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- March 8, 2023
- National No Smoking Day 2023
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I think it's a shame that this STILL needs to be said.
Smoking is hazardous to people and other living things. Other tobacco use such as chewing tobacco, snuff, and so forth are equally hazardous, just more localized to the mouth, throat, and salivary glands. But I digress ...
The damage smoking does to both the pulmonary and cardiovascular systems in people is astounding.
The heartbreak of losing a close loved one prematurely cannot be measured.
I continue to enter public venues where my breathing is stifled by the second hand smoke of others who feel it is their right to damage MY health.
Today is National No Smoking Day. It goes down each second Wednesday of March. This year it will be March 8, 2023.
The day is supposed to be a time of outreach in an effort to get those for whom you care to stop smoking. The primary attractant to those who smoke is nicotine addiction.
Smokers who intend to continue have reached a point where their numbers are no longer diminishing.
Smoking and second hand smoke remain critical hazards for the heath of all people.
If you don't smoke don't start. If you smoke, make all efforts to try and quit.
If not for yourself, do it for those for whom you care.
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- March 7, 2023
- Alexander Graham Bell Day 2023
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The telephone is one of those Earth changing inventions which permits distance communications in real time.
Today is Alexander Graham Bell Day. It marks the day that Mr Bell was granted a patent for "transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically".
Three days later he made the historical statement
Which historians record being said when he summoned his assistant Mr Thomas Watson from the next room."Mr. Watson, come here ... I want to see you"
Alexander Graham Bell requesting the presence of Mr Thomas Watson
This was the very first telephone call.
The holiday is recognized by an official act of the legislature in Nova Scotia, Canada as that day he was granted the patent.
The rest of the story is evolving with the advent of the wireless and "smart" phones which are the direct result of improvements and innovation over the years.
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- March 6, 2023
- National Dress Day 2023
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In biblical times men wore skirts. Scripture speaks of 'girding' in preparation for battle and 'spreading' as an act of marriage.
That was then. This is now.
I've never worn a dress. I don't think it's appropriate for a man to wear a dress nowadays.
Try telling that to the freaks populating the Biden administration like Sam Brinton and Richard Levine.
There is no respect for the United States government when it becomes a freak show.
Today is National Dress Day. It happens on March 6 in celebration of the dress.
A lot of people design and manufacture dresses.
Others like the insane Sam Brinton simply want to steal luggage containing them then add them to his own perverse wardrobe.
Still others like the fat and ugly Richard Levine wants everyone to think he's some fugly female when he is just some heinous butt-ugly biological male ...
Utter madness continues to run rampant on the left unabated.
Men can not be women and should stay out of dresses.
Boo !
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- March 5, 2023
- International Open Data Day 2023
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Open Data Day is an annual observance of international open data. It is a day for groups and communities gather to reach out to new people and build new solutions using open data.
I do a lot of "open source" software and it is a free and accessible distribution methodology.
I have been known to use open source code in my projects.
However, my modifications are not included in the open source data I allow others to see.
There is a problem with sharing data in an open manner as far as I am concerned. A lot of the stuff I have belongs to customers and they would not appreciate it much were I to make their assets obtainable in an open data manner.
Call me selfish, but I remain one who believes you shouldn't tell everything you know.
So "open data" or "open source programs" appears to be the inverse of proprietary which is typically guarded beyond the need, i.e., alot of the proprietary stuff out there, particularly the dotnet microsoft mess — which is IMHO total junk.
When you can write a code segment in 30 lines I feel the need for 500 lines is unnecessary.
So happy International Open Data Day. Share what you will and I hope you are staying away from the stupid microsoft dotnet crap.
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- March 4, 2023
- National Pound Cake Day 2023
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My mammy loves pound cake. I didn't realize this until just the other day when I brought her a large cake from the Chef's Store. She really did eat it up with her coffee. I was gratified to see that there are food items she will readily enjoy.
I think a couple of these every so often are in order simply because she enjoys them.
As for me, I like pound cake okay. I have always been a German chocolate or Boston creme pie kind of guy, however.
Today is National Pound Cake Day. It happens each year on March 4.
It celebrates our long history of pound cakes and encourages people to actually bake them.
Now I am not one to bake anything. I once fancied myself a cook of sorts but I'm afraid I like easy breakfast stuff most of all. The pound cake is a reference to a cake baked with a pound each of the four primary ingredients:
butter eggs flour sugar
Whether you bake them, just eat them, or mostly just share them Pound Cake is a gastronomic delight for reasons which may not reach out and grab you.
Happy National Pound Cake Day to you !
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- March 3, 2023
- Naval Reserve Birthday 2023
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Today is the US Naval Reserve Birthday. It is celebrated annually each March 3rd to commemorate the establishment of the United States Navy Reserve.
The Navy Reserve was established in 1915, making it more than a century younger than the US Navy.
This particular anniversary is not a federal holiday but it typically observed at various Navy Reserve units, Reserve Headquarters, and at the Navy Memorial in Washington DC.
