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The Daily F Bomb, Monday 3/11/13

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Oh well, it had to happen. Another Monday rolls around. The worst of all Mondays, coming on the heels of that missing hour (did you know hours had heels?). Speaking of missing hours, I really need to get a new alarm clock that doesn’t automatically reset the time according to the 1986-2006 DST. But, if I do that, you know Congress will change it again.

Interrogatories

What once perfectly good words can you think of that have been ruined by media overuse and/or misuse?  What do you like to do to unwind and relax? When did you first start using the internet? How many real-life friends have you made online? If you haven’t met anyone in person that you met online, how do we all know that you aren’t really a dog?

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On This Day

In 1824, the United States Department of War created the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

In 1861, the Constitution of the Confederate States of America was adopted. (This made me wonder what a constitution crafted by those states in the present day would look like? Scary.)

In 1888, the “Great Blizzard of 1888” (or Mickey, as the Weather Channel dubbed it) struck the eastern seaboard in the days before snowplows, striking CT, MA, NJ and NY. It had drifts averaging 30-40 feet and winds up to 80 MPH. PROOF global warming does not exist! Oh wait…

In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Lend-Lease Bill, providing war supplies to countries fighting the Axis.

In 1970, the album “Deja Vu” by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young was released.

In 1985, Mikhail S. Gorbachev was chosen to succeed the late Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko.

In 1993, North Korea withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

In 1997, Paul McCartney of the Beatles was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

In 2004, Ten bombs exploded in quick succession across the commuter rail network in Madrid, Spain, killing 191 people and injuring 1,800 in Europe’s worst Islamic terror attack.

In 2011, slimy Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed a measure to eliminate most union rights for public employees, a proposal which had provoked three weeks of protests.

In 2011, NFL owners and players broke off labor negotiations hours before their contract expired; the union decertified and the league imposed a lockout that lasted 4 1/2 months.

Born on This Day

1779 – Jerome-Martin Langlois, French academic painter (d. 1838)

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1785 – John McLean, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1861)

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1818 – Marius Petipa, French ballerina and choreographer (d. 1910)

1818 – Johan Philip Koelman, Dutch painter (d. 1893)

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1819 – Henry Tate, sugar magnate of Tate & Lyle and founder of the Tate Gallery (d. 1899)

1887 – Raoul Walsh, American film director (d. 1980)

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1891 – Gertrud Wolle, German actress (d. 1952)

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1898 – Dorothy Gish, American actress (d. 1968)

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1907 – Jessie Matthews, English actress (d. 1981)

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1916 – Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)

1926 – Ralph Abernathy, American civil rights leader (d. 1990)

1928 – Albert Salmi, American actor (d. 1990)

1929 – Timothy Carey, American actor (d. 1994)

1930 – David Gentleman, English designer/painter

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1931 – Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born greedy bastard media mogul

1931 – Janosch, German artist and author

1935 – Sandra Milo, Italian actress

1936 – Antonin Scalia, American jurist undeserving of his present position (or any position having anything to do with law, except perhaps prison guard).

1939 – Flaco Jiménez, American musician

1945 – Harvey Mandel, American musician (Pure Food and Drug Act and Canned Heat)

1946 – Patty Waters, American jazz singer

1948 – George Kooymans, Dutch guitarist and vocalist (Golden Earring)

1950 – Bobby McFerrin, American singer

1951 – Dominique Sanda, French actress

1952 – Douglas Adams, English writer (d. 2001)

1955 – Nina Hagen, German singer and actress

1963 – Alex Kingston, English actress

1965 – Jesse Jackson, Jr., American politician

1965 – Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, British reality TV personality

1968 – Lisa Loeb, American singer-songwriter and actress

1982 – Thora Birch, American actress

Died on This Day

1715 – Jan-Erasmus Quellinus, Flemish painter (b. 1634)

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1722 – John Toland, Irish philosopher (b. 1670)

1759 – John Forbes, English general (b. 1710)

1801 – Paul I of Russia, Russian Emperor (b. 1754)

1820 – Benjamin West, English-American painter (b. 1738)

1866 – Ulysses F. Doubleday, American congressman (b. 1792)

1908 – Benjamin Waugh, American activist (b. 1839)

1955 – Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)

1955 – Oscar Mayer, Bavarian-born American entrepreneur (b. 1859)

1957 – Richard E. Byrd, American admiral and explorer (b. 1888)

1967 – Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (b. 1882)

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1970 – Erle Stanley Gardner, American novelist (b. 1889)

1971 – Philo T. Farnsworth, American inventor (b. 1906)

1971 – Whitney Young, American civil rights activist (b. 1921)

1986 – Sonny Terry, American blues musician (b. 1911)

2007 – Betty Hutton, American actress and singer (b. 1921)

Today is

Oatmeal Nut Waffles Day

Johnny Appleseed Day

Worship of Tools Day

Eat Your Noodles Day

This Week is

National School Breakfast Week

National Chocolate Chip Cookie Week

National Bubble Week

National Crochet Week

Flood Safety Week

International Brain Awareness Week

Napping Day

World Plumbing Day


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42 comments

  1. Gee

    A few years ago, I had a PC that somehow never got the updated DST patch.  The time never was quite right.

