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Today In History:
May 9
- 1502 – Christopher Columbus leaves Spain on his final trip to New World.
- 1754 – The first newspaper cartoon in America appears.
- 1813 – U.S. troops under William Henry Harrison take Fort Meigs from British and Canadian troops.
- 1864 – Union General John Sedgwick is shot and killed by a Confederate sharpshooter during fighting at Spotsylvania. His last words are: “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist–“
- 1859 – Threatened by the advancing French army, the Austrian army retreats across the River Sesia in Italy.
- 1915 – German and French forces fight the Battle of Artois.
- 1926 – Explorer Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett make the first flight over the North Pole.
- 1936 – Fascist Italy captures the city of Addis Abba, Ethiopia and annexes the country.
- 1941 – The German submarine U-110 is captured at sea along with its Enigma machine by the Royal Navy.
- 1946 – King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy abdicates his throne and is replaced by Umberto.
- 1962 – A laser beam is successfully bounced off the moon for the first time.
- 1974 – The House Judiciary Committee begins formal hearings on Nixon impeachment.
Courtesy of The HistoryNet.Com
What history are you creating on this Spring Tuesday?
Fresh horchata being served
That sounds like a cold rice-pudding milkshake.
but this is the strained version. How goes it SN?
which is scary in itself!!!
so long as someone else goes to the trouble to make it.
to offer it at the stores, but I’m guessing that’s more of a regional marketing thing. It doesn’t taste too bad, suprisingly.
That sounds really similar to a drink I had as a kid when I went to Nicaragua to visit my cousins. It was great. My sisters and I still talk about how much we liked it but we had no idea how it was made.
latin america so your suspicion is probably correct. I’m a fan of cinnamon in general, so this stuff is liquid heaven.
Morning Manny. I’m creating history by being active today.
It doesn’t happen that often, so I figure it’s of historical importance.
There’s also art and mathematics!
Inchworm, inchworm
Measuring the marigolds
You and your arithmetic
You’ll probably go far
Inchworm, inchworm
Measuring the marigolds
Seems to me you’d stop and see
How beautiful they are
(For more about the inchworm’s activties, go here.)
and use of light/dark.
Thanks, AndiF! (Just responded to you in the old cafe.) These little fellers are denizens of the Home Depot nursery. I am trying to develop a new method for deciding which photos are good, since I know jack about phhotography, and what makes a great photo, just go on instinct. So after I look at them all, I wait a while and then see which ones I remember, and this was one that I remembered.
I saw your reply. I tend to be mostly concerned with the overall feel of the place I’m working at, as much as the as I am the boss. But that’s hard to do when it’s based on a few hours of an interview.
Re: photo. I think that you have a good eye for composition. IIRC, you have a dance background — which would give you a very strong sense of how bodies in relation to one another affect the viewer and that skill would help in determining what makes for good composition.
Interesting observation about my dance background. I think you are right, though I never thought about it, since I spent most of my life choreographing dances, and aside from being a performing art, it is also a visual art, so that skill translates. Someday I would like to take a class though, so I could analyze why things work.
My overall feel for the organization is that it is run as a very tight fit. The staff that I saw seemed disciplined and glad to have their jobs. However, you are right that you can’t tell much in a few hours of interviews. Well, we will see what we will see!
I’ve finally got the mp3 thing figured out and I’m off to fight the snakes. Depending on if there’s one out there, I might be right back.
BTW have ya’ll seen on the news about the guy getting a DUI on his lawnmower?
Happy hour and lawnwork I’m not so sure about anymore.
well when you head out on the highway with the yard tractor you best be sober. LOL
The DLMUI thing. Around here everyone is related, closely, by marriage or distantly, and they share their field and lawn equipment. So it’s nothing to see some guy zipping down the road on a riding lawn mower. Blew my mind the first time, now I’m used to it. I bet half the time, especially in the evenings, they’ve had a few brews.
a few???? LOL More like a keg.
You’ve just explained my home. I’ve got enough brothers and sister, nephews and nieces that if anything is there, it’s borrowed. I’ve gotten to the point of not even looking around the house, I’ll call them first. It’s usually, Oh yea, I borrowed that last month and forgot to return it. Arrrrggggg.
and relieved that I hadn’t indeed tossed the tv off the deck after hearing the regular “newsspews”.
Tonight I’m going over to a Pinkster’s house to finish up making the pink “weapons” and gear up for our little visit Friday to the Federal Building.
Please… for the love of decency please educate the loved ones around you that Mother’s Day is an Anti-War proclamation. Tell them you don’t want cards or gifts… if they must give you a gift – make it one that centers on the peace movement.
