Archives for February 2023

The first network email was sent by computer engineer Ray Tomlinson in 1971. The email to himself said “something like QWERTYUIOP”. It was sent from one computer to another computer sitting right beside it in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but it traveled via ARPANET, a network of computers that was the precursor to the internet.

1971:  Also the last time when any employee with a computer did a full day’s work!

Dr. Anthony Rossi shares his thoughts on the subject.  Dr. Rossi is an assistant attending dermatologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City and a fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology so he knows his stuff!
“Our beliefs about clothing hygiene are largely “societal and cultural,” said Dr. Anthony  “People tend to over wash and ‘over hygiene’ themselves, because especially in America, we have the luxury of being able to do all that stuff all the time.”

Experts worldwide are weighing in on the subject.  “There are a few types that should be washed after every use: underwear, socks, tights, leggings and activewear.  “This advice also applies to any other clothes with stains, sweat, odor or visible dirt,” said Manal Mohammed, a senior lecturer of medical microbiology at the University of Westminster in London.

The medical community seems to spend a lot of time on this subject.  I guess they must have already cured cancer.

“Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination? No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is. Only the mad can be happy… The few that imagine themselves kings or gods are happy, the rest are no happier than the sane.”  
Wisdom from Mark Twain.

No wonder our elected officials are so happy!

I am honored to have the renowned Nobel Prize winner, survivor of the Holocaust and recent winner of the Senior Club Championship at Trump International Golf Club posting a message here today.  There had been some controversy created when twice-impeached ex-president Trump declared himself the winner of the golf tournament after missing the first day.  But when it was verified that George Santos missed every day, trumping Trump’s lie with an even bigger one, he was declared victorious.

There is talk George will be Donald’s running mate as they share the same lack of values, empathy and intelligence.  And in today’s post George delivers the identical message that the ex-president has spouted for years:
                    “F.U. America!  It’s all about ME!”

Although I have seen this quote attributed to others I know it from Herman Melville in Moby Dick. 
“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”

It’s no secret.  Eat healthy and exercise daily.  In other words: “Do as I say, not as I do!”
“Piece of cake!”  I am full of useful quotes, or something, today.

The United States Military is tracking a high-altitude surveillance balloon over the northern US.  Pentagon spokesman Brig. General Patrick Ryder said they are confident it is from China.  Senior officials told President Biden the balloon does not present a significant intelligence gathering risk even though its path does go over sensitive areas.  They have advised not to shoot it down as falling debris might be dangerous to people on the ground.  

So I guess we are to ignore the security risk from China as we have in the case of Russia’s spy network where we allow a walking, talking soviet surveillance balloon to float around the golf course in Palm Beach, Florida.

So for those of you who learned everything you know about Groundhog Day from Bill Murray in the 1993 film, one of my favorites btw, you know this means 6 more weeks of winter weather.  The National Weather Service begs to differ and claims Phil’s prognostications from Gobbler’s Knob are accurate only about 48% of the time.  There are other groundhogs such as Charles G. Hogg, better known as Staten Island Chuck, that are said to have an 80% accuracy rate.  

I have a fail-proof method and claim close to a perfect record by paying attention to the National Weather Service.  I listen to their forecast and then plan for the exact opposite.  Not perfect but close.  I then applied this method to my investments in the stock market.  I listen to Warren Buffet and then do the opposite.  I have not had the same success rate.

It makes no sense.  Where did I go wrong?

I’ll just get right to it:

• Birthdays:
• Clark Gable: People Magazines “Sexiest Man of the Year, 1934” ( I Think).  That’s when he put up a curtain between himself and Claudette Colbert in the Capra film “It Happened One Night,” but we all know what really happened that night.
• Langston Hughes: Poet, novelist, playwright known for his insightful depictions of the Black Experience.
• Mme. Adrienne Levin: 3 Star Michelin Chef; Beloved Mother, Grandmother and Great Grandmother, to some of the most accomplished Educators and Titans of Industry; Creator of the quintessential “Sunday Dinner: that has been copied by many but never equaled.  
• Rhonda Rousey:  Inexplicably sexy MMA Fighter, with whom many would like to “go a few rounds!” 
• Rick James:  Musician and star subject of Dave Chappelle’s most famous skit on the Chappelle Show.
• Harry Styles:  Boy band heart throb, previous doer of Jason Sudeikis’ ex-wife Olivia Wilde and some guy in “My Policeman.”  

Incidentally February 1, 1865 is also the date Abraham Lincoln signed the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery.  And while you hear endless misguided rants about the second amendment, many still do not understand the freedoms granted by the 13th.  They can be easily identified by their red MAGA hats or having been appointed to The Supreme Court by #45!