Monday Open Thread; February 5 is National Weatherperson's Day
February 5 is the 36th day of the year, there are 329 days left
Today's number is 5
5 is the third prime
5 is the third Sophie Germain prime
5 is a Fermat prime
5 is the only prime that is the sum of 2 consecutive numbers
5 is the only prime ending in 5
5 is the fifth Fibonacci number
There are 5 Platonic Solids (and myriads of Platonic relationships)
A 5 sided polygon is a pentagon (lower case)
A building full of insane war mongers is a Pentagon (Capitalized initial letter)
A 5 sided star is a pentagram
5 is the length of the hypotenuse of a 3,4,5 triangle, often used in construction & carpentry.
5 is boron
A pentatonic scale has 5 notes per octave
The Book of Five Rings by master swordsman Miyamoto Musashi is must reading, trust me.
I-5 connects San Diego, CA with Blaine, Wa
The Five Families refers to the Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese "crime families" **.
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5 is an important number in Discordianism. There is the Law of Fives as well as the Pentabarf, which has five rules. Each page of the Principia Discordia is labeled with five digits.
** The so-called crime families were simply non-publicly traded corporations following the standard amoral, sociopathic model inherent in "pure" (predatory) laissez faire capitalism but with inadequate PR. Though New York based, they represent the epitome of Chicago school free market mechanisms.
To relax or take a break, especially of 5 minutes duration used to be called to
There are only 5 Platonic solids because
Penrose tilings
Title 5 of the US Code is GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
5 BCE
was the Year of the Consulship of Octavian and Appuleius
John the Baptist and/or Jesus of Nazareth may or may not have been born.
5 CE
was the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Sulla
Tiberius conquered Germania Inferior
Wang Mang, was granted the "Nine Awards of Imperial Favor"
Livilla married Drusus Julius Caesar,
Julia, daughter of Drusus Julius Caesar and Livilla was born
On this day in:
1849 -- U of Wis. at Madison's first class met at the Madison Female Academy. Heh.
1852 -- The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg opened
1859 -- Wallachia and Moldavia were united and eventually became Romania
1885 -- King Leopold II of Belgium established the Congo as a personal possession.
1909 -- The creation of Bakelite was announced.
1917 -- Mexico's current constitution was adopted.
1924 -- The Royal Greenwich Observatory began broadcasting the Greenwich Time Signal.
1939 -- Fascist Francisco Franco became dictator of Spain and beloved of the US govt.
1945 -- Douglas MacArthur returned to Manila.
1958 -- The USAF lost an H-bomb (the Tybee Bomb) of the coast of Georgia.
1962 -- De Gaulle called for Algerian independence
1985 -- The mayors of Rome and Carthage signed a treaty ending the Third Punic War. **
** Accordingly, it lasted 2,131 years. This, then, is the record which the US is trying to break in Afghanistan, or, if not, in the "Global War of on Terror".
Born this day in:
1594 -- Biagio Marini, violinist and composer
1626 -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, writer
1880 -- Gabriel Voisin, pilot and engineer
1923 -- Claude King, country singer, guitarist and songwriter
1927 -- Robert Allen, pianist and composer
1929 -- Hal Blaine, Wrecking Crew drummer
1929 -- Luc Ferrari, pianist and composer
1941 -- Henson Cargill, country singer
1941 -- Barrett Strong, singer, songwriter, and pianist
1941 -- Cory Wells, singer
1944 -- Al Kooper, singer, songwriter, keyboards player
1952 -- Daniel Balavoine, singer and songwriter
1953 -- Freddie Aguilar, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1954 -- Cliff Martinez, drummer and songwriter
1956 -- Vinnie Colaiuta, drummer
1964 -- Duff McKagan, singer, songwriter and bassist
1965 -- Keith Moseley, bassist and songwriter
1969 -- Bobby Brown, singer, songwriter actor, dancer
1971 -- Sara Evans, country singer
1973 -- Trijntje Oosterhuis, inger and songwriter
Died this day in:
1976 -- Rudy Pompilli, saxophonist
1998 -- Tim Kelly, guitarist
2012 -- Al De Lory, keyboard player, wrecking company musician, producer
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
National Weatherperson's Day
So, for music,
Hal Blaine
Barrett Strong
Cory Wells
Al Kooper
Freddy Aguilar
Cliff Martinez
Vinnie Colaiuta
Duff McKagan
Rudy Pompilli
Al De Lory
picture: Dress Rehearsal by Ross Knechtel
It's an open thread, so do your thing
I won't be here when this posts, I have to go get an ultrasound of all things
Comments
Good morning,
el and all.
Woke up to strong winds. Now a light drizzle. Supposed to be a decent weather day though. Low 50s.
No news; just dropped in to say hello.
Hope all goes well, el.
Good morning, OLinda. Hope your weather gets mellow.
