Mikaela Shiffrin, currently skiing in the Winter Olympics is a 2nd cousin, three times removed of Lalo Schifrin, the composer of the Mission Impossible theme. I noticed the name today, didn’t notice the different spelling, and so looked it up anyway.
How cool is it that the hit was in the Chicago Reader?
Spoilered because the competition is still on:
Unfortunately, Mikaela Shiffrin toppled at one of the first gates in the first run of the giant slalom. No serious fall, but she’s out.
I’ve seen molehills being made, multiple times. It helps that I was sitting in the middle of a field, unmoving, for an hour or two at a time.
Boris Claudio “Lalo” Schifrin studied law and sociology at the University of Buenos Aires. Although you wouldn’t guess it from his Wikipedia page, he was active in those circles. One of mu mom’s bosses – a Professor of Sociology – knew Shifrin professionally because of the sociology connection.
A coworker and I were trying to figure out if we could do our normal walk together on the phone when she’s out in Idaho this week instead of home in FL and I’m in PA. So I looked it up and discovered that Idaho has 2 different time zones, and it’s actually based on latitude, not longitude, which I find supremely weird.
So while looking this up, I thought, “how many states have multiple time zones?” and it turns out there are 13 states, including Idaho.
Oregon and Idaho are split between the Mountain and Pacific time zones. I wonder if it’s on the same line of latitude as Idaho is?
Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, and North and South Dakota are divided between Central and Mountain time zones.
Florida, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee are split between Eastern and Central time zones.
Alaska is split between the Alaska time zone and the Hawaii-Aleutian time zone.
The official portrait for the 1979 American League All-Star Team features Reggie Jackson in a Seattle Mariners uniform. Seems he forgot to pack his Yankees uniform.
One more - add Nevada
West Wendover, NV is in the Mountain Time Zone as of 1999
Every single time, when you are discussing the weather.
No weatherman on TV has ever said “tomorrow the temperature will be 18 point three degrees”.
Of course, his Wikipedia article adds:
So he’s perhaps not quite a paragon of virtue.
Basically looking for virtue in slaveholding behavior is the ultimate shit-picking exercise.
A Yankee uniform would have drawn too much attention from the Queen’s bodyguards.
I assuming I didn’t mess it up, I built a spreadsheet to convert 0-100 C to Fahrenheit, rounded it, and converted it back to C. Did the same for F 32-101.
The largest difference in C was 0.2%, and that was at the high end of temperatures (nothing a weather person would report). Pretty sure most people can’t tell the difference between 13C and 12.778C.
Bigger numbers as expected in F, but even there the biggest difference was 33F->0.5556C->33.8F. Once again, pretty sure no one cares.
There are obviously areas where decimal level precision is required, but in those cases, both C and F measurements will have that precision. For the average person wondering if they need a coat, hat, and/or gloves - it doesn’t matter.
On Amazon Prime, I’m watching Everest: Beyond the Limit, Season 1 episode 3. The narrator says that as the climbers get higher up the mountain, they may breathe too much through the mouth. They try to breathe through the nose, to avoid getting sunburn on the roof of their mouth.
Large EMD diesel engines (like you would find in a locomotive, for example) use a ‘power pack’ configuration, in which the head, piston, and a liner are assembled and installed in each cylinder. The cylinder liners have a feature around the lower ports that is referred to as the “Mae West.” While not as obvious on modern liners, the original curvature of this feature’s profile protruded in a way that some draftsman or designer must have found to be quite provocative.
My parents referred to life vests as Mae Wests long before I was aware that there was a person by that name.
The house and the people in Wood’s American Gothic actually existed but the people weren’t farmers, nor were they related to each other and neither of them lived in the house.
Weird how some paintings became uber-famous out of the zillions painted. American Gothic and Whistler’s Mother are just plain depressing.
Literally different strokes for different folks. I find Grant Wood painted truth in important social commentary.
Officially metric but I suspect individuals each have their own hybrid systems. I naturally and without calculating or converting, for example, use metric for temperature and longer distances (eg kms vs miles); metres and yards are sort of interchangeable for me and below that I use imperial (I’m 6’ 3" and I’ll never be able to consider myself X cm tall). For weight and altitude I use imperial.
Saw this on a couple of roleplaying forums I participate in:
Conclusion:
an adventuring party consisting of a Victorian gentleman thief, an Old West gunslinger, a disgraced former samurai, and an elderly French pirate is actually 100% historically plausible . ”