I was a reservist. Reservists are members of the Navy Reserve. My designation was "3 x 6" whereby I did 3 years active duty, 1 year active reserve, and 1 year inactive reserve.
I wasn't what I would call a "good" sailor. Gung ho didn't arrive for me til much later in life. I was however squared away on active duty. I'm afraid I didn't take reserve drill quite so serioiusly.
I have attempted to do penance for my poor military attitude by contributing to the welfare of those disabled veterans at the local VA Hospital.
I get them a lot of activity related and playing card Christmas stuff to make their lonely holidays more special in the hopes that they have good luck and smooth sailing.
I am a sinner. I haven't always done as well as I might have. I have tried to do better in my later life. The patients and the nurses at the VA appreciate me.
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- March 2, 2023
- Google is Evil
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That evil which is big tech in general is usually eclipsed by oracle, facebook, and google.
oracle buys up good technology like java and makes it bad for the consumer.
facebook is in league with the government to suppress facts and information contrary to that narrative they wish to push.
google simply is a coniving, inferior, baiting, reporting piss poor excuse for a search engine which only shows you what it chooses to show. There is a vast difference between the "organic" search engine and google which is simply an advertising machine and redirector mechanism designed to direct traffic where they want and NOT where you might want to go.
Google will redirect or suppress you at their evil whim. They appear to intentionally get your IP geolocation wrong just to piss you off. They think YOU are their product.
Had Elon Musk not bought twitter it would be right there in the scumbag fray with the rest of them.
This merely scratches the surface of a problem created by those who ROUTINELY betray the public trust because of their evil wish to exert undue control.
In fact for a company which used to say "don't do evil" google is about as evil an entity as exists on the planet.
Companies like google, youtube, and alphabet which have no redeeming value whatsoever should be struck from the world like the plague it is.
This wart on the collective ass of humanity should be eliminated with extreme prejudice.
Die google die.
I suggest nuking google and their parents and subsidiaries from orbit. It's the only way to be sure to rid us of that arrogant thug of the information age called 'big tech'.
I have a droid but I don't use much of it nor do I save anything on it because I utterly detest google the crooks, the scum, the technoturds.
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- March 1, 2023
- National Horse Protection Day 2023
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My younger days found me in the presence of many horses. I never owned one but it seems that everyone around me did.
My cousin Regina was quite the accomplished equestrian as I remember. These were the days in my life when I found rodeo events entertaining. I recall a fondness for some of those steeds which eclipsed that fondness I felt for their owners ...
Over the years I have had a soft spot for horses. I had a friend back in my young adulthood who was a horse fanatic as it were.
She maintained a collection of a hundred or so extremely realistic models of horses in various poses and I recall my first encounter with this collection as being one of those speechless moments when I found words to be simply inadequate.
Unfortunately she and I have gone our separate ways so I guess I'll never see them again.
Today is National Horse Protection Day. It is held each March 1 in an effort to end the suffering of horses everywhere.
Unfortunately I have also seen a lot of horses which were not treated well — beaten, starved, left out in the cold.
This day brings to light such cruelty against animals in the form of neglect and abuse.
National Horse Protection Day began in 2005 under the auspices of one Colleen Paige. She is an expert on pets, animal behavior and a lover of the equine species.
Though her efforts have aided the cause for abolishing cruelty toward horses there remains a long way to go.
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- February 28, 2023
- Rare Disease Day 2023
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The end of February marks a number of appropriate endings. Yet the ramifications remain that too much is honored where chastisement is much more appropriate.
This last day of February concerns itself with rare diseases among other things mostly lesser in the scheme of cosmic import.
However, the day makes no mention of foolhardy gain of function work of the likes of the criminal physician Anthony Fauci who fell under no oversight by anyone in multiple administrations and was allowed to loose a deadly virus upon the world from China because nobody in the administration is responsible for anything ever.
Rare Disease Day concerns itself with those 1 in 20 individuals who actually contract a rare disese.
It doesn't bring to light that accountability which should have been in place to rein in the mad scientist types like Dr Fauci who would just as soon lie to the world and kill us all than come clean on his complicent involvement because the rest of the administration is just as crooked and inept as he is.
I keep wondering what happend to character and forthright conduct in our nation.
It seems that election to office is now designed to rape and pillage the land as if it is owned by the so-called "public servant". So if you really want to talk rare disease talk Dr Anthony Fauci. He took a non exIstent disease and made it deadly to the masses.
Then the lab in which he did this nefarious work loosed it on the world without personal consequence. The Wuhan China Virus is the Fauci Virus. Set upon the planet with impunity by an evil mad scientist in an evil country with morbid murderous intent.
There was no accountability at all. Nobody did anything about it.
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- February 27, 2023
- Retro Day 2023
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There have been times when I dressed in 'vintage' clothing — garments which were much older than I was.
I did this because they were of a fine quality and very well kept over the years and I enjoyed wearing them in those days.
My tastes went through the ridiculous 'trends' of silk and pastels through the present day iteration of Dave ...
