Extremely busy yesterday. There were 2 FD calls & I had a truckload pickup across town where I picked up paneling, shelving, an old console stereo with turntable & 8-track, a glass door & a lot of other misc. items. I managed to get about 5 of my to-do items done before I ran out of Monday. I cleared some email, but not much. I've been so busy lately that the email has been getting really backed up & is over 1k items. Now it's going to be another week before I can get to it again which means there's going to be over 2k emails in there. The time it's going to take to clear all that out next Monday kinda ensures that I'm not going to get to my knitting machine, which I do AFTER email on Monday. So much I need to do, so much I want to do ... so few hours in a day & days in a week. LCFD training tonight.
On this day in 2004, Michael Moore’s documentary film Fahrenheit 9/11
beats out 18 other films to win the coveted Palme d’Or, the top prize
at the Cannes Film Festival. It became the first documentary to triumph
at Cannes since The Silent World, co-directed by Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle, won the Palme d’Or in 1956.
The
director Quentin Tarantino, president of the Cannes jury, announced the
winner in front of an appreciative crowd at the Grand Theatre Lumiere.
The previous week, an audience in that same theater gave the film a
standing ovation after its screening. It was a surprise win, not least
because the Cannes festival had historically shunned documentaries. Fahrenheit 9/11 and The Silent World were two of only three nonfiction films to be allowed in competition in more than five decades.
Moore’s film was a fierce critique of the foreign policy decisions made by the presidential administration of George W. Bush, principally its response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and its decision to invade Iraq in 2003. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney
and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld came under the harshest fire
from Moore, who had caused a stir the previous year for his anti-war
comments during his acceptance of the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature
for Bowling for Columbine.
Miramax Films, the production company that financed Fahrenheit 9/11,
was originally set to distribute the film, until its parent company,
Walt Disney, blocked it from doing so. The ensuing controversy
reportedly led to the 2005 split between Disney and Miramax founders
Harvey and Bob Weinstein. When it was eventually distributed by Lion’s
Gate, Fahrenheit 9/11 earned some $119 million at the U.S. box office.
Ethernet invented:
Thus begins the ascendancy of the geek. (1972)
Getting someone else to take over your payments isn't a good idea. It's like renting your car out to a stranger, & your name will still be on the note. If the "renter" stops paying, the finance company will come knocking on your door!
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* "Top 25 Reference App" in USA - March 2012
Pencil eyeliner:
Defining & enlarging eyes takes less precision now.
Piquant:
1: Agreeably stimulating to the palate; especially : spicy 2: Engagingly provocative; also : having a lively arch charm.
Reggie's piquant commentary always makes for interesting listening, though sometimes his remarks can go to far.
Piquant flavors "sting" the tongue & piquant words "prick" the intellect, arousing interest. These varying senses reflect the etymology of the word "piquant," which 1st appeared in English in the 17th century & derives from the Middle French verb piquer, meaning "to sting" or "to prick." Though 1st employed to describe foods with spicy flavors, "piquant" is now commonly used to describe things that are spicy in other ways, such as engaging conversation. Have we piqued your curiosity about another piquer offspring? If you've already guessed tht the verb "pique," meaning "to offend" or "to arouse by provocation," also comes from piquer, you've got a sharp mind.
Store photos in a cool, dry room of your home. Avoid attics which can get too hot or basements which can get damp.
Susan Lucci finally won her 1st Daytime Emmy Award for best actress for her role as Erica Kane on All My Children. It was the 19th consecutive year she'd been nominated. (1999)
Under what name do we know the literary classic that originally bore the title Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts?
What did former Russian president Boris Yeltsin say he was seeking when
Secret Service agents found him—drunk, alone, and in his
underwear—trying to hail a cab near the White House?
A pizza. At the time (1995), Yeltsin was staying at Blair House, the
president’s official guest house, across the street from the White
House.
What, exactly, is a bonsai plant?
What should you put in the bottom of a pot, before adding the soil & the plant? Pebbles? Potsherds?
It's not really necessary to put anything there, but if you must, just use 1 single shard. Drainage is controlled by the structure of the potting soil or growing medium itself. The small particles of soil attract & hold on to water. When more water is added than the soil can hold onto, the excess drains.
It's reasonable to think that the larger pebbles or shards will help the pot drain faster, because there's so much more space between them than there is between particles of soil. But no matter how large those spaces are, they can only provide passage for the excess water that the soil gives up. They cannot reach uyp & suck water away from the soil particles.
About the only thing that shards or pebbles do accomplish is reduce the amount of growing room for the roots. The only drainage help that one shard provides is too help keep the soil from leaking out.
When you went to your 20th high school reunion, the cheerleader who married the football captain was fatter than you were - & so was he.
Which last name is the most, 2nd most, & 3rd most popular in the U.S.?
A. Williams
B. Smith
C. Johnson
Which word is used the most, 2nd most, & 3rd most?
A. Of
B. The
C. And
BAC. Does it surprise you that her is the 18st most frequently used word, while him comes in 105th? I'm happy with that fact.
Whoever gets to the door 1st holds it for others.
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