[tuliptree76]

Hi everyone! I'm just stopping by before bed to post the holidays.

May 31:
World No Tobacco Day
Poetry Day

June 1:
Navy Day (Mexico)
Clean Air Day (Canada)
Stand For Children Day

June 2:
National Rocky Road Ice Cream Day
Also, the radio was patented on June 2, 1896

Gonna get some sleep now. Good night!

[JustAmy]

Good evening, Tulip.

Thank you for posting the holidays.

I'm going to get some sleep too.

See you tomorrow.

[Jack Deth]

Hi, tulpitree:

Whose idea was it to suddenly create
Without consultation or even debate
The lunacy of "World No Tobacco Day"?

I doubt the idea will get much play
Outside the U.N. and Metrosexuals, gay
"National Smoke-Out Day" hasn't been a winner, so they say

Since last I heard, smoking is legal
It doesn't take a Legal Eagle or Rhodes Scholar
To see it's all about the attached taxing dollars

Which is why smokers have been making purchases on the Net
Instead of filling state spending coffers
When one uses Static Analysis, this is what you get

Instead of Tax Profit projected
The idea is Dynamically becoming thoroughly rejected
Which is why most states are desperately in the red

A word to the Social(ist) Engineers and their proclivity
When you throw an exorbitant Monetary Punch
The People won't just stand right there and take it!

We know that you are collectively Out To Lunch
For years we've dodged that Sucker Punch
If you want our taxes, come up with a new way to Fake It!

Jack Deth~ 05/31/05.

[OESY]

Telescope image of the Eagle nebula (on Poetry Day):




Night


A solitary moment

Plucked from the night.



Draped in black,

Dotted in white elegance.



A fragile offering,

A voiceless emotion,

Releasing a feast



To those who partake

Of diamond desserts.


-- Judith A. Lindberg

[OESY]

Breaking news on Clean Air Day: Clear skies end global dimming --
Earth's air is cleaner, but this may worsen the greenhouse effect.



Our planet's air has cleared up in the past decade or two, allowing more sunshine to reach the ground, say two studies in Science this week.

Reductions in industrial emissions in many countries, along with the use of particulate filters for car exhausts and smoke stacks, seem to have reduced the amount of dirt in the atmosphere and made the sky more transparent.

That sounds like very good news. But the researchers say that more solar energy arriving on the ground will also make the surface warmer, and this may add to the problems of global warming. More sunlight will also have knock-on effects on cloud cover, winds, rainfall and air temperature that are difficult to predict.

The results suggest that a downward trend in the amount of sunlight reaching the surface, which has been observed since measurements began in the late 1950s, is now over.

The researchers argue that this trend, commonly called 'global dimming', reversed more than a decade ago, probably following the collapse of communist economies and the consequent decrease in industrial pollutants.

The widespread brightening has remained unnoticed until now simply because there wasn't enough data for a statistically significant analysis, says Martin Wild, an atmospheric scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and an author on one of the reports.


COMMENT: All right, already. You environmentalists won on global warming. Now please go back to using deodorants, and don't foul our cleaner air anymore.

[OESY]

Marconi mejoró los diseños de los receptores, y transmisores de radio, y desarrolló los primeros sistemas prácticos de comunicación de larga distancia por radio. En 1901, él fue el primero en enviar y recibir señales a través del mar, desde Newfoundland a Cornwall. El servicio comercial de teléfonos de radio estuvo disponible después de varios años, como resultado de sus primeros esfuerzos. En los años del 1930, la compañía de teléfonos Bell trataba de mejorar su servicio de telefonía transatlántica, cuando le asignaron a Karl Jansky la investigación de las fuentes de ruidos de radio, llevándole a su descubrimiento de las ondas de radio de la Vía Láctea.



Translation: Listen to your radio invented by Marconi while driving your pets Winston and Ritz home, then have your ice cream at Marconi's.