It’s Friday Eve and it was a fun show. Getting close to finishing my bag of Silver Bullet Blend and I am savoring every press I get out of it. Today I chat about the new crazy with The Little Red Shed and back at it with the Blockstream Jade hardware wallet. Starting the show with The Perfect Cup Question “Do you have any superstitions?” followed by LOTS of History (now on YT Podcasts and Video) prepared by an exhausted Pip from Ducktioncups.
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LOTS of History
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Aug 3
- 1859 – The American Dental Association is founded in Niagara Falls, New York.
an American professional association established in 1859 which has more than 161,000 members.
Based in the American Dental Association Building in the Near North Side of Chicago, the ADA is the world’s largest and oldest national dental association and promotes good oral health to the public while representing the dental profession.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dental_Association
- 1900 – The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
Some outside observers have speculated about the blame worthiness of both parties.
Firestone tires being prone to tread separation and failure, and the SUVs being especially prone to rolling over if a tire fails at speed compared to other vehicles.
A subsequent NHTSA investigation of real world accident data showed that the Ford Explorer SUVs in question were no more likely to roll over after a tread separation than any other SUV.
Pip’s notes – Anyone remember when U-Haul would not rent trailers to any Ford Explorer’s, due to the recall on Firestone tires?
To speculate, if recalled correctly, Ford recommended to keep the tires pressures in the low 30’s, not the high 30’s or at 40 psi, aiding in the tire failure… but that’s Ford.
Ask me about the Dodge Ram SRT with 22″ Perelli tires that could shake a tooth filling loose…. Hah, a pun on the ADA nugget
Pip’s side notes – The last 2 sets of tire brands that I’ve purchased have been a great offroad/street tire for my last Nissan Xterra, and Toyo’s on a Daily driver, and Accord.
A little hint, the next set of tires will be Toyo’s, or possibly Nitto’s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestone_Tire_and_Rubber_Company
- 1936 – Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
Owens and his United States teammates sailed on the SS Manhattan and arrived in Germany to compete at the Summer Olympics in Berlin.
According to fellow American sprinter James LuValle, who won the bronze in the 400 meters, Owens arrived at the new Olympic stadium to a throng of fans, many of them young girls yelling “Wo ist Jesse? Wo ist Jesse?”
(“Where is Jesse? Where is Jesse?”).
On August 3, Owens won the 100 m dash with a time of 10.3 seconds, defeating a teammate and a college friend Ralph Metcalfe by a tenth of a second and defeating Tinus Osendarp of the Netherlands by two-tenths of a second.
Pip’s notes – (Pip puts on reading glasses) Y’all want a hit of this big old history nugget? Are ya ready?…
Just before the Olympic competitions, the founder of Adidas athletic shoe company, Adi (Adolf) Dassler, visited Owens in the Olympic village and persuaded Owens to wear Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik shoes; this was the first sponsorship for a male African American athlete.
Pip’s side notes – are you ready for another hit…. Sparks
Adi Dassler’s younger brother, Rudolf Dassler, founded the shoe company Puma.
Pip’s side, side notes – Adi Das…sler, Oh! A.D.I.A.S… Here, I thought it might have been the acrynom.
By the way, the band Korn has new music releases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Owens
- 1949 – The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League finalize the merger that would create the National Basketball Association.
Pip’s notes – aaaaaaaaaaaaaannnd sportsball.. moving on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association
- 1959 – Portugal’s state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.
an incident that took place on 3 August 1959 at the Port of Bissau’s Pijiguiti docks in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea. Dock workers went on strike, seeking higher pay, but a manager called the PIDE, the Portuguese state police, who fired into the crowd, killing at least 25 people.
The government blamed the revolutionary group African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), arresting several of its members. The incident caused PAIGC to abandon their campaign of nonviolent resistance, leading to the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence in 1963.
Pip’s notes – I’ve been seeing “descrepencies” with information between the main link and the story. “Over 50” went to about half that number, within a paragraph.
Don’t believe everything you wiki, it seems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidjiguiti_massacre
- 1972 – The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
an arms control treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems used in defending areas against ballistic missile-delivered nuclear weapons.
It was intended to reduce pressures to build more nuclear weapons to maintain deterrence.
Under the terms of the treaty, each party was limited to two ABM complexes, each of which was to be limited to 100 anti-ballistic missiles.
