Rene Descartes was sitting at a bar.  The bartender came over and asked if he would like another drink.  He replied, “I think not.”  And he vanished.
Heisenberg was also sitting at the bar.  After Descartes vanished in a puff of smoke, the bartender walked over to him and asked, “Did you see that?” To which Heisenberg replied, “I can’t be certain.”
The bartender then noticed Einstein was there.  So he asked him if he could believe what had happened.  Einstein replied, “It’s all relative.”
Then the bartender noticed that Carl Sagan was there.  He walked over to him and asked, “Can you believe that all these famous people are here in THIS bar?”  Sagan replied, “No.  Why there must be BILLIONS and BILLIONS of bars out there.”

On August 31st, 1897, Thomas Edison patented his version of the Movie Camera called the Kinetograph. I actually did some research on this one, it seems the original intent was only to record in-house experiments at the Edison Labs. However later it was discovered to be quite the innovation and developed (pardon the pun) into a public application for displaying movies. At this point it was called the Kinetoscope, it took 10 of them but was used in the first ever commercial exhibition of motion pictures in New York City. This one spoke to me because, well let’s face it, I am quite the movie addict.

So today, let’s raise our glass to the man, the legend, Thomas Edison. For this celebration you might want to try making the “Combustible Edison“. Since I have anough on my plate I won’t be making this one, so let me know what you think.

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