Random things ...Pennies, President's Day, Daguerreotypes
Daguerreotypes actually had something good about them.
Daguerreotypes were the first commercially successful photographic process. There were widely used in the mid 1800's. The process was cumbersome, expensive & inefficient. Eventually, they were superseded in the marketplace by other methods of photography. What was good about them? Well apparently, the image quality of a Daguerreotype is so high that one can use a microscope to find hidden detail on them. This article in Wired Magazine has more about them....
1848 Daguerreotypes bring past to light
Canadian Pennies
That the Canadians are about to stop making the Canadian penny, apparently, in the future Canadians will be expected to either round up or round down, though the old stock of pennies are still in circulation. It costs more to make a penny than it is worth. We Americans would get rid it over here too, but for the fact, that it would require actually making a decision.
Presidents Day
President's Day is a sort of a misnomer. This February holiday is still officially called Washington's Birthday. In recent decades it has come to be known as Presidents Day, but it was never changed to that. Some states officially call it Presidents' Day, to make note of the fact that the beloved President Lincoln, was also born in February.
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