Showing posts with label ephemera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ephemera. Show all posts
2025/01/14
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2023/08/07
2023/04/17
2022/10/18
2022/01/19
2020/07/08
Taxi
I've become addicted to watching old episodes of 'Taxi' on Hulu.
Here's the original 'New York' magazine article that inspired the show
https://nymag.com/news/features/50177/
2020/02/26
Just a Thought
For no particular discernible reason, I have been thinking about something that happened in our family long ago. For some reason Im hearing an echo I never heard before now. Its strange. Why now? What happened, happened when I was too young to realize what was going on. I have no memory of the event and only snippets of the story. But the echo started yesterday and now I cant not think about it.
How did my father feel in the following days and weeks and months.
How did my father feel in the following days and weeks and months.
2020/02/07
saddness
Dunkin changed its extra large cup from styrofoam to paper. This is making the coffee taste different. And not in a good way.
2020/01/31
2020/01/16
Cultural Touchstones
Why is there still 'Flintstones' children's vitamins? Are the Flintstones relevant with parents anymore?
2020/01/07
CQD
CQD was was established as the official distress call in 1904 on today's date. Two years later it would be replaced with SOS.
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From Wikipedia
Land telegraphs had traditionally used "CQ" ("sécu", from the French word sécurité)[2] to identify alert or precautionary messages of interest to all stations along a telegraph line, and CQ had also been adopted as a "general call" for maritime radio use. However, in landline usage there was no general emergency signal, so the Marconi company added a "D" ("distress") to CQ in order to create its distress call. Sending "D" was already used internationally to indicate an urgent message. Thus, "CQD" is understood by wireless operators to mean, "All stations: distress." Contrary to popular belief, CQD does not stand for "Come Quick, Danger", "Come Quickly: Distress", "Come Quick – Drowning!", or "C Q Danger" ("Seek You, Danger"); these are backronyms.
On April 15, 1912, RMS Titanic radio operator Jack Phillips initially sent "CQD", which was still commonly used by British ships. Harold Bride, the junior radio operator, suggested using "SOS", saying half-jokingly that it might be his last chance to use the new code. Phillips thereafter began to alternate between the two.[9] Though Bride survived the sinking, Phillips did not.[10]
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From Wikipedia
Land telegraphs had traditionally used "CQ" ("sécu", from the French word sécurité)[2] to identify alert or precautionary messages of interest to all stations along a telegraph line, and CQ had also been adopted as a "general call" for maritime radio use. However, in landline usage there was no general emergency signal, so the Marconi company added a "D" ("distress") to CQ in order to create its distress call. Sending "D" was already used internationally to indicate an urgent message. Thus, "CQD" is understood by wireless operators to mean, "All stations: distress." Contrary to popular belief, CQD does not stand for "Come Quick, Danger", "Come Quickly: Distress", "Come Quick – Drowning!", or "C Q Danger" ("Seek You, Danger"); these are backronyms.
On April 15, 1912, RMS Titanic radio operator Jack Phillips initially sent "CQD", which was still commonly used by British ships. Harold Bride, the junior radio operator, suggested using "SOS", saying half-jokingly that it might be his last chance to use the new code. Phillips thereafter began to alternate between the two.[9] Though Bride survived the sinking, Phillips did not.[10]
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