April 24, 2017 Open Thread; International Sculpture Day
April 24 is the 114th day of the year. There are 251 days left.
Today's number is 24
24 is 2 (a prime) x 12 (a great number system base) as well as 4 factorial
24 is the sum of two primes, 11 & 13
24 is the number of ways that 4 different things can be ordered
Ten to the 24 of anything is a yotta (rhymes with lotta)
A tesseract (hypercube) has 24 square faces
The product of any 4 consecutive numbers is divisible by 24
24 is chromium
There are 24 major & minor keys in western tonal music
24 carat gold is 100% pure (and seriously malleable)
There are 24 hours in a day (by convention)
Title 24 of the US Code is HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS.
24 BCE
was the Consulship of Augustus and Flaccus
Tenth consulship for Augustus, ho hum.
24 CE
was the Year of the Consulship of Cethegus and Varro
King Yuri of Silla became such
Namhae, king of Silla, died
Strabo died
On this day in:
1479 BCE -- Thutmose III took the throne of Egypt and Hatshepsut took control
1184 BCE -- The fall of Troy.
1800 -- The US Library of Congress was established by law
1877 -- Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire. got it? 1877!
1895 -- Joshua Slocum sailed from boston in the Spray
1914 -- The Franck--Hertz experiment was presented to the German Physical Society
1915 -- The arrest of 250 Armenians in Istanbul started the Armenian Genocide.
1916 -- The Easter Rising (Ireland)
1923 -- Sigmund Freud published The Ego and the Id
1932 -- The mass trespass of Kinder Scout
1933 -- Nazi Germany started persecuting Jehovah's Witnesses
1957 -- The Suez Canal was reopened
1990 -- The Hubble Space Telescope was launched
1996 -- The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 was signed into law by Bill Clinton
2004 -- The US lifted sanctions imposed on Libya in '86 in order to gull them into complacency
Happy Easter Britannia
Born this day in:
1743 -- Edmund Cartwright, inventor of the power loom
1815 -- Anthony Trollope, author
1878 -- Jean Crotti, painter
1880 -- Gideon Sundback, developer of the zipper
1880 -- Josef Muller, entomologist
1903 -- Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, fascist, founded the Falange, merged by Franco with the Carlists
1904 -- Willem de Kooning, painter
1905 -- Robert Penn Warren, writer
1931 -- Bridget Riley, painter (Op Art)
1937 -- Joe Henderson, composer and soxophonist
1940 -- Sue Grafton, A is for author, W is for writer
1941 -- John Williams, composer and guitarist
1942 -- Richard M. Daley, some sort of Capo in Chitown
1942 -- Barbra Streisand, singer and actress
1944 -- Bernard St. Clair Lee, singer
1944 -- Tony Visconti, record producer
1945 -- Doug Clifford, drummer and songwriter
1948 -- David Ingram, songwriter and keyboards player
1963 -- Paula Frazer, guitarist, singer, and songwriter
1963 -- Billy Gould, bassist and songwriter
1966 -- David Usher, activist, singer and songwriter
1982 -- Kelly Clarkson, American Idol
Died this day in:
1731 -- Daniel Defoe, author and spook
1947 -- Willa Cather, author and poet
1970 -- Otis Spann, pianist and singer
1974 -- Bud Abbott, Lou's bud.
1975 -- Pete Ham, guitarist, singer and songwriter
1997 -- Pat Paulsen, probably the best presidential candidate we've ever had
2008 -- Jimmy Giuffre, played clarinet and sax
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
International Sculpture Day
Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (Armenia)
Fashion Revolution Day
So, for music Joe Henderson John Williams Barbra Streisand Bernard St. Clair Lee Tony Visconti Doug Clifford David Ingram Paula Frazer Billy Gould David Usher Kelly Clarkson Otis Spann Pete Ham Jimmy Giuffre-
Joe Henderson
John Williams
Barbra Streisand
Bernard St. Clair Lee
Tony Visconti
Doug Clifford
David Ingram
Paula Frazer
Billy Gould
David Usher
Kelly Clarkson
Otis Spann
Pete Ham
Jimmy Giuffre
OK, what's on your minds?
