Monday, June 3, 2013

circadian \sur-KEY-dee-uhn, -KAD-ee-, sur-kuh-DEE-uhn\, adjective:

• noting or pertaining to rhythmic biological cycles recurring at approximately 24-hour intervals.

Circadian was first used to apply to the "circadian rhythms" of the body, primarily our daily internal cycles of hunger, rest and wakefulness. It comes from the Latin roots circā meaning "about" and di meaning day.

bacon tetris

• The act of arranging bacon strips on a frying pan in the most efficient way possible given the dimensions of your pan. The goal is to maximize the number of bacon strips on the heating surface without leaving any part of any strip uncooked.

I have 100 square inches of bacon and only 36 square inches of frying pan area. Time to play bacon tetris.

Trivia

What animal was called a hippotigris by the ancient Greeks and Romans, who thought it was a cross between a horse and a tiger?

• The zebra. Hippotigris is Greek for “horse-tiger.”

History

• ''Casey at the Bat'': was first published, in the San Francisco Examiner (1888)
• Duke of Windsor: the former King Edward VIII wed American divorcee Wallis Simpson, for love of whom he abdicated the throne of England (1937)
• Edward White: Gemini 4 astronaut became the first American to walk in space (1965)
• Tupolev Tu-144: Soviet jet crashed at the Paris Air Show; it was the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft (1973)
• The Producers: Broadway musical by Mel Brooks won a record 12 Tony Awards (2001)

Birthdays

• William Hone 1780
• Richard Cobden 1804
• Jefferson Davis 1808
• Maurice Evans 1901
• Jan Pierce 1904
• Josephine Baker 1906

  
• Ellen Corby 1911
• Paulette Goddard 1911
• Leo Gorcey 1915
• Lily St. Cyr 1917
• Tony Curtis 1925 - Actor
• Allen Ginsberg 1926
• Colleen Dewhurst 1926
• Boots Randolph 1927
• Chuck Barris 1929 - Game show host ("The Gong Show")
• Dakota Stanton 1932
• Larry McMurtry 1936 - Author
• Curtis Mayfield 1942
• Billy Cunningham 1943 - Basketball player
• Emmit Thomas 1943 - Football player
• Mike Clark 1944 - Musician (The Byrds)
• Ian Hunter 1946 - Musician (Mott the Hoople)
• John Paul Jones 1946 - Musician (Led Zeppelin)
• Michael Burton 1947
• Too Slim 1948 - Musician (Riders in the Sky)
• Suzi Quatro 1950 - Singer

  
• Deniece Williams 1951 - Actress
• Billy Powell 1952 - Musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
• Dan Hill 1954
• Scott Valentine 1958
• Charles Hart 1961
• Mike Gordon 1965 - Musician (Phish)
• Anderson Cooper 1967 - Broadcast journalist
• Gabriel Hernandez (No Mercy) 1971
• Ariel Hernandez (No Mercy) 1971
• Rafael Nadal 1986 - Tennis player