Monday Open Thread: January 7 is Distaff Day
January 7 is the 7th day of the year
It is also Boomtime, Chaos 7, 3185 YOLD (discordian)
And let us not forget 13.0.6.2.8 by the Mayan Long Count
So, 7, "they say", is a happy number. "Why?" you may ask.
And this, of course, leads to non happy numbers
It appears from Brady's discussion, that there are no ambivalent numbers, so that's all ya get.
Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid, ...
On this day in history:
1608 – Jamestown, Virginia, was destroyed by fire.
1610 – Galileo made his first observation of the four Galilean moons
1920 – The New York State Assembly refused to seat five duly elected Socialists because it is a kleptocracy, not a democracy
.
1922 – The Dáil Éireann ratified the Anglo-Irish Treaty
1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service was established between London and New York City
1955 – Marian Anderson became the first person of color to perform at the Met.
1959 – The US recognized Fidel Castro's new Cuban government.
1979 – Vietnamese troops captured Phnom Penh and drove out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge
1999 – Clinton's impeachment trial in the Senate began.
Born this day in:
1834 – Johann Philipp Reis, inventor of the telephone
1873 – Adolph Zukor, film producer, co-founder of Paramount Pictures
1899 – Al Bowlly, singer and songwriter
1906 – Red Allen, trumpet player
1906 – Bobbi Trout, record setting pilot
1912 – Charles Addams, cartoonist
1922 – Jean-Pierre Rampal, flautist
1935 – Kenny Davern,
1938 – Paul Revere, keyboards player and songwriter
1941 – Iona Brown, Violinist and conductor
1943 – Sadako Sasaki, Hiroshima victim who folded 1,000 paper cranes
1948 – Kenny Loggins, singer and songwriter
1950 – Juan Gabriel, singer and songwriter
1959 – Kathy Valentine, bass player and songwriter
Died this day in:
1932 – André Maginot, drew a line in the sand
1943 – Nikola Tesla, physicist, inventor and engineer
2001 – James Carr, singer
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Distaff Day
Music goes here, iirc, well,
Al Bowlly
Red Allen
Jean-Pierre Rampal
Paul Revere
Kenny Loggins
Juan Gabriel
Kathy Valentine
Nikola Tesla
James Carr
Image Image from page 672 of "Medieval and modern times
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Comments
Splendid morning, el; sunrise breaking over the mountains, a few
gray clouds adding contrast to light rose with Carolina blue backing the ridge tops. Wind is up and tall trees gently sway.
Feeling some better today, thank you for your healing words on Saturday.
Been reading a little Whitman before daylight: "I hear the chorus, it is a grand opera,
Ah this indeed is music – this suits me."
Think i'll call a chiropractor recommended by a good friend, the hip, leg and knee need help.
Big project to do on an old car i plan to purchase from a friend. The interior reeks of mold; very bad. Using a straight white distilled vinegar solution first and go from there. My friend already cut out all the carpet, but it's in the cloth upholstery and i presume in the dash and everywhere. They neglected the car during a monsoon period last fall. Hope i figure this one out as it's a 2008 Toyota Corolla and would be an improvement over my sweet 1997 Nissan 200 sx which runs great but suffers badly from rust.
Any suggestions to end the mold greatly appreciated.
Hope your day on the West Coast is a beautiful one, too.
Mold in cars...
Looks like vinegar is the primary technique
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsSnOJ70M3c]
However there are commercial mold cleaners. Reliable brands include Oxy-Mold and InstaGone Car Upholstery Cleaner.
https://www.totalcardiagnostics.com/learn/how-to-remove-mold-from-car-up...
Good luck with your project!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Thanks Lookout; i've a gallon of vinegar ready to go
and think i'll purchase borax as a second solution, the seats are cloth and most likely the spores are deep. In the video, vinegar does the trick so I'm hopeful.
Hope it's a sunshine day on Lookout Mountain. Winter returns Tuesday night, good, I'm tired of rain and fog.
Have a good one and thanks again for the tips and vid.
Good morning, Lookout, thanks for dropping in. Thanks for
the video on mold removal, good to know.
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, Smiley. Glad that you're on the mend.
Hope the chiropractor helps for the hip, leg and knee. I have at times worn knee braces for a short time and find the all elastic ones tolerable but not super helpful and the metal ones uncomfortable to painful and not really worth the trouble except in extreme conditions.