And I realize that I have been entirely too well behaved.
BTW – my son just left for school about 10 minutes ago and now I hear sirens all. over. the. place. I hate that feeling.
He does not have strep, just a virus, but his throat is nasty anyway so they gave him one dose of prednisone to stop the swelling and some lidocaine crap.
Tell him to watch out for those Bush Press Gangs aka recruiters aka slime of the earth pieces of shit.
The march went well here in Portland about 70 strong marched from the warpig’s station to a school board meeting.
Jane Austen.
She changed history by redefining the novel as a vehicle for insightful social commentary and guidebook for personal transformation in a time when women had no (as in less than zero) options except to marry.
I am doing a web based training that was schedualed for 30 minutes and took about 10. LOL I hope everyone is having a great day!!!!!
Hey there RF69!! So whatcha do with the extra 20 minutes?? 🙂
You have been a whirlwind of dyno-mite activism! You rock!
I spent 20 minutes doing comments on blogs LOL
I’m creating very mundane history, to borrow language from FM.
no way Boran2. Everytime I go to the market you help me make up my mind. You remind me that everything I put in my basket is political and requires critical thought.
You are the silent guest at our dining table.
to the last cafe…
Okay I read some of it and where is Family Man?? He said that we pay for comfort and looks… true but this country is making some folks sound like elitist snobs when it comes to “commodities” such as non-toxic food. It’s all such a sham and a brainwash to Americans to think that “cheaper” is somehow “smarter”. Cheap has a price. And that is why so many now couldn’t even afford to feed their kids nourishing food even if they wanted to.
Second, honey, I’m so sorry to hear that your dentist is a neanderthal money thug. And you know what pisses me off. They say that mercury fillings are bad… but those are what the insurace thugs will pay for. Or… you got it.. you pay more to not poison your kid.
Good foor and healthy skin, bones, bodies and teeth are for the elite. And that is why we should be rioting in the streets. This country has money to kill with – it has the money to heal and educate all of us… if we demanded it. I mean ALL of us. The immigrants, the criminals, the children, the elderly, the athletes and the disabled, the working and the working hard.
um…. can I have a Manny Milkshake please… where was I? 🙂
a shot of spiced rum, or is it too early? 🙂
No can do right now – Mama’s got to go to “work” later on.
sometimes I feel like my hair’s on fire with all this insanity. I see friends hurting, I see loved ones scared. For what? For Bush’s boys to get more money??
This country needs an uprising. The more and more I feel that is the only way to help our kids live a decent, non-toxic, non-killing life.
feeling the same way today. I saw Bush’s poll numbers at 31% and couldn’t bring myself to be happy about it. It has come with too much expense. My patience for some type of major momentum change is wearing thin.
Hugs and love {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{Damnit Janet}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} (and get started on Happy Hour ASAP!)
Does writing a future best-seller (I wish) count? If not, I’m out of luck for today. Maybe tomorrow?
Today’s tea: Downey Pearl Green, named for the lovely textural quality of the tea buds once they’ve been rolled. Supposed to be very delicate and gentle. That sounds nice today.
Good luck Kmc!!! Hey, I saw that white “fantasty” tea you mentioned before. They have some here that is also infused with … some citrus flavor if I recall.
Thanks. I suspect however that what you’ve been doing with Code Pink is much more likely to make a real difference in history than my second published novel. I haven’t been commenting much, but I’ve tried to recommend your stuff when I see it here or at the orange place.
That’s not true… what you do is so important!
Last night I met two wonderful artists who said they can’t hold jobs down at a diner because it’s too corporate… they love making jewelry and traveling. Two incredible, peaceful souls doing everything they can to do what they love. Creating.
Writing is creating. Keep doing it!! We need people like you!
I am in such awe of you, Kansas, Rosie, BostonJoe…
Writing is creating. Keep doing it!!
No chance I’d ever stop. I can’t imagine not writing.
There have been times where I’ve done different writing, like the four months before the 2004 election when I did nothing but op-eds and sent them to papers in the battleground states. It was a good experience in many ways, and it’s what I had to do to be able to look at myself in the mirror on the morning after the election, but it’s not what I’m best at or what really brings me joy. That’s fiction, and at this point it’s pretty much like breathing–couldn’t stop if I wanted to.
If it weren’t for the huge mess I’m dealing with in RL, I could probably manage a fair amount of political writing in around the edges of the fiction, but it’s not in the cards at the moment. Hoping to get back on track for that in June (fingers firmly crossed).