Which is largely utilitarian and business formal with shorts predominating in my retirement.
Today is Retro Day.
It goes down each February 27 and celebrates those classic aspects of our existence.
The genre encompasses everything from clothes, to cars, to music, and art so you don't have to be old-fashioned to indulge yourself in some blast from the past.
The historical past is where the roots of retro day arise and goes beyond material goods and physical possessions through trends, modes of operation, and even attiitudes.
So if you're so inclined go ahead and don the zoot suit and get jiggy !
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- February 26, 2023
- Black Lives Matter Day 2023
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One of the biggest utter farces released upon the world at large is Black Lives Matter.
Touted to be a thing promoting the longevity of and fairness to black people, it quickly devolved into the money grubbing den of thieves misapproriating funds it presently is ...
Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation scarfs up all the cash contributions then funnels it to various persons involved in the BLM start up who then distribute it to their family and cronies all over.
That scam which is Black Lives Matter says it's a vehicle for black lives mattering when it is merely a mechanism to fleece all the stupid black and white contributors who feel so woke as to ignore just where their money is going.
What a stupid bunch of people. Take that knee stupid dupes lacking the wherewithall of realization. You know not who you support, and moreso the nature of that support. If you support BLM you are a fool.
Today is Black Lives Matter Day. It is celebrated annually on February 26 in remembrance of the thug Trayvon Martin, a black teen who thought he was "all that" and was killed by a white American protecting himself when he was attacked.
The acquittal of his killer, George Zimmerman regarding murder charges caused a wave of widespread prejudicial anger which is a function of the unmitigated gall to which a group feels they are entitled is outrageous.
Add to this the call for reparations as if affirmative action wasn't already more than enough and you have a group of greedy needy individuals unable to function in the world. So they demand undeserved handouts in the name of some woke ideology which simply doesn't wash.
There has been more justice and fairness leveled towards black people than I ever enjoyed in my life time. Black Lives Matter is a chant by dullard uninformed people to provide their marxist leadership the opportunity to rip off any and all contributions made to this fake organization.
Why don't you stupid people join in the movement "allegedly" to end discrimination and just see if you get any of the piece of that massive pie they are reserving for their corrupt selves, indulging their families, and cronies.
You'll get nothing except a lower bank balance.
Black Lives Matter is a phony institution designed to enrich the crooks that started it.
Boo Fools !
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- February 25, 2023
- Quiet Day 2023
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Noise seems to be everywhere.
It is difficult to avoid in the hubub of our activities of daily living.
Quiet is characterized by little or no noise, turmoil or agitation. It is an environment of calm and provides or allows relaxation. It is restful and soothing.
That tranquil person who can sometimes be Dave was a very late bloomer in this reality.
I've led a quite the boisterous life.
Only in my later years did I really have any appreciation for quiet.
Suffice it to say just another ruckus was second nature.
Today is Quiet Day.
It is observed annually each February 25.
Peacefulness assists in calming us down and aids in the recentering of our existence.
Quiet therfore is good for both the body as well as the mind.
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- February 24, 2023
- World Bartender Day 2023
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My young cousin Michael is a bartender. He likes the work and the social aspects of the environment.
My tastes are far removed from his in this regard. I prefer a quiet back office where I can sit before my machine and hammer out code or stand at a bench engaged in hardware repair. He does a bit of web development, but is not the code warrior I once was.
This retirement thingie of mine leaves a lot of time for all that stuff I once wanted to engage — but with which I no longer bother.
I keep thinking that the bar tending world might be a suitable retirement employment for me. I just don't feel I meet an adequate level of social compatibility. I'm way too type A and way too predisposed to solitude so a loud raucous environment with televisions blaring some sports event as you frequently encounter in the various bars just could never float my boat.
Today is World Bartender Day. It happens on February 24 to celebrate bar tenders internationally. Bar flies like so many of those with whom I am acquainted hold the bar tender as an indispensible part of their lives. I'm sure the hospitality industry holds them in high regard ...
That's it !
I lack sufficent hospitality to be a bar tender. Besides, I don't want my existence to be pursuant to gratuities either.
Happy World Bartender Day to Michael and the rest of you bartenders out there. I hope you have a good day and may your tip jar overfloweth !
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- February 23, 2023
- National Rationalization Day 2023
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Justification is a difficult matter for some. That ability to vindicate your position and/or action is fraught with those pitfalls associated with the interpretation of others.
A laidback approach is something I pursued early on. Nowadays I don't attempt much in the way of rationalization of anything anymore. My thrust at this juncture is just saying what I mean and meaning what I say.
Luckily I can stand on my own skills and make due without any input from anyone else.
I have earned my place in society and such that is is, I accept it without making excuses or attempt at justification ... which is what rationalization is all about.
Today is National Rationalization Day. It is observed annually on February 23 in the name of fun and lightening up.
Whereas the stress of those expectations others may attempt to place upon you has officially "left the building" in my case. Some of you may need a break from it all. National Rationalization Day is here to provide just that.
Happy National Rationalization Day !
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