Great weekend! I got dressed up in my "The Dice Are Trying To Kill Me" shirt & had a nice lunch with Pete at DQ. For dinner I made my amazing beef stir fry, & then I finished the afghan in the middle of the night. I mean "middle of the night." We went to bed at a decent hour & then we both woke up in the middle of the night & couldn't go back to sleep, so Pete went & did his thing in his office & I completed my afghan. We ended up going to bed again at 5:a & I must have one heck of a cold, because I've been asleep / awake on & off all day & have no energy at all. I'm awake again for now, but so tired that I'm going to have to go take a nap again soon. I'm down more than I'm up today. When I got up one time this afternoon, I got my model paint & started a model. I also got a 'Hot Chocolate' sign for the kitchen. The Internet went down for a while this afternoon & didn't come back up for a while but it's back now (YAY!). I chose a new project for the knitting machine & I can't wait to start it. I'm going to make an afghan with color squares (not the colors shown, but a mix of 4 others colors I've chosen & also the leftover yarn from the previous project. My afghan will also be much larger than the one shown.
A Game of Thrones Published. (1996)
August is the best time to buy swimsuits. Most stores have swimsuits on sale. Consider updating an old suit by picking out a new top to match suit bottoms you already own.
Bill Gates delights the crowd at MacWorld by informing them that Microsoft has invested $150 million in Apple. (1997)
On this day in 2009, John Hughes, one of the most influential American filmmakers of the 1980s, dies of a heart attack at the age of 59 in New York City.
Hughes was best known for the coming-of-age hit movies “Sixteen
Candles,” “Pretty in Pink,” “The Breakfast Club” and “Ferris Bueller’s
Day Off,” as well as the blockbuster “Home Alone” series.
John Wilden Hughes Jr. was born on February 18, 1950, in Lansing, Michigan, and spent his teen years in the middle-class suburbs of Chicago, a location that would later serve as the setting for many of his films. After dropping out of the University of Arizona,
Hughes worked as an advertising copywriter in Chicago. His first
success in the movie business came with his screenplays for the comedies
“Mr. Mom” and “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” both released in 1983.
In
1984, Hughes made his directorial debut with “Sixteen Candles,” which
starred a then-little-known Molly Ringwald (1968-) as a suburban high
school student whose family forgets her 16th birthday. The film, also
penned by Hughes, was labeled a “whip-smart but tender look at coming of
age” by The New York
Times, and fared well at the box office. The following year saw the
release of “The Breakfast Club,” a now-iconic look at 1980s high school
life in suburbia, written, directed and produced by Hughes. The film
featured Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson and
Ally Sheedy as students from different cliques (princess, jock, nerd,
troublemaker, outcast) forced to spend a Saturday in detention. Another
teen movie, “Weird Science,” written and directed by Hughes, also
launched in 1985. The next year, 1986, the prolific Hughes had two more
hit films: “Pretty in Pink,” which he wrote and directed, once again
tackled the theme of high school cliques and starred Ringwald as a girl
from the wrong side of the tracks who dates a rich “preppie”; “Ferris
Bueller’s Day Off,” penned, helmed and produced by Hughes, featured
Matthew Broderick as a high school senior who skips class and spends the
day in downtown Chicago.
During the late 1980s, Hughes moved away from the teen genre to write and direct such popular comedies as “Planes, Trains & Automobiles”
(1987) and “Uncle Buck,” both of which starred John Candy (1950-1994).
In 1990, Hughes scored the biggest box-office gold of his career with
“Home Alone,” which he scripted and produced. The movie, which featured
Macaulay Culkin (1980-) as a boy whose family accidentally goes on
vacation without him, grossed over $285 million domestically and spawned
several sequels.
Hughes’ final film as a director was 1991’s
“Curly Sue,” which proved a disappointment at the box office. Afterward,
he largely stepped away from the Hollywood spotlight, choosing instead
to spend time with his family on their farm in northern Illinois. Although he continued to write screenplays, none achieved the success of his earlier work.
Chevron:
A figure, pattern, or object having the shape of a V or inverted V; especially : a sleeve badge in the shape of a V or inverted V.
