TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, September 17, 2012

Greetings Infomaniacs,

It was a busy, but fun weekend! I got the chance to see two of my favorite guys - Michael and Jack, my friends' baby boys.

Saturday night, my friend's husband asked if I could babysit Michael so he could surprise my friend and take her out for dinner. What a nice guy! I was happy to help out, and spend some quality time with 8-month-old Michael, who is just too adorable.

I felt like I was back in high school again, though. Not only was I babysitting on a Saturday night, but I also brought homework with me to do after the little one went to sleep. I did assure my friends that I would not invite any boys over or make any long-distance calls. Haha!

Then on Sunday, we celebrated baby Jack's christening. He looked so handsome in his christening outfit, and he was certainly the star of the day. He was such a good boy during the ceremony, and then we all got to enjoy a delicious lunch at a nearby Italian restaurant, where everyone took turns oohing and aahing over Jack. It was a great afternoon!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future."

HINT: (1885-1962), Danish physicist, first to apply the quantum theory, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922.


RANDOM TIDBITS
In 1966, Time Magazine predicted, "By 2000, the machines will be producing so much that everyone in the U.S. will, in effect, be independently wealthy." In that year too CoCo Chanel said about miniskirts: "It's a bad joke that won't last. Not with winter coming."

In 1954, a concert manager fired Elvis Presley, saying, "You ought to go back to driving a truck." In 1962, Decca Records rejected the Beatles, "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."

In 1894, A.A. Michelson, who with E.W. Morley seven years earlier experimentally demonstrated the constancy of the speed of light, said that the future of science would consist of "adding a few decimal places to the results already obtained."

After the invention of the transistor in 1947, several US electronics companies rejected the idea of a portable radio. Apparently it was thought nobody would want to carry a radio around. When Bell put the transistor on the market in 1952 they had few takers apart from a small Japanese start-up called Sony. They introduced the transistor radio in 1954.

Irish scientist, Dr. Dionysius Lardner (1793-1859) didn't believe that trains could contribute much in speedy transport. He wrote: "Rail travel at high speed is not possible, because passengers 'would die of asphyxia' [suffocation]."

In 1943, Thomas Watson, the chairman of IBM forecast a world market for "maybe only five computers." Years before IBM launched the personal computer in 1981, Xerox had already successfully designed and used PCs internally... but decided to concentrate on the production of photocopiers. Even Ken Olson, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, said in 1977, "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."

(Courtesy of didyouknow.org)


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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future."

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