Saturday 4/20/24
Sunday 4/21/24
Celebrate:
Saturday:
Chinese Language Day
Husband Appreciation Day
Lima Bean Respect Day - we respect them so much they are being rebranded Butter Beans!
National Cheddar Fries Day
National Cold Brew Day
National Look-Alike Day
National Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Day
Record Store Day
Volunteer Recognition Day
World Circus Day
Sunday
Big Word Day
Bulldogs are Beautiful Day
Go Fly a Kite Day
keep Off the Grass Day
Kindergarten Day
National Chickpea Day
National Chocolate-Covered Cashews Day
National Rendering Day
National Tea Day (UK)
Thank You for Libraries Day
Tuna Rights Day (except Charlie...Sorry Charlie)
World Creativity and Innovation Day
National Yellow Bat Day - The Army Security Agency is a military intelligence agency, one of its comanies had a bat with outstretched wings on a yellow moon background. bats are nocturnal and represent secrecy and mystery, they are an apt symbol for a unit that does surveillance and provides intelligence support. (now i have to kill you because you know of their existence)
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Today is 4/20 (snicker..pass the chips)
It's widely believed that 420 owes its roots to five Californian high school students.
In 1971, the five San Rafael High School students devised a secret code which they used to indicate to each other that they would meet later in the day to smoke cannabis.
After saying "420" to each other in passing in their school hallways, they would then meet at 4.20pm in order to smoke cannabis.
Nicknamed the "Waldos", because they smoked cannabis against a wall, their chosen smoking spot was by a statue of 19th-century scientist Louis Pasteur at their school.
Reddit wanted to know about the ways you can tell if a person is secretly a closet stoner.
Some of the answers:
Someone said, "I had a boss ask to see my lighter once. I handed it to him . . . he turned it upside down and observed the bottom edge's smudge of black tar from where I smash the bowl down after I light it.
"He handed it back, and said, 'I thought so.'Â He smoked weed, too."
If they call it "marijuana," they don't smoke. If they call it "weed," they do.
If you don't smoke cigarettes and you just have a lighter on you, that's already enough.
If they're American, and they know off-hand how many grams are in an ounce.
Ask the person, "Hey, do you smoke?"Â If they reply, "smoke what?" . . . the answer (9 times out of 10) is YES, they smoke weed.
At family gatherings, they are usually the one playing with the kids.
They have an unusual affinity for band t-shirts.
They always go out on their lunch break, but you have no idea where they go.
They are the most relaxed, reasonable person in the group . . . who laughs at your jokes and doesn't give a crap.
Toke up the thread here.
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Last week's total solar eclipse pushed Soundgarden's 1994 hit, "Black Hole Sun", to #1 on Billboard's Hot Hard Rock Songs chart.
Last week alone, it earned 4.2 million official streams, which is up 34%, and 2.5 million in radio airplay audience, which is up 19%. It also had 1,000 downloads in the U.S.
This is the first time Soundgarden has topped this chart, which was created in 2020.
Other songs that got a boost from the eclipse include Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" . . . Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising" . . . and Pink Floyd's "Eclipse".
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A family in Canada saw a recent study that found teaching rats to drive tiny cars makes them less stressed. So they built some custom rides for their two pet rats and trained them to do it. Videos of it are all over Instagram right now.
Watch the video here (I think I was behind this guy on the roads the other day. "What the &*^$ are you doing????)
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Nature can now earn song royalties. An initiative called Sounds Right got streaming platforms like Spotify to make the word "Nature" an official artist.
Now nature sounds used in certain songs will earn royalties, and all that money will be put toward conservation efforts around the world. They say it could raise $40 million in the first four years.Â
The first "Nature" playlist on Spotify includes remixed songs by David Bowie, Ellie Goulding, and others.
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Canned wine sometimes smells like farts, especially if it sits on the shelf too long. Now researchers at Cornell think they've figured out why it happens, and how to fix it.
They think an antioxidant in the wine is getting through the plastic liners in the cans and interacting with the aluminum. That creates hydrogen sulfide, which can give off a rotten egg smell. So the fix could be better can liners.
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Thousands of people were evacuated near Mount Ruang volcano in northern Indonesia yesterday following repeated eruptions since Tuesday. Officials also released a tsunami alert over concerns the 2,400-foot-tall mountain might partially collapse into the sea amid the seismic activity, a phenomenon that claimed over 400 lives on the adjacent island in 1871.Â
It last erupted in 2002 with ash plumes reportedly reached roughly 13 miles into the stratosphere, dropping rocks several miles from the eruption. Videos showed intense lightning activity in the ash plume as a result of the rapid movement of particles, creating a strong buildup of opposite charges, similar to typical storms.
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Boston Dynamics, the makers of that weird headless animal-like robot are at it again. At least it has a head-like apparatus, but it's movements are just creepy!!!!!!!
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Most Americans have a hard time making it through a meal without pulling out their phones . . . even at a restaurant. But many of us would gladly give that up, if we got a DISCOUNT.
There's a new restaurant in Italy that's trying something cool: They're giving diners a FREE BOTTLE OF WINE . . . if you give up your phone when you come in. They put it in a box, and it's even locked with a key, which they give to you.
The restaurant is in Verona, and it's called "Al Condominio."Â They said they wanted to try something new . . . and they thought this would be a fun way to encourage diners to be more present with their companions.
Giving up your phone is OPTIONAL . . . but with a generous perk like a bottle of wine, they say the response has been "very positive," and most diners are taking them up on the offer.Â
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