Tuesday, October 3, 2023

October 3 - Technical Drumming

It's October 3rd and well, according to a website in the USA it's "National Techies Day".

Now, a techie... is that someone who works specifically in tech?  Or is just any tech enthusiast?  I think I fall into the latter category.

It's also the birthday of one of the ... well I'll call techie drummer.  Tommy Lee.

Growing up as a Crue fan, just loved the driving beat of the band and if you'd seen them in concert, Tommy really did some 'funky stuff'.  Putting himself in a cage and spinning it, or rotating the drums etc... that's some techie stuff right there.

This year, Tommy turns 61.

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

September 19 - They love the C

 Oh that old joke... what's a pirate's favourite letter?  

You'd think it'd be the 'R'... for that Robert Louis Stevenson'esque style of speech that we now associate with pirates 'arr!' (which, prior to that, didn't seem to exist)

BUT

Pirates... they really love the C

Get it?

#DadJoke

Well, it's International Talk Like a Pirate Day



Monday, March 6, 2023

March 6 - periodic new York isn't New York

Before this date in 1834 the place we now call Toronto (or trawna... t-dot...) used to be called York, Upper Canada.  But the municipality incorporated as the new name of Toronto.



Neat.

In 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev presents to the Russian Chemical Society his new method of displaying the elements in a 'table' format.




Monday, August 22, 2022

August 22 - A Caddy for you

 It was on this day in 1902 that one of the breakaways from the Henry Ford Company created the Cadillac Automobile Company.



Tuesday, July 26, 2022

July 26 - a day for a universal language that no one knows

 Yup, in 1885 on this day, the book on Esperanto was published.  This would(n't)-be language was hopeful to be a language the whole world spoke.

Never took off tho'.


Monday, July 25, 2022

July 25 - Electric Judas

 It was on this day that Bob Dylan, famed folk singer, got booed on stage at the Newport Folk Festival when he put down his acoustic guitar for his electric.

JUDAS they shouted.


Friday, July 22, 2022

July 22 - Pie is good for the mousetrap

 Apparently, the poem about the Pied Piper of Hamelin was said that the piper led out the rats on this day in 1376.


So it's Ratcatcher's Day (the Brothers Grimm said it should have been June 26, 1284, who do you believe?)

To catch a rat you need good bait, and what better than pie?  Well, for a mathematician, the best pie is pi.


Today is pi approximation day.  July 22... 22 / 7 ... and if you divide 22 by 7, you can get an approximation of pi.