Best,
Kelly
Hi Kelly. Sounds like it might be a nice day for writing.
Got distracted by gardening–well, watching gardening. One of the biology professors is doing a service-learning thing where they supply free student labor for installing a rain garden. We just got ours finished today. Got to say that watching people dig a huge hole in the lawn, haul off the sod, rake the dirt, compost, plant, and mulch is much less work than actually doing it myself. Especially since another group of student designed the thing. And a third group did the greenhouse work to produce the plants. Best gardening experience I’ve had in a while. But now, I’m going to go writer. Watch me pull this book out of my hat. Nothing up my sleeve. This time for sure.
Take it easy Kelly.
Sanke – 2
FM – 0
I was weedeating by the pond and almost stepped on the damn thing. Two guys next door heard me yell out holy shit and jump up about 4 feet. They were laughing thier butts off. I think that’s the highest I’ve jumped in about 30 years.
Should be snake. Still can’t spell. 🙂
There you are!!! 🙂 I saw your cheese grater toilet paper abd about out my special k flakes onto the screen. You are silly!
Hi DJ. Amazing what they can do with metal these days.
How’re ya doing today?
I just read upthread. Is it safe for me to be around? Didn’t mean to bring down the wrath of DJ.
Wrath?? No not at you. What you mentioned reminded me of it all. Not mad at you sillybear!
Gawsh I must be doing something worng. The other day Andi thought I was mad about highsticking post.
Do I have to beat you over the head with a watermelon to remind you guys – I love ya! not wrath.. just ventage.
Venti Ventage.
I know. It makes me mad too.
You know, ya’ll are going to get me educated here sometimes, but even with google, I can’t figure out the Venti Ventage.
BTW glad you liked the tp picture. 🙂
First off, you know I don’t exactly edit too swiftly. But.. I love mucking around with words. I play with them alot. So never doubt your sanity based on a word you see in my post – it’s possible it’s a typo or an “azulism” of mine. I also like to turn phrases into something more fitting my needs. e
Venti – is how one can order a cup of coffee here. It’s Italian for well I don’t know but it’s a size of a cup of joe.
Vent – to rage, to let off steam. I can only assume Ventage is a word – if not I take it as my own.
Venti Ventage. A sizeable rant for the day.
Makes perfect sense to me. I’ve gotten so used to reading something and goggling constantly, that it’s almost habit with me now. 🙂
but reading it gave me a good LOL too. 🙂
Olivia it wasn’t a pretty sight. I’m not sure if the weedeater still is out there running. Plus I found out I can still run like crazy when the urge hits me. 🙂
I’ve become convinced that was a message given to me to slack and I’m listening to it.
I’m sorry that you had to encounter the snake, but I really appreciate your telling of the story!
Save me some dessert. 😉
I have been playing this clip for the past three days now whenever I’m feeling a little low and it’s still working for me. http://redbalcony.com/?p=367
Back to cake making
I saw it and it is hilarious.
Cake, did you say cake?
When my dial up wasn’t so slow… my favorite was the short video – Trunk Monkey. 🙂
I was hoping “creating history” meant that a group of tribbers had stormed the White House or something. Oh well, I’ll just have to go on creating my own history:
May 9 — Nothing interesting happened in Omir’s life on this date.
Omir I still have my match stick temple and incense for you. The day you gave us robo-rater is very historic to me.
You know what the best incense I ever met up with was? I was driving around Montana in the days when I drove, and in Virginia City (look it up sometime, it has a fascinating history) I found a little tourist trap selling sagebrush incense. Wonderful odor. I bought about 10 cones of it but unfortunately I burned one and the others disappeared. Maybe someone else in the house didn’t think much of the smell of sagebrush and surrepetitiously got rid of them, but I sure liked it.
I love the smell of sagebrush, and lots of other kinds of incense, but only when they’re not burning. Any time someone is burning incense it just smells like pot to me.
in the bathroom. I leave a door or window open because sometimes… smokes gets in my eyes.
I do want to try sage/sagebrush due to Dada and OMIRs high regards for it.
Smells like pot?? I actually like the smell of it. It’s Patchuli that I can’t stand. ACK. Some people must soak themselves in that crap.
