Good afternoon. This website is a demonstration of smart content rendering. The content updates continuously without the help of Internet monkeys. All the information was current at the time you arrived here. Today is Thursday, the 2nd day of July and the 182nd day of 2026. Most of the United States is under Daylight Saving Time (DST) at the moment. It will end on November 1st at 2:00 AM when clocks "fall back" one hour. While many countries observe DST, the beginning and ending times vary, as with the Sun as we see it, of course.
On the Jewish calendar, today is the 17th day of Tammuz in the year 5786.
We are under a waning gibbous moon. At the time you accessed this page, its exact age was 17 days, 16 hours, and 26 minutes. We will be under a new moon again on Tuesday, July 14th at 8:27 AM. The next full moon will occur on Wednesday, July 29th at 2:49 AM. For now, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter are visible in the night sky. Mercury can be seen in the eastern sky just before dawn. Looking into the night sky, far beyond our Lunar and Solar System neighbors, we see that we are under the constellation of Cancer.
For today, our sunrise and sunset times (at -96.852/32.847) are
6:18 AM
and
8:27 PM,
giving us 14 hours and 9 minutes of daylight.
On this day in 1698, Thomas Savery patented the first steam engine.
Today we celebrate the birthdays of Thomas Cranmer (1489), Hermann Hesse (1877), Thurgood Marshall (1908), Dan Rowan (1922), Medgar Evers (1925), Carlos Saul Menem (1930), Dave Thomas (1932), Imelda Marcos (1935), Richard Petty (1937), John Sununu (1939), Paul Williams (1939), Vincente Fox (1942), Luci Baines Johnson Nugent Turpin (1947), Julie Montgomery (1956), Jose Canseco (1964), Kurt Long (1973), Erin Burnett (1976), Michelle Branch (1983), and Lindsay Lohan (1986).
Today's smartass quote:
A big vocabulary will take you a long way--even farther if you know what the words mean.
Tony Sartain
The Technology
This site is a working demonstration of on-demand PHP scripting. The code tightly integrates computed and imported data with text, spewing forth natural-sounding narrative output with flawless grammar and syntax. The birthdays, history section and the text below--which all change daily--are from an in-house database. Raw data used in the financial and weather sections is imported at page generation time. All the other data, particularly the celestial stuff, is derived and rendered by several hundred lines of code at the time the page is generated at the Linux/Apache server.
Contact Information
Email: tony@tonysartain.com
Cell: 903-360-0002
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