Friday, January 19, 2018

ePistle in a pink hat

Famous First Words: Ah! Now I've done Philosophy... Goethe's Faust Part I
On our way to Women's March 2018 – Gravity is the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die than spend one more minute with a woman his own age. --Tina Fey / You love women? Name their last three albums. --Priya
..........Pour myself a cup of ambition.........Dolly Parton …..Nine to Five
50 Ways to Promote Peace #44: Sign an appeal to end nuclear threats. https://www.theatomproject.org/en/nuclear-disarmament-petition/
It is an amazing morning in Lawrence. The 30°F temperature contains a promise of a day warmer than we've seen lately. The sky is striped with decaying jet trails reflecting color from the rising sun; it makes a pale pink and blue barber pole for the gods. Snow has melted from large pieces of the lawn but remains in shadowy places and where it was piled up. A light breeze blows and reminds me that now is still cold and I should pay attention. The hum of distant motors calls to mind traffic going about its business. While a flock of black and gray finches gather silently in the trees waiting for us to leave. Puck barks at what may be an imaginary squirrel but abandons the conversation in lieu of a walk around the perimeter. The last school bus goes and more finches arrive. The lure of coffee and cream brings us into our rooms where the aroma of brewing Moose Munch greets us. I wrap my cold fingers around the warm cup, my green peace cup, and with a mouthful of chocolate and coffee flavor, I sit down to write to you. ...an amazing morning
Have a fabulous weekend, ePistliers.
Used my #womancard at the ATM today. Tried to withdraw $100, but the machine give me $79. --Brandi / Are you the Bible? 'Cause men keep misinterpreting what you say to support their own selfish agendas. --Glenn Loury
..........When you see a hand that's held out toward you.........Janis Joplin …..Down on Me
Trivia Questions: Happy Birthday to Neon Signs !
^ A predecessor of the neon sign is the Geissler tube. Any idea what it electrified to get the glow?
^^ Care to guess who or where was the first use of neon signs in the US?
^^^ Ballpark figure, how old is the oldest neon sign still in use?
^^^^ What's actually in a neon sign these day?
^^^^^ What university's basketball arena was called the Tin Can?
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Sure, sometimes I question my parenting. But to be fair, sometimes I also question my kids' childing.
Fake Library Statistic of the Week: 42% of librarians will spent New Years Eve furiously reading in order to meet their 2017 reading goal https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
Men don't realize that if we're sleeping with them on the first date, we're probably not interested in seeing them again either. --Chelsea Handler / Our society makes women ashamed and unhappy with their bodies. I, for one, have always been disappointed by the lack of cup holders on mine. --ess bee fritz
..........my friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.........Janis Joplin …..Mercedes Benz
Moonbeam: Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy? --Auguste Comte
Something to Think About of the Week: 

Big Hello: Assalaamu Alaikum - Maldivian https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
About the Women's March 2018 – Lawrence Still Marching: http://dovedrop8.wixsite.com/prairiemama/women-s-march-2018-lawrence
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Life is the whim of several trillion cells to be you for a while. --Submitted by cj of ks
Week of the Week: Sugar Awareness Week (January 15-19) –There was a little boy and he went to the shops. He got ribena and sugar but he only paid for the ribena. When the shopkeeper told him to pay for the sugar, he said, “but on the ribena it says sugar free” and he walked out.
Women who say getting married was the best day of their life have obviously never had 2 Kitkat bars fall out of a vending machine by mistake. --Periwinkle Jones / Behind every strong woman is 5 other strong women who proofread her email real quick when they have a second. --Gabby Noone
..........lookin' better than a body has a right to.........Dolly Parton …..Here You Come Again
^ The Geissler tube contained “rarefied” gas, i.e. gas pressure was well below atmospheric pressure. When a voltage is applied to electrodes inserted through the glass, an electrical glow discharge results.
