” in 1917-18
There is now a ceasefire in Gaza.
Thanks to Qatar's leadership there is a long-term (42 day) ceasefire. Everyone
involved hopes each of the phases hold.
Mayan Culture of Mexico and beyond…
They had an extensive
library of written books.
Revisiting the Maya
hieroglyphs, the Maya used their written language to fill books. Using strips
of paper made from fig tree bark, the Maya created a vast library of books,
including three codices that exist today.
But hundreds of books
were lost over time, either due to the humid climate of the region or the
arrival of Europeans who burned the written texts.
Random Thoughts…
The Soviet Union
national ice hockey team participated
nine times in the Winter Olympics and won seven gold medals, one silver medal
and one bronze medal.
Biggest film of 1984: Ghostbusters (Comedy) earned ~ $242,000,000
Ray Charles – Real Name: Ray Charles Robinson
We invented the wheel, built the pyramids, discovered electricity and landed on the moon, but
still haven’t found a way to stop accidentally biting the inside of your mouth
when you least expect it.
I don’t think I’m a
robot, but maybe that’s just part of my
programming.
Woody Allen – Real Name: Allen
Konigsberg
Because 1800 was not a leap year, John
Adams served one fewer day as president than all other one-termers.
Lord Acton’s famous quote ‘Power tends
to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.’ is immediately followed by
‘Great men are almost always bad men’.
A group of Asteroids is called a Belt.
Origin of city nicknames…
Chicago, Illinois: ‘Windy City’
‘Windy City’ could easily refer
to the chill weather blowing in from Lake Michigan, but it most likely has a
less obvious origin. In the late 19th century, Chicago regularly played host to
major political conventions, and quickly gained a reputation for both its
loquacious politicians and boastful citizens, who loved to proclaim their
hometown’s status as the undisputed “Metropolis of the West”. In other words,
it became known as, quite literally, a city of windbags, a derisive term which,
over time, has been adopted with pride.
Historic Events
Birthdays
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@78 – Andre
Michelin, French industrialist, founder of Michelin Tire Company (d. 1931)
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…The End for today…
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