Saturday, December 30, 2023

lave \leyv\, verb:

1. To wash; bathe.

2. (Of a river, sea, etc.) to flow along, against, or past; wash.

3. Obsolete. To ladle; pour or dip with a ladle.

4. Archaic. To bathe.

noun:

1. The remainder; the rest.

adjective:

1. (Of ears) large and drooping.

Lave may come from an Old English word gelafian meaning “to wash by pouring” or from the Latin word lavare meaning “to wash.”

 

medicine head

• Mental fogginess resulting from having taken cold/flu medicine. Common side effect of certain antihistamines.

"I took some NyQuil and now I have medicine head like you wouldn't believe. Everything feels and looks surreal -- but at least I can breathe without coughing."

Amazonukkah

• When Christmas really lasts 8 days because the presents take longer to deliver from Amazon.com than anticipated by the purchaser. This is often caused by the reckless use of Super Saver Shipping on items which were bought on Christmas Eve. As a result, the presents are received in small amounts each day over an 8 day period, similar to Hanukkah.

Kid 1: Did you get everything you wanted for Christmas?

Kid 2: I dunno, we're celebrating Amazonukkah this year. My parents are real procrastinators. FML

Holiday

• Bacon Day
  

History

• Gadsden Purchase: was signed, acquiring the land of southern New Mexico and Arizona from Mexico (1853)
• The Pirates of Penzance: Gilbert and Sullivan operetta was first staged (1879)
• USSR: was established when Russia joined Byelorussia, Ukraine and the Transcaucasian Federation (1922)
• Arroyo Seco Parkway: aka the Pasadena Freeway, connecting Los Angeles with Pasadena, opened (1940)
• Saddam Hussein: the Iraqi dictator was executed by hanging for war crimes in the Dujail massacre (2006)

Birthdays

• André Messager 1853
  
• Rudyard Kipling 1865
• Simon Guggenheim 1867
• Stephen Leacock 1869
• Hideki Tojo 1884
• Vincent Lopez 1895
• Bert Parks 1914
• Marie Wilson 1915
• Jo Van Fleet 1922
• Bo Diddley 1928
• Barbara Nichols 1929
• Jack Lord 1930
  
• Skeeter Davis 1931
• Russ Tamblyn 1934
• Fred Lorenzen 1934
• Sandy Koufax (MLB) 1935
• John Hartford 1937
• Noel Paul Stookey 1937
• Paul Stookey (Peter, Paul and Mary) 1937
• Joseph Bologna 1938
• Del Shannon 1939
• Fred Ward 1942
• Michael Nesmith (Monkees) 1942
• Davy Jones (Monkees) 1945

• Roger Glover (Rainbow) 1945
• Patti Smith 1946
• Jeff Lynne (E.L.O., Traveling Wilburys) 1947
• Suzy Bogguss 1956
• Sheryl Lee Ralph 1956
• Patricia Kalember 1956
• Matt Lauer 1957
• Tracey Ullman 1959
• Ben Johnson 1961
• Jay Kay (Jamiroquai) 1969
• Tiger Woods 1975
• Meredith Monroe 1976
• Tyrese 1978
• Eliza Dushku 1980
• Kristin Kreuk 1982

 

  

 

 

Review Tuesday: CSHope iPhone Lightning Cable

iPhone Lightning Cable CSHope Apple Certified 5ft MFI Cable USB Charge and Data Sync, US Flag Design Nylon Braided Charger Cable for iPhone iPad and iPod (1pc Flag Color)

Somehow my wife tends to burn through Lightning cables pretty easily. So when an opportunity for a sponsored test of this cable came along I couldn't resist. 

You open the box and you have your cable in USA colors complete with a velcro strap to keep it tamed. Nice detail with that! 

The cable feels very heavy duty and well made. The plastic and anodized terminals tell me that this is a product built to last. We've only had it a couple days so I can't vouch for how long this cable will last, but keeping the construction in mind, I expect it to hold up a long time. 

If you're okay with the USA colors, I would definitely call this a worthwhile investment. I have found cables of questionable quality for the same price or more. Why take a chance?

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The sweetest check

I just deposited a check from Google Adsense. Why is it that these checks from advertising on my blog are SO sweet?

Today's Automotive Feature: Manny's Coil-Over Conversion

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December 1, 2008

abstemiously (adv)

• Marked by abstinence or restraint, especially in relation to food or drink.

(http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abstemiously)

homobrophobia

• The fear that your brother will be or is gay.