Almanac: It is Friday, January 19, 2019. The moon was new on Wednesday and is in Pisces. It is Bean Day, Robert E. Lee Day, Tin Can Day, and World Day of Migrants and Refugees. Because it is the third Friday it is also International Fetish Day.
Among those born on this day were Mohammed (570), Dogen Kegen (1200), John Weldon (1679), James Watt (1736), Auguste Comte (1798), Robert E Lee (1807), Edgar Allan Poe (1809), Henry Bessemer (1813), Paul Cézanne (1839), Alice Eastwood (1859), Alexander Woollcott (1887), Ish Kibbible (1906), John Raitt (1917), Guy Madison (1922), Jean Stapleton (1923), Robert MacNeil (1931), Richard Lester (1932), Tippi Hedren (1935), Phil Everly (1938), Janis Joplin (1943), Dolly Parton (1946), and Katey Sagal (1954).
On January nineteenth a democratic revolution in Amsterdam ended the oligarchy (1795), Goethe's Faust, Part 1 premiered (1929), Verdi's Il Trovatore premiered (1953), Georgia seceded (5th, 1861), the first negro lodge was approved by the Masons (NJ, 1884), the first ever Tour de France was announced (1903), the neon tube sign was patented (1917), Acadia National Park was established (ME, 1929), UCLA fired Angela Davis (1970), and Ford pardoned Tokyo Rose (1977).
Night Sky, 1/19: The Moon is still just a thin waxing crescent and, in any case, it sets pretty soon after dusk. So: is your sky dark enough for you to see the winter Milky Way? By midevening now, the Milky Way runs vertically up and across the zenith: from Canis Major low in the southeast, up between Orion and Gemini, through Auriga and Perseus almost straight overhead, and down through Cassiopeia, Cepheus, and Cygnus to the northwest horizon. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: ConDorCon – the longest running science fiction convention in San Diego(January 19 - 21. Gateway to Forever: Traveling the Past, Present, and Future. http://www.condorcon.org/
Actual Science of the Week: Bright flash of light marks moment when sperm meets egg http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/04/26/bright-flash-of-light-marks-incredible-moment-life-begins-when-s/
This Week: Saturday, January 20 – Penguin Awareness Day & National Cheese Lovers Day
Night Sky, 1/20: Zero-magnitude Capella high overhead, and equally bright Rigel in Orion's foot, are at almost the same right ascension. This means they cross your sky’s meridian at almost exactly the same time: around 9 pm now, depending on how far east or west you live in your time zone. (Capella goes exactly through your zenith if you're at latitude 46° north: Portland, Oregon; Montreal; central France.)
Sunday, January 21 – National Hugging Day & World Snow Day
Monday, January 22 – Answer You Cat's Questions Day & National Roe v Wade Day
Tuesday, January 23 – National Handwriting Day & National Pie Day
Night Sky, 1/23: Mercury (magnitude –0.3) and Saturn (half as bright at magnitude +0.5) are low in the morning twilight, while Venus remains hidden behind the glare of the Sun. Mars and Jupiter (magnitudes +1.5, and –1.8, respectively) rise in the east-southeast around 2 or 3 a.m. and are high in the south-southeast by early dawn
Wednesday, January 24 – Belly Laugh Day & National Compliment Day & Bodhi Day
Night Sky, 1/24: Uranus (magnitude 5.8, in Pisces) is high in the south-southwest right after dark; and Neptune (magnitude 7.9, in Aquarius) is still findable low in the west-southwest immediately after dark.
Thursday, January 25 – A Room of One's Own Day & Robert Burns Day & Opposite Day

..........Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.........Janis Joplin …..Me & Bobby McGee
^^ Neon gas signs were introduced to the US in 1923 by Packard car dealership in Los Angeles. Earle C. Anthony purchased 2 signs reading "Packard" for $1,250 apiece.
'Nother Funniest thing I read of the Week: Mike Pence warns North Korea, “Don't test Trump” --particularly in spelling, grammar, history, geography, science, international affairs...
