Thursday 6/20/24
Celebrate:
American Eagle Day
Anne and Samantha Day
Cuckoo Warning Day
International Surfing Day
National Daylight Appreciation Day
National Dump the Pump Day
National Hike with a Geek Day
National Ice Cream Soda Day
National Seashell Day
National Smoothie Day
National Vanilla Milkshake Day
New identity Day
Plain Yogurt Day
Recess at Work Day
Toad Hollow Day of Thank You
World Humanist Day
World Peace and Prayer Day
World Productivity Day
World Refugee Day
World Tapas Day
Nystagmus Awareness Day - a vision condition in which the eyes make repetitive, uncontrolled movements. These movements often result in reduced vision and depth perception and can affect balance and coordination.
First Day of Summer & The Longest Day (longest hours of daylight)
It's at 4:51 PM.
This solstice marks the official beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, occurring when Earth arrives at the point in its orbit where the North Pole is at its maximum tilt (about 23.5 degrees) toward the Sun, resulting in the longest daylight hours and shortest night of the calendar year.
15 Hours and 18 Minutes of daylight today.
By the way, the Winter Solstice gives us 9 hours and 9 minutes of daylight.
It's the earliest solstice since June 20, 1796, when George Washington was president and there were only 16 states in the Union.
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Willie Mays — the baseball legend who made history as the first Black team captain in the major leagues — has died. He was 93.
Mays earned the National League's Rookie of the Year award in 1951 with 20 home runs.
Mays played 21 seasons with the San Francisco Giants before being traded to the New York Mets in 1972. Though he only competed for the Mets for two seasons, he advanced the team with 14 home runs.
In 1973, the baseball icon retired with 24 All-Star awards, 3,283 hits, 660 home runs, two National League MVP awards and 12 consecutive Gold Glove Awards to his name, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979.
Do you have his baseball card?? I might have but it was put in the spokes of my bike as a kid..who knew!!!!!
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A "mysterious monolith," similar to ones that have been popping up around the world since 2020, was spotted near Las Vegas over the weekend, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said.
The long, reflective slab of metal was discovered over the weekend by Las Vegas Metro Search and Rescue near Gass Peak, about an hour north of Las Vegas, the LVMPD said in a post on Facebook Monday.
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Call it a comeback – flip phones are having a moment. It’s true: People are snatching up those basic clamshell throwbacks of the early 2000s faster than a bag of discounted Reese’s the day after Halloween. The reasons are simple: We’re burned out on our smartphones, social media, and passively allowing years of our lives to melt away mindlessly stuck on screens. According to the latest statistics, the average person spends nearly five hours a day on their smartphone, which equals six days a month and a mind-boggling 12 years over a lifetime.
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Novelty notepads for the win!
Someone posted a photo of a piece of paper they found on the ground outside their local grocery store. They thought it was a shopping list at first, but it wasn't.
Instead, it had a list of names . . . with a pre-printed font at the top that said, "People I Want to PUNCH IN THE FACE." And it listed specific times as well.
Emma at 12:00 P.M. . . . someone named Hunt at 3:00 P.M. . . . and Joe at 4:00 P.M. Three other people named Sofia, Donna, and Sam were also listed, but didn't have times.
A few people online didn't find it funny, and basically said it's like a low-grade kill list. But most just made jokes like, "I wish I were this organized."
We're thinking it's probably NOT a real list of people who need punching though. Because above the times, it looks like the person wrote "CARTS."
So maybe a manager was keeping track of who needed to go gather carts from the parking lot, and they just used a "fun" notepad they had on hand.
There are plenty of notepads like this available at Amazon. years ago Cappy's in Elmira was the place for things like this, today maybe Connors in Corning.
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It's been about 37 years since the Mel Brooks classic "Spaceballs" hit theaters. So, it's about time to introduce the "Star Wars" parody to a new generation with a sequel.
Not much is known about it though, except it'll be produced by Brooks for Amazon and it'll star Josh Gad. You know, the voice of Olaf in "Frozen". Mel is not writing or directing.
The "Spaceballs" sequel will be the second time Brooks has revisited one of his films. Last year he came out with "History of the World: Part 2", as a series for Hulu.
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Nathan Lane and Matt Bomer (Magic Mike, Maestro, White Coller) will star in a new Hulu series called "Mid-Century Modern", and it was inspired by "The Golden Girls".
It's about three "gay gentlemen of a certain age" who decide to spend their golden years living together after an "unexpected death."
Bomer's character is described as, quote, "pure of heart, hard of body and soft of head" . . . so he's kind of like Rose from "The Golden Girls". Lane's character is more like Dorothy.
Oh, and they live with Nathan's character's mom, who's played by Linda Lavin, and her, quote, "naked Gen Z housekeeper."
The third friend and the housekeeper haven't been cast yet.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Daddy long-legs are arachnids, but they're not classified as spiders because they don't produce silk.
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