Monday Open Thread: March 4 is National Grammar Day (United States)
March 4 is the 63rd day of the Gregorian Calendar year
Pungenday, Chaos 63, 3185 YOLD (discordian)
And let us not forget 13.0.6.5.4 by the Mayan Long Count
Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid, ...
On this day in history it was a seriously ugly day for indigenous peoples in the Americas:
1493 – Christopher Columbus arrived back in Lisbon.
1519 – Hernán Cortés arrived in Mexico
1628 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony received a Royal charter
1675 – John Flamsteed became the first Astronomer Royal of England.
1681 – Charles II granted a land charter to William Penn
1789 – The first Congress of the US met and put the US Constitution into effect.
1791 – Vermont was admitted to the United States.
1917 – Jeannette Rankin became the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
1933 – Frances Perkins became the US Secretary of Labor, the first female cabinet member.
1960 – The freighter La Coubre was blown up at dockside in Havana, probably by the US
Born this day in:
1394 – Henry the Navigator, "explorer"
1678 – Antonio Vivaldi, violinist and composer
1745 – Casimir Pulaski, the father of US cavalry
1778 – Robert Emmet, nationalist, rebel. patriot, commander
1901 – Wilbur R. Franks, scientist
1904 – George Gamow, physicist and cosmologist
1908 – Thomas Shaw, American singer and guitarist
1928 – Alan Sillitoe, writer, "angry young man"
1931 – Alice Rivlin, economist, debt reductionist, member of the catfood commission
1932 – Miriam Makeba, singer, songwriter, and actress, "Mama Africa"
1932 – Ed Roth, illustrator, "Big Daddy Roth"
1936 – Eric Allandale, trombonist and songwriter
1944 – Bobby Womack, singer and songwriter
1947 – Bob Lewis, guitarist, co-founder of Devo
1961 – Ray Mancini, pugilist, "Boom Boom"
Died this day in:
1852 – Nikolai Gogol, author and playwright
1858 – Matthew C. Perry, diplomat
1944 – Louis Capone, businessman, unrelated to Al, another businessman
1976 – Walter H. Schottky, physicist and engineer
1989 – Tiny Grimes, guitarist
1993 – Art Hodes, pianist
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
National Grammar Day (Uied States)
Music goes here, iirc, well,
Thomas Shaw
Miriam Makeba
Ray Mancini
Tiny Grimes
Image is Sachin Joshi's English Grammar Resources
It's an open thread, so do your thing
Comments
Me and Terry Pratchett
Multiple exclamation marks by Parker and Son's
A rolling stone gathers no moss. A square boulder gathers what now? lulz
The dot over the i is called a tittle, and this tittle peeves me no end. chalkboard fingernail
Nice use of office clips though, right on. "use what you have"
All locals plus dawg walk past the sign. keep going
have fun
monday monday
cant get away
I think I've been on that last road....
...based on the sign. Just read where they've opened the road to town after flooding undercut it and the road caved. Gotta run a few errands today so I'm glad I don't have to drive an extra 40 mins.
Spring is going to get nipped in the bud this week. Twenties and high teens due midweek. Maybe some blooms survive. The blueberries are loaded with buds, hope they withstand the weather.
Take care eyo and el. Hope everyone has a good day!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
We made the list again
The never ending Disaster List
Flooding in Sonoma County causes estimated $155 million in damage
keep punching
An epic flood and all we got was...
Ni! Hardly a scratch. LOL
Happy Grammar Day
Good morning, eyo. Thank you for tittle a nice bit of info. I
wonder if there are words for the variants that some folks substitute for the "standard tittle" like smiley faces and hearts. Perhaps we need to invent some. The good luck sign seems vaguely familiar, where is it?
Shouldn't the slide area have sliding rocks, on, conversely, be called a fall area? One of my favorite maladroit signs is "Slow Children at Play", a classic example of what commas are for.
Have yourself a great 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 --
Good Luck Speed Limit 45 MPH was a meme
good morning, I forget where I stole that image. It's a meme teenagers use on math teachers, apparently. lol I don't know who to credit or where it came from, sorry. In the background a sign says Okies or similar, and that could be any Municipal Bus anywhere, as far as I can tell. Clovertucky
District investing in vape detectors
Nothing to see here (but grift) move along. I guess I can't say "keep flushing" anymore either, because don't ask. The school system has already collapsed, read our signs. Or try to check out from a grocery clerk who can't make change without a scanner. I'm pretty sure vape detectors don't make children learn anything valuable, but go on. Friends have friends, fat salaries and good pensions. why not abuse
Thanks for minding the OT. cheers
inner peace
om
Bernie Still Killed Rosa
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Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.