Moonbeam: Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life. --Dolly Parton
Late Night Snacks: President Trump announced yesterday the delivery of F-52 fighter jets to Norway, despite the F-52 being a fictional aircraft from the game of “Call of Duty.” So bad news, Norway. It sounds like you’re not getting those battle carts, either. --Seth Meyers / The CEO of Domino’s Pizza announced that he is stepping down this summer. He’ll carefully pack up his office, then get home and find that all his stuff is stuck to the top of the box. --Jimmy Fallon / Today, President Trump held a bipartisan meeting on immigration reform, focused mainly on reforming our policy of having immigrants. --Stephen Colbert / I don’t want to say Trump is being petty, but he said to the staff, “If you leave, just to be clear, you’re not breaking up with me, I’m breaking up with you.” --James Corden / There's a website called Fact Base that did an analysis of the first 30,000 words spoken in office by every U.S. president since Herbert Hoover. So they loaded all the speeches into a computer, and what their software found is that President Trump speaks at a fourth-grade level, lower than any president they've ever measured. Hoover is at the top, 11th grade level. Obama was in third place with ninth grade. And then, way all the way in the back of the class in the fourth grade, there's Donald Trump. Remember that show "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader"? He's not. --Jimmy Kimmel /Miners in Africa have found a massive 910 carat diamond worth tens of millions of dollars. The diamond will go to either a museum or to Beyoncé the next time Jay-Z cheats on her. --Conan O'Brien
Not So Late Night Snacks: Thank you. It's exciting. And when we started the show way back when in 1998, we had this crazy idea - that if we were different than the rest of NPR - that instead of treating the news seriously we would treat the news as if it was really, really dumb. And we knew if we kept it up, eventually, the world would come around to our side. Took 20 years. --Peter Sagal Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me
50 Ways to Promote Peace #43: Develop meaningful relationships outside your own race or culture. http://uncustomary.org/50-ways-promote-peace/
We women are “whiners,” they bray.
We “lie” that there’s “no equal pay.”
That’s the GOP line,
And it suits me just fine:
On Election Day, gals get their say. --Madeleine Kane
..........Oh, try whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.........Janis Joplin …..Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
Still Marching
^^^ What may be the oldest surviving neon sign in the United States, still in use for its original purpose, is the sign “Theatre” (1929) at the Lake Worth Playhouse in Lake Worth, Florida
Worthless Fact of the Week: Because Angela Davis was a member of the Communist Party, the UC Board of Regents, at the urging of then-Gov. Ronald Reagan, tried to fire her before she even taught her first class. But enraged UCLA faculty, staff and students protested in support of Davis, citing academic freedom. Davis was allowed to teach a course that, for the opening lecture, had to be moved from the Dickson Art Center to Royce Hall to accommodate more than 2,000 students and others who wanted to attend.
Wicked Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: What do you call a stolen Telsa? An Edison
Weird Word of the Week: Skillygalee – any insipid beverage. The People of the Abyss about conditions in London’s East End: “I would be given for supper six ounces of bread and ‘three parts of skilly.’ ‘Three parts’ means three-quarters of a pint, and ‘skilly’ is a fluid concoction of three quarts of oatmeal stirred into three buckets and a half of hot water.” http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-ski2.htm
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Make a camping shower. Fill a Trojan Condom with water and hang it from a tree. Gently poke four or five holes in int. Instant shower. (Do not use a condom for its intended purpose after poking holes in it.) http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/trojan.html
Harvey Weinstein isn’t here tonight because, well, I’ve heard rumors that he’s crazy and difficult to work with, but don’t worry. He’ll be back in 20 years when he becomes the first person ever booed during the In Memoriam. --Seth Meyers / Why does it take a million sperm to fertilize one egg? They really are too damned proud to stop and ask directions.
