Tuesday, January 9, 2024

heterotelic \het-er-uh-TEL-ik\, adjective:

• Having the purpose of its existence or occurrence apart from itself.

Heterotelic is directly derived from the Greek roots héteros meaning "other", tele- meaning "distant", and the suffix -ic which denotes an adjective, as in metallic and athletic.

 

Blackberry roulette

• Driving a motor vehicle while talking or texting on a cell phone.

Each time I see someone driving and talking on the phone I say to myself something's got to be done about these dangerous people; but nothing ever is. They just keep motoring along playing Blackberry roulette until one day their carelessness alters the life of an innocent.

 

Trivia

What compound—included in most diets—is represented by the molecular formula C8H10N4O2?

• Caffeine.

History

• daguerreotype: L. J. M. Daguerre announced the first practical photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences (1839)
• autogiro: aeronautical engineer Juan de la Cierva made the first successful flight in the helicopter-like aircraft he had invented, in Madrid (1923)
• Martyr's Day of Panama: the tearing of a Panamanian flag during protests regarding US sovereignty over the Panama Canal Zone led to several days of deadly fighting (1964)
• Commonwealth of Northern Marianas: was established (1978)

Birthdays

• Gracie Fields 1898
• Vilma Banky (Lonchit) 1898
• Chic (Murat Bernard) Young 1901
• George Balanchine 1904
• Simone de Beauvoir 1908
• Richard Milhous Nixon (U.S.) 1913
• Fernando Lamas 1915
• Anita Louise (Fremault) 1915
• Herbert Lom 1917
• Judith Krantz 1928
• Domenico Modugno 1928
• Bart Starr (NFL) 1934
• Bob Denver 1935
• Dick Enberg 1935
• Big Al Downing 1940
• Joan Baez 1941
• Susannah York 1941
  
• Roy Head 1943
• Jimmy Page 1944 - Musician (Led Zeppelin) 
• Scott (Noel) Engel (The Walker Brothers) 1944
• Bill Cowsill 1948 - Musician (Cowsills)
• Rio Reiser 1950
• David Johansen 1950 - Musician (Buster Poindexter)
• Crystal Gayle 1951
• J. K. Simmons 1955
• Eric Erlandson 1963 - Musician (Hole)
• Haddaway 1965
• Joely Richardson 1965
  
• David John "Dave" Matthews 1967
• Carl Bell 1967 - Musician (Fuel)
• Steve Harwell 1967 - Musician (Smash Mouth)
• Joey Lauren Adams 1968
• A.J. McLean 1978
• Catherine Elizabeth Middleton 1982 - Duchess of Cambridge, married to Prince William, Duke of Cambridge  
• Nina Dobrev 1989