Hasselhoff Wednesday: Now that Tax season is over...

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Hasselhoff Wednesday: Passover

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

fard \fahrd\,

verb:

1. To apply cosmetics.

noun:

1. Facial cosmetics. .

Fard comes from the Old Low Franconian word farwiđon meaning "to dye or color." In the Old French it became farder meaning "to apply makeup."

 

Vehicular Hypochondria

• A severe mental disability in which sufferers chronically experience acute anxiety attacks related to the welfare of their vehicles. A typical vehicular hypochondriac may face bouts of depression and paranoia stemming from the false belief that his/her car is malfunctioning when it is in fact operating in perfect order.

Sane Human Being: Why are you giving away all of your earthly possessions and digging a large hole in the ground in front of a tombstone with your name on it?

Vehicular Hypochondriac: Well, my check engine light came on today. I'm going to die.

History

• Trojan horse: traditional date of the ancient Greeks' ruse to gain entry into Troy (1184 BCE)
• "La Marseillaise": France's national anthem was composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1792)
• Library of Congress: was established with $5,000; today it has 18 million books and 100 million other items in 470 languages (1800)
• Hersheypark: amusement park opened in Hershey, Pennsylvania, for the exclusive use of Hershey Chocolate Company's employees; it was later opened to the public (1907)
• Easter Uprising: unsuccessful Irish rebellion against British rule began (1916)

Birthdays

• John Graunt 1620
• Edmund Cartwright 1743
• Robert Bailey Thomas 1766
• George Bascom 1836
• Henri Philippe Petain 1856
• Robert Penn Warren 1905
• Jack E. Leonard 1911
• Aaron Bell 1922
• J.D. Cannon 1922
• John Griffin 1928
• Freddy Scott 1933
• Shirley Boone 1934
• Shirley MacLaine 1934 - Actress
• Jill Ireland 1936
• Joe Henderson 1937
• Sue Grafton 1940 - Author
• Barbra Streisand 1942 - Singer
• Richard Sterban 1943 - Singer (The Oak Ridge Boys)
• Bob Lunn 1945
• Robert Knight 1945
• Doug Clifford 1945 - Musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR))
• Glenn Cornick 1947
• Eric Bogosian 1953 - Actor
• Vince Ferragamo 1954
• Michael O'Keefe 1955
• David J. 1957 - Musician (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets)
• Boris Williams 1958 - Musician (Cure)
• Glenn Morshower 1959 - Actor ("24")
• Billy Gould 1963 - Musician (Faith No More)
• Paul Ryder 1964 - Musician (Happy Mondays)
• Djimon Hounsou 1964 - Actor
• Cedric the Entertainer 1964 - Actor, comedian
• Patty Schemel 1967 - Musician (Hole)
• Omar Vizquel 1967 - Baseball player
• Aaron Comess 1968 - Musician (Spin Doctors)
• Chipper Jones 1972 - Baseball player
• Brian Aubrey Marshall 1973 - Musician (Creed)
• Eric Balfour 1977 - Actor
• Carlos Beltran 1977 - Baseball player
• Kelly Clarkson (Kelly Brianne Clarkson) 1983 - Singer, first "American Idol" participant to win a Grammy Award, Who's High Pitch?
  

 

 

 

Review Tuesday: MR. ROBOT (The Complete Series)

 

 

MR. ROBOT

(The Complete Series)

A group of hackers seeking revenge against Evil Corp face unintended consequences. 

While trying to come up with things to watch which would be good diversions form the tax season workload my friend (yes, the same friend) thought something engaging might be good. She selected MR ROBOT. I wasn't unfamiliar with the series. I used to have a friend a long time ago who used to rave about the show, but she was a pretentious jerk so I had no interest in watching it. A better friend talked me into it. 

 

Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek) lost his father due to the misdeeds of the Evil Corp. To retaliate he uses his hacking skills and the aid of his friends to take the company down. Unfortunately the outcome of the hack yielded all sorts of unintended, grave results. While the story of the financial disaster unfolds, we learn about Elliot and his dissociative identity disorder.     

While many of the characters aren't very likeable at all, the writing and the human drama are quite compelling. Plus, add the layers of Elliot's mental illness that's unraveling over the series and the show is chocked full of surprises.

 

Easter Eggs! I remember the show being filmed by my office when I worked in NYC. Sure enough, I saw scenes taken right around the corner from where I worked!

This show is quite good and felt worthwhile to watch. It's a complete series with a proper ending. I would recommend this to anyone who was curious when it made its initial run.

