★ June 23, 2012 ★

Ahhh, waiting patiently for Sim City Social to come out of Beta. I was in one of the Beta test waves & it was a fun game ... they're doing a good job with it & if you like that type of game, you're most likely going to be happy with it. :) Well, apparently I have my Friday schedule ironed out well. There were 3 calls & a DirecTV "issue" yesterday, but somehow I STILL managed to not only get everything done, but even get in some rare Sims 3 time! I played my 1st gen Journalist in Bridgeport who just had a baby & out of the 3 beds in the apartment, sold the cheapest one, moved the other 2, & bought the nicest one I could afford for the master bedroom (makes a huge difference, especially when there's a new baby & sleeping through the night is impossible). After that I worked on the house I'm building & designing a little bit. The Reddit Meetup is today @ 7:p @ Hidden Cove!

Alan Turing's birthday.

Baseball Superstars:

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Designate 1 spot in the Living Room to store the remote control. Create a house rule that whoever turns off the TV has to return the remote to its "spot." No more searching for the remote between couch cushions.

Fitness Center Etiquette:

• If you like to flirt, don't be a pest. Save it for elsewhere. If you try to strike up a conversation with someone you find attractive & they give you the brush-off (no matter how politely), drop your overture then & there.
• A quick & friendly "hello" is one thing, but chatting with someone while they're working out could interrupt their routine.

Inflation is when you pay $15 for the $10 haircut you used to get for $5 when you had hair.

Joss Whedon is born. Rumor has it his mother was a Vampire & his father a space cowboy. (1964)

Manhunter:

Using his uncanny ability to get inside psychopaths' minds, former FBI agent Will Graham (William Petersen) returns to action to hunt down a serial killer. Graham retired after catching Hannibal Lecter (Brian Cox) and subsequently suffering a breakdown. Now, he engages in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecter to capture a new killer. This gripping psychological horror film is based on the novel Red Dragon, the prequel to The Silence of the Lambs.

Meed:

A fitting return or recompense.

For his valor displayed on the field of battle, the knight was rewarded with his due meed of praise & gratitude from the king.

One of the oldest words in the English language, "meed" has been around for about 1,000 years. An early form of the word (med) appeared in the Old English classic Beowulf, & it can be found in words by literary luminaries such as Goffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, John Milton, Alexandar Pope, & Ben Jonson. In modern English, the venerable "meed" is most likely to be found in poetic contexts.

Money is a scorecard for men. They don't feel like Sir Galahad if they've messed up with money. Money represents security for women. They have their eyes on the future.

New Salem, IL.:

The only place in America where an entire village has been restored to the memory of 1 man: Abraham Lincoln.

Teflon Don sentenced to life (1992):

Mafia boss John Gotti, who was nicknamed the "Teflon Don" after escaping unscathed from several trials during the 1980s, is sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty on 14 accounts of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering. Moments after his sentence was read in a federal courthouse in Brooklyn, hundreds of Gotti's supporters stormed the building and overturned and smashed cars before being forced back by police reinforcements.

Gotti, born and educated on the mean streets of New York City, became head of the powerful Gambino family after boss Paul Castellano was murdered outside a steakhouse in Manhattan in December 1985. The gang assassination, the first in three decades in New York, was organized by Gotti and his colleague Sammy "the Bull" Gravano. The Gambino family was known for its illegal narcotics operations, gambling activities, and car theft. During the next five years, Gotti rapidly expanded his criminal empire, and his family grew into the nation's most powerful Mafia family. Despite wide publicity of his criminal activities, Gotti managed to avoid conviction several times, usually through witness intimidation. In 1990, however, he was indicted for conspiracy to commit murder in the death of Paul Castellano, and Gravano agreed to testify against him in a federal district court in exchange for a reduced prison sentence.

On April 2, 1992, John Gotti was found guilty on all counts and on June 23 was sentenced to multiple life terms without the possibility of parole.

While still imprisoned, Gotti died of throat cancer on June 10, 2002.

There are 2 airplanes heading straight toward each other. 1 plane is traveling at 15 kilometers per minute, & the other is traveling at 10 kilometers per minute. Assuming that they planes are exactly 1000 kilometers apart, what distance will be between them 1 minute before they meet?

These plants can fare well indoors in little sunlight or not at all. What are their common names?

1. Davallia fejeensis
2. Monstera deliciosa
3. Aspidistra elatior
4. Gasteria verrucosa
5. Ficus pumila
6. Platycerium bifurcatum
7. Paphiopedilum spp.

1. Rabbit's-foot fern. It has delicate, finely cut leaves, but demands only that you keep its soil evenly moist.
2. Swiss-cheese plant. Its large, heart-chaped goliage is deeply cut & perforated.
3. Cast-iron plant. With its leathery-looking (what's with all the hyphenated words?!) elongated leaves, it's ideal for a north sill.
4. Wart gasteria. Its 6"-(hyphenation AGAIN!)long, tongue-shaped-leaves-are-dotted-with-small-white-bumps.
5. Creeping fig. 2 hours or so a day of direct rays should suffice for the creeping fig, which has trailing, fingerlike branches lined with tiny, thin heart-shaped-leaves.
6. Stagehorn fern. It also needs about 2 hours of light each day; it has elegant, antlerlike silvery green leaves.
7. Slipper orchid. Another good choice needing only 2 hours a day of light; it's leathery oval leaves are often mottled with hints of red or silver.

This is a most unusual paragraph. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary you'd think nothing was wrong with it - and in fact, nothing IS wrong with it. It is unusual though. Why? Study it, think about it, and you may find out. Try to do it without coaching. If you work at it for a bit it will dawn on you. So jump to it and try your skill at figuring it out. Good luck - don't blow your cool!

The letter e (the most common letter in our language), doesn't appear in the paragraph.

What long-range U.S. Air Force bomber had a hairstyle, a New Wave rock band, and a cocktail named after it?

The B-52 Stratofortress strategic bomber. The beehive hairstyle was dubbed the B-52 because of its resemblance to the bomber’s bulbous nose cone; the band, because its two female members wore beehive wigs; and the cocktail, the B-52 shooter, because of its bomblike impact.

Which Boy Scout rank is the highest, 2nd highest, & 3rd highest?

A. Life Rank

B. Star Rank

C. Eagle Rank

CAB. Founded back in 1907, there have been over 100 years of campfires & good deeds.

You're not fat, you're lovable.

Your housesitter left the garage door open one night on a freezing cold night, & now your beautiful oleander, which was wintering there, lookd dead. Is it? Is a freezing cold night always fatal?