First Day of Hanukkah

the 8-day Jewish Feast of Lights marking the Macabees victory over the Syrians in 165 B.C. The Fest began yesterday at sundown.

Today is also Safety Razor Day. King Gillette patented the first razor with disposable blades on this date in 1901.

History 101: December 2nd, 1982: In the first operation of its kind, doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center implanted a permanent artificial heart in the chest of retired dentist Dr. Barney Clark. He lived 112 days.

Music History 101: On December 2, 1957, after Little Anthony & The Imperials cancelled an appearance on “American Bandstand,” a new group filled-in, performing their first single and within a month it was number one. Danny & The Juniors--“At the Hop” –

The 101 number one song of the day was the beginning of the end for one of the sixties media phenomenons which at the time was in open rebellion.  Mounting criticism of their failure to play their own instruments and frustration over lack of creative control over their own careers led one of the members of this group to criticize Screen Gems which had tightly controlled their destiny from the beginning. In fact Michael Nesmith, who was a genuine musician and songwriter, was so angry about their situation that he put his fist through a door and told a record exec who suggested he could be suspended that the door could have been his face. The controls were loosened but by this time, the end was near for their TV show and the song that was number one on December 2, 1967 would be their next to last top ten hit – It’s your 101 number one song of the day from the Monkees (Daydream Believer)

Thanks to Agriculture specialists Dell Jimenez and Eduardo Medina who stopped the 101 Gold Studios this morning to talk about a program aimed towards those (less fortunate) grow their own veggies/food so they can feed their families.

Hoop House Building Workshop

-Learn how to build a Hoop House (garden/green house)

Where: 340 Quintana Road

Chaparral, NM

Friday, December 3, 2010 @ 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Call 575-646-2925 for information.

Sponsored by INNOVA - US-Mexico Foundation and New Mexico State University's Cooperative Extension Service

The Aggies lost a bundle when Boise State lost to Nevada last week. 

Had the Broncos won that game, they’d be guaranteed a BCS bowl appearance and with payout and television money, about $3 million would go to Boise St and another $7 million to the WAC and therefore to individual programs.  It’s estimated that NMSU would have received about a million dollars of that money.  Not now.  Ouch!

Lee Harvey Oswald’s coffin is up for auction in Los Angeles. The guy that assassinated John F. Kennedy was then killed himself on live TV in 1963. At the time he was buried in a simple pine box coffin. But in the 1980’s the body was exhumed to prove it was actually Oswald in the coffin…and the body was then transferred to a different casket. Now the funeral director is auctioning off the original, slightly decayed pine coffin later this month. The opening bid is $1,000…and they expect it to go much, much higher.

-So we still don’t know if there was a second gunman…but there was a second coffin.

The new Wii competitor, Kinects from Microsoft…looks like the big Christmas gift this year. In the first month of sales, over 2.5-million Kinects have been sold. To give you an idea – when Apple introduced their i-Pad…one-million were sold in the first month. So Kinects is huge.

A spokeswoman for Spokane, Washington, says packed-in snow might be responsible for a crosswalk sign flipping pedestrians the bird. Marlene Feist said snow packed into the electronic sign appears to be the reason only the middle finger seems upraised when the “Don’t Walk” hand appears.Feist said the Streets Department doesn’t know when the display, which Feist described as “unintentional,” would be corrected because workers are busy clearing snow from the roads.

You know you’re having a bad day when you’re flipped off by a machine!