AMAZON

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

germinal \JUR-muh-nl\, adjective:

1. Being in the earliest stage of development.

2. Of or pertaining to a germ or germs.

3. Of the nature of a germ or germ cell.

Germinal is derived from the Latin word germen meaning "sprout, bud."

 

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Radio Phonetics for: What the fuck

Commonly used to accentuate the phrase.

Whiskey Tango Foxtroy, Over! Weren't you thinking!?

History

• Order of the Garter: oldest existing order of knights was founded by King Edward III of England (1348)
• Baedeker blitz: a series of German Luftwaffe raids on the English cities of Exeter, Bath, Norwich and York began in retaliation for the RAF bombing of Lübeck (1942)
• Hank Aaron: hit his first of 755 major league home runs; his career total is second only to Barry Bonds (1954)
• New Coke: Coca-Cola launched its marketing flop (1985)
• "Me at the Zoo": YouTube's first video was launched on the fledgling website (2005)

Birthdays

• William Shakespeare 1564 - Poet, playwright ("Julius Caesar", "Romeo and Juliet", "MacBeth"), believed to have been born on April 23 based on his baptism on April 26, 1564
• James Buchanan 1791 - 15th U.S. President, nickname: Old Buck
• Serbei Prokofiev 1891 - Pianist, composer ("Peter and the Wolf")
• (Charles Burnham) Bud Wilkinson 1916 - Football player
• Janet Blair (Martha Jane Lafferty) 1921 - Actress ("My Sister Eileen", "The Fabulous Dorseys")
• Shirley (Jane) Temple Black 1928 - Child actress ("Little Miss Marker", "Heidi", "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm")
• Alan Oppenheimer 1930 - Actor ("Murphy Brown", "The Six Million Dollar Man", "The Bionic Woman")
• Halston (Roy Frowick) 1932 - Fashion designer, created the pillbox hat that was worn by Jackie Kennedy at President Kennedy's inauguration
• Roy Orbison 1936 - Singer
• Don Massengale 1937 - Golfer
• Ray Peterson 1939 - Singer
• David Birney 1939 - Actor ("Oh, God! Book 2", "St. Elsewhere")
• Lee Majors (Harvey Lee Yeary II) 1940 - Actor ("The Six Million Dollar Man", "Big Valley")
• Sandra Dee (Alexandra Zuck) 1942 - Actress ("Gidget")
• Hervé Villechaize 1943 - Actor ("Fantasy Island")
• Tony Esposito 1944 - Hockey player
• Marty Fleckman 1944 - Golfer
• Bernadette Devlin (McAliskey) 1948 - Irish civil rights leader
• Blair Brown 1948 - Actress
• Joyce DeWitt 1949 - Actress (Three's Company)
• Paul Brickman 1949 - Director, writer
• Narada Michael Walden 1952 - Musician (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report), record producer, songwriter
• James Russo 1953 - Actor
• Captain Sensible 1954 - Musician (Damned)

  
• Michael Moore 1954 - Lib-tard, biased filmmaker, fat slob, shit-head, liberal mouthpiece.
• Judy Davis 1955 - Actress
• Jan Hooks 1957 - Actress ("Designing Women", "Saturday Night Live", "Batman Returns")
• Craig Sheffer 1960 - Actor
• Valerie Bertinelli 1960 - Actress ("One Day at a Time")
• Steve Clark 1960 - Musician (Def Leppard)
• George Lopez 1961 - Actor
• Gen 1964 - Musician (Jesus Jones)
• Melina Kanakaredes 1967 - Actress ("Providence", "Guiding Light", "CSI: New York")
• Tim Womack 1968 - Musician (Sons of the Desert)
• Stan Frazier 1968 - Musician (Sugar Ray)
• Scott Bairstow 1970 - Actor
• Andruw Jones 1977 - Baseball player
• Kal Penn 1977 - Actor ("House M.D.")
• Daniela Hantuchova 1983 - Tennis player
• Rachel Skarsten 1985 - Actress
• Camryn Walling 1990 - Actor ("The Agency")
• Dev Patel 1977 - Actor ("Slumdog Millionaire") 

  

 

 

 

 

 

Look forward to Jennifer!

Jennifer Walcott

   

  

  

  

 

 

 

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cred to ou

Monday, April 22, 2024

obtuse \uhb-TOOS\, adjective:

1. Not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect.
2. Not sharp, acute, or pointed; blunt in form.
3. (Of a leaf, petal, etc.) rounded at the extremity.
4. Indistinctly felt or perceived, as pain or sound.

Obtuse comes from the Latin word tundere which meant "to beat" and the prefix ob- meaning "against" because it referred to the process of beating metal until it was dull.

 
AMF 

• mil-slang/acronym for ADIOS MOTHERFUCKER

Tommy: You said mean things about me.
Bax: Grow a pair. AMF.

 
Trivia

By what name is the character Alonso Quijano better known in the world of literary classics?

• Don Quixote de la Mancha.

Holiday

• Earth Day - The one day everyone is supposed to be a little more conscious of treating the planet better. 

History 

• Pedro Alvares Cabral: landed on the coast of Brazil, claiming the land for Portugal (1500)
• Henry VIII: much-married king of England ascended to the throne (1509)
• "In God We Trust": US Congress mandated that all minted coins bear this inscription (1864)
• Oklahoma Land Rush: began officially at noon with thousands of homesteaders staking their claims (1889)
• Earth Day: first observed (1970)

Birthdays

• Queen Isabella I (Spain) 1451
• Henry Fielding 1707 - Author ("The History of Tom Jones")
• Immanuel Kant 1724 - Philosopher
• Nikolai Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin) 1870 - Russian premier (1917-1924)
• Nicola Sacco 1891 - Convicted of robbery and executed along with Bartolomeo Vanzetti after a controversial trial in Massachusetts.
• Vladimir Nabokov 1899 - Russian novelist
• J. Robert Oppenheimer 1904 - Physicist, designed and built the first atomic bomb
• Eddie Albert (Edward Albert Heimberger) 1908 - Actor ("Green Acres")
• Yehudi Menuhin 1916 - Violinist, played with New York Symphony Orchestra at age ten
• Robert Wadlow Alton 1918 - At the time of his death on July 15, 1940 he was the tallest man in the world according to Guinness World Records. He was 8 ft 11.1 in.
• Mickey (James Barton) Vernon 1918 - Baseball
• Hal March (Mendelson) 1920 - Television emcee ("The $64,000 Question"), actor ("The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show")
• Candid Camero 1921 - Musician
  
• Charles Mingus 1922 - Musician
• Richard Diebenkorn 1922 - Musician, singer, bandleader, composer
• Aaron Spelling 1923 - Exectuive producer ("Fantasy Island", "Beverly Hills 90210")
• Bettie Page 1923 - invented sexy
  

  
• George Cole 1925 - Actor ("Minder", "Flash Harry")
• Charlotte Rae 1926 - Actress ("Facts of Life")
• Estelle Harris 1932 - Actess ("Seinfeld")
• Mark Damon (Alan Harris) 1933 - Actor ("The Fall of the House of Usher")
• Glen Campbell 1936 - Singer, actor
• Jack Nitzsche 1937 - Arranger, producer, songwriter
• Jack Nicholson (John Joseph) 1937 - Actor ("The Shining", "Batman", "The Witches of Eastwicke", "A Few Good Men")
• Deane Beman 1938 - Golfer
• Jason Miller 1939 - Actor ("Toy Soldiers", "The Exorcist" series)
• Mel Carter 1943 - Singer, actor
• Cleve Francis 1945 - Country singer
• John Waters 1946 - Director
• Larry Groce 1948 - Singer, songwriter
• Spencer Haywood 1949 - Basketball player
• Peter Frampton 1950 - Musician (Humble Pie)
• Paul Carrack 1951 - Musician (Squeeze, Mike & the Mechanics)
• Tom Lysiak 1953 - Hockey player
• Joseph Bottoms 1954 - Actor ("Surfacing", "Inner Sanctum")
• Ryan Stiles 1959 - Actor ("Whose Line is It Anyway")
• Byron Allen 1961 - Comedian, television host, actor ("Real People")
• Chris Makepiece 1964 - Actor ("My Bodyguard", "Captive Hearts")
• Jeffrey Dean Morgan 1966 - Actor ("Negan")
• Sheryl Lee 1967 - Actress ("Twin Peaks")
• Sherri Shepherd 1967 - Talk show host, actress
• Heath Wright 1967 - Musician (Ricochet)
• Ingo Rademacher 1971 - Actor ("General Hospital")
• Eric Mabius 1971 - Actor ("Ugly Betty")
• Anna Falchi 1972 - actress, hottie (below)
• Daniel Johns 1979 - Musician (Silverchair)
  Michelle Ryan 1984 (bottom)
  
• Amber Heard 1986 - Actress (right)