Good morning.
A new month begins, with high of eighty-three and an even chance of afternoon thunderstorms. Sunrise was 6:20 AM, and sunset will be 7:29 PM. The moon is a waning crescent with 14% of its visible disk illuminated.
The Friday Poll’s now closed, but on the question of whether it’s a good idea to call 9-1-1 over a spider on one’s sofa, the results are in: 80.77% said the call was unreasonable, and 19.23% thought it was reasonable. (See, Poll: Calling 9-1-1 Over a Spider.)
There’s a story at Gizmodo of a radio ad about extraterrestrials discussing Earth’s conquest that scared some children and led to police and school inquiries to radio station.
The ad’s hardly a Mercury Radio Theatre quality production:
Here, by the way, is that far-better Mercury Theatre War of the Worlds program from October 30, 1938: