Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God. – Leon Bloy
TODAY – JANUARY 5th – THURSDAY
5th day of 2012 with 361 to follow.
Holidays for Today:
*National Bird Day
*Last day of Christmas Bird Count by National Audubon Society
*National Whipped Cream Day
*Apple Howling Day
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BIRTHDAYS ON THIS DATE:
- 1779 Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Lamberton, New Jersey, explorer (Pike’s Peak)
- 1838 Camille Jordan, Lyon, French mathematician, known both for his foundational work in group theory and for his influential Cours d’analyse
- 1855 King Camp Gillette, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, inventor , known as the inventor of the safety razor, although several models were in existence prior to Gillette’s design
- 1874 Joseph Erlanger, San Francisco, California, physiologist, Nobel laureate for the discovery of different types of nerve fibers
- 1882 Herbert Bayard Swope, St. Louis, Missouri, journalist – coined the term “Cold War”
- 1886 Markus Reiner, Czernowitz, Bukovina, Israeli scientist (major figure in rheology)
- 1895 Jeannette Piccard, Chicago, Illinois, 1st licensed female balloon pilot, 1st woman to fly to the stratosphere, speaker for NASA. Her 1934 flight held the women’s altitude record for three decades.
- 1909 Stephen Kleene, Hartford, Connecticut, mathematician , best known as a founder of the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory
- 1914 George Reeves, Woodstock, Iowa, actor (Superman)
- 1917 Jane Wyman, St. Joseph, Missouri, actress (Falcon Crest, Johnny Belinda)
- 1926 William De Witt Snodgrass, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, poet, won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
- 1931 Robert Duvall, San Diego, California, actor (Lonesome Dove, Armstrong Circle Theatre, Crazy Heart, Get Low )
- 1946 Diane Keaton, Los Angeles, California, actress (Play It Again, Sam, Sleeper, Love and Death, Annie Hall, Network, Little Drummer Girl)
- 1953 Steve Archer, Mojave, California, singer (The Archers)
- 1953 Pamela Sue Martin, Hartford, Connecticut, actress (The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, Dynasty)
- 1987 Kristin Cavallari, Denver, Colorado, actress (Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, The Hills )
- 1999 Marc Yu, Pasadena, California, musician (child prodigy, plays piano and cello)
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There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. – Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
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HISTORICAL HAPPENINGS:
- 1757 Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert–François Damiens.
- 1759 George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
- 1781 American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
- 1846 The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
- 1854 The San Francisco steamer sinks, killing 300 people.
- 1889 The word hamburger first appeared in print in the Walla Walla Union, a Walla Walla, Washington, newspaper – according to the date given in the Oxford English Dictionary. The name comes a German food called hamburg steak, meaning “from Hamburg,” not because it contains ham.
- 1914 The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day’s labor.
- 1925 Nellie Taylor Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States.
- 1933 Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
- 1940 FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time, with clear, static-free signal.
- 1945 Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon “Odor-able Kitty”.
- 1972 U.S. President Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.
- 1974 Warmest reliably measured temperature in Antarctica of +59°F (+15°C) recorded at Vanda Station
- 1993 Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the last legal hanging in America).
- 2005 Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, is discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.
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The rental agent was showing an apartment, asking the usual questions;
“Professionally employed?”
“We’re a military family.”
“Children?”
“Two, ages nine and twelve.”
“Animals?”
“Oh, no, they’re very well behaved.”
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ONE-LINERS:
~ Inside me there is a thin, blonde, glamorous woman. But that’s just because I lost a bet at sorority party and had to eat a Barbie doll.
~ My wife will buy anything marked down. Last year she bought an escalator.
~ If it weren’t for mood swings I wouldn’t get any exercise at all.
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pic of the day: Winter Star Camellia in snow
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WARNING! ENTERING THE PUN ZONE!
The worm had eaten his way right through an apple. When he emerged from the other side, the Securities and Exchange Commission busted him. He was charged with in cider treading.
When the security officer started to haul the worm away to the pokey, he balked. “Obviously the apple was over-ripe,” the worm insisted. “Besides, I was only in cider fermented, don’t juicy? How Mott’s damage could I have caused? This charge is just a pulp fiction!”
No matter how much the worm protested, the SEC officer showed no sympathy. In fact, the more the worm ranted on and on pressing the case for his innocence, the more obvious it became that he should also be charged with making an in cider tirade.
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Two lifeguards are working together on a beach when one of them notices a group of great white sharks circling a woman who had drifted out a little too far. He begins to get up to race to her rescue when the other lifeguard grabs his arm. “Why are you holding me back? We have to go save that woman!”
“Don’t worry. That’s my mother-in-law.”
“Are you trying to kill her?”
“Well, the idea might be tempting, but that’s not how things work. Just watch.”
With that, the sharks organize themselves beneath the woman, and ride her on their backs all the way to shore, safely depositing her in shallow water.
“What in the world gave you the notion that would happen?!?” asked the first lifeguard.
“Professional courtesy.”
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“No, I looked at the sundial in the garden.”
“That’s absurd. How could you tell time by a sundial at 11:32 at night?”
“I had a flashlight.”
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TODAY IN TRIVIA: WHIPPED CREAM
~36 and 40% butterfat is found in Heavy Whipping Cream.
~The colder cream is to start, and the colder it stays as you whip it, the easier and better it whips.
~When whipping cream, add the sugar when the cream is mostly whipped, and the cream will whip to a higher volume. Adding the sugar at the beginning results is lower volume.
~Cream must be below 50 degrees to whip, at 50 or above it churns into butter rather than whips.
~The whipping action must be just that – moving a whisk back and forth churns the cream, rather than whipping it and increasing its volume.
How was whipped cream invented?
Potential reasons:
- Someone trying to make butter in a hurry ends up with partially whipped cream
- Someone on horseback is carrying a half full container of cream and riding fast – which partially whips the cream.
Who knows? 
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QUIP OF THE DAY: Be careful what you wish for – you might get it. – Harrington
THAT’S (ALMOST) ALL FOLKS!
Thought for the day. . .
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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