Bonus:
Comments
Happy Monday! (if such exists). Sunny and warmish here,
predicted high 70. Two nights of zero sleep, but good reading. I take bed-rest periods during the day. Still living in Life, Interrupted. Counting down to Friday when I should be released from this third cast on my foot-to-knee. Painful shin rubbing. I lost three weeks after the dislocation due to being assigned an Orthopedist who was a hip and knee person, not a foot specialist. Not happy with that, extra insurance payouts, of no benefit to me.
Our area is still under flood warnings (2 weeks now) and streams are running high, people+dogs swept away and rescued. All of my cross-hill culverts are blocked upside and my lower driveway is still a stream. Gullies abound. It's beyond me now. Heavy equipment time.
Seed-starting inside is rewarding. Mustard greens sprouted in 2 days. Sweet peas (childhood memories) are rooting at 4 days. I now have a room that is illuminated all night, but no MJ going. The lights are all LED banks, not clear how much electric they draw yet.
On Friday, cast should be cut off. I will come home to take my first shower in 7 weeks. And throw away a set of sheets; fiberglass casts are ruination of sheets. A warning for those of you who may acquire one!
More green every day. It's very encouraging.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Take it slow and easy once the cast is off, overdoing
it is a major recovery failure. Good luck with the flooding.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
A rainy day (week) here too
We had 1.8 inches last week, and another 2 inches of rain this weekend. Luckily no flooding, and I re-graded the road and cleaned out my ditches and weeps a week ago (so I'm hoping for minimal road wash).
Too wet to get into the garden today, but managed to harvest lettuce this weekend.
Hope you all have a good 24th!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Well, good luck with your road and enjoy your lettuce.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Born this day in: 1924, my mom
In American date format 4-24-24 was easy for me to remember her birthday and age, usually happy spring celebrations despite whatever else.
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Back! New and Improved: The Next Barack Obama: Kamala Harris. Just kidding, maybe not.
Who Is the Future of the Democratic Party?
Okay, welcome back Mr. President: Obama apologizes for calling Attorney General Kamala Harris good-looking , because values.
I have marked todays propaganda spewing from Sacramento via the LA Times and SacBee, but it has made me kinda sick to my stomach. The Clintonites still pwn California is why. I don't want to fight about it anymore.
This futurama clip is like D 2016 campaign cartoon. Bender is Clinton, The Devil is Obama, Bernie is first born son. "Wow that was pretty brutal even by my standards." "No backsies!" And Bernie campaigned for both of them, that's the system. He's not burning, he is out talk talk talking like always. Hells bells, what are you gonna do?
Thanks, and happy mom's birthday day.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Joshua Slocum,
for those who don't know, was the first person to singlehand(going solo) sail around the world. Been inspiring folks to die at sea ever since.
Really? I need a snark tag for that?
peace
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
His boat, the Spray, wasn't much of a boat, either, so
he is also an inspiration to small(ish) boat sailors everywhere.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Monday morning
...and up late as usual.
I've been thinking of 'identity politics' (mainly because theres a big stink about it right now).
American culture seems to be all about 'ME' these days.
In the 30's when the New Deal was happening and unionism was on he rise,there was much more 'WE' in our consciousness. Now it's not 'WE' but 'people like ME'(US as opposed to THEM).
In a society of failing neo-liberal institutions it is understandable that we would all be broken and hurting by this. It's hard to get past 'MY' pain and situation and get back to where we need to be which is 'WE'.
We need empathy and compassion and stress those issues that are at the core of the problem.
my 2 kopeks commrades
Here's a couple of tweets from a guy I post stuff from a lot...
I want a Pony!
There was a time when "identity politics" was inclusive,
a tool for collaborating and merging goals, platforms and actions. Then came generation Reagan, and afterward, thanks in part to the shifts within the Democratic party, we got identity politics as a divisive self-centered weapon to attack the left and forestall progress on anything.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --