So how is everyone today? I finished everything early yesterday & then sat down, did a crossword puzzle, watched some television, went to the station to standby for a vehicle fire in another town, came back ... then Pete finally got home. I was so exhausted yesterday, I was really hoping to get home early, but then Pete started helping Kyle with something & I could barely keep my eyes open during Burn Notice by the time it was "our time" to sit down & relax together. I don't like these long & late nights, but what can I do? I'm on the schedule Pete sets & he only sleeps 4-5 hours per night. I wish I could do that! Pool party tomorrow!
#1 hiring mistake that most businesses make is they don't take enough time. You need to interview these people several times before you hire them. Around some offices, they meet with people several times, talk to them, see them in different settings, meet them for coffee, that kind of stuff. They don't just meet someone for 30 minutes & hire them, ever. They don't interview someone twice & hire them, ever. They go through the wringer to be on that team.
As a rule, how long will a so-called '8 Day Clock' run without winding?
If the clock isn't wound, it won't run at all.
Charcoal is ready for cooking when it's covered with white ash.
FreeKick Master:
Free Kick Master is a very addictive football game.
Simply swipe the soccer ball to kick. It is simple to play but hard to master. Can you curve the ball around the wall and goal? It is very entertaining and challenging, you will be totally addicted to the game.
Simply swipe the soccer ball to kick. It is simple to play but hard to master. Can you curve the ball around the wall and goal? It is very entertaining and challenging, you will be totally addicted to the game.
How fast should you respond to e-mails?
Within 1 - 2 days for personal messages & withing 1 day for business e-mails, depending on how pressing the matter is. If you'll be away from your computer for a few days or longer, use the "vacation" or out-of-office feature, which tells the sender you received the message but are unable to reply until a designated date.
If 3 cats catch 3 mice in 3 minutes, now many cats would be needed to catch 100 mice in 100 minutes?
On this day in 2003, Katharine Hepburn--a four-time Academy
Award winner for Best Actress and one of the greatest screen legends of
Hollywood’s golden era--dies of natural causes at the age of 96, at her
home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
Hepburn was born into a well-to-do New England family, the daughter
of a prominent surgeon, Dr. Thomas Norval Hepburn, and his wife,
Katharine Houghton, a suffragist and birth control advocate. She
graduated from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania in 1928 and became a stage actress; her role in the 1932 Broadway production The Warrior’s Husband led to a Hollywood screen test and a contract with RKO studios. In Hepburn’s debut film, A Bill of Divorcement (1932),
she starred opposite John Barrymore and was directed by George Cukor,
who would become her close friend and helm many of her films (including
1933’s Little Women, 1935’s Sylvia Scarlett, 1938’s Holiday and 1949’s Adam’s Rib).
Heralded as a fresh, unconventional beauty and a talented actress,
Hepburn won her first Best Actress Oscar for only her third film, Morning Glory (1933).
A string of films made with RKO had mixed degrees of success, and
Hepburn began earning a reputation as arrogant and self-absorbed on set,
though she was always meticulously prepared for her roles. She also
refused to play by the rules governing typical Hollywood starlets at the
time, appearing publicly in pantsuits and without makeup and refusing
to sign autographs or grant interviews. After modest successes with Stage Door (1937) and Bringing Up Baby (1938), Hepburn decided to buy out her contract with RKO, a move that gave her unusual control over her career for that time.
Her faltering image was revived by the success of The Philadelphia Story,
which had originally been written for Hepburn to play on Broadway and
was then adapted into a hit 1940 movie co-starring Cary Grant and Jimmy
Stewart. Several years later, Hepburn met the actor Spencer Tracy while
co-starring with him in Woman of the Year (1942). Though Tracy, a
devout Catholic, remained married, the two began a romantic
relationship that would last until Tracy’s death nearly three decades
later. (Hepburn had divorced her husband of six years, Ludlow Ogden
Smith, in 1934.) On-screen, they acted in nine films together, including
Adam’s Rib (1949), Pat and Mike (1952) and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967).