    What once perfectly good words can you think of that have been ruined by media overuse and/or misuse?  What do you like to do to unwind and relax? When did you first start using the internet? How many real-life friends have you made online? If you haven’t met anyone in person that you met online, how do we all know that you aren’t really a dog?

    Single words?  Damn, it’s so early, I can’t think….

    Sit on the back porch, have a beer, listen to music.

    1994, I think.  Maybe 1993.

    Real-life?  Does that mean we’ve met?  A few dozen, I guess.

    I am a dog.

  2. DeniseVelez

    What once perfectly good words can you think of that have been ruined by media overuse and/or misuse?   impact

    What do you like to do to unwind and relax? play world of warcraft with my guild of bloggers

    When did you first start using the internet? before there was one – I used to be on the old bulletin board system

    How many real-life friends have you made online? about 10.



    If you haven’t met anyone in person that you met online, how do we all know that you aren’t really a dog?

    heh

  3. Gee

    First-class hovers, and thanks for Harvey Mandel, Nina Hagen, and Betty Hutton!

    Another true library story. A college student asked me for the state of the union address. Turns out she thought it was a street address

    Tell her, “There’s no street address, he wrote it on the train!”  Oops, never mind, wrong address.

    I live in NYC, where my Governor wants to legalize pot while my Mayor wants to ban junk food.

    Don’t these people ever talk to each other??

    Worship of Tools Day

    Republicans sneak that one in there?

    International Brain Awareness Week

    Be careful using recursion!

  4. Jk2003

    What once perfectly good words can you think of that have been ruined by media overuse and/or misuse?  What do you like to do to unwind and relax? When did you first start using the internet? How many real-life friends have you made online? If you haven’t met anyone in person that you met online, how do we all know that you aren’t really a dog?

    Words the media ruined:  politicize, torture, blizzard, heat wave, liberal

    Relax, unwind:  knit, crochet, watch a movie, have wine.  All at the same time.

    Internet:  1995

    Online friends:  I have never met anyone in person that i have met online.  But my college roommate married a guy she met online.

    Am I a dog:  nah, I’d rather be a cat

    Happy napping day all, I better tell my two year old.

  5. anotherdemocrat

    Who-vian coincidence – John Barrowman. Douglas Adams, JB & Alex Kingston. I think there is some universe-risking coincidence involving birthdays that only Matt Smith can save us from. Maybe involving bringing Amy & Rory back. (please)

    What once perfectly good words can you think of that have been ruined by media overuse and/or misuse?  Recent one – the whole “jedi mind-meld” thing, the media once again acting like one of the most popular genres is some kind of anthropologic wonder of a foreign culture (& then when within the day, there was a story about how he didn’t actually get things wrong, keeping with the “geek outrage – he got the shows mixed up” story.

    What do you like to do to unwind and relax? watch tv

    When did you first start using the internet? early to mid-90s – I worked at a public library & we got a Dell grant – even libraries had dial-up at that time.

    How many real-life friends have you made online? lots

    If you haven’t met anyone in person that you met online, how do we all know that you aren’t really a dog? that would be bad because….?

  6. slksfca

    …since 1992 or ’93, at first via a BBS, where I learned about fun things like Usenet and stuff which I still dip my toes in from time to time.

    I met one serious boyfriend from the net, and have been lucky to make several real-life friends which began as net acquaintances.

  7. Its the Supreme Court Stupid

    some prison inmate should be subjected to Nino Scalia is perhaps a violation of International Human Rights standards.

    What once perfectly good words can you think of that have been ruined by media overuse and/or misuse?  Most recently, sequester.  

    What do you like to do to unwind and relax? Have a glass of wine.

    When did you first start using the internet? Right after Al Gore invented it.

    How many real-life friends have you made online? Do you mean people I have conversed with offline, or actually met in person?

    If you haven’t met anyone in person that you met online, how do we all know that you aren’t really a dog? Woof.

  8. raina

    but warming up to high 80’s by next week.

    Can’t think of media-specific, but overused words are hippy punching and professional left. We know who the abusers are and most of them weren’t born when hippies came into existence, and are they so arrogant that they think “professional left” refers to them?