Roger suffers from homobrophobia because his brother Brian is very effeminate.
Trivia

What unique imprint did Whoopi Goldberg make in cement, along with her footprints, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood?

• Her dreadlocks, in 1995.

Today's selected anniversaries:

• 1640: John IV was declared King of Portugal, resulting in the Portuguese Restoration War with Spain. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_IV_of_Portugal)
• 1824: The House of Representatives selected John Quincy Adams as the winner of the U.S. presidential election, after none of the candidates received a majority of the total electoral college votes, as dictated by the Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1824)
• 1955: African-American Civil Rights Movement: Seamstress Rosa Parks was arrested for violating the racial segregation laws of Montgomery, Alabama, after refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, precipitating the Montgomery Bus Boycott.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks)
• 1959: Twelve countries signed the Antarctic Treaty, the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War, banning military activity in Antarctica and setting the continent aside as a scientific preserve. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Treaty_System)
• 1990: Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France met 40 metres (131 ft) beneath the English Channel seabed. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel)

Birthdays

• Martin Klaproth chemist (1743)
• Marie Tussaud modeler in wax (1761)
• Walter Alston baseball manager (1911)
• Minoru Yamasaki architect (1912)
• Mary Martin singer, actress (1913)
• Woody Allen actor, writer, and director (1935)
• Lee Trevino golfer (1939)
• Richard Pryor comedian, actor (1940)
• Bette Midlersinger, actress (1945)

Word of the Day for Friday, November 7, 2008

olfactory \ol-FAK-tuh-ree; -tree; ohl-\, adjective:

• of smell; having to do with smelling

by 1658, from Latin olfactorius, from olfactus, pp. of olfacere "to get the smell of, sniff," from olere "give off a smell of" + Latin facere "make"

PEWS

• Post-Election-Withdrawl-Syndrome: The feeling of general depletion and emptiness in the few days after a presidential election. Caused by the sudden withdrawal of any campaign coverage, sound bites, or pictures of babies being kissed. May be accompanied by aimless clicking on news websites looking for something to read. *NOTE: This condition has been observed in people whether their chosen candidate won or not.

Wife, to her Doctor: "I'm worried about my husband. Ever since the 4th, he's just been sitting at home wandering the New York Times and CNN for hours on end."

Doctor: "I wouldn't worry about it. He probably just has an acute case of PEWS. He should be back on his feet by the end of the week."

Trivia

What famous man of music wrote the song "May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You"?

• Broadway’s “Music Man” Meredith Willson. He wrote it when he was musical director of radio’s The Big Show (1950–53). The song became the signature song of the show’s host, Tallulah Bankhead.

Today in History

• Canadian Pacific Railway: transcontinental system was completed, linking Montreal with Port Moody, British Columbia (1885)
• Galloping Gertie: suspension bridge over the Tacoma Narrows collapsed, killing a cocker spaniel and becoming a textbook engineering disaster case (1940)
• African-American civil rights movement: Carl B. Stokes became the first black mayor of a major US city, Cleveland (1967); Douglas Wilder became the first elected black governor of a US state, Virginia (1989)
• Magic Johnson: LA Lakers basketball star announced he had AIDS and was retiring (1991)

Today's Birthdays

• Marie Curie: Nobelist in Physics and Chemistry (1867-1934); physicists who share this birth date include Lise Meitner (1878-1968) and Chandrasekhara Raman (1888-1970)
• Leon Trotsky (1879-1940): Communist revolutionary
• Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989): zoologist, ornithologist and ethologist
• Albert Camus (1913-1960): author of The Stranger
• Billy Graham (90): evangelist who has received both the Congressional Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Joni Mitchell (65): folk singer, "Both Sides Now"; soprano Joan Sutherland (82) also celebrates her birthday today
• Yunjin Kim (35): Actress, Lost

Word of the Day for Thursday, November 6, 2008

mot juste \moh-ZHOOST\, noun:

• a word or phrase that exacts fits the case

from French mot "word" and juste "right"

Election erection eÅlecÅtion eÅrecÅtion --lk'shYn --rk'shYn -noun

1. the general euphoria experienced when your candidate of choice wins by a landslide.
2. the sexual arousal and excitement caused by same.

"Dude, when I saw the final tally of votes on Nov. 4, I got a total election erection!" or "You may have a first-time voter boner, but when Obama won I got a total election erection."

Trivia

What basketball great was the only three-time winner of the National Collegiate Association of America's Most Valuable Player award?