Started raining with high winds and gusts up to 50 mph Saturday evening and has continued. Is projected to last all week, which keeps us inside, but we really need the rain. We will be doing an overnight to Sonoma Tuesday, which might be fun driving, but "such is life" (Ned Kelly).
I know of 3 cures for mold, none guaranteed or even all that reliable.
Vinegar
Lemon juice and sunlight (maybe combined IR and UV lights?)
Hydrogen Peroxide.
Peroxide is a powerful oxidizer and hence a pretty strong killer, but it will bleach fabric and, depending upon the exact materials used, maybe melt the foam in the cushions.
A "radical solution" is to toss the cushions and covers and replace with 1) New or 2) Recycled from a junker. Similar, but more extreme is to toss the entire seat assemblies and replace as above.
Good luck and have a great 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 --
As far as numbers go... 42 has always worked for me.
But what's interesting is how many connotations it has beyond just HGTTG...
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PErknr-3AY0]
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Good morning, detroit. That is quite a compendium on 42, a
number that I have always admired, in part because it is a product of 7, which is, itself, a very cool number. Toss in 2 and 3 and what could be more fantastic?
Have a great 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 --
It's Christmas Day in Russia.
The Dakar race starts today, in Peru.
More Juanga:
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Have a nice day.
We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
Buenos dias, Az. Mucho gracias for the Juanga.
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 --
Born on this day in 2015 — c99%
Happy Birthday caucus99% !!!
Congrats JtC.
Thanks to everyone for being here.
Good morning and thanks for bringing up the site birthday,
CS. There is a second birthday, the day it went public, iirc, on the 22nd, but the more the merrier.
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 --
This is funny
1999 – Clinton's impeachment trial in the Senate began.
This should be noted in the history books as the last presidential impeachment ever to occur in the United States.
Indeed, though strangely enough, "impeachment is off
the table" Pelosi has used some weasel words and left some wiggle room s to Trump. I always figured that Bush got a free ride with lying us into war, gitmo and other war crimes because the Dems were so totally complicit in it all.
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 --
Morning el...
et al
Damn, singing tesla coils! Who knew. Cool. Crazy wid here. Second in two weeks or so and u say more coming. Think I’ll wait to clean up eucalyptus debris til later. Recommend windy ap if u hv a smart phone. Also online. Initially for kite surfers. Hv a great one...
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Good morning, magi. Wind aplenty, or so they tell me, I'll
have to check out windy, the app (not the song), thanks. Eucalyptus debris is a fire hazard, of curse, but also bugs bugs. It repels many, though the oil is much more powerful than simple debris.
There re tons of singing Tesla Coil vids, here's some classical.
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 --
Tesla is genius applied
His original ideas of using the ether to transmit energy (without wires) is still awaiting implementation. Love the dancing lightening. Just brightened my day! And sparked the imagination! Thanks EL
Independents
Good morning, gj. Thanks.
Now if only they'd all form a third party, or maybe two. I could live with a libertoon/rwnj party and a left/green party split as long as it broke the duopoly.
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 --
To k9disc
In another thread, one belonging to one of several people with whom I will not engage or increase their count (because they don't discuss, they agitate):
" When Labor Can Move as Freely as Capital Humans Have
intrinsic value. If labor can't move like or as fast as capital, humanity suffers."
I have mixed feelings about this. We have a recent history of unpresidented [sick] mass movement of humans, mostly to avoid flaming death and rape. The US has staffed its factories and mines and Western colonies with people fleeing famine and war. There always have been a certain percentage of people, many talented or creative, who have always looked over the next hill, since we spread from Africa. To this day, the US has 2 main types of immigrants: the talented offered good jobs, and the desperate fleeing from misery.
I don't like the libertarian image of becoming career nomads, moving constantly. This works for some people, but if we adopt this as a general model, say goodbye to the benefits of community. Calling on facetime don't count. We need communities of people who will care for children, for the sick and aged, or just be good friends, not because they're paid, but because they have ties of kinship or neighbor or friend.
If the masses of people become just as fluid as the motions of capital, we will pay dearly. I'm not fond of nation-states or borders other than as administrative conveniences, but I've seen what happens to communities after major motions of capital, like when major steel plants close in cities, or small plants in villages in Appalachia. People have to choose jobs over family. How about communities control capital, rather than vice versa?
A topic worth discussing, with no black and white.