Famous First Words: In accordance with the substance of my letter... Terms of Surrender of Gen R E Lee.
It's National Robotics Week (2-10) The Japanese are marketing a therapy dog named Qoobo. The question is does it byte?
I turned 78 this week. A man gave his wife a coffin for her 77th birthday. When she turned 78 she asked why he hadn't given her a gift. He replied, “you haven't used the one I gave you last year.
..........Down in my old magnetic soled shoes.........The Incredible String Band …..Robot Blues
We must think differently, look at things a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions. --Yitzhak Rabin
It is a cold (35°F) Friday morning. The sky is hung with thick clouds that mask every ray of sunshine. Sidewalks are damp but no precipitation seems to be falling. I have run errands and done dishes and made breakfast, finally, I get to sit down and write to you. About time, I say.
Hope the weekend warms your cockles, ePistliers
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If all the atheists & agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Science and less than 1% of the prison population. --Submitted by LaughingInDisbelief
Ruby Robot chose her own epitaph: Rust In Peace.
For those getting texts from me, here's my updated texting codes: ATD – at the doctor's . BTW – bring the wheelchair / BYOT – bring your own teeth
..........We are programmed just to do anything you want us to.........Kraftwerk …..The Robots
Trivia Questions: Happy Birthday to Gautama the Buddha
^ What is today's name for the country in which the Buddha was born?
^^ What does the term Buddha mean?
^^^ Into what dominant religion was Gautama born?
^^^^ How many followers of Buddhism are there worldwide, more or less?
^^^^^ What are the four noble truths?
Big Hello: Ahoi – Czech https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If really good-looking people are “eye candy”, I guess that puts me somewhere around the “eye broccoli” category. --Matt Reynolds --Submitted by bc of tx
Max Picture of the Week: Max caught up in Jayhawk fever.
Fake Library Statistics of the Week: 99% of librarians have a favorite book that they’ll only tell you about if they’ve had too much to drink https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
I attended a Robot Convention. It was very aluminum-ating.
Every decade I have my birthday dinner at Lakeview. For my 48th I had it because the waiters were cute and wore tight pants. For my 58th, I went back because the prices are reasonable and the wine list is good. For my 68th birthday, I chose Lakeview because it's quiet and offers a nice view. For my 78th birthday I went to Lakeview because I wanted to try someplace new.
..........There's a yellow glass dragon who's chasing you around.........Patrick Watson …..Love Songs for Robots
Moonbeam: To the things themselves! --Edmund Husserl
Meditation of the Week: Why do your lips not touch when you say-‘Touch’ but they do when you say-‘Separate’?
Puzzle of the Week: From listener Alan Hochbaum, of Duluth, Ga. Name part of the human body. Insert the name of another part of the human body. You'll get a brand name found at the supermarket. What is it?
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Has anyone lived long enough to buy a second bottle of Worcestershire sauce? --Submitted by RHOZ
Week of the Week: Has anyone lived long enough to buy a second bottle of Worcestershire sauce? --Submitted by RHOZ
Good luck trying to date a robot. They're only attracted to magnets.
At 78 you become more appreciative of “the big things in life”. For example, large print crossword puzzles.
..........Flaws in the design, a sign of the time.........Dan Mangan …..Robot
^ Siddhartha was born in the village of Lumbini in modern-day Nepal. It is now an archaeology site and a place of pilgrimage.
Almanac: It is Friday, April 8, 2022. The moon goes into the first quarter tomorrow and is in Cancer. It is Buddha Day (Historical Birth Date), Draw A Bird Day, International Roma Day, National Dog Fighting Awareness Day, and Trading Cards For Grown-ups Day
Among those born on this day were Gautama Buddha (563 BCE), Ponce de león (1460), Phienas Fletcher (1582), Louis de Vadder (1605), El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos , 1614), Edmund Husserl (1859), Mary Pickford (Gladys Louise Smith, 1893), Ilka Chase (1903), George Dixon (1909), Sonja Henie (1912), Carmen McRae (1920), John Gavin (1928), Douglas Trumbull (1942), Robin Wright Penn (1966), and Patricia Arquette (1968).
