Monday Open Thread: October 29 is International Internet Day
October 29 is the 302nd day of the year
October 29 is also Boomtime, The Aftermath 10, 3184 YOLD (discordian)
Your basic ten codes used by police et. al. has a bunch of entries for 10-29:
10-29 Check for wants
10-29F Subject wanted, felony
10-29H Hazard potential from subject
10-29M Subject wanted, Misdemeanor
10-29V Vehicle wanted
I can't imagine what a vehicle could be wanted for. Petty theft? Hello? Most crimes are volitional and vehicles, as a rule, lack volition, though with AI perhaps now not so much.
As to plain old ordinary 29:
According to Investopedia, The law of 29 is a belief that on average a prospective customer will not purchase a good or service until being exposed to a marketing message 29 times. This is pretty close to the advertising industry research results that telling the same falsehood 26 times will lead to its acceptance as the truth. (see my essay/rant of Wednesday 10/24/18)
Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid,
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On this day in history:
1390 – The first witchcraft trial in Paris was held, leading to the deaths of 3 innocent people.
1675 – Leibniz first made use of the long s as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
1787 – The first performance of Don Giovanni
1792 – The stratovolcano named Wy'east by the Multnomah was arrogantly renamed Mt. Hood by some Englishman
1888 – The Convention of Constantinople guaranteed free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace. Egypt, of course, had no say in the proceedings and sas not a signatory
1921 – The second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
1929 – The NYSE crashed, setting off the Great Depression
1956 – Israeli forces invaded the Sinai Peninsula, starting the Suez Crises.
Born this day in:
1704 – John Byng, an admiral who famously got himself court martialed and shot
1740 – James Boswell, a ;awyer and author best known for his "Life of Johnson"
1808 – Caterina Scarpellini, an astronomer
1875 – Marie of Romania, punch line to a Dorothy Parker poem
1910 – A. J. Ayer, philosopher and author, logical positivist
1921 – Bill Mauldin, cartoonist
1925 – Zoot Sims, saxophonist and composer
1937 – Sonny Osborne, bluegrass singer and banjo player
1945 – Melba Moore, singer, songwriter, and actress
1946 – Peter Green, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1961 – Randy Jackson, one of the Jacksons
Died this day in:
1897 – Henry George, journalist, philosopher, and economist, inspired Georgism
1949 – George Gurdjieff, mystic, psychologist, and philosopher
1969 – Pops Foster, bassist and trumpet player
1971 – Duane Allman, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1987 – Woody Herman, singer, clarinet player, saxophonist, and bandleader
1995 – Terry Southern, novelist, essayist, screenwriter
1997 – Anton LaVey, religious leader, occultist, founder of the Church of Satan
1998 – Paul Misraki, pianist and composer
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
International Internet Day
National Hermit Day
National Cat Day
Music goes here, iirc
Alternatively
Great Depression
Marie of Romania
“Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
a medley of extemporanea,
And love is a thing that can never go wrong,
and I am Marie of Romania.”
------- Dorothy Parker
Zoot Sims
Melba Moore
Peter Green
Pops Foster
Duane Allman
Woody Herman
picture: Image from page 59 of "Bill Nye's history of the United States" (1894)
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good morning
It's another lovely day in NE AL. The color is starting to come on, but still a long way to go...most leaves remain green.
The stock market may crash again. Many people are saying so. I figure it will hold on through the election...then if there's a blue trickle (I think you can forget a wave), they might pull the plug and let her fall...it will be the dims fault.
They are voting next door in GA. We have no early voting. Have to wait till next Tuesday in AL. They show the lines waiting to vote at early polling stations in GA. They say it's record early voting turn out. Looks like plenty of white folk waiting. The Abrams-Kemp race is supposed to be neck and neck. I'm not holding my breath. We should know the outcome next Wednesday.
Well thanks for the music and OT. Hope you all have a nice day, and if your weather is as pretty as ours, I hope you can get outside and enjoy it. In the thralls of life it is easy to forget that every day can be a gift. Ellie, our cat, thinks every day is national cat day. She's celebrating with a nap.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Hey lookout. My home neighborhood is saturated with
evergreens, conifers, live oaks, citrus, and others. Some true deciduous, like my redbuds are now dropping leaves, but no big splashes of colors. Cool and sometimes misty in the mornings, though, low fifties all last week, warming to mid sixties or low seventies. We'll do our ballots any day now and then walk them up to drop them off at the polling place next Tues.
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 --
Buenos dias
Funny how, when the smart devices are programmed to repeat stupid headlines 29 times, it becomes a trend to follow in the media cycle machine. It neither has to make sense or be true, just invented spin on the current meme. Sheesh. Thanks for the tunes el!
Good morning, QMS. For me, the trend is the opposite, I
just tune out the media cycle and the media itself until somebody brings something actually meaningful to my attention with one of those "did you see ..." queries. Thanks for reading, and have 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 --
top o' the mornin' to ya el...
well...
Going Tuesday to town clock with a friend to read names of the dead from the synagogue shooting. Just the two of us. I am still in the mourning stage. She is angry. Maybe others will join us. Two summers in Berlin with holocaust reminders all around affected me deeply. Many times I walked visitors through many of the holocaust sites which abound near the unter der linden.
It will take some time for me to get past this.
Sandra Bland's death was the beginning of the the 'say her name campaign'. Of course that list has grown horrifyingly long since her death.
Say their names...
The names of the victims, as released by the office of the Allegheny County medical examiner, including the neighborhoods of Pittsburgh in which they resided:
• Joyce Fienberg, 75, of Oakland
• Richard Gottfried, 65, of Ross Township, Pa.
• Rose Mallinger, 97, of Squirrel Hill
• Jerry Rabinowitz, 66, of Edgewood Borough, Pa.
• Cecil Rosenthal, 59, of Squirrel Hill
• David Rosenthal, 54, of Squirrel Hill
• Bernice Simon, 84, of Wilkinsburg, Pa.
• Sylvan Simon, 86, of Wilkinsburg, Pa.
• Daniel Stein, 71, of Squirrel Hill
• Melvin Wax, 88, of Squirrel Hill
• Irving Younger, 69, of Mt. Washington
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And top o the afternoon to you magi. Hope things go well for
you Tuesday.
Have a good evening.
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, el; love the Parker, :)
It's as you say, "a life day,' taking care of business, ugh. Clear skies, though; preparing for trip to the Hill and more tests.
I did just receive an email from Medicare: directing to this site: https://www.medicare.gov/oopc/?utm_campaign=20181029oeopgalccrs&utm_cont...
Maybe, this will be a helpful link?
Thanks for the good tunes and OT and hoping you and everyone have a great week.
Good afternoon, smiley. Yes, life days, can't live without them
as they say. May all go well for you at the Hill.
I'm fairly sure that the Medicare info will be useful for many. I personally, thanks to my ex-employer paying roughly half, am covered by Kaiser's senior advantage plan, one of the so-called "Cadillac Plans" and I pay outrageously low co-pays, like $10 total for a hernia operation.
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 --
George and Allman
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Hola, jobu. Thanks for the Henry George and the video.
For the record, I am not the one who bagged your rum. I do wine, and now and then bourbon and tequila, but no rum since that night in high school with the 151.
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 --
george ...
cheers