• Lew Alcindor, playing for UCLA, from 1967 to 1969. He later changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Today in History

• college football: Rutgers beat Princeton in the 1st intercollegiate game (1869)
• October Revolution: the Bolshevik uprising that really took place in November (the difference is due to Russian Old Style dates) began in St. Petersburg (1917)
• Australia: voted to keep Queen Elizabeth as its head of state (1999)

Today's Birthdays

• Glenn Frey (60): rock musician, The Eagles
• Adolphe Sax (1814-1894): inventor of the sax; composers John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) and Ignace Jan Paderewski (1860-1941) share this birth date
• James Naismith (1861-1939): inventor of basketball
• Mike Nichols (77): multiple award-winning director of stage and screen
• Maria Shriver (53): newscaster and author
• Kelly Rutherford (40): Gossip Girl's Lily van der Woodsen; also, actors Sally Field (62), Lori Singer (51), Lance Kerwin (48), Peter DeLuise (42), Ethan Hawke (38), Thandie Newton and Rebecca Romijn (both 36) and Zoe McLellan (34)

Word of the Day for Saturday, September 20, 2008

proponent \pruh-POH-nuhnt\, noun:

• One who argues in support of something; an advocate; a supporter.

Proponent is from the present participle of Latin proponere, "to put forth," from pro-, "forth" + ponere, "to put."

elecoustic

• A term used to describe an electric guitar that is being played without an amplifier, or "unplugged." It's still an electric guitar, but without the distortion and volume that the amp provides it sounds more like an acoustic.

Lenny's neighbors called the cops to complain about his late night guitar solos, so now he has to go elecoustic.

Trivia

Where in the U.S. does the Vatican have an observatory?

• In Arizona, on Mount Graham, northeast of Tucson, where Jesuit astronomers built the 70-inch Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope in collaboration with the Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona.

Today in History

• Ferdinand Magellan: explorer set sail from southern Spain to circumnavigate the globe (1519)
• civil rights: Mississippi governor Ross Barnett personally blocked the entrance of African-American James Meredith to the University of Mississippi; he did end up attending (1962)
• Billie Jean King: won a battle-of-the-sexes tennis match against Bobby Riggs; 30,000 attended and millions watched on TV (1973)

Today's Birthdays

• Sir James Dewar (1842-1923): chemist and physicist who came up with the Dewar flask
• Upton Sinclair (1878-1968): writer/reformer, The Jungle
• Red Auerbach (1917-1963): basketball coach who led the Boston Celtics to eight consecutive NBA titles; hockey hall-of-famer Guy LaFleur (56) shares this birth date
• Kristen Johnston (41): actor, 3rd Rock from the Sun; other actors born on this date include Anne Meara (79), Sophia Loren (74), Betsy Brantley (53) and Gary Cole (52)

Word of the Day for Thursday, September 18, 2008

tintinnabulation \tin-tih-nab-yuh-LAY-shuhn\, noun:

• A tinkling sound, as of a bell or bells.

Tintinnabulation derives from Latin tintinnabulum "a bell," from tintinnare from tinnire, "to jingle."

opm

• Other People's Money

Man, this cellie bill is killin me, I gotta get some OPM.

Trivia

What character on a popular, long-running TV sitcom was never seen—except when she had a pie thrown in her face?

• Vera, the wife of Norm Peterson on Cheers. She was regularly mentioned on the show, sometimes heard, and fleetingly seen only once—when waitress Diane Chambers accidentally threw a pie in her face. Vera was played by Bernadette Birkette, who is the offscreen wife of George Wendt/Norm Peterson.

Today in History

• Tiffany and Co.: upscale jewelry retailer was founded as a stationery and fancy goods store (1837)
• The New York Times: newspaper then known as The New-York Daily Times publishes its first issue (1851)
• 2001 anthrax attacks: began, a week after 9/11, with a mailing from Trenton, New Jersey, to various media sources in New York City (2001)

Today's Birthdays

• Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): lexicographer who compiled the first great English dictionary, Dictionary of the English Language
• Léon Foucault (1819-1868): physicist who created Foucault's pendulum
• Lance Armstrong (37): winner of 7 Tours de France
• James Marsden (35): actor, Enchanted, 27 Dresses; also, actors Greta Garbo (1905-1990), Rossano Brazzi (1916-1994), Fred Willard (69), James Gandolfini (47), Holly Robinson Peete (44) and Jada Pinkett Smith (37)