1/17/24 - Eclipse and You're A Psychopath

Wednesday 1/17/24

Celebrate:

Ben Franklin Day

Cable Car Day

Customer Service Day

Ditch New Years Resolutions Day

Judgement Day

Kid Inventors' Day

National Bootlegger's Day

National Classy Day

National Hot-Buttered Rum Day

National Hot Heads Chili Day

Popeye the Sailor Man Day - first appeared in 1929.

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April 8th is the total solar eclipse and it's close by. A solar totality appears over any given location just once every 375 years and it happens around 3pm that day. 

And yes, it’s perfectly safe to look at during those three minutes of totality. I even use binoculars for a minute or so during the middle of it, to show those pink prominences most clearly. But during the hourlong partial eclipse that precedes totality and then follows it, you must have eye protection. Eclipse glasses are cheap and widely available online. Or go to your local welding supply shop and order a bunch of filters, shades 12, 13, or 14.

The path actually rolls right through Rochester and Buffalo.

Rochester will get about 3 minutes and 39 seconds of totally. Buffalo and Niagra Falls as well. 

PA it's Erie with almost a full eclipse at 3 minutes and 40 seconds.

Ohio full eclipse will be over Cleveland.

https://www.almanac.com/real-dirt-great-april-eclipse?trk_msg=RTER74TOIIPKFBG1M04PJ7MPF4&trk_contact=CPLRUM9LMIRSHV5B7OJGM5EN5O&trk_sid=SN374NOC6RQLUM26US4NB3IJRC&trk_link=4F4SO4VCBH5KFENE134LQ5RKP4&lctg=&utm_source=Listrak&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=The+Real+Dirt+on+the+Great+April+Eclipse+(read+more)&utm_campaign=Companion+Daily&utm_content=Almanac.com

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So I had an ad on Facebook for Record Pi. What it does is flatten warped records.

WHAT???

So you put it in this pouch-like contraption and bake it..yes bake it for 4 hours at 135degrees.

Is this really a thing?

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Social media is obsessed with an old study from 2016 that found you're more likely to be a psychopath if you enjoy things that are BITTER.  Stuff like black coffee, dark chocolate, and gin-and-tonics.

It found people who like bitter stuff are more likely to have the types of "anti-social" qualities psychopaths have.  And they were more likely to take pleasure in seeing other people suffer.

They said to take the results with a grain of salt, because it's just one study.  That said, experts think 1 in 22 people are technically psychopaths.  So there's a decent chance you . . . or someone you know . . . is a psycho. 

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A restaurant in the U.K. recently got an amusing request in the delivery notes section.  It said, "Knock quietly, I'm supposed to be on a diet."

Whatever the diet was, this was DEFINITELY a cheat meal. 

The order was for a nine-inch Texas BBQ-style pizza . . . a double chocolate ice cream waffle, with chocolate sauce . . . and a Dr. Pepper.

The restaurant posted a photo of the receipt . . . and said they made sure the driver honored the request because they didn't want to "betray the customer's trust." 

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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - People from the European country Albania and from the city of Albany in New York are both called Albanians.

(by the way, my friend James in Albany has heard it…he says it’s stupid)

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