Today's Dippit!

Quote

"If you’re going to pick 3 cards in the hand you’re dealt, take intelligence, drive, and most importantly, emotional self-discipline." 

Naval Ravikant

Joke

Where would you find an elephant?

The same place you lost her!

Fun Fact

The only letters that don’t appear on the periodic table are J & Q.

Reading Fact

Tsundoku means “to let reading materials pile up in one’s home and never read them”.

History Fact

Hollywood moved from New York to Los Angeles to escape Edison’s patents.

Hollywood is globally recognized as the movie capital of the world. Yet it wasn’t always so.

The movie industry was originally based in New York in the 1800s, which was close to New Jersey – and New Jersey was where patent-master Thomas Edison was based.

Edison had patents on over 1,000 different things, including most of the technology needed to make high-end movies, and boy did he flex on them patents.

In short, if you wanted to be in the movie business, you basically had to go through Edison.

So the “independent” film-makers chose an alternate option to fighting Edison: fleeing Edison. And that’s what they did!

They moved to California, to an area of the country where the judges weren’t as friendly to Edison and his patents, and where the wheels of copyright law would take longer to roll over them.

Movie/TV Trivia

The carpet in The Shining and the second floor of Sid’s house in Toy Story are almost identical. 

Movie/TV Quote

"Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars." 

Now, Voyager, 1942

Conversation Starter

What do you think about reality TV? Why do you think it’s so popular?

Writing Prompt

Your character has to sell the house where she grew up. A potential buyer comes to look at it and begins to talk about all of the changes she would make to the place. This upsets your character, who decides she wants to find a buyer who will leave everything the way it has always been....