August 8, 2016, *Happiness Happens Day* Open Thread
August 8 is the 220th day of the year. There are 145 days left.
Today's number is eight
8 is 2 cubed
Base 8 math is Octal, which is a computer thing, at least on older machines
There are 8 bits in a byte, at least on older machines
8 is a fibonacci number (3 + 5)
An 8 sided polygon is an octagon
A polyhedron with 8 faces is an octahedron
A cube has 8 corners
8 is Oxygen
spiders and other arachnids have 8 legs
An octopus has 8 tentacles
An 8 can be a motor vehicle, further specified as a V-8 or a straight 8
An 8 or racing 8 is a sweep propelled crew shell with 8 rowers and a coxswain
A figure 8 is an ice skating figure
A figure 8 knot is a type of stopper knot
A Lazy 8 is slang for the infinity symbol
8 the hard way, in craps, is 2 fours
8 ball is a type of pocket billiards
There are 8 furlongs in a mile
There are 8 tablespoons in a gill.
There are 8 fluid ounces in a cup
There are 8 pints ounces in a gallon
8 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Censorinus and Gallus
Empress Wang was born
The Roman poet Horace died
Empress Xu died
8 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Camillus and Quinctilianus
The Roman poet Ovid was banished from Rome and exiled to the Black Sea
On this day in:
1709 -- Bartolomeu de Gusmão demonstrated the lifting power of hot air.
1876 -- Thomas Edison got a patent on his mimeograph.
1908 -- The Wright Brothers' first public flight, Wilbur in the plane.
1942 -- The Quit India Movement against British rule started in India
1946 -- First flight of the Convair B-36, a mass produced nuke delivery vehicle.
1967 -- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was formed
1990 -- Iraq occupied Kuwait leading to the Gulf War.
Born this day in:
1814 -- Esther Hobart Morris, lawyer and judge, first female justice of the peace in US
1879 -- Emiliano Zapata, Mexican general and politician
1884 -- Sara Teasdale, poet and educator
1896 -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author and academic
1901 -- Ernest Lawrence, physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, founded Lawrence Berkeley & Lawrence Livermore Labs.
1902 -- Paul Dirac, physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1907 -- Benny Carter, saxophonist, trumpet player, and composer
1932 -- Mel Tillis, singer, songwriter and guitarist (Old Dogs)
1933 -- Joe Tex, singer & songwriter
1939 -- Phil Balsley, singer & songwriter (The Statler Brothers)
1941 -- George Tiller, physician
1944 -- John Renbourn, guitarist and songwriter (Pentangle)
1950 -- Willie Hall, drummer and producer (The Blues Brothers, The Bar-Kays, and Booker T. & the M.G.'s)
1952 -- Anton Fig, drummer (Spider, Frehley's Comet, and Booker T. & the M.G.'s)
1956 -- Chris Foreman, singer, songwriter and guitarist (Madness)
1956 -- David Grant, singer (Linx)
1957 -- Dennis Drew, keyboard player (10,000 Maniacs)
1961 -- The Edge, singer, songwriter and guitarist (U2)
1973 -- Scott Stapp, singer, songwriter and producer (Creed)
Died this day in:
1879 -- Immanuel Hermann Fichte, philosopher and academic
1940 -- Johnny Dodds, clarinet player and saxophonist
1965 -- Shirley Jackson, author
1975 -- Cannonball Adderley, saxophonist
1985 -- Louise Brooks, American actress and dancer
2004 -- Fay Wray, actress
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
Feast of the Four Crowned Martyrs
Happiness Happens Day
So, for music we gots:
Benny Carter
Mel Tillis
Joe Tex
Phil Balsley
John Renbourn
Willie Hall
Anton Fig
Chris Foreman
David Grant
Dennis Drew
The Edge
Scott Stapp
Johnny Dodds
Cannonball Adderley
Benny Carter
Mel Tillis
Joe Tex
Phil Balsley
John Renbourn
Willie Hall
Anton Fig
Chris Foreman
David Grant
Dennis Drew
The Edge
Scott Stapp
Johnny Dodds
Cannonball Adderley
Happiness Happens!!
Comments
Good morning.
I'm just getting moving myself. I have lot to get done today. Unfortunately the temperatures in Pueblo, Colorado are starting to climb higher after a mild few days. I'm planning on taking a few pictures of the desert with my camera so I can post them here soon.
Is there any sort of schedule to how open threads are published?
Good, I love the desert, though most of my time has been
spent in the Mojave, Anza-Gorrego, and the high desert in NE Cal.
There is a schedule for "regularly published" OTs, like the Evening Blues, or these morning open threads (which are on a rotation), and some others, but anybody can publish an essay at any time and declare it to be an open thread.
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 --
Knives are out at DU against Jill Stein.
They think she is working in league with Trump and Putin to destroy America. They've embraced the "realities" of the two-party system. A vote for Stein, they say, is a vote for Trump. Apparently public enemy number 1 is now Jill Stein. Sad sad times.
At DU they instituted Kos-like rules to enforce democratic unity, just after the primaries ended. At least they had the decency to wait until the polls closed (unlike DKos). But the demands for party unity are exactly the same as at DKos, or else. I "or-elsed", but still read over there, and at DKos.
Last week Kos was crowing over his bump on Alexa, kinda shows ya what is on his mind -- DKos is a huge american success story, in terms of advertising. Sad, sad times.
~annominous
Jill might get 5 percent of the vote
Last time Jill Stein got 0.36 percent of the popular vote (my vote was in there somewhere). This time she might get 5 percent or more. With 5 percent of the popular vote the Green Party would quality for public campaign funds to use in the 2020 presidential campaign.