On April eighth the first US synagogue gathered (1730), the first fire escape was patented (1766), Catharina II of Russia annexed the Krim (1783), the aerosol dispenser was patented (1862), Lee surrendered at Appomattox (1865), milk was first sold in glass bottles (1879), the 17th amendment, requiring direct election of senators, was ratified (1913), Norway approved active and passive female suffrage (1916), the League of Nations met for the last time (1946), Truman seized the steel mills to prevent a strike (1952), Gemini 1 was launched (1964), Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run (1974), Yitzhak Rabin resigned (1977), Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel, CA (1986), Jimmy Swaggart was defrocked (1988), and Discovery F(STS-56) was launched (1993).
Night Sky, 4/8: The first-quarter Moon this evening forms a tall, nearly isosceles triangle with Pollux and Castor above it: the two top stars of the Arch of Spring. The Moon is about 8° from each. The stars are 4½° apart. The rest of the Arch of Spring consists of Procyon to the stars' lower left, and Menkalinan and then bright Capella farther to their lower right. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Image of the Week: Celebrating a victory Kansas Style: Crowd surfing in a grocery cart
This Week: Saturday, April 9 – National Catch and Release Day & National Unicorn Day & World Circus Day
Sunday, April 10 – Global Day to End Child Sexual Abuse & Safety Pin Day & ASPCA Day
Night Sky, 4/10: Right after dark, Orion is still well up in the southwest in his spring orientation: striding down to the right, with his belt horizontal. The belt points left toward Sirius and right toward Aldebaran and, farther on, the Pleiades.
Monday, April 11 – Barbershop Quartet Day & National Pet Day & Submarine Day
Tuesday, April 12 – Big Wind Day & National D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything And Red) Day
Wednesday, April 13 – Scrabble Day & Make Lunch Count Day & Thomas Jefferson Day
Night Sky, 4/13: Uranus (magnitude 5.9 in Aries) is disappearing into the afterglow of sunset.
Thursday, April 14 – National Dolphin Day & National Pecan Day & Pan American Day
I had a robot professor in college. It taught history and it just droned on and on.
Did you know that you could prevent old age sagging by simply eating until the wrinkles disappear.
...........Domo arigato misuta Robotto.........Styx …...Mr Roboto
^^ Buddha is the past participle of the Sanskrit root budh meaning to awaken or to know.
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I found $20 in the parking lot and I thought to myself: What Would Jesus Do? So, I turned it into wine. --Submitted by bc of tx
Moonbeam: Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. --Edmund Husserl ~~It's sometimes hard to take philosophers seriously.
Strange Fact of the Week: I never make the same mistake twice. I do it like, five or six times, you know, to make sure.
Video of the Week: Roy Zimmerman singing Thoughts & Prayers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hdX1MUOgQw ~~Zimmerman is giving a free online concert on April 14, 5 pm PDT. Here's the link: https://youtu.be/NpXR5Oriewg
Not So Late Night Snacks of the Week: It starts out like you'd expect...lots of calls to Rudy Guilianni via the white house switchboard and then a call to Steven Miller by drawing a pentagram on the floor. --Peter Sagal Wait Wait Don't Tell Me 4/2/22 ~~On Trump's 7 1/2 hour gaps in phone calls.
Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, but I do say no more than 10 to 20 million killed, tops! Uh, depending on the breaks. --Dr Strangelove
The KU crew team now allows androids to join. They call them rowbots.
78 is the new... ah … wait ... what was I saying?
..........Scientists and engineers have already invented.........Alberto Camerini …..Rock 'n' Roll Robot
^^^ The dominant religion in India at the time was Hinduism (Sanatan Dharma, “Eternal Order”) but a number of thinkers of the period had begun to question its validity and the authority of the Vedas (the Hindu scriptures) as well as the practices of the priests.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: At our age, we can hide our own Easter Eggs, wait half an hour, and have no clue where we put them. --Submitted by ss of kc
Weird Word of the Week: Kibibyte – 1,024, i.e. 2 to the power of 10. (ki – kilo plus bi – binary plus bytes) https://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-kib1.htm
Ollie's Very Own Picture of the Week: Ollie chair dancing
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Soothe sunburn, windburn, and prickly heat. Dissolve one-half cup baking soda in a tepid bath. Soak in the bath for fifteen minutes. https://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/armhammer2.html
Roy Robot never gets the right answer to math problems you give him. It's because his intelligence is artificial.
