Friday, March 27, 2026

 

chelonian \ki-LOH-nee-uhn\, adjective:

1. Belonging or pertaining to the order Chelonia, comprising the turtles.

noun:

1. A turtle.

Chelonian comes from the Greek word for turtle, chelṓn.

 

fervent \ FUR-vuhnt \ , adjective; 

1. having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling, enthusiasm, etc.; ardent: a fervent admirer; a fervent plea. 
2. hot; burning; glowing.

Origin: Fervent first entered English in the 1300s and ultimately comes from the Latin fervēre meaning "to boil." 

silent video chat

• to video chat someone and not say a word. you mostly just stare at the screen and type things to the other person who is engaged in a video chat with you.

I had a silent video chat with Marty¦ not fun at all man

History

• Telephone: the first long-distance call was made from Boston to New York (1884)
• Nikita Khrushchev: became prime minister of the Soviet Union (1958)
• Good Friday Earthquake: North America's most powerful earthquake struck Alaska, measuring 9.2 on the Richter scale; it killed over 100 and triggered devastating tsunamis (1964)
• Tenerife crash: the world's worst aviation disaster took place when two 747 airliners collided on Tenerife, Canary Islands (1977)
• Viagra: was approved by the FDA for erectile dysfunction (1998)

Birthdays

• Louis XVII 1785
• Alfred Vigny 1797
• Nathaniel Currier 1813
• William Conrad Rontgen 1845
• Sir Henry Royce 1863
• Patty Smith Hill 1868
• Edward Steichen 1879
• Thorne Smith 1892
• Gloria Swanson 1899
• James Callaghan 1912 - British prime minister

  
• Snooky Lanson 1914
• Richard Denning 1914
• Robert "Junior" Lockwood 1915 - Blues guitarist
• Richard Hayman 1920
• Sarah Vaughan 1924
• Harold Nicholas 1924
• Anthony Lewis 1927 - Newspaper columnist
• Burt Collins 1931
• David Janssen 1931
• Arthur Mitchell 1934 - Dance company director
• Julian Glover 1935 - Actor
• Jerry Lacy 1936 - Actor
• Judy Carne 1939
• Cale Yarborough 1939
• Austin Pendleton 1940 - Actor
• Michael York 1942 - Actor

  
• Tom Sullivan 1947
• Tony Banks 1950 - Musician (Genesis)
• Maria Schneider 1952 - Actress
• Annemarie Moser-Proell 1953
• Andrew Farris 1959 - Musician (INXS)
• Xuxa (Maria da Graça Meneghel) 1963 - Singer, actress
• Quentin Tarantino 1963 - hack director
• Derrick McKenzie 1964 - Musician (Jamiroquai)
• Talisa Soto 1967 - Actress
• Pauley Perrette 1969 - Actress

  
• Mariah Carey 1970 - Singer
• Elizabeth Mitchell (Elizabeth Joanna Robertson) 1970 - Actress ("Lost", "V")
• Brendan Hill 1970 - Musician (Blues Travelers)
• Nathan Fillion 1971 - Actor ("Firefly")
• Fergie (Stacy Ann Ferguson) 1975 - Singer (Black Eyed Peas)
• Emily Ann Lloyd 1983 - Actress
• Brenda Song 1988 - Actress
• Taylor Atelian 1995 - Actress ("According to Jim")

         

  

 

  

Turtle Thursday: Basic Care

This is an x-ray of a pet turtle.

That cluster you see are pebbles caught in the digestive track of this animal.

This is precisely the reason you should never use gravel or pebbles in your pet turtles tank.

Sometimes surgery is required to remedy this situation

Thursday, March 26, 2026

geomancy \JEE-uh-man-see\, noun:

• divination by geographic features or by figures or lines.

Geomancy came to English in the 1300s from the Greek roots meaning "earth" and "divination."

struggle is real

• The hardness and difficulties of every day life being unbearable and apparent.

"Hey dude, I just studied my ass off for this test and got a 60%." 
"Yo, the struggle is real brah..."

 
History

• Popeye: a statue of the spinach-loving cartoon character was erected in Crystal City, Texas (1937)
• Bangladesh: declared independence from Pakistan (1971)
• Camp David Accords: Israeli-Egyptian peace agreement was signed at the White House (1979)
• Mercosur: the Southern Common Market, which joins Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, was established with the Treaty of Asunción (1991)

Birthdays

• Nathaniel Bowditch 1773

  
• Louise Otto 1819
• Edward Bellamy 1850
• A.E. Housman 1859
• Robert Frost 1874
• Duncan Hines 1880
• Al Jolson 1886
• Clarence Stroud 1907 - Actor, father of actor Don Stroud
• Chips Rafferty 1909
• Tennessee Williams 1911
• William C. Westmoreland 1914 - U.S. Army general
• Sterling Hayden 1916
• Rufus Thomas 1917
• Strother Martin 1919
• Joe Loco 1921
• Bob Elliott 1923
• James Clifton Williams 1923
• James Moody 1925 - Jazz saxophonist
• Pierre Boulez 1925 - Conductor, composer
• Maurice Simon 1929
• Sandra Day O'Connor 1930 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice
• Leonard Nimoy 1931 - Actor ("Star Trek")
• Alan Arkin 1934 - Actor
• James Caan 1939 - Actor
• Rod Lauren 1940
• Braulio Baeza 1940
• Nancy Pelosi 1940 - U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives / zombie
• Erica Jong 1942 - Author
• Bob Woodard 1943 - Journalist
• Diana Ross 1944 - Singer
• Johnny Crawford 1946 - Actor
• Fred Paris 1946 - Musician (Five Satins)
• Steven Tyler 1948 - Singer (Aerosmith)
• Richard Tandy 1948 - Musician (Electric Light Orchestra)
• Vicki Lawrence 1949 - Singer, actress
• Fran Sheehan 1949 - Musician (Boston)
• Martin Short 1950 - Actor, comedian
• Ronnie McDowell 1950 - Country singer
• Teddy Pendergrass 1950 - Singer
  Brian Bolland 1951 - artist (Judge Dredd)
• Curtis Sliwa 1954
• Dean Dillon 1955 - Country singer
• Charly McClain 1956 - Country singer
• Leeza Gibbons 1957 - TV personality