Thanks for dropping in.
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 --
Favorite Shambhala tube, for "the flowers in your eyes"
Good morning all. High five!
The Road to Shamballa | music by Three Dog Night
It's five a.m., or pretty close. Today it will be hot again, shorts and a tank top yesterday. Confusing.
feb five
Edited to add: more aitches. Also, there are monks nearby so I visited their weather page and now I have another question isn't the world wide web great? I'm sure some one here can 'splain this phenomenon, I'm not getting it:
http://www.weatherquestions.com/What_is_dewpoint_temperature.htm
nice rocket photo over there
okay what happened here:
power of prayer
dive dive dive
wtf over
Splained the chart, but not the quote, my bad. Dewpoint is
temperature at which precipitation begins. If below actual temp, no dew/rain. Once it hits actual temp rain/dew starts, so conceptually, it cannot go higher insofar as it is already raining.
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 --
"an ultrasound of all things" comma comedian
Anyone else wonder what that could mean? Is el having all things ultrasounded, or, of all things, an ultrasound? Kidding aside, that means something is adrift. I hope results come back the right way. I shouldn't talk about lack of commas ... instant comma!
parts are parts
Appointment is a bit later, comma should be inserted.
I won't be here when this posts, I have to go get an ultrasound, of all things.
Thanks for the catch.
So, no dew for you, 2 degree temp decline from midnight is fun to consider, but assuming relatively stable barometer, water vapor is erratic, or vice versa.
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 --
What about the dew drop?
haha you just reminded of a place called The Dew Drop Inn. I am wondering about that sudden drop to 45F dew point, seems like all the moisture got sucked out of the air or something like that. Maybe a wind gust? A glass bottle broke on my deck earlier, forgot to bring it in and it blew over. I didn't even look at the chart here, now I can't find one. World wide web lol, the "data" still exists:
Yow it is dry, and the forecast here is for cooler. Back to long pants.
sergeant schultz and the blustery day
Sudden decrease in pressure or humidity (or voltage to
the instrument);-)
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 everybody
The day is starting out cool and lovely here. I hope to get the last of my bushogging done today. Just have a spot or two left. I like to leave cover for the deer during the season (which is almost over), and get mowed out before the turkey nest. I still hope to burn one patch before spring to promote the wild flowers. There's always something to do around the homestead!
Last week we went up to Hiwasee, TN to see the sand hill cranes.
http://tnbirds.org/IBA/SitePages/Hiwasee.htm.
My partner is headed out to the Wheeler wildlife Refuge today. https://alabamabirdingtrails.com/sites/wheeler-national-wildlife-refuge-...
Sometimes there are whooping cranes among the 1000's of sandhills, but we didn't see any last week. They often fly over. I hear them before I see them. They fly high but their "chorkle" carries pretty far. They can be heard up to 2.5 miles away and are given on the ground as well as in flight, when the flock may be very high and hard to see. They also give moans, hisses, gooselike honks, and snoring sounds. Chicks give trills and purrs.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Sandhill_Crane/sounds
I'm glad I don't have to migrate so far every year! Hope you all have a good day at home or in your travels.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning, Lookout, thanks for the report. Love to watch
the cranes dance, but it has been years since we've gone out to see them (in the Delta).
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 --
Twenty five years after
"Doppler" radar and all kinds of fancy schmancy high fallutin' high tech this and that, the weatherman STILL can't forecast much beyond 48 hours - same as the teevee weatherman did 55 years ago. I happened to bump in to our local yokel tv (and radio) weatherman 9 or ten years ago, him long since retired, in a Big Box store and asked him, "hey, Danny Bee! You don't happen to have the tapes of your weather forecasts do you?" Sadly, no, he didn't. I wanted to digitize them, and just drag out the one needed for that day. "Sunny and 45." He was the quintessential weatherman, and after 30 years in the biz had made every possible weather forecast for this area one possibly could. Figured he could be making forecasts here - digitally - forever. Alas...
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
Actually, all things considered, they do pretty good in the
sense of "3 or 4 day warming trend followed by probable rain" but will never be able to achieve "next Thursday's high will be 63". At least around here, that is.
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 --
Afternoon, el...
hoping the test has good results.
Greenwich memories; it is about time, sometimes or all the time.
Have a good one!
Thanks, Smiley7, have a good one yourself.
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 --
Honoring the Super Bowl 17
Seventeen someones sat down on Sunday, woot. Unchain my heart.
17 activists in Super Bowl protest cited, let go
I wish I knew their names, would recite 'em out loud. Right on people! Thank you for protesting police brutality. Keep going peacemakers.
solidarity
"have to go get an ultrasound"
When are you dew, EL?
Ha ha
Have a great day.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Good afternoon, earthling1.
Like the 50s era DEW line, it was precautionary. That was,btw, the best joke n that subject matter so far, excellent.
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 --