Thursday 7/21/22
Celebrate:
Get To Know Your Customers Day
Invite an Alien to Live with You Day
Legal Drinking Age Day ..get it the 21st?
National Be Someone Day
National Junk Food Day
National Lamington Day - butter or sponge cakes that are coated with or dipped in chocolate and then covered with fine desiccated coconut. Lord Lamington, Governor of Queensland from 1896–1901, supposedly called these Australian cakes "Those bloody, poofy, woolly biscuits"
National Tug-of-War Day
Take a Monkey to Lunch Day
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Amazon is developing a new feature for Alexa that would allow you to "speak to" the dead.
It's simple, Alexa will only need to listen to audio of the deceased talking for one minute . . . like from a voicemail or something . . . and it'd be able to recreate their voice. And they'd be able to say anything, not just "Why don't you ever call me?"
Amazon is touting it as a way to "make memories last," which is one of the less morbid characterizations of this feature. They also suggest that a child could ask Alexa to have grandma finish reading them the "Wizard of Oz", and Alexa would immediately adjust its voice to imitate grandma.
Some people say this reminds them of the "Be Right Back" episode of the show "Black Mirror", where a woman orders an AI copy of her dead husband. One person joked that the episode was, "supposed to be a warning, not a [product] pitch."
Amazon has yet to announce when the feature will debut, or if it will be available to the public at all.
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Someone polled thousands of people and asked which month is the best month to have a birthday. June was the #1 answer with 18% of the vote, and July is a close second at 16%. Warmer months did better in general.
May is the third-best month for birthdays with 9% . . . then August, 8% . . . and April, September, and October with 5% each. Five months tied for last with just 3% of the vote: November, December, January, February, and March.
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A man in Japan went to a restaurant . . . drank WAY too much . . . and fell asleep in the street. In the morning, he noticed that his bag was gone.
That's a problem because the bag had a USB drive in it that contained the personal information for everyone in the city . . . more than 450,000 people . . . including their names, birthdays, addresses, tax information, and bank accounts.
It was from his job. He works . . . or maybe WORKED . . . for a company that provided benefits to tax-exempt households. And even though he had access to that data, he was not supposed to download it and carry it around.
Fortunately, the information on the flash drive IS encrypted . . . so even though there's a threat of a messy public leak, there's no indication that the data has been compromised. However, the drive hasn't been recovered yet.
By the way,I just read that if you find a random USB drive. DON’T PUT IT IN YOUR COMPUTER!!! It’s an easy way for hackers to get stuff on your computer!
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Someone with 80,000 followers posted a Twitter poll, asking: "Do you guys shave your nips, or leave the hair around them untouched?" 6,000 men voted, and 59% of them said NO . . . but 41% of them said YES, they do shave their nipples.
It was an informal poll, and he just ASKED that only men vote and that they be honest. The yes votes would also include men who shave their whole chest. And some men also defended their vote, saying that they don't grow chest hair . . . only hair around their nipples . . . and so they need to rein it in.
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Brian Smith does the weather at WTVC in Chattanooga, Tennessee and the hot forecasts went in a different direction. He told his viewers how to make "mailbox lasagna."
First you COOK the meat. That's very important. Then you assemble it like you would regular lasagna . . . and shove the whole thing into the mailbox. Four to eight hours later you have dinner.
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - Until the 1960s, the most reliable pregnancy test was injecting a woman's pee into a frog. If she was pregnant, her hormones would cause a fungus to grow on its back. (when was the rabbit?)
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