Friday, September 27, 2019

ikat \ee-kaht\, noun:

1. a method of printing woven fabric by tie-dyeing the warp yarns (warp ikat), the weft yarns (weft ikat), or both (double ikat) before weaving.
2. a fabric made by this method.

Ikat is derived from the Malay word meaning "to tie" because of the method of dyeing. It entered English in the 1930s.

check my spam

• Checking one's email though certain one has received no important communication. Compulsively and frequently checking one's email when one is not expecting an important message.

Between friends in a cybercafe: "Hey could you hurry up so I can get on and check my email?" "Who are you kidding, little bro, you know all your email buddies have dropped you like a brick!" "Yeah, I gotta check my spam. . . vamoose!"

History

• Society of Jesus: the Jesuits' order was chartered by Pope Paul III (1540)
• Locomotion No. 1: steam-powered locomotive hauled its first passenger train on England's Stockton and Darlington line (1825)
• Warren Commission: government investigative team concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy (1964)
• NC-17: rating for adult-oriented films was introduced by the MPAA (1990)
• Taliban: a group of Islamic religious students captured Afghanistan's capital, Kabul (1996)

Birthdays

• George Cruikshank 1792
• Thomas Nast 1840 - Political cartoonist that created the Republican elephant and the Democrat donkey
• Vincent Youmans 1898
• Jayne Meadows 1920
• William Conrad 1920
• Arthur Penn 1922
• Sada Thompson 1929
• Kathleen Nolan 1933
• Greg Morris 1934
• Barbara Howar 1934
• Claude Jarman Jr. 1934
  

  
• Wilford Brimley 1934
• Don Cornelius 1936
• Delores Taylor 1939
• Kathy Whitworth 1939
• Don Nix 1941
• Randy Bachman (Guess Who, Bachman-Turner Overdrive) 1943
• Liz Torres 1947
• A Martinez 1948
• Robert Weller 1949
• Mike Schmidt 1949
• Cary-Hiroyuki Tagaw 1950
• Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday) 1951 
• Greg Ham (Men at Work) 1953
• Johnette Napolitano (Concrete Blonde) 1957
• Shaun Cassidy 1958
• Stephan Jenkins (Third Eye Blind) 1964
• Patrick Muldoon 1968
• Mark Calderon (Color Me Badd) 1970
• Amanda Detmer 1971
• Gwyneth Paltrow 1972
• Brad Arnold (3 Doors Down) 1978
• Lil Wayne 1982 
• Avril Lavigne 1984