This election is now looking like a landslide Trump loss. Why are the Hillary people worried about 5 percent? To answer my own question, I suppose it's because they are obsessive about their candidate. But by courting the likes of Condi Rice and Henry Kissinger, Hillary is throwing away progressives and independents.
"We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."
They're worried because it puts the lie to their propaganda
Every little divide and conquer method they used against Senator Sanders doesn't apply against Dr. Stein.
Hence why they have to make up crap out of whole cloth. I fully expect the next charge to be that her VP pick is a terrorist. (Because they vacillate on that one depending on whether or not they can use BLM as a cat's paw against the left)
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
33 years ago today,
I had my first date with my late husband. A poignant day for me.
Have a beautiful day, everyone.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Have the best day you can and treat yourself to something.
Remember the good times and happy times. Hugs.
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 --
Thanks, enhydra.
I do have wonderful memories. Many thanks for your compassion.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
An interesting petition that I consider worth signing:
In my lifetime, I have signed a huge number of petitions and such, generally with pretty much no expectation that any change will result. It is generally painless and there is always some non-zero probability that some tiny change for the better may result, if not from the specific petition in question, but from the continuing string of such that will continue into the future. So, I just signed another one, which is aimed at abolishing nuclear weapons. It is broader than that, however, and also includes some things that are aimed at decreasing the likelihood of additional new wars.
The one I signed is a rootsaction.org campaign, but it appears to be a piggyback of a World Beyond War action. The text is as follows:
To: The governments of the United States, Russia, China, France, UK, India, Israel, Pakistan, North Korea, Turkey, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, South Korea, Australia, Japan.
--Take up the Russian and Chinese proposal since 2008 to ban weapons in space.
--Take up the Russian and Chinese proposal to negotiate a cyberwarfare ban.
--Take all nuclear weapons off high-alert and separate the warheads from their delivery systems.
--Reinstate the ABM treaty and get U.S. missiles out of Poland, Romania, and Turkey.
--Dismantle NATO, and pull it back from Russia’s border immediately.
--Remove U.S. nuclear weapons from Turkey, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and Italy.
--Support the treaty being proposed by 127 non-nuclear nations to ban all nuclear bombs.
An electronically executable copy, along with some arguments in favor of signing it is here --
https://diy.rootsaction.org/petitions/a-path-toward-abolishing-nuclear-w...
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 --
Once heard...
Nothing we do matters; all that matters is what we do.
Not sure how I feel about total nuclear disarmament. That djinn has left the bottle. Somebody always believes the rules don't apply to them, and these days it seems most people feel this way.
Without a lot of thought on my part on this, I think an agreement among all nuke holders to expend 30% of nuke arsenal on any entity using a nuclear device. And a further 30% on entity refusing to use theirs on the first transgressor. This bullshit concept of limited, surgical nuclear strike has got to go. It needs to be conveyed that use of a single nuke will bring total destruction.
There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.
my favorite 8
lies on its side: ∞ It is sometimes called the lemniscate, and was first inscribed, in a mathematical way, by John Wallis, when one day he had a head full of ergot of rye.
Like the octopus, The Mad Bomber also has 8 tentacles. The Hairball has 16, but they are short and stubby.
I thought the "lifting power of hot air" was first demonstrated by Plato.
Zapata provides the usual lesson in how violent revolutionaries always end up killing each other.
Dirac refused a knighthood because he didn't want people using his first name. Colleagues invented the scientific unit "the Dirac" to denote "the smallest imaginable number of words that someone with the power of speech could utter in company, an average of one word an hour." Asked once where he planned to go on holiday, Dirac considered the question for some 35 minutes, and then responded: "Why do you ask?" Heisenberg described Dirac's religious beliefs thusly: "There is no God, and Paul Dirac is His prophet." It was Dirac who first formulated the theory of antimatter, which means he fully understood the politics.
Hillary trying to complete her rogues gallery
Can Clinton corner Condi, Kissinger?
Bill and Hill regularly vacation in the Caribbean with their pal Henry the K. Don't vote for them!
Hillary Clinton and Henry Kissinger: It's Personal. Very Personal.
"We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."
I am born on an eights in a year that ends in an eight
and I am going in two month to be something with an 8. I think it was a happy day, when I was born. My parents lived with five other family men in their first attick one bedroom "studio", all of them having returned from war and survived, thin like skeletons, hungry, but ready to go and happy. I was called the peace baby. Yep, I am the post-war baby and everyone just wanted peace in those days. I stuck with that. Wars are not my thingy til today. My mother called that time, when they were all dirt poor, had nothing and just themselves the happiest time in her life. A couple of month earlier all Germans got their first 50 Deutsche Mark to start all over and the first hot dogs appeared back in the stores. Very happy times.
Two month later Prince Charles Phillip was born. My mother went with her brother to the movies and watched the "Wochenschau" and BBC announced in highest praise the birth of little Prince Charles (Nov. 1948). That was too much for my uncle. He disagreed vehemently and shouted into the movie theater that our little "baby mimi" is way more pretty than he is and for sure smarter as well.
Hmmm, I admit though, I think my hair-do was way more progressive as baby Charles' one, but you are the judge ...
me
Prince Charles
I think all were happy back then. And you know, who will be very happy November 8, 2016? Me.
I am going to sing and dance like a big Mama (that I am), because the darn elections will be over and no matter who gets the frigging power, I will shake my big fat behind at no matter who that is and will dance.;-) If it's not the candidate "Mr. Fuck that Shit", then they get that back in musical form from me.
And my parents will be looking from one of those stars down to earth and smile. They married on a November 8 too.
https://www.euronews.com/
And happy peace to you too, mimi.
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 --