Things I Learned This Week

The popular wayfarer style sunglasses started off as optical glasses in the early fifties and has been iconic ever since. My shades are this style for this reason – iconic. May have to look into getting my eyeglasses in the same way.
Backronym ,noun, an existing word turned into an acronym by creating an apt phrase whose initial letters match the word, as to help remember it or offer a theory of its origin. For example, rap has been said to be a backronym of “rhythm and poetry.”
Why do alarm clocks only allow you to snooze for 9 minutes? Due to the mechanical limitations of the late 1950’s alarm clocks, it was possible to mechanically have a gear set for 9 but not 10, which would complicate the gears. Smartphone alarms could help you to snooze as long as you want, but in homage to the clocks, will only allow 9 as a neat throwback.
The Fake Book was a self-printed composition in the 60’s of famous jazz song sheet music made by two students and a professor due to the fact that other students could not afford the expensive sheet music. Apparently every jazz musician and jazz wannabe has an underground copy so anyone could join in on a jam session. And yet somehow, no two jazz musicians ever sound the same.

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