Friday, June 26, 2026

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Turtle Thursday: Chillin 2008

I snuck in one night and noticed the turtles were all asleep. I snagged this pic of Jay, a Mississippi Map Turtle as her eyes were opening. She's a good girl. She's also grown very nicely.  She's around the size of palm.

Turtle Thursday: That ain't right

 

Thursday, June 25, 2026

zedonk \ ZEE-dongk, -dawngk, -duhngk \ , noun; 

• the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. 

Origin: This portmanteau is a combination of ze(bra) + donk(ey). It came to English in the 1970s.

email bail

• using email to back out or ditch on plans, dates and even relationships.

he didn't want a confrontation so he decided to email bail on the chick he promised to call last night.

History

• Battle of Little Bighorn: Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his men were killed by Indians in what became known as "Custer's Last Stand" (1876)
• Douglas Hyde: became the first president of Ireland (1938)
• Korean War: broke out when the communist North invaded the South (1950)
• Yugoslavia: former republics Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence (1991)
• Mir space station: was struck by an unmanned Progress spacecraft (1997)
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Teheran mayor was elected president of Iran (2005)
• Michael Jackson: the "King of Pop" died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication after suffering cardiac arrest at his home in Los Angeles. (2009)

Birthdays

• Rosie O'Neill 1874
• Henry "Hap" Arnold 1886
• George Abbott 1887
• Lord Louis Mountbatten (Burma) 1900
• Anne Revere 1903
• George Orwell 1903
• Peter Lind Hayes 1915
• Johnny Smith 1922
• Dorothy Gilman 1923
• Sidney Lumet 1924
• June Lockhart 1925
• Eddie Floyd (Falcons) 1935
• Barbara Montgomery 1939
• Clint Warwick (The Moody Blues) 1940
• Willis Reed 1942
• Carly Simon 1945
• Ian McDonald (Foreigner) 1946
• Allen Lanier (Blue Oyster Cult) 1946
• Jimmy Walker 1947
• Michael Lembeck 1948
• Phyllis George 1949
• Tim Finn (Split Enz) 1952
• David Paich (Toto) 1954
• George Michael 1963
• Dikembe Mutombo 1966
• Richie Rich 1967
• Candyman 1968
• Sean Kelly (Sixpence None the Richer) 1971
• Michael Kroeger (Michael Douglas Henry Kroeger ) 1972 - Bass player (Nickelback)
• Carlos Delgado 1972
• Mario Calire (Wallflowers) 1974
• Albert Costa 1975
• Linda Cardellini 1975

 

 

  

 

  

Hasselhoff Wednesday: Like Magic!

Poof!

Where'd his career go?

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

vane \ veyn \ , noun;

1. a person who is readily changeable or fickle.
2. weather vane.
3. a blade, plate, sail, etc., in the wheel of a windmill, to be moved by the air.
4. any of a number of blades or plates attached radially to a rotating drum or cylinder, as in a turbine or pump, that move or are moved by a fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air.
5. Aerospace . a. any fixed or movable plane surface on the outside of a rocket providing directional control while the rocket is within the atmosphere. b. a similar plane surface located in the exhaust jet of a reaction engine, providing directional control while the engine is firing.
6. Ornithology . the web of a feather.
7. Navigation, Surveying . either of two fixed projections for sighting an alidade or the like.
8. Archery . feather. 

Origin: Vane is a variant of the word fane , meaning "flag; banner." It entered English in the mid-1400s.

 

interesting

• (adj) Something which arouses no interest at all. Used to politely avoid admitting this, which indirectly expresses your indifference.

Yes, your bottle cap collection is interesting.

History

• dancing mania: first major outbreak of this phenomenon — wild, uncontrollable dancing, accompanied by hallucinations, to the point of exhaustion — occurred in Aachen, Germany (1374)
• John Cabot: explorer became the first European to sight the continent of North America (1497)
• Henry VIII: crowned king of England (1509)
• flying saucer: Kenneth Arnold described UFOs he had seen near Mt. Rainier, Washington, as "saucers skipping across the water" (1947); the Roswell Report closed the case on other alleged sightings of UFOs near Roswell, New Mexico (1997)
• Berlin blockade: Soviet Union prevented delivery of supplies to Berlin; Allied forces began the Berlin airlift in response (1948)
• FTC: required that a message be placed on all cigarette packages to warn consumers that cigarette smoking is dangerous to their health (1964)

