Mar 6, 2021 Week: 9 Day:65 | Visibility:
10 miles
Local: H 52°\ L 30°\Ave. Sky Cover: 5% Wind:
14mph/ Gusts: 27mph
Nearest Lightning: 938mi. Moderate Risk of Fire: Active
fire: 434mi
Record:68° [1910] Record:
-2°[1935 ] Mar. Averages: 53°/23° (6 days with moisture)
Today’s Quote
A cloudy day is no match
for a sunny disposition.
~William Arthur Ward
Random Tidbits
Unless you're a real
science geek, chances are you never knew these elements even existed.
Nonetheless, many of them form the foundations of modern life.
Dysprosium (Dy)
Dysprosium (atomic number
66), is named after the ancient Greek dysprositos, meaning "hard to
get," appropriately enough. The soft, metallic substance is in big demand
for electric motors, especially those in electric vehicles and wind turbines,
which has earned dysprosium a place on the U.S. Department of Energy's list of
critical materials for the green economy.
A Little Humor
Who is the bees favorite singer? Sting!
And Now This.....
A llama walked up to a mirror and immediately started ejecting saliva
all over the place it was his spitting image.
Monthly Observations
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Transgender Month of Action for Healthcare
Equality Link |
Weekly Observations
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Lent [Christian] |
Thru 4/3 |
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National Pasty Week Cancelled |
Thru 3/6 |
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Hearing Awareness
Week Link Telecommuter Appreciation Week Universal Human
Beings Week Link |
1-7 |
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International Festival of Owls Week |
5-7 |
Today’s Observations
America's Cup - 36th
Finals begins
Day of The Dude Link
Dentist's Day
Dress Day
Genealogy Day Link
Iditarod: begins
National Day of Unplugging: 5-6 Link
National Dentist's Day Link
National Dress Day Link
National Frozen Food
Day
National Oreo Day Link
National Play Outside Day Link
Sock Monkey Day
Sofia Kovalevskaya Math Day Link
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
A nice day with blue sky. A little too much wind for me. I headed out
early to do my weekly grocery shopping. Now I’m ready for the weekend.
The Pope is in Iraq. He is a brave man. I certainly would like to see
the country and its rich history but will wait until there is peace for a
couple of years. I hope his visit a complete success.
The vaccine rollout seems to be ahead of schedule. That’s good. I
still have some time before my second dose, but it’s all good.
The Senate has been slowed on passing the relief bill when a
Republican used a rule that the entire 680+ page bill must be read orally into
the record. Sure glad I am not the reader.
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
This “burning rope” problem is a classic logic puzzle. You have two
ropes that each take an hour to burn but burn at inconsistent rates. How can
you measure 45 minutes? (You can light one or both ropes at one or both ends at
the same time.)
Historical Events
1836 – The Battle (and fall) of the Alamo took place.
1857 – The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in the Dred Scott
v. Sandford case. It stated that anyone brought into the United States as a
slave, or their descendants could never be a United States citizen. The court
of public opinion disagreed very vocally a few years later.
1899 – Bayer registered Aspirin as a trademark. Aspirin is considered
by many to be the first wonder drug.
1930 – General Foods put the first individually packaged frozen foods
– “Birds Eye Frosted Foods” on sale in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1943 – Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in The Saturday
Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the ‘Four
Freedoms Series.’
1950 – Silly Putty was introduced as a toy by Peter Hodgson. It was
invented in 1943 by James Wright in an effort to make synthetic rubber.
1953 – James Watson and Francis Crick submitted to ‘Nature’ magazine
their first article on the structure of DNA. It was published in the April
25th, 1953 issue.
1964 – Nation of Islam’s Elijah Muhammad officially gave boxing
champion Cassius Clay the name of Muhammad Ali.
1981 – Walter Cronkite resigned as the main anchorman of The CBS
Evening News
1983 – Country Music Television (CMT) began.
1985 – The song We Are the World was released.
1992 – The Michelangelo computer virus began to affect computers.
2001 – Napster began to block the transfer of copyrighted material
over its peer-to-peer network. In July 2001, Napster shut down its entire
network.
2015 US State Department charges 2 Vietnamese and a Canadian citizen
with cyber-fraud, for stealing 1 billion email addresses for spam
2017 US President Donald Trump signs his second executive order
barring travelers from 6 mostly Muslim countries for 90 days but leaves out
Iraq
2018 World's oldest message in a bottle found in Western Australia,
thrown from German ship Paula 132 years ago (12 June 1886)
2018 Pope Francis announces that murdered Salvadorean Archbishop Óscar
Romero will be made a saint
2018 Forbes names Amazon founder Jeff Bezos the world's richest person
for the first time at $112 billion, Bill Gates no. 2
2019 Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg reveals plans to turn the social
media platform into a more "privacy-focused platform."
Birthdays Today
95 – Alan Greenspan, American
economist
@88 –
Michelangelo, Italian painter,
sculptor (d. 1564)
@86 – Ed
McMahon, comedian, game show
host, announcer (d. 2009)
74 – John Stossel,
American journalist, author
@70 – Bob Wills, Western swing musician,
songwriter, bandleader (d. 1975)
58 – D.L. Hughley,
American actor
@55 – Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, English poet (d. 1861; long illness)
@52 – Lou
Costello, American actor and
comedian (d. 1959; cardiac arrest)
49 – Shaquille O’Neal,
American basketball player
@36 – Cyrano de
Bergerac, French author and
playwright (d. 1655; killed?)
Puzzle Answer
Because they both burn inconsistently, you can’t just light one end of
a rope and wait until it’s 75 percent of the way through. But this is what you
can do: Light the first rope at both ends, and light the other rope at one end,
all at the same time. The first rope will take 30 minutes to burn (even if one
side burns faster than the other, it still takes 30 minutes). The moment the
first rope goes out, light the other end of the second rope. Because the time
elapsed of the second rope burning was 30 minutes, the remaining rope will also
take 30 minutes; lighting it from both ends will cut that in half to 15
minutes, giving you 45 minutes all together.
