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Week 2 Day 13
Flag Today 47°/1° Sky
cover: 5% Wind 6mph Gusts 16mph Active Fire: 510miles away Risk of fire: Very Low Nearest Lightning:
1492miles away Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Jan. Daily Averages: Temps: 44°\16°
Moisture: 5 Days |
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Today’s Quote
Today’s Meme
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Weekly Observations
6-2/13
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10-14
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Daily Observations
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Delta Sigma Theta Day |
National Vision Board Day |
Today’s Thoughts
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Another cold night, but warming nicely. At noon it is a
sweltering 47°. Yesterday’s storm dropped about 3” on new powder. No complaints. I stayed home yesterday, awaiting the cable guy between 11am-2pm.
At 1:50 I got a call from Optimum. My channel guide issue had been discovered
as ‘regional’ and while they were working on it, they had no idea when it
would be fixed. They said I would get a call soon to cancel my appointment. I
got the call and canceled. A real time example of the left hand not knowing
what any other body was doing. This morning when I got up, the guide was
working fine. It only cost me a couple of hours of my retirement. |
Important inventions…
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1976: Supercomputer The Cray-1, the first commercially developed
supercomputer, is installed in the Los Alamos National Laboratory. It’s the
first supercomputer to successfully implement vector processors, a system
that allows a single operation to quickly be performed on a large set of
data, which is reflected in its speed of 160 MFLOPS—or 160 million
floating-point operations per second. The Summit supercomputer, which went online at the
Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2018, is capable of 143.5 petaflops. |
States that never
made the map
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Forgottonia This tongue-in-cheek attempt at secession may have
escaped your radar, which would be fitting given the proposed state's name.
Forgottonia was dreamt up in 1971 as a protest to raise awareness about 14
notoriously overlooked and neglected counties in western Illinois. The brainchild of university student Neil Gamm, who was
appointed first governor, Forgottonia never did achieve statehood. But the
campaign achieved its aim of drawing attention to the region, which regained
its Amtrak service as a result. |
Untrue myths about
Colonial America…States that never
made the map
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America's Wilderness Was Untouched Before The Europeans
Arrived Although many people like to believe that the forests of
America were essentially untouched before the Europeans arrived, as it turns
out, that's far from the truth. In reality, the Native Americans had been
working the land for agriculture for centuries, and had made such an impact
on the land that it changed the climate in the northeastern United States. They also practiced controlled burns and cleared sections
of the forest for crops. However, such beliefs that the Native Americans
didn't know how to use their land encouraged settlers to take them from it. |
Historic Events
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1910 – Lee De Forest performed the first public radio
broadcast in New York City. 1966 – Robert C. Weaver was appointed United States
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, becoming the first African
American Cabinet member. 1968 – Johnny Cash performed at Folsom Prison in Folsom,
California. |
Birthdays with some
quotes
@91 – Michael Bond,
English soldier and author, created Paddington Bear (d. 2017)
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…The End for today…
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