Tracy died just weeks after shooting was completed on the last film,
for which Hepburn would win her second Best Actress Oscar.
Hepburn was awarded her third Oscar for her starring turn in A Lion in Winter (1968). She continued to appear in films and on television (including an Emmy-winning performance in 1976’s Love Among the Ruins) throughout the next three decades, winning a fourth Best Actress statuette for 1981’s On Golden Pond.
Nominated for 12 Academy Awards in her lifetime (a record that would
stand until 2003, when Meryl Streep received her 13th nomination),
Hepburn never attended the awards show to collect her honors in person.
In 1986, she broke her longtime silence about her relationship with
Tracy (his widow had died in 1983) in a televised tribute to the actor.
She read aloud a poignant letter she had written to him about his
drinking, and about their last years together. She later included the
letter in her best-selling 1991 autobiography Me: Stories of My Life.
In her final screen appearance, in 1994’s Love Affair (a
remake of the classic 1939 film), Hepburn appeared frail but composed as
ever in her portrayal of the aristocratic aunt of Warren Beatty’s
character. In 1999, the American Film Institute (AFI) named Hepburn as
the greatest female actress in the history of American cinema. When she
died on June 29, 2003, the lights on Broadway were dimmed for an hour to
mark the passing of one of entertainment’s brightest stars.
Lamster:
A fugitive especially from the law.
As a favor to Tony Pro, Big Sal asked, could he let the lamster hide out at his farmhouse for a few days?
The term 'lamster" didn't sneak into our language until the early 1900s, less than 10 years after the appearance of the noun "lam," meaning "sudden or hurried flight especially from the law" (as in the phrase "on the lam"). Both words are related to the 16th-century verb "lam," meaning "to beat soundly" or "to strike or thrash." In the late 19th & early 20th centuries, the verb "lam" developed another meaning: "to flee hastily." The origins of the verb are obscure, but etymologists suggest that it's Scandinavian in origin & akin to the Old Norse lemja, meaning "to thrash." (A probable descendant ob the "beat" sense of "lam" is "lambaste," meaning "to assault violently" or "to attack verbally.") - It's going to be another one of those days isn't it ... "quote" almost "every" "single" "word" "typed" "to" "make" "this" "take" "as" "long" "as" ("possible.")
Let's not even think about how Dracula stays thin.
Meat baster is a great tool to water hanging plants this summer.
Henry Fonda -- in his final role -- plays peevish retired professor
Norman Thayer, who's making his yearly excursion with his wife to their
idyllic summerhouse. But a hostile teen left in their care
short-circuits the couple's tranquility.
Tops of your houseplant pots are coated with a crust. What is it?
What you're seeing is a buildup of salts from chemical fertilizers. Although this is not harmful in itself, leaves touching the salt-coated portions will rot & fall off. The easiest way to dissolve salts from clay containers is to soak the pots for about 15 minutes in warm water. To prevent damage from future buildup, coat the rims with melted wax. And regularly water plants generously enough so that excessive salts are flushed out the drainage hole.
Unicorn Appreciation Day. (2007)
What famous jazz musician’s first composition was inspired by his
after-school job as a soda jerk at the Poodle Dog Café in Washington,
D.C.?
Which instrument has the highest, 2nd highest, & 3rd highest pitch?
A. Piccolo
B. Oboe
C. Flute
ACB. The piccolo is a miniature flute, whose name translates from Italian to mean "small." So, if you've got hands like shovels, learn the drums.
Which marsupial is the biggest, 2nd biggest, & 3rd biggest?
A. Wallaby
B. Kangaroo
C. Bandicoot
You probably know that an HOV is a high occupancy vehicle, but what is an ROV?
It’s a remotely operated (underwater) vehicle. ROVs
are highly maneuverable, unoccupied robot submarines operated via
electric cable by “pilots” aboard a surface ship. They’re generally
equipped with cameras, lights, robot arms, and a variety of instruments
that take samples and measurements.
You would love to have a window box, but your ground-level still receives no sunlight. Should you give up on this dream?
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