The afghan I'm currently crocheting is a chevron pattern.
1st appearing in English in the 14th century, "chevron" derives via Middle English & Anglo-French from the Vulgar Latin word caprio, meaning "rafter" (probably due to its resemblance to 2 adjoining roof beams). It's also related to the Latin noun caper, meaning "goat," again likely based on the resemblance of a V-shape to a goat's horns. Caper is also an ancestor of "Capricorn," the 10th sign of the sodiac, represented by a goat. The resemblance of "chevron" to chevre (the French word for "goat" & our word for a kind of cheese that comes from goat's milk) is no coincidence, because that word comes from caper as well.
Distance maintained between yourself & others is important; getting too close or moving too far away can be misconstrued as unwanted familiarity or standoffishness. North Americans & Europeans are comfortable standing 2½' apart. The Japanese & other Asians require more space, but most of the rest of the world likes to get closer.
How big in diameter are the leaves of the giant Amazon water lily, the largest of all aquatic plants?
More than 8' across, with each plant producing from 40 to 50 circular leaves.
In baseball slang, what is the Mendoza Line?
A batting average of .200. When a player’s batting average dips below
.200, he has crossed the Mendoza Line. The term is named for infielder
Mario Mendoza (1974–82), who had a career batting average of .215
playing with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Seattle Mariners, and Texas
Rangers.
Risky Business debuts, launches Cruise to stardom (1983):
On this day in 1983, the comedy Risky Business, starring Tom Cruise in a breakout performance, opens in U.S. theaters. In the film, Cruise played Joel Goodsen, a suburban Chicago
teen who has a series of misadventures when his parents go out of town
and leave him home alone. Written and directed by Paul Brickman, Risky Business
featured a now-famous scene in which Cruise’s character dances around
his house in a dress shirt and underwear to the accompaniment of Bob
Seeger’s hit song “Old Time Rock and Roll.” The movie poster for Risky Business,
which showed Cruise looking over a pair of black Ray-Ban sunglasses and
a woman reclining on the hood of a Porsche, also became iconic.
Following the success of Risky Business, Cruise went on to appear in a long list of hit films and emerge as one of Hollywood’s A-list actors.
Thomas Mapother Cruise IV was born July 3, 1962, in Syracuse, New York, and made his feature film debut at age 18 in Endless Love (1981). After first earning notice for Risky Business, Cruise achieved international fame with his role as fighter pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in 1986’s Top Gun. He received Oscar nominations for his performances in Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Jerry Maguire (1996) and Magnolia (1999). Other notable credits include The Color of Money (1986) with Paul Newman, Rain Man (1988) with Dustin Hoffman, A Few Good Men (1992) with Jack Nicholson, The Firm (1993) and Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994). Cruise starred as the superspy Ethan Hunt in 1996’s blockbuster hit Mission: Impossible,
as well as its sequels in 2000 and 2006. He acted in three films with
the Australian actress Nicole Kidman, to whom he was married from 1990
to 2001: Days of Thunder (1990), Far and Away (1992) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999), the final film of the legendary director Stanley Kubrick. Other Cruise movies include Minority Report (2002) and War of the Worlds (2005), both of which were directed by Steven Spielberg.
Throughout
Cruise’s career, his personal life, including his 2006 marriage to the
actress Katie Holmes and his impassioned advocacy of Scientology, has
been the subject of intense media scrutiny. In May 2008, Cruise appeared
on The Oprah Winfrey Show for a retrospective of his 25 years in film, starting with his breakout in Risky Business.
Speedtest: Use the Speedtest application to evaluate the speed of your 3G, EDGE and Wi-Fi networks.
Stay out of the pool if the water is cloudy. There might be bacteria or fungal growth.
What was the name of the heroine of Gone with the Wind before author Margaret Mitchell changed it to Scarlett at her editor’s behest?
When you're sitting there with cash, you're in a poker game with a full house. Don't be afraid of insulting someone because you're holding all the cards; you've bled for this money. Get a deal!
Which does the average person fear most, 2md most, & 3rd most?
A. Deep water
B. Public speaking
C. Heights
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