As for Patchuli…anyone who finds the odor of one of these guys attractive or enticing is a bit daft, IMO…:{)
My wife is more of a subtle fragrance person (i.e. lots of scents make her sneeze) so sometimes we do a slightly different dodge in the bathroom. I’ve done origami since I was a kid. Along the way I picked up some books on how to make origami boxes. I have this very nice pattern for an eight-sided box that holds up beautifully when made from foil paper. I’ll take four pieces of foil paper, usually between 6 and 8 inches depending on how big I want the box to be, make one of these boxes, and fill it full of potpourri. It looks nice, smells nice, and those are both a good thing. (I do have to replace them occasionally, however — bathrooms are very humid places.)
And now I suppose I should quit channeling Martha Stewartand get back to work.
Omir doesn’t have to do anything interesting ever again and he’d still be King. 🙂
What Olivia said.
Now find a way for me to monetize my notoreity and I can retire. LOL
otherwise you wouldn’t be in this line…
Can I cut into this line, too 🙂
I am so sorry about the Senators! But there’s a few more games to battle. CaliSCribe told me you were at the game. RIGHT ON! But then bummed they lost in the fashion they did. ARGH!
I’m hoping for the best for them… and you 🙂
Thx for the jalapeno popper recipe last night! And for posting that excellent diary on the Army recruiter scumbags. Don’t know if you watched KO last night, but on his “Worst Person in the World” segment, he singled them out as the worst, for doing exactly what you had written about. I yelled at Chris (who was horrified by the story) and said, well Damnit Janet already had that written up today hours ago. Another reason he needs to join BooTrib.
Anyway, thx again you pinko honey. You rock.
Well I’m going back out to see if the weedeater is where I dropped it at and I have to fix lunch.
Check back in awhile.
I just called a recruiter and it was answered on a speaker phone. ACCKKKKKK
But I did it.
I gave him an earful! I don’t know if it was that Velasco asshole but I called the action alert number from the Portland IndyMedia.
So why is my haert bouncing around???
Because it took guts to do what you did and adrenaline allowed you to do it.
And you’re a mother who feels like her child is threatened and you have super-human strength at times like that.
Adrenaline… ah makes sense! Thanks Second!
I emailed CPPdx my blog here. I don’t want to appear anti-troop… I’m not I’m just.. whatever…
One emailed me an update in the Oregonian and tomorrow I’m going to an impeachment “thingy” at City Hall.
I haven’t been able to be with CP or at the rallies for two weeks due to other issues at home and it makes me batshit crazy as Boston Joe would say. 🙂
for a quick lunch, be back in a few minutes.
it’s almost criminal that I have to be working inside a room with no windows during such a perfect day.
clik to enlarge
A bit ascetic, I’ll grant, but a window nonetheless. Just a couple more hours to Hookah Time.
Peace
If I knew how to do your job, I would gladly trade with you, and you could spend a wonderful day around my pond with my new friends.
me, it’s the vicious creatures with eight legs that are troublesome to my nerves. I’ll gladly do the switcheroo, especially today.
I guess we each have our own thing. Eight legged things have never bothered me.
Most lizards with the exception of say a Kamodo Dragon don’t bother me too much either.
… outside my office window. Manny you would be so grossed out! These big fat brown spiders are being picked off one by one by the birds!
Naturally, I wrote haiku about it LOL:
spider sits in web
surrounded by his catch
each strand holds a life
but now it’s his turn
caught and held in his own web
unknowing his fate
flash of brown feathers
bird swoops, pecks at web, flies off
spider is catch now
I’m free at last and running away from spider-y windows. See you all later!
to help you with your 8 legged problem Manny:
you’ve been talking about all this time, FM, then I’ll quit ribbing you about them. To me, that looks suspiciously like a cotton mouth … am I correct? When I lived in FL and it would flood for a few days in summer and my street would be navigable by canoes, cotton mouths often seemed to appear in number (along with dead, stinky fish) and they always scared the bejeezus out of me. Well, them and the coral snakes as well… I appreciate the snake’s role in nature, but when they’re potentially lethal ones, I keep my respect at a very discreet distance! Did you actually get that pic up close or use your macro?
No this is what looks like what I saw. You think I would get close enought to take a picture. Hah.
I’m not sure if it was a cotton mouth, but that’s the closest I could find. Then again I didn’t stand and look for a long time either.
Joe versus the Volcano
Manito versus the Volcano!
same eerie flourescent lights above my head at the moment. 🙁
Hey Manny, sorry to hear about your windowless situation. But that pic of dada’s…. just looked at it again… do you think he’s trying to tell you go into the light?? LOL That’s a spooky looking window, but who am I to complain? I do have a window in my cube, lovely 5th floor view to a parking lot. But I can see tree tops and clouds, so just shoot me. 🙂
great luggage?
it’s HAPPY HOUR! Come on over to the pool.