October 18th is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 74 days remaining until the end of the year.
1648 • Boston Shoemakers form 1st U.S. labor organization.
1767 • Mason-Dixon line, survey separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.
1867 • U.S. takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7,200,000 (2¢ per acre). Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
1925 • The Grand Ole Opry opens in Nashville, TN.
1943 • The 1st broadcast of Perry Mason was presented on CBS Radio. The show went to TV in 1957.
1971 • After 34 years, the final issue of Look magazine was published.
2006 • Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7.0.
MjL 18 Oct 2014, 5:11 a.m.
I have sleep apnea (as most of you long time readers of my Blog have heard ALL about). Around 4 a.m. the bi-pap machine I use to get any restful sleep stopped working and I couldn’t get it to turn back on.
So after fiddling with it for a few minutes I decided I may as well just power it down for a while and I came in here to the computer to fume about it.
I decided to Google the problem and discovered the on/off switch on my model commonly needs replaced. After reading a few other web sites I discovered that many models, mine included, have an automatic on and off setting. Put the mask on, breathe in and it turns on. Take the mask off it turns off. Trouble is you have to access the “Clinical Menu”.
A few more web searches and I discovered a “hack your Resmed” site which explained the secret button pushes that only “trained professionals” were supposed to know about. I went back to the bedroom, pushed the buttons, found the settings menu —— and Voila! Now my machine works again! Saved by the Internets!
I spend a lot of time patrolling the Internets correcting people who are wrong. There is one distinction that many people don’t quite comprehend —— just because I stop arguing doesn’t mean I agree with you.
MjL 18 Oct 2014, 7:12 a.m.
Today is Le Bateau Oops Day. In 1961, Henri Matisse’s “Le Bateau” went on display at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. It was discovered 46 days later that the painting had been hanging upside down.
MjL 18 Oct 2014, 9:17 a.m.
I went grocery shopping yesterday and couldn’t remember if we had any bacon or not —— so I bought some. I figure you can never have too much bacon. Right? So when I got home and unloaded the groceries I discovered we now have three lbs. of bacon in the refrigerator. What should we have for breakfast this morning?
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