Good afternoon, and welcome to this website. The content updates continuously without the help of Internet monkeys. All the information was current at the time you arrived here. Absolutely everything you're seeing is generated by code developed TOTALLY inhouse. No commercial website design software is in use here. None.
About the fruitfly: Whether the fruitfly entertains or annoys, it serves a very real and useful purpose. Using recently developed sentinelware, the image is generated by the output of many, many active server monitoring processes. When abnormal server activity is detected by the "fly controller" system, the fly's appearance deviates from the default, and a system exception raises a flag that is immediately addressed by the humans who monitor the server via the fruitfly's movements and morphology. Until fairly recently, server issues weren't always obvious, and if so, isolating and mending them was an arduous exercise. The fruitfly technology has made the plight of the server technician much more bearable. And now you know the fly story. If the fruitfly annoys you, click in the center of the lens flare to swat it.
Today is Tuesday, the 28th day of July and the 208th 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 dates and times vary so as to add another layer of confusion to the scheme.
On the Jewish calendar, today is the 14th day of Av in the year 5786.
We are under a full moon. At the time you accessed this page, its exact age was 14 days, 6 hours, and 51 minutes. We will be under a new moon again on Wednesday, August 12th at 9:11 PM. 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 Leo.
For today, our sunrise and sunset times (at -96.852/32.847) are
6:33 AM
and
8:17 PM,
giving us 13 hours and 44 minutes of daylight.
There are 56 days until the end of summer, marked by the Vernal, or Autumnal, Equinox. On the day of the Equinox, the sun can be observed to be directly above the equator, and the night and day are the same length. The actual crossing of the sun over the equator takes approximately two and a half days. The equinox occurs halfway through the transit when the center of the sun is directly over the equator. This year, the exact crossing time will be 9:51 am Greenwich Mean Time on Sunday, September 23rd.
On this day in 1957, Jerry Lee Lewis made his first TV appearance. He was a guest on the Steve Allen Show.
Today we celebrate the birthdays of Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (1860), Beatrix Potter (1866), Marcel Duchamp (1887), Rudy Vallee (1901), Earl Silas Tupper (1907), Bill Goodwin (1910), Jacques Piccard (1922), Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929), Peter Duchin (1937), Phil Proctor (1940), Bill Bradley (1943), Mike Bloomfield (1944), Jim Davis (1945), Rick Wright (1945), Sally Struthers (1947), Hugo Chávez (1954), Scott Bloom (1973), and Billy Aaron Brown (1981).
Today in History: The Father of an American Icon is Born
Today is the birthday of inventor Earl Tupper, born in 1907 on a farm in Berlin, New Hampshire, where his mother took in laundry and ran a boarding house. He was a salesman and inventor, even as a child, selling the farm's produce door-to-door and inventing contraptions to save labor on the farm. Tupper started his own landscape and nursery business, Tupper Tree Doctors, which went bankrupt in 1936; he then took a job with the DuPont Chemical Company and began working with polyethylene plastics.
He only stayed at DuPont for a year, but he took what he learned about plastics and developed clear storage containers with watertight, flexible lids, which he called "Tupperware." He sold his product through department and hardware stores, without much success; people couldn't figure out how to make the lids work unless someone demonstrated it for them. In 1948, he met with home products distributor, Brownie Wise, who told him she'd had great success selling Tupperware at parties in her home. He pulled his products from the shelves and named Wise the vice president of the new Tupperware Home Parties in 1951. (Source: The Writer's Almanac)
Tupperware remains a kitchen staple, with new products and variations being introduced on a continuing basis. These days, Tupperware internationally distributes its products as a wholly owned subsidiary of its parent company Tupperware Brands Corporation and is still marketed by means of direct sales through an independent sales force of approximately 1.9 million consultants. Its stock is traded on the NYSE with a ticker symbol of TUP. Yes, Virginia, Tupperware, the container that burps to let you know it's sealed, truly qualifies as an American icon.
Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it... All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, born on this day 97 years ago
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.
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