Wednesday, August 12, 2026

blithesome \ BLAHYTH-suhm \ , adjective; 

• lighthearted; merry; cheerful: a blithesome nature . 

Origin: Blithesome entered English in the early 1700s from the Gothic term bleiths meaning "kind, merciful."

Magic Toaster 

• A derogatory term describing an un-savvy computer users view of what a computer is.

Why my magic toaster no come on? I plug in, but no toast!

 

History

• Chicago: the Windy City was founded with a population of 350 (1833)
• Isaac Singer: got a patent for his sewing machine (1851) 
  Quagga: the last specimen of the zebra-like animal died, at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam (1883)

  
• Spanish-American War: peace protocol was signed; Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines were ceded to the US and Cuba was released from Spanish rule (1898)
• IBM-PC: IBM introduced its first personal computer, which contained an Intel chip and Microsoft's DOS operating system (1981)
• Sue: the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found was discovered in South Dakota; she now resides in Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History (1990)
• Kursk: Russian nuclear submarine sank in the Barents Sea, killing the whole of its 118-member crew (2000)

Birthdays

• Thomas Bewick 1753
• Abbott Thayer 1849
• Christy Mathewson 1880
• Cecil B. DeMille 1881
• Cantinflas 1911
• Mario Moreno 1911
• Jane Wyatt 1912
• Michael Kidd 1919
• Majorie Reynolds 1921
• Joe Jones 1926
• John Derek 1926
• Porter Wagoner 1927
• Mstislav Rostropovich 1927
• Buck Owens 1929
• William Goldman 1931
• Parnelli Jones 1933
• Larry Ziegler 1939
• George Hamilton 1939
• Jennifer Warren 1941
• Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) 1949
• Kid Creole 1950

• Pat Metheny 1954
• Sam J. Jones 1954
• Danny Shirley (Confederate Railroad) 1956
• Suzanne Vega 1959
• Roy Hay (Culture Club) 1961
• Sir Mix-A-Lot 1963
• Peter Krause 1965
• Pete Sampras 1971
• Rebecca Gayheart 1972
• Linda O'Neil / Pamela Laveux 1973: actress and the most popular body model that you probably never heard of.
• Casey Affleck 1975
• Bill Uechi (Save Ferris) 1975
• Dominique Swain 1980

  

 

  

Review Tuesday: Underwater (2020)

  

 

Underwater

2020

Catastrophe strikes an underwater drilling facility in a Lovecraftian way. 

I have been meaning to watch this movie for years because it's pretty popular in the Lovecraft circles. My BFF said she wanted to watch it because Kristen Stewart is nekkid in it. Okay! Sounds good to me!

 

After some catastrophic failure at an underwater drilling facility, survivors try to figure out a way to survive. That's pretty much the entire thing. Approximately one and a half hours of that. It gets right to it and it doesn't let up until the end.

 

It's fun, a lot of suspense, and there IS that Cthulhu edge to it. I'd say it's worth watching.   

 

   

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

peckish \ PEK-ish \ , adjective; 

1. Chiefly British Informal . somewhat hungry: By noon we were feeling a bit peckish . 
2. Chiefly British Informal . rather irritable: He's always a bit peckish after his nap.

Origin: Though the origins of peckish are unknown, this term may share its roots with the term pick . This term came to English in the early 1700s.

MILF 

• Mother I'd Like to Fuck
• Mom I'd Like to Fuck
• Mother I'd Like to Frick

Julie Clarke is a MILF!

History

• SOS: Arapahoe became the first American ship to use the distress signal (1909)
• Alcatraz: island prison in San Francisco Bay received its first civilian inmates (1934)
• Hussein ibn Talal: 16-year-old was proclaimed king of Jordan after his father was declared mentally unfit (1952)
• Watts riots: civil disturbances in Los Angeles left 34 dead (1965)
• The Mall of America: the most-visited mall in the world opened on the site of Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota (1992)

Birthdays

• Robert Ingersoll 1833
• Carrie Bond 1862
• Lloyd Nolan 1902
• Jean Parker 1912
• Alex Haley 1921
• Carl Rowan 1925
• Mike Douglas 1925
• Arlene Dahl 1928
• Jerry Falwell 1933
• Virna Lisi 1937
• Anne Massey 1937
  
