Big Northwest Swell Today
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Parfait Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Pakela’ai: Glutton PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY —Bodda you: Irritation HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The faces will meet in Kou.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “We need men who can dream of things that never were.” - John F. KennedyTODAY: HIGH SURF WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM HST THURSDAY. An extra large northwest swell will build Wednesday, lasting for several days. A reinforcing northwest swell will keep things going this weekend, with more NW to NNW swell on tap for next week. This new swell has triggered a relatively unusual high surf warning…be careful Wednesday and Thursday! Pat Caldwell is using the word giant in terms of this new northwest swell.November 25, 2008 – Maui Curmudgeon Observations:
1. The latest estimate for American TV viewing is 4.42 hours per day for every man, woman and child, which is about 28% of every person’s waking hours, each day. This is 1.3 billion “man hours” of awake time per day for our approximately 300,000,000 citizens. No wonder we not solving our problems.
2. The Economist, the British weekly Magazine, has a cover story with the title, “In Search of Republican Brains”. I wish them luck though I might suggest their search will be futile.
3. It had to happen. It is estimated that the largest business on the Internet is porn, and in the wake of You Tube comes this: Free porn clips for the masses, in a easily navigable interface!
4. Speaking of the World Wide Web, Microsoft (yeah, Microsoft) has developed a neat little program that turns the internet into 3-D. Find it here .
5. It’s official. The American Movie Business made less than $10 billion last year. The video game industry made more than $40 billion. Now you know why movies are stealing ideas from games. And the economies of scale are interesting: a movie like Batman might take it five times it’s cost, making a 400% profit, a tidy sum indeed. A game like Grand Theft Auto took $30 million to make and has grossed nearly 30 times that, for a profit margin of nearly 3000%.
1. The latest estimate for American TV viewing is 4.42 hours per day for every man, woman and child, which is about 28% of every person’s waking hours, each day. This is 1.3 billion “man hours” of awake time per day for our approximately 300,000,000 citizens. No wonder we not solving our problems.
2. The Economist, the British weekly Magazine, has a cover story with the title, “In Search of Republican Brains”. I wish them luck though I might suggest their search will be futile.
3. It had to happen. It is estimated that the largest business on the Internet is porn, and in the wake of You Tube comes this: Free porn clips for the masses, in a easily navigable interface!
4. Speaking of the World Wide Web, Microsoft (yeah, Microsoft) has developed a neat little program that turns the internet into 3-D. Find it here .
5. It’s official. The American Movie Business made less than $10 billion last year. The video game industry made more than $40 billion. Now you know why movies are stealing ideas from games. And the economies of scale are interesting: a movie like Batman might take it five times it’s cost, making a 400% profit, a tidy sum indeed. A game like Grand Theft Auto took $30 million to make and has grossed nearly 30 times that, for a profit margin of nearly 3000%.
EVENTS ON THIS DAY – November 25
- -43 The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (“Octavian”, later “Caesar Augustus”), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed
- 1789 A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress
- 1834 Delmonico’s, one of NY’s finest restaurants, provides a meal of soup, steak, coffee & half a pie for 12 cents
- 1841 35 Amistad survivors return to Africa
- 1864 Confederate plot to burn NYC, fails
- 1867 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
- 1912 American College of Surgeons incorporates in Springfield, IL
- 1933 1st Soviet liquid rocket attains altitude of 261′ (80m)
- 1957 President Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech
- 1960 1st atomic reactor for research & development, Richland Wa
- 1963 JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
- 1969 John Lennon returns his MBE
- 1973 Bloodless military coup ousts Greek President George Papadopoulos
- 1983 World’s greatest robbery-25,000,000 of gold, Heathrow, England
- 1984 William Schroeder, becomes 2nd to receive Jarvik-7 artificial heart
- 1986 Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arm deal
- 1988 Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed
- 1990 Lech Walesa wins in Poland’s 1st popular election
BORN ON THIS DAY – November 25
- 1835 Andrew Carnegie steel industrialist/library builder
- 1846 Carry Nation scourge of barkeepers & drinkers
- 1881 John XXIII [Angelo Roncalli], Bergamo Italy, 261st pope (1958-63)
- 1893 Robert Ripley illustrator (Believe it or Not)
- 1914 Joe DiMaggio Yankee Clipper (56 game hitting streak)
- 1919 Steve Brodie Eldorado KS, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp
- 1920 Ricardo Montalban actor (Fantasy Island, Star Trek II, Naked Gun)
- 1933 Rene Enriquez San Francisco CA, actor (Ray Calletano-Hill Street Blues)
- 1935 Gloria Steinem Toledo Ohio, femnist/writer (Ms)
- 1938 Charles Starkwether serial murderer
- 1960 Amy Grant gospel singer (Glory of Love, Baby Baby)
- 1960 John F Kennedy Jr lawyer, son of JFK
- 1968 Jory Husain Milwaukee WI, actor (Jawaharial-Head of the Class)
- 1971 Christine Applegate Hollywood, actress (Kelly-Married With Children)
DIED ON THIS DAY – November 25
- 1885 Thomas A Hendricks 21st VP, dies at 66, 8 months after taking office
- 1944 Kenesaw Landis baseball commisioner, dies
- 1949 Luther “Bill” Robinson famed tap dancer, dies at 71
- 1968 Phil Lord actor (Stud’s Place), dies at 89
- 1974 U Thant UN Secretary-General (1961-72), dies in NY of cancer at 65
- 1977 Richard Carlson actor (Col MacKenzie-MacKenzie’s Raiders), dies at 65
- 1981 Jack Albertson actor (Chico & the Man), dies at 74
- 1987 Harold Washington 1st black mayor of Chicago (D, 1983-87), dies at 65
- 1990 Bill Vukovich Indie 500 driver, dies in crash at 27
- 1991 Bill Graham rock promoter, dies in helicopter crash
