Turtle Thursday: Time to lounge around [from 4/16/09]

My pets sure have the life. Pictured are Lord Tyrannus (left) with his Queen, Snappy, enjoying some leisure time under their basking lamp. Now that July 15th has past I can do some of that, too!

Thursday, July 23, 2026

peregrine \ PER-i-grin, -green, -grahyn \ , noun; 

1. foreign; alien; coming from abroad. 
2. wandering, traveling, or migrating. 

noun: 

1. peregrine falcon. 

Origin: Peregrine entered English in the late 1300s from the Latin peregrē literally meaning "beyond the borders of the field." 

Textpectation

• The anticipation one feels when waiting for a response to a text message.

I just texted her for a date but now the textpectation is killing me.

History

• typographer: William Burt received a patent for his forerunner of the typewriter (1829)
  Batman - the caped crusader debuted (1939)
• Gamal Abdel Nasser: led the Egyptian army in an overthrow of King Farouk I (1952)
• 12th Street riot: police raid at a blind pig sparked five days of race riots in Detroit; 43 people died and 2,000 buildings burned down (1967)
• Tiger Woods: at 24, became the youngest golfer to win a career Grand Slam (2000)

Birthdays

• Karl Menninger 1893
• Vincent Sardi 1894
• Arthur Treacher 1894
• Karl Swenson 1908
• Michael Wilding 1912
• Coral Browne 1913
• Calvert DeForest 1921
• Gloria De Haven 1925
• Billy Maxwell 1929
• Bert Convey 1933
• Stacy Lacy 1934
• Cleveland Duncan 1935 - Musician (Penguins)
• Don Drysdale 1936
• Ronny Cox 1938
• Nicholas Gage 1939
• Don Imus 1940 - Radio personality, possible zombie
• Gary Stites 1940
• Tony Joe White 1943
• Dino Danelli 1945 - Musician (The Rascals)
• Andy Mackay 1946 - Musician (Roxy Music)
• David Essex 1947
• Larry Manetti 1947
• Belinda Montgomery 1950
• Blair Thornton 1950 - Musician (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
• Edie McClurg 1951
• Woody Harrelson 1961
• Martin Lee Gore 1961 - Musician (Depeche Mode)
  
• Eriq LaSalle 1962
• Yuval Gabay (Soul Coughing) 1963
• Nick Menza 1964 - Musician (Megadeth)
• Slash (Saul Hudson) 1965 - Muscian (Guns N' Roses)
• Stephanie Seymour 1968
• Charisma Carpenter 1970
• Sam Watters 1970 - Musician (Color Me Badd)
• Alison Krauss 1971
• Chad Gracey 1971 - Musician (Live)
• Mr. Dalvin (Jodeci) 1971
• Marlon Wayans 1972 
• Omar Epps 1973
• Michelle Williams 1980 - Singer (Destiny's Child)

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

  

Hasselhoff Wednesday - WTF

 

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

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Review Tuesday: Attack on Titan

  

 

Attack on Titan

People living in fear behind giant walls are hiding a secret they didn't even realize. 

I don't get to watch a lot of anime. Watching a series is hard for me. It's a big investment of time which I do not have. However, one of the biggest names in recent years is ATTACK ON TITAN. My BFF asked me to watch it with her, so why not? It's only 4 seasons...

 

I don't know what to say. It's a very long and weird series. It's mostly very well developed, but I feel like after season three, they went ape-shit trying to finish up the story. However, in doing so they added so many zigs and zags that it felt like it turned into something completely different. 

 

It starts off with a city behind walls to protect it from the monstrous TITANS getting attacked and the Titans getting in causing mass damages and casualties. Eren Yeager vows to exterminate the beasts. Pretty much entire rest of the series is his journey to meet that goal.

 

To me, I felt that since the story isn't linear with all of the jumping back and forth it led to all sorts of confusion. A massive conspiracy emerges. However, in the end it's mostly coherent if not rushed at the end. All that taken into account I am still glad I had the opportunity to watch it. I am up to date on that part of modern pop culture, as the series only concluded a couple years ago.    

 

 

  

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

sparge \ spahrj \ , verb;

• to scatter or sprinkle. 

noun:

• a sprinkling. 

Origin: Sparge comes from the Latin spargere meaning "to sprinkle, scatter." It entered English in the mid-1500s.

 

baxoteric

• the baxojayz initiated; those who are aware of and follow t3h bax0jayz. 
• also bax0teric, t3h bax0t3ric

one: why did Kate leave Len?

two: she found out he wasn't baxoteric

History

• Temple of Artemis: marble shrine that was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was burned down by a fame-seeking young man, Herostratus (356 BCE)
• Bull Run: Confederate forces won the first major battle of the Civil War; Confederate general Thomas Jackson acquired his nickname "Stonewall" (1861)
• Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes was found guilty of teaching Darwinism in a Tennessee high school (1925)
• 17th parallel: following defeat at Dien Bien Phu, France agreed to withdraw troops from communist North Vietnam (1954)
• Aswan Dam: was completed, preventing Nile floods and providing electricity and water for Egypt and Sudan (1970)
• WorldCom: filed for bankruptcy about a month after revealing deceptive accounting had inflated profits by nearly $4 billion; it was the largest bankruptcy in US history (2002)

Birthdays

• • Jean Picard (1620-1682): astronomer, the first to measure a degree of the Earth's latitude

  • Ernest Hemingway 1899 - Author, journalist
    

    
  • Marshall McLuhan 1911 - Educator, philosopher, scholar
  • Isaac Stern 1920 - Violinist
  • Kay Starr 1922 - Singer
  • Don Knotts 1924 - Actor
  • Paul Burke 1926 - Actor
  • Norman Jewison 1926 - Film director, producer, actor, founder of the Canadian Film Centre
  • Janet Reno 1938 - Attorney General of the U.S. (1993-2001)
  • Kim Fowley 1942 - Record producer, songwriter, musician
  • David Downing 1943 - Actor
  • Edward Herrmann 1943 - Actor
  • Leigh Lawson 1945 - Actor, director, writer
  • Cat Stevens 1947 - Musician
  • Robin Williams 1952 - Actor, comedian
  • Jon Lovitz 1957 - Actor ("Saturday Night Live") comedian, singer
  • Henry Priestman (Henry Christian Priestman) 1958 - Singer, musician (The Christians)
  • Lance Guest 1960 - Actor
  • Matt Mulhern 1960 - Actor
  • Jim Martion 1961 - Musician (Faith No More)
  • Emerson Hart 1969 - Musician (Tonic)
  • Paul Brandt (Paul Rennee Belobersycky) 1972 - Country musician
  • Gary Whitta 1972 - Author, screenwriter, video game designer
  • Josh Hartnett 1978 - Actor

 

 

  

Look forward to Jennifer!

Jennifer Walcott

   

  

  

  

  

 

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