  
• Mike Hugg 1942
• Guy Villari 1943
• Jim Kale (The Guess Who) 1943
• Ian McDiarmid 1944
• John Conlee 1946
• Ian Charleson 1949
• Eric Carmen (Raspberries) 1949
• Steve Wozniak 1950
• Eric Braun (Iron Butterfly) 1950
• Terry "Hulk Hogan" Bollea 1953
• Joe Jackson 1955
• Richard Reinhardt (The Ramones) 1957
• Diana Woei 1965
• John Mitchell 1965
• Charlie Sexton 1968
• Chris Dave (Mint Condition) 1968
• Ali Shaheed Muhammad 1970
• Julia Anne Clarke 1972: aka Julie Clarke, Playmate 03/91, actress, model, hardbody, nurse
• Will Friedle 1976
• Chris Kelly (Kriss Kross) 1978

 

 

  

 

  

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Sunday, August 9, 2026

bugbear \ BUHG-bair \ , noun; 

1. any source, real or imaginary, of needless fright or fear. 
2. a persistent problem or source of annoyance. 
3. Folklore . a goblin that eats up naughty children. 

Origin: Bugbear blends an old sense of the word bug , "a bogy or hobgoblin," with the term bear , referring to the animal form that this folkloric goblin took. It entered English in the late 1500s.  

 

find cuisine

• To create a fine meal using random items around the kitchen . This includes never before used spices and the culmination of three different pasta noodles and a can of diced tomatoes thus creating the pasta stew mess.

Stephanie: "What you cooking there?"

Nadine: "Some randomness with pasta. Kind of like a pasta stew. But messier."
Stephanie: "I love your find cuisine, Nadine."

Trivia

What was the name of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki?

• 74 years ago today, the plane Bockscar — named for its regular commander, Frederick Bock — dropped "Fat Man" on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, effectively putting an end to World War II. Three days earlier, the Enola Gay — named for Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of pilot Paul Tibbets — had unloaded its cargo, "Little Boy," on Hiroshima. The explosions killed more than 200,000 people, and the two cities were nearly completely destroyed. Both cities have been rebuilt and serve as a center of the movement to ban nuclear weapons. An annual world conference opposing nuclear weapons has met in Hiroshima every year since 1955.

History

• Tower of Pisa: construction on the campanile began; it would take 200 years to complete, and the uneven settling of the foundation would cause it to lean (1173)
• Sistine Chapel: the private chapel of the popes was consecrated and its first mass was celebrated (1483)
• Webster-Ashburton Treaty: established much of the border between the US and Canada (1842)
• 1936 Summer Olympics: Jesse Owens became the first American to win four gold medals in one Olympiad (1936)
• Nagasaki: atom bomb called the Fat Man, dropped by the Bockscar, devastated a second Japanese city (1945)
• Singapore: seceded from and became independent of Malaysia (1965)
• Richard M. Nixon: officially left office as America's 37th president and the first one to resign; vice president Gerald Ford became president (1974)

Birthdays

• Isaac Walton 1593
• Jean Piaget 1896
  
• Charles Farrell 1901
• Zino Francescatti 1902
• Roger Shaw 1927
• Merle Kilgore 1934
• Billy Henderson (The Spinners) 1939
• Jack DeJohnette 1942
• David Steinberg 1942
• Sam Elliott 1944
• Ken Norton 1945
• Rinus Gerritsen (Golden Earring) 1946
• Barbara Mason 1947
• Doug Williams 1955
• Benjamin Orr (The Cars) 1955
• Melanie Griffith 1957
• Amanda Bearse 1958
• Kurtis Blow 1959
• Aimee Mann 1960
• Whitney Houston 1963
• Deion Sanders 1967
• Pat Peterson 1968
• Gillian Anderson 1968
• Mack 10 1971
• Liz Vassey 1972
• Arion Salazar (Third Blind Eye) 1972
• Audrey Tautou 1978