July 14 - It's Mac 'n Cheese Day

 Did you know that Mac 'n Cheese is considered a national dish for Canada?  Really?  I wouldn't have guessed that.

Popular yeah, but a national dish?  Nah.

But, July 14th is apparently National Mac 'n Cheese Day.

One thing tho' is I just can't find how it is, or where confirms it (i.e. outside of just Google searches saying it is from other sites).

It's also the day that the French population stormed the Bastille... so I guess instead of "letting them eat cake" they could have had mac 'n cheese and maybe been a little happier?  Maybe?

On a more serious note, it is International Non-Binary People Day.

July 13 - Happy French Fry Day (US) & Happy Birthday Harrison Ford

 Not much for what I found today, except that for my youth, probably one of my favourite actors - playing the cool Han Solo or action packed Indiana Jones - it's Harrison Ford.

He's going 79 now.  Wow.

For those in the US of A it's also National French Fry Day.

Enjoy!

July 12 - Happy Birthday Buckminster Fuller

 In chemistry class one day - and I forget if it was organic or inorganic at the time - it was brought up that during some burning of carbon fuels that there's this odd chance the 'free' carbon atoms could coalesce into each other and make neat hexagonal shapes.

One potential is a full sphere - like a soccer ball - and it is called a "buckminsterfullerene" or nicknamed a "buckyball" (either a C60 or a C100 if I recall), and was so named after the scientist R. Buckminster Fuller.

Bucky was so interested in spheres.  He thought that a true sphere in nature, couldn't be just a perfect arc, there had to be structure to it so small that it just appeared perfectly curved - so at what point does that happen?  He started to create these geodesic domes (think like Epcot Centre) that would have 100s of 'node points' on it to connect and add strength.

Mr. Fuller was born July 12, 1895 and died in 1983, just 1 year before the discovery of the buckyball in chemistry.

July 9 - the Enigma machine was cracked

 Funny, I just watched the Imitation Game the other day.

On July 9, 1941 British cryptologists cracked the code of the Germans Enigma machine.

July 8 - Freezer Pop Day & Happy Birthday Bacon

My nostalgic memory of quintessential summer - Mr. Freezies.  The scraping of the plastic against the corners of your mouth, learning how to lean the freezie in just a way in the freezer that it has that air pocket at the top (tell me that isn't just me that does that) and as I just learned this year - white is cream soda (not coconut).

Now, that's obviously, a national day usually doesn't do a 'brand' name, so it's just National Freezer Pop Day.

In the USA tho'.  I couldn't find anything for Canada or internationally.  It is also Math 2.0 day in the US (World Maths Day coincides with Pi Day).

But what is Math 2.0?  Is there a math 1.0?

Also, it's Kevin Bacon's birthday.

July 7 - It's World Chocolate Day

 July 7th is World Chocolate Day.

I found this odd as typically, one of the calendars I checked didn't mention it at all.

Then, via the Wikipedia page (usually my last resort to find something) it turns out that page I was using was American, and the US folks observe international chocolate day on a different day to coincide with Mr. Hershey's birthday.

Oh the US, just gotta be different eh?

Writing about the days

 Okay, so I should start using my personal blogger more - I know.  I've only written that 100x before on this site.

Started a new blog over at www.smallbiztbay.ca and it's got me a bit writing charged.  But what to write about?  You don't care about every little detail, right?

Well, I thought I'd write about the days...

...sounds odd for a blogger to say they're going to write about the days - isn't that a journal then?

Not exactly.  For those that have had the sheer pleasure of being on videoconference with me will have noticed that since about November I've been playing with the backgrounds.

Sure, most people like to put in the helm of the starship Enterprise, or the wall from The Office.

Me, I want the background to mean something.  So, each morning I spend a little bit of googling "significance of [date]".

Is it a national day?  An international day?  Someone's birthday? A special event.

Well, it's come to a point a lot of people now wait for "okay, Ryan, what day is it"

I'll try to remember to share them with you as I go through.

Should have done this 8 months ago.