    Unwind and relax by reading, doing crafts, jigsaw puzzles, gardening.

    Got my first computer, and thus got on the Internet in 1995 and was a die-hard AOL user for a few years, until I realized there was a world wide web, and a better browser, beyond AOL.

    I’ve met a few including mr. r. We were on the same forum on AOL, after about a year or so had our first F2F in Feb 2001, lived together the following Oct, and been together ever since.  

  9. raina

    when you got 5 hours for about $10 and, I think they charged you about $3 for each additional hour. We had to split those 5 hours between 3 people and it wasn’t long before we got hooked and the highest bill we ever paid for AOL was about $80. Then they upped to 10 hours, and finally went unlimited. And boy those local numbers you had to dial into to get on AOL were very limited. Closest one for me was Orlando and it was 25 cents per call. That was in the days when you’d get disconnected a lot, and those quarters added up.

  10. plf515

    What once perfectly good words can you think of that have been ruined by media overuse and/or misuse?

    Enormity – which does NOT mean enormous.

    Virtually all superlatives have been overused.

    Crisis.

    What do you like to do to unwind and relax?

    I read and I play bridge and I tweet a lot.

    When did you first start using the internet?

    Dang! It’s been a while! Definitely before I got married or even met my wife … at least 25 years.

    How many real-life friends have you made online?

    Not sure. Perhaps 20? 30? I don’t know. How close a “friend”?

    If you haven’t met anyone in person that you met online, how do we all know that you aren’t really a dog?

    Woof

  11. JG in MD

    Two at-home gigs posted online in my exact areas of expertise — ten years ago. Not possible for me now, for a hundred reasons. Sigh.

    Spilled water on my desk, no serious harm done (I’m fast at moving things out of the way of rushing liquids).

    My space is very small and I keep adjusting to gain inches. I moved my videotape holder/office supply shelf from the side of the desk to the back. The trays are the tops of the little boxes that used to come inside photo boxes. Anybody remember those?

  12. plf515

    this was on a bulletin board service…

    One guy typed “The chief sexual organ is the mind”

    To which some woman replied “You must be thinking of my ex-husband. Dickhead.

  13. plf515

    I was at a statistics/software conference and was talking to a woman. She was young, but certainly not all THAT young – 30’s maybe. She had several kids.

    Conversation turned to computers and someone mentioned punch cards and she said “what’s a punch card?”

  16. JG in MD

    do I post out of the blue and stick out like a sore thumb? I’m so out of sync.

    Words overused: Can only think of phrases like “at the end of the day” and “under the bus” et al.

    Unwind and relax? Yes.

    On the Internet since 1993 or 1994.

    Have met tons of people I’ve known online. Netroots 2009 was a high point in my life. Friends? Most recently TRS & Iriti, who (whom?) I hope to see more of this spring. I’ll help you with your building chores, guys.

  17. JG in MD

    do I post out of the blue and stick out like a sore thumb? I’m so out of sync.

    Words overused: Can only think of phrases like “at the end of the day” and “under the bus” et al.

    Unwind and relax? Yes.

    On the Internet since 1993 or 1994.

    Have met tons of people I’ve known online. Netroots 2009 was a high point in my life. Friends? Most recently TRS & Iriti, who (whom?) I hope to see more of this spring. I’ll help you with your building chores, guys.

  18. Avilyn

    What once perfectly good words can you think of that have been ruined by media overuse and/or misuse?  I try to avoid the media other than Thom Hartmann & Rachel Maddow (hm, and Jon Stewart, too).  I guess ‘cliff’ and ‘crisis’.  

    What do you like to do to unwind and relax?  Play computer games (Skyrim / Civ V).  Play D&D.  Read.

    When did you first start using the internet?  In 1994, when I went to college.  Mostly used the computer lab to telnet into a MUD (Mustang, I think it was called).  When I left college in ’98 & went to live with my folks again for a while I started having serious withdraw; had to go to the library to check email and stuff.  15 years later, my parents still don’t have a net connection at home.  

    How many real-life friends have you made online?  Met?  5.  Still keep in touch with?  Erm…  none.  The 1 woman I was really close to out of the 5 I’d met died a couple of years ago (geez, has it been that long? It has.  Time flies.)

    If you haven’t met anyone in person that you met online, how do we all know that you aren’t really a dog? Because I’m too much like a cat to be a dog.

  19. zenor

    Like to demo banks with sledge hammer.

    Very relaxing.

    All language damaged by most broadcasters, not just advertisers.

    I met some Philly Kossacks. All Earthlings.

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