Good morning, Lookout. Enjoy your errands if you can, and
be safe while you're at it. Sorry to hear about the coming freeze, I don't suppose that you can save anything? A lot of our stuff is arranged in such fashion that we can cover it with a few sheets of row cover and a few actual sheets and tarps and such. Good luck.
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 --
Good morning, Aspie. Thanks for the video - I like the idea
that the US is a "dictatorship of the bourgeoisie" - pick a card, any card ... .
Have a good one.
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 --
Not doing too well today.
Emotionally, I'm all over the place. For those who don't know I've been going through a breakup the last month. I'm not going to place blame, we were both at fault, but it still hurts, and I did a really shitty thing to end it. I packed up all her stuff and drove it to her parents house, then dropped it in her room when she was out of town. (She moved out a month ago, but never got her stuff. We kept saying we were going to keep trying, and I really believed it for a while. More the fool I, I guess. I should have accepted it was over when I tried to end it the first time, a YEAR ago.)
I feel like crap, but hopefully this is a positive step. I wish her nothing but happiness, because we were terrible for each other. We had some GREAT times, but they were brief and vibrant memories, while the day to day was criticisms of each other, and generally being terrible, then apologizing afterwords. Not a good relationship pattern to be in, and it would only continue. No reason to believe it would change.
I'm sure she is very angry at me, and we will have to meet up one more time. (We have a joint Cell phone, and all my kids schools are in it. Worst case scenario, I change all the numbers to my emergency backup phone, but that's a pain in the ass. Would be easier to just sever the connection, and I hope we are able to be mature enough to do it and that Verizon isn't slimy enough to try to get money out of us. If they pull that shit I'm just handing back the phone. Also I apparently forgot a couple things, so I need to give that back to her to.)
Sorry to dump my personal baggage here. I'm just finally accepting that it's over. That's hard for me. It feels like failure, and it hurts. I just have to accept that clinging to something that's dead isn't going to resurrect it. All it can do is drag both of us down.
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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Thought you might find this interesting
A little of his path and philosophy on blacksmithing. A true craftsman.
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Still yourself, deep water can absorb many disturbances with minimal reaction.
--When the opening appears release yourself.
Fascinating stuff.
Have a ton of Ideas, and once this damn shoulder heals, I hope to be back to it. Interesting thing I noticed, which I have mentioned, but Is worth bringing up again, is that my Judo grip and practice is very good for hammering, since the motion and stance is very similar. (In both cases you're projecting force, Blacksmithing is just more precise about the application.
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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Are you working on training your eye
while the shoulder is compromised? Portland has older districts where blacksmithed products are still in use on the buildings and in gardens. Check out the antique stores browsing does not cost anything.
Still yourself, deep water can absorb many disturbances with minimal reaction.
--When the opening appears release yourself.
Been reading a lot on the subject.
but other than that, not as much. Need to get out more, so if you have any suggestions in the Portland area, I'd love to check them out. Was downtown a couple days ago, and checking out the architecture of the old churches, and some of the bronzes near the library.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
A Place to start is
Old Portland Hardware and Architectural at 1667 SE Tacoma St. A little farther west is the Sellwood District with its Antique Row on 13th St. the buildings are as interesting as the products for sell. Ask a few questions and I am sure someone will direct you to other areas of interest.
Still yourself, deep water can absorb many disturbances with minimal reaction.
--When the opening appears release yourself.
Good afternoon, SOE. Thanks for dropping by.
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 --
Hey detroit. Sorry to hear it, and the effect on you that it is
having, but such things happen and, in the end, it is probably best to get them over and done with.Later, once it is well over, you can look back on the good bits with fondness.
Try to have a good day all the same.
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 --
I hope so too.
Talked to my therapist this morning, which helped Immeasurably. Appointment Tomorrow, so I hope that helps.
On the plus side, Saturday took my kids to Ground Kontrol arcade, which was really cheap. (25 bucks for a couple hours worth of game time.) Apparently both of my kids don't much care for arcade games, but they adore pinball, which is something I find charming. (I couldn't play, Arm was in the sling and can't do the stance for a pinball game)
Got to show them my favorite table from when I was 16. (Star Trek: The Next Generation. Hey, It had good music and some funny as hell special features, including two ball launchers which were just cool) Son was more into the modern one, (Enjoyed "The Hobbit" which is actually pretty cool with some interesting pop ups and modern screens.)
Only problem with the place is it has the age old problem with arcades. They turn up the music so high you can't hear the game. (And for pinball that's a pain in the ass, because the best pinball games have GREAT music. I really regretted missing the sound on one of my daughters favorite tables.)
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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Fun!
I've never heard of that place. But it sounds like it was a great way to spend a cold, windy Sunday with the kids.
Good morning, Granma, thanks for dropping by.
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 --
Mercy, mercy gramercy
question everything
Goodf afternoon, QMS. Thanks for reading and for
the Santana.
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 --