Pip’s notes – Didn’t the US gvnt say that ‘Cluster bombs are against the Genivia Convention’ or something, 4 months before sending cluster bombs into Ukraine?…
(sigh)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Ballistic_Missile_Treaty
Happy Birthdays
- 1803 – Joseph Paxton, English gardener and architect, designed The Crystal Palace (d. 1865)
an English gardener, architect, engineer and Member of Parliament, best known for designing the Crystal Palace and for cultivating the Cavendish banana, the most consumed banana in the Western world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Paxton
- 1811 – Elisha Otis, American businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company (d. 1861)
an American industrialist, founder of the Otis Elevator Company, and inventor of a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the hoisting cable fails
At 34 years old and hoping for a fresh start, he married and moved to Albany, New York. He worked as a doll maker for Otis Tingly. Skilled as a craftsman and tired of working all day to make only twelve toys, he invented and patented a robot turner. It could produce bedsteads four times as fast as could be done manually (about fifty a day).
His boss gave him a bonus.
Otis then started his own business. At his leased building, he started designing a safety brake that could stop trains instantly and an automatic bread baking oven. He was put out of business when the stream he was using for a power supply was diverted by the city of Albany for its fresh water supply.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Otis
- 1900 – Ernie Pyle, American soldier and journalist (d. 1945)
Pyle is also notable for the columns he wrote as a roving human-interest reporter from 1935 through 1941 for the Scripps-Howard newspaper syndicate that earned him wide acclaim for his simple accounts of ordinary people across North America.
When the United States entered World War II, he lent the same distinctive, folksy style of his human-interest stories to his wartime reports from the European theater (1942–44) and Pacific theater (1945).
Pyle won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for his newspaper accounts of “dogface” infantry soldiers from a first-person perspective. He was killed by enemy fire on Iejima (then known as Ie Shima) during the Battle of Okinawa.
At the time of his death in 1945, Pyle was among the best-known American war correspondents. His syndicated column was published in 400 daily and 300 weekly newspapers nationwide. President Harry Truman said of Pyle, “No man in this war has so well told the story of the American fighting man as American fighting men wanted it told. He deserves the gratitude of all his countrymen.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Pyle
- 1918 – James MacGregor Burns, American historian, political scientist, and author (d. 2014)
Burns shifted the focus of leadership studies from the traits and actions of great men to the interaction of leaders and their constituencies as collaborators working toward mutual benefit.
He was best known for his contributions to the transactional, transformational, aspirational, and visionary schools of leadership theory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_MacGregor_Burns
- 1978 – Jenny Tinmouth, English motorcycle racer
an English motorcycle racer. She is the current female Isle of Man TT lap record holder, breaking the record during her first ever TT in 2009 and gaining a Guinness World Record for this achievement. She then re-broke her own lap record during her second TT in 2010, with an average lap speed of 119.945 mph, gaining another Guinness World Record.
Tinmouth is also the first and only female competing in the British Superbike Championship, for which she received yet another Guinness World Record.
Pip’s notes – The 1st wiki pic of Jenny is her riding a bicycle with an inflatible donkey suit on… the 2nd wiki pic is here with a leather suit on, getting (ahem) “Hella” low on a motorcycle turn.
Fuuuuuuuuudge, I miss that, a little bit. (Pip loses 90 minutes of watching track time on a bike)
Yoooo, and just about everyone gets frisky while camping out on a track weekend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Tinmouth
Passings
- 1929 – Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1851)
a German-American inventor who is best known for inventing the lateral-cut flat disc record (called a “gramophone record” in British and American English) used with a gramophone.
He founded the United States Gramophone Company in 1894; The Gramophone Company in London, England, in 1897; Deutsche Grammophon in Hanover, Germany, in 1898; and Berliner Gram-o-phone Company of Canada in Montreal in 1899 (chartered in 1904). Berliner also invented what was probably the first radial aircraft engine (1908), a helicopter (1919), and acoustical tiles (1920s)
Pip’s notes – I never was into vinyl records… but coold
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Berliner
- 1966 – Lenny Bruce, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1925)
Bruce paved the way for counterculture-era comedians. His trial for obscenity was a landmark of freedom of speech in the United States.
In 2017, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him third (behind Richard Pryor and George Carlin) on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time
Pip’s notes – I saw the name and went to the R.E.M. song “It’s the end of the world as we know it feel fine”…
All hail George Calin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Bruce
Pip’s polite edit – A Florida dude did junkyard pulling and mowed the front lawn, and is Fornicating exhausted.
Only human, humans. The wiki link for the day is at the bottom of todays notes, feel free to check that out, or the LOTS Amazon Link for stuff.