Turning 50 in 2009
Cris Collinsworth – Former football player and current football analyst – January 27.
Kyle MacLachlan – Actor – February 22.
Nina Hartley – Porn superstar – March 11.
Sheena Easton – Singer – April 27.
Susan Cowsill – Singer, the Cowsills – May 20.
Vincent D’Onofrio – Actor, Law and Order:SVU – June 30
*****
Please help me by using the following [...]
The Beatles Up On The Roof
Those who were walking the streets near the Abbey Road Studios at 3 Savile Row, London on January 30, 1969 got a surprise and to a few a great treat. It was on that date that The Beatles performed their unannounced noontime concert. Their last public performance.
The were working on songs for a [...]
I Don’t Like Mondays
On Monday January 29, 1979 the day was starting as usual for Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California. Then all of a sudden shots rang out. They were coming from the house across the street. During the 6 hour shooting spree and standoff Principal Burton Wragg and head custodian Mike Suchar were [...]
Serendipity
Serendipity is defined as a discovery of something fortunate while looking for something else.
The word was first used by Horace Walpole in a letter dated January 28, 1754 to Horace Mann, an Englishman living at the time in Florence. This is not the Horace Mann who was a American educator.
Walpole had read a Persian [...]
A Fire in Space Exploration
President John F. Kennedy’s goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s was well on scheduled until January 27, 1967. On that day the project was put on hold. A fire in the command module sitting atop a Saturn IB rocket, just weeks before the first manned [...]
Arizona Cardinals
Even though many football analyst’s said that the only reason the the Arizona Cardinals reached the 2008 NFL playoffs was because they played in a weak NFC West Division, they are going to be playing in the 43rd Super Bowl. It is true that the Cardinals have had a history of being a poor [...]
Super Bowl XLIII
On February 2, 2009 the forty-third modern NFL Championship game or Super Bowl XLIII will be played. The game will be played at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. Tampa has been the host city for four Super Bowls with Raymond James Stadium holding their second. The game will be played between the [...]
Pet Peeve – On the Telephone
Some of my Telephone Pet Peeves:
• Being put on the speakerphone without warning or for no logical reason.
• The common phone-tree assurance “Your call will be answered in the order received” and “Your call is important to us”. If it’s so important shouldn’t a live operator answer the call.
• Cold call sales reps who [...]
Apple’s 1984
During the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII a commercial aired. The commercial has been considered a masterpiece in advertising and it also introduced the Apple Macintosh Computer.
The commercial alluded to George Orwell’s classic novel 1984 and featured Big Brother on a screen speaking to an audience of drones. In runs a young [...]
USS Nautilus – The World’s First Nuclear-Powered Submarine
About 2 1/2 years after the US Congress authorized the construction of a nuclear-powered submarine, on January 21, 1954 the USS Nautilus was officially launched into the Thames River in Connecticut.
The name Nautilus was selected to be the name of the submarine with the announcement being made on December 12, 1951. It was the [...]
Recent Comments