  
• Marcus Allen 1960 - Football player
• Jennifer Grey 1960 - Actress ("Dirty Dancing")
• Gabriele "Nena" Kerner 1960
• John Stockton 1962 - Basketball player
• Michael Imperioli 1966 - Actor ("The Sopranos")
• Kenny Chesney 1968 - Country singer
• James Iha 1968 - Musician (Smashing Pumpkins)
• Juvenile 1975 - Rapper
• Amy Smart 1976 - Actress
• Keira Knightley 1985 - Actress ("Pirates of the Caribbean") 

  Nina Agdal - 1992

  

 

  

Turtle Thursday: Spider Turtle! (2026)

Spider turtle

Spider turtle

Does whatever a spider turtle does

Can he shoot a web?

I dunno

But I do know

He's a spider turtle!

Hasselhoff Wednesday: David is Art

I'm sure this is what Michelangelo REALLY had in mind.

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

synergy \SIN-er-jee\, noun:

1. the interaction of elements that when combined produce a total effect that is greater than the sum of the individual elements, contributions, etc.; synergism. 

2. Physiology, Medicine/Medical. the cooperative action of two or more muscles, nerves, or the like.

3. Biochemistry, Pharmacology. the cooperative action of two or more stimuli or drugs.

Synergy has been around in English since the mid-1600s and comes from the Neo-Latin synergia, which in turn, came from the Greek meaning "working together." 

celebrity lay

• A specific celebrity you and your significant other mutually agreed that it would be okay to have sex with should the two of you ever meet in public and have a one night stand.

My wife won't mind, Kate Beckinsale is my celebrity lay.

History 

• Robert the Bruce: became king of not-yet-independent Scotland; in 1328, after many battles, England's King Edward III finally recognized Scotland's independence and Bruce as its king (1306)
• Maryland: was founded by settlers sent by Lord Baltimore (1634)
• Coxey's Army: the first popular protest march on Washington left Massillon, Ohio, led by Jacob Coxey; the men sought legislation to create jobs in a depression year (1894)
• Bed-In for Peace: John Lennon and Yoko Ono celebrated their marriage with their first weeklong stay in bed, in an Amsterdam hotel with the press onlooking (1969)
• "How long, not long": Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers a speech on the steps of Alabama's state capitol, at the end of the Selma to Montgomery march (1965)
• European Economic Community: was established with the Treaty of Rome; it comprised W. Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg (1957)

Birthdays

• William Bell Wait 1839
• Arturo Toscanini 1867
  

  
• John Gutzon Borglum 1871
• Bela Bartok 1881
• Ed Begley, Sr. 1901
• Frankie Carle 1903
• David Lean 1908
• Jeanne Cagney 1919
• Howard Cosell 1920
• Nancy Kelly 1921
• Simone Signoret 1921
• Eileen Ford 1922
• Jim Lovell 1928 - Astronaut
• Flannery O’Connor 1925
• Gene Shalit 1932 - Movie critic
• Bonnie Guitar 1934
• Gloria Steinem 1934 - Feminist author
• Johnny Burnette 1935
• Hoyt Axton 1938
• Anita Bryant 1940 - Singer
• Aretha Franklin 1942 - Singer
• Paul Michael Glaser 1943 - Actor ("Third Watch", "Starsky and Hutch")
• Bonnie Bedelia 1948 - Actress ("Parenthood")
• Nick Lowe 1949 - Singer
• Elton John 1947 - Singer, musician
• Kelly Garrett 1948
• Neil Jones 1949 - Musician (Amen Corner)
• Maisie Williams 1951 - (Boney M)
• Mary Gross 1953 - Actress, comedian
• James McDaniel 1958 - Actor ("NYPD Blue")
• Brenda Song 1960 - Actress ("Desperate Housewives")
• John Stockwell 1961 - Actor, writer, director
• Marcia Cross 1962 - Actress ("Desperate Housewives")
• Lisa Gay Hamilton 1964 - Actress ("The Practice")
• Sarah Jessica Parker 1965 - Actress ("Sex and the City", "Failure to Launch")
• Tom Glavin 1966 - Baseball player
• Jeff Healey 1966 - Musician
• Debi Thomas 1967 - Olympic bronze medal figure skater
• Sheryl Swoops 1971 - Basketball player
• Melanie Blatt 1975 - Singer (All Saints)
• Lee Pace 1979 - Actor ("Pushing Daisies")
  Marketa Belonoha 1982 - t3h pr0n 
• Danica Patrick 1982 - Auto racer
• Katherine McPhee 1984 - Singer ("American Idol")
• Jason Castro 1987 - Singer ("American Idol")
• Aly Michalka 1989 - Actress, singer ("Aly and AJ")