78 is only 25/ ½ in Celcius.
...........the dust and the screaming.........Radiohead …..Paranoid Android
^^^^ According to scholar Peter Harvey, the number of adherents of Eastern Buddhism (Mahayana) is 360 million, Southern Buddhism (Theravada) 150 million, and Northern Buddhism (Vajrayana) 18.2 million. Seven million additional Buddhists are found outside Asia. This equals 525.2 million. This ranks fifth behind Christianity, Islam, Unaffiliated, and Hinduism.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Fact: Easter Egg Hunts prove that your children can find things when they want to! --Submitted by RHOZ
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: 2022 FanExpo (8-10, Philadelphia) Three days of fun-filled, fan culture. https://fanexpohq.com/fanexpophiladelphia/
Vintage Players One Liner of the Week: I've traveled a long way and a lot of the roads were not paved.
Actual Science Conference of the Week: World Conference on Sustainability, Energy & Environment (8-10, Paris, France) ...the scientific committee of STECONF hand-picks the most relevant and pressing issues that can make the biggest impact... https://www.steconf.org/conference/world-conference-on-sustainability-energy-and-environment/
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: arm, chin → Charmin
The team of prosecutors has a robot member, It's used for robot-tals.
At 78, your candles cost more than your cake.
..........and I like to dance and clap and jump.........Kymberly Stewart …..I Am A Robot
^^^^^ 4 Noble Truths: 1) The truth of suffering 2) the truth of the cause of suffering 3) the truth of the end of suffering 4) the truth of the path that leads to an end to suffering.
My Own Writing of the Week: Therapy Poem Rewound
Right here
in Kansas City
at 31st & Holmes
I found a shop that offers
among other services -
appliance repair and
motor overhaul -
REWINDING
And I realized that
for some time now
without my really knowing it
I have needed
to be
REWOUND!
Quote of the Week: Librarian...because Research Wizard isn't an official title. --The Caffeinated Bookworm
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: The Bible changed my life completely. It made me an atheist. --Submitted by LaughingInDisbelief
Today's Peace of History, April 8, 1952: President Harry S. Truman attempted to nationalize the steel industry in order to avert a nationwide strike. He was concerned about a shortage of steel needed for the war effort in Korea. A strike by the United Steelworkers of America was scheduled to begin on April 9, 1952, but President Harry S Truman nationalized the American steel industry hours before the workers walked out. The steel companies sued to regain control of their facilities. On June 2, 1952, in a landmark decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952), that the president lacked the authority to seize the steel mills. The Steelworkers struck to win a wage increase. The strike lasted 53 days, and ended on July 24, 1952, on essentially the same terms the union had proposed four months earlier.
Japan is developing a ninja robot. It can make noodles and fight wars. It's called the Ramen-nator.
Despite all the recent advances in medical science there is still not cure for turning 78.
..........I'll be waitin'.........Klaypex …..Robot Love
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle April 8, 2022, Automated ePistle, Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. Lawrence, KS
Moonbeam: We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible. --Edmund Husserl
Cost of War:
As of 4/07/22 State Department War on Terror Costs since 2001: $174,974,683,258
As of 3/31/22 State Department War on Terror Costs since 2001: $174,416,133,483.
As of 4/07/22 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,047,825,954,294.
As of 3/31/22 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $1,046,265,361,117.
As of 4/07/22 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,101,765,802,900.
As of 3/31/22 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $1,101,158,788,099.
As of 4/07/22 Veterans Care since 2001: 2,368,052,120.646 .
As of 3/31/22 Veterans Care since 2001: 2,353,220,643.504 .
As of 4/07/22 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,955,256,885,644.
As of 3/31/22 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,954,071,971,058.
As of 4/07/22 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $7,647,875,242,653.
As of 3/31/22 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $7,632,135,948,565.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. --Martin Luther King Jr.
Famous Last Words: ...it becomes valid as part of the Constitution. The 17th Amendment to the US Constitution
..........An oily tear he's crying.........Pornophonique …..Sad Robot
Being this awesome took 77 years of practice.
Freddie made his robot out of wood because it was organic.
May Peace attend your years
And Joy celebrate you moments
prairie mama
christine
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