One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for February 23, 2023

Get the girl’s hearing checked

We learn new words by first comparing them to a mental list of words we already know.

Winchell’s Doughnuts…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchell%27s_Donuts

I didn’t think they had Winchell’s in Baltimore. (or East for that matter)

I was once asked why whether reporters provide both the temperature and the feels-like temperature. Thinking about it, we can’t measure degrees of temperature. We are able to recognize differences, “This one is warmer than that one,” fairly accurately, but can’t recognize a particular temperature, either F or C. C is great for science, but F has a wider range for measuring ‘comfort,’ though we argue about what we individually call comfortable, 70 F in a swimming pool is not as comfortable as 70 F in calm air. Still I find labeling the freezing point of water as 32 F, and boiling point as 212 F, unnecessary. Adjust the scale to 0 to 200 (or calibrate C in half degrees).

Never heard of them.

I remember, back in the Jurassic Age, visiting my grandparents in Los Angeles over the summers and being awakened by my grandfather at O’Dark Thirty on a Saturday to drive down to the Winchell’s for doughnuts. It was so cool to see them being made.