19 Jan

 

Week 3  Day 19  Flag Today  55°/25° Sky cover:  20% Wind 4mph Gusts 8mph Active Fire:  291miles away Risk of fire: Low  Nearest Lightning:  1232miles away Air Quality: Excellent Sunshine Jan. Daily Averages: Temps: 44°\16° Moisture:  5ays

Today’s Quote                                                                                                Today’s Meme

Weekly Observations

6-2/13 Carnival 13-21 International Snowmobile Safety & Awareness Week Link  14-20 Healthy Weight Week Hunt for Happiness Week Idiom Week Sugar Awareness Week

15-19 No Name Calling Week Link 17-23 National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week 18-25 Week of Christian Unity 18-28 Sundance Film Festival

Daily Observations

Artist as Outlaw Day Bald Eagle Appreciation Days Good Memory Day Hat Day International Fetish Day

National Popcorn Day Link Tenderness Towards Existence Day Tin Can Day  World Day of Migrants and Refugees World Quark Day Link

Today’s Thoughts

A nice winter day…warming up nicely. I had lunch with Mary and Mike today. They called early this morning and are in Flag until Friday then back to Phoenix. Mary’s son will be spending every other week with Mary and Mike in Phoenix. His wife will be with her parents on opposite weeks. He’s only been sober about 4 months and his wife can’t live with him anymore. They have 17-year-old twins who will remain in the family house all the time. One week with mom, one week with dad. Tough on everyone. Andy called this morning and his brother passed away during the night. The brother had been in hospice for about 3 months. Another difficult time for good friends. My brother sent me a picture of the pomegranate growing in their back yard. Cool for sure. I read an interesting article on the Jeffco School District that was on a Colorado news site. Falling enrolment and community history was discussed for closing of 16 K-8 schools in their huge district. Times have certainly changed since I attended Jeffco schools.

Weird History…

Boston Was Once Drowned In Molasses It's hard to believe, but it's true - in 1919, Boston was literally drowned in molasses. On January 15th of that year, a massive storage tank containing 2.3 million gallons of molasses burst open and sent an immense wave of the sticky goo rushing through the streets at 35 miles per hour. The disaster killed 21 people, injured 150 more, and caused millions of dollars worth of property damage. It took months for the city to clean up all the molasses, and today it remains one of the most bizarre natural disasters in American history.

Most important inventions

1982: Computer Virus Fifteen-year-old Rich Skrenta creates an application called Elk Cloner as a prank—and ends up creating the first virus to spread outside its home network. Elk Cloner spreads via floppy disk and attaches to the Apple OS II operating system. When users boot from the disk, Elk Cloner transfers the computer’s memory; any additional disks inserted without rebooting are also infected. On every fiftieth boot, the computer displays text written by Skrenta: Elk Cloner: The program with a personality / It will get on all your disks / It will infiltrate your chips / Yes it’s Cloner! / It will stick to you like glue / It will modify ram too / Send in the Cloner!

Untrue myths about Colonial America…States that never made the map

Most People Were Illiterate So Shop Signs Were Pictures While shop and inn signs with pictures were helpful for people who couldn't read, the majority of people being illiterate wasn't why they were put to use. In fact, most white colonists were literate, with a study of legal documents from the second half of the seventeenth century demonstrating that 60% of white men and 25% of white women could read. Of course, over time, these numbers fluctuated as more people learned how to read, especially in certain areas where it was common to read and study the Bible.

Historic Events

1883 – The first electric lighting system using overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, began in Roselle, New Jersey.1915 – 1915 – Georges Claude patented the neon tube. 1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was founded.

Birthdays with some quotes

@99– George Burns, American comedian (d. 1996) You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old 94 – Tippi Hedren, American model, and actress @83 – James Watt, Scottish-English chemist and engineer (d. 1819) 80 – Shelley Fabares, American actress and singer 78 – Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter and actress Find out who you are and do it on purpose. 77 – Paula Deen, American chef, and author @74 – Phil Everly, American singer-songwriter, The Everly Brothers (d. 2014; COPD) @73 – Frederico Fellini, Italian film director (d. 1993; heart attack) @67 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906; pneumonia) Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.71 – Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor and singer 70 – Katey Sagal, American actress 69 – Paul Rodriguez, Mexican-American comedian, and actor @63 – Robert E. Lee, American general and academic (d. 1870; strokes) The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow, and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope. @54 – Robert Palmer, English singer-songwriter (d. 2003; heart attack) 53 – Shawn Wayans, American actor, producer, and screenwriter @43 – Junior Seau, American football player (d. 2012; suicide) @40 – Edgar Allan Poe, American short-story writer, poet, and critic (d. 1849; alcoholism) I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. 32 – Shawn Johnson, American gymnast 32 – Logan Lerman, American actor @27 – Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (d. 1970; OD) #27club Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. @26 – Mac Miller, American rapper (d. 2018; OD)

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