...........Sewing' every piece with love..........Dolly Parton …..Coat of Many Colors
^^^^ Pure neon gas is used to produce only about one-third of the colors (mostly shades of red and orange, and some warmer or more intense shades of pink). The greatest number of colors (including all shades of blue, yellow, green, violet, and white, as well as some cooler or softer shades of pink) produced by filling with another inert gas, argon, and a drop of mercury (Hg) which is added to the tube immediately after purification. When the tube is ionized by electrification, the mercury evaporates into mercury vapor, which fills the tube and produces strong ultraviolet light. The ultraviolet light thus produced excites the various phosphor coatings designed to produce different colors. Even though this class of neon tubes use no neon at all, they are still denoted as "neon."
Word Shakespeare Made Up of the Week: Scuffle – a short confused fight at close quarters. Anthony and Cleopatra Act I Scene I Philo: his captain's heart, which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst the buckles on his breast.
Puck the Brave Episode of the Week: Here's our fearless Puck toweling off after a run in the snow in the case of the Luging Lucas.
If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed. --Jean Carroll / Like a gender reveal but instead of eating pink or blue cake you smash a piggy bank to reveal $1 if it's a boy or $.78 if it's a girl –Meg Monk
..........You know you got it if it makes you feel good.........Janis Joplin …..Piece of My Heart
^^^^^ Officially named the Indoor Athletic Center (or Court), the Tin Can was the home of North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball from the 1924 season until the team's relocation to the Woollen Gymnasium in 1938.
Month of the Week: January is International Creativity Month –Creative Marketing: A storekeeper had for some time displayed in his window a card inscribed 'Fishing Tickle.' A customer drew the proprietor's attention to the spelling. 'Hasn't anyone told you of it before?' asked the patron. 'Oh, yes,' the dealer said placidly, 'many have mentioned it. But whenever they drop in to tell me, they always buy something.'
Most Beautiful Thing in the State: Ouachita National Forest, Hodgen. Oklahoma. Outstanding mountain views coupled with picturesque streams, rivers, and lakes provide a unique and highly valued setting for outdoor recreation. https://www.travelok.com/listings/view.profile/id.5614
Today's Peace of History, January 19 , 1991: 25,000 marched in Washington, D.C. to protest massive U.S. bombing of Iraq in the first Gulf war, Operation Desert Storm.
I need an emoji of a woman in a humid environment who has curly hair d and looks completely overwhelmed by everything. --elizabeth williams / Stop tweeting about what real women are and are not. You're going to blow my secret that I'm a lizard creature zipped into a woman suit. --legend of chelda
..........So long, my honey, so long..........Janis Joplin …..Bye, Bye Baby
Masthead of the Week: fRiday ePistle, January 19, 2018. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ ePistle in a Pink Hat. Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 1800 Goodell Ct. Lawrence, KS 66046
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Oprah shouldn't run for President. Oprah should buy Fox News! --submitted by rhb of ks
Moonbeam: I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. --Edgar Allen Poe
Cost of War:
Tax dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 1/17/17: $795,585,192,634.
Tax dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 1/12/17: $794,899,383,515.
Tax dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 1/17/17: $821,184,024,568.
Tax dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 1/12/17: $821,163,980,057.
Tax dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 1/17/17: $1,811,252,973,861.
Tax dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 1/12/17: $1,809,820,768,461.
50 Ways to Promote Peace #42: Take a nonviolent crisis intervention class.
..........The door's always open; I leave on the light.........Dolly Parton …..I'll Never Say Goodbye
George Clooney married Amal Alamuddin this year...Amal is a human rights lawyer who worked on the Enron case with Kofi Annan regarding Syria and was selected for a 3 person UN commission investigating Rule of War violations in the Gaza strip...so tonight, her husband is getting a Lifetime Achievement Award. --Fey & Poehler
Famous Last Words: liberty, equality, security, and tranquility. --Georgia Articles of Succession
May Peace guide your march
And Joy pipe your tune
prairie mama
christine



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