Birthdays

• E.I. Du Pont 1771
• Ambrose Bierce 1842
• Jack Dempsey 1895
• Irving Kaufman 1910
• Norman Cousins 1912
• John Ciardi 1916
• Al Molinaro 1919
• Manny Albam 1922
• Billy Casper 1931
• Peter Hamill 1935
• Michele Lee 1942
• Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac) 1942
• Georg Stanford Brown 1943
• Arthur Brown 1944
• Jeff Beck (Yardbirds) 1944
• John ‘Charlie’ Whitney (Family) 1944
• Colin Blunstone 1945
• Ellison S. Onizuka 1946
  Patrick Moraz (musician: Yes, Moody Blues) 1948
• John Illsley (Dire Straits) 1949
• Nancy Allen 1950
• Derrick Simpson (Black Uhuru) 1950
• Astro (UB40) 1957
• Andrew McCluskey (OMD) 1959
• Curt Smith (Tears For Fears) 1961
• Danielle Spencer 1965
• Sherry Stringfield 1967
• Jeff Cease (The Black Crowes) 1967
• Glenn Medeiros 1970
• Minka Kelly 1980
  Erin Moriarty 1994 (Starlight from The Boys)
  

  

  

  

  

 

  

 

 

 

  

Review Tuesday: Mad God 2021

  

 

MAD

GOD

2021

The Assassin navigates a ruined world of nightmares. 

This movie has been on my to-watch list for years. I own a copy but have never gotten around to watching it. So when my BFF wanted to watch it on movie night, I agreed. 

 

The bid thing about this movie is that this work has taken Phil Tippett 30 years to get it done. That's a massive commitment. Tippett's animations are well known for how great they are, so this had a lot of promise. 

 

The Assassin descended into some ruined world of horrors. We see the nightmares that occupy this space as he goes to do his job. 

 

There's not much to this movie. It's just extended scenes of imaginative yet horrific animations. That's it. Not much of a story. No character development. A lot of WTF. It looks cool and all, but it left me feeling MEH after watching it.   

  

  

Review Tuesday: Terminator Genisys 2015

  

 

Terminator Genisys

2015 

John Connor is sent back in time to stop John Connor. 

For YEARS Terminator Genisys has been FREE on Amazon Prime and I always meant to watch it, but never did. It's also been on numerous in-flight movie systems. Never motivated to watch it. There just always seemed to be better things to do with my time. Finally my BFF cornered me and had me watch it with her. 

 

This movie starts off giving you impression that it's something like a compilation of all of the previous Terminator movies all rolled up in one. Nope, they had to toss in some curve-ball. Skynet infects JOHN CONNOR and send him back in time to launch a virus called Genisys that will kick Skynet off in yet another way.  

 

It's got some cool action and explosions in its favor. But I have some reservations. God Bless Emilia Clarke for looking so youthful, but she looks like a child playing Sarah Connor. Jai Courtney seems too well fed for Kyle Reese. And the whole sending John Connor back to stop John Connor is pretty weird. I mean, why??? But all in all, it's an action with explosions and Arnold has his lines of dry wit so it's not bad to watch. It just doesn't feel right to me.  

 

 

 

  

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

grabble \ GRAB-uhl \ , verb;

1. to feel or search with the hands; grope. 
2. to sprawl; scramble.

Origin: Grabble is related to the Dutch word grabben meaning "grab." It entered English approximately a decade before the shorter grab , around 1580. 

courtesy wash 

• The common practice of men, where after using a public restroom, instead of actually washing their hands, they simply slightly dampen them under the sink and then dry them on the pants or a paper towel. Thus giving the illusion that they did in fact wash their hands.

She ragged on you about washing your hands? Why didn't you do a courtesy wash?
 

History

• typewriter: Christopher Sholes received a patent for his new typing machine (1868)
• Banff National Park: Canada's first national park was signed into law; it is in Alberta, on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains (1887)
• SAT: standardized college-admission exam was first administered; 8,000 test-takers had 90 minutes to answer 315 questions (1924)
• Warren E. Burger: was sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States; he served until 1986 (1969)
• John Gotti: the "Teflon don," boss of the Gambino crime family, was sentenced to life in prison (1992)
• Mr & Mrs Bax0jayz tie the (balloon) knot (2001)

Birthdays

• Josephine Marinique 1763
• Irvin Cobb 1876
• Alfred Kinsey 1894
• Edward Patrick David 1894
• Edward P. Morgan 1910
• Jean Marie Anouilh 1910
• David Ogilvy 1911
• Alan Turing 1912
• Irene Worth 1916
• Larry Blyden 1925
• Bob Fosse 1927
• June Carter Cash 1929
• Adam Faith 1940
• Diana Trask 1940
• Wilma Rudolph 1940
• James Levine 1943
• Rosetta Hightower (The Orlons) 1944
• Ted Shackelford 1946
• Bryan Brown 1947
• Clarence Thomas 1948
• Jim Metzler 1954
  Glenn Danzig 1955
• Randy Jackson (Randall Darius Jackson) 1956 - Musician, judge on "American Idol"
• Frances McDormand 1957
• Karin Gustafson 1959
• Paul La Greca 1962
• Richard Coles (Communards) 1962
• Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) 1962
• Chico DeBarge 1970
• Selma Blair 1972
• Virgo Williams (Ghostowns DJs) 1975