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April 24
Established 2015. Celebrating Our Eleventh Year of Publication
Two young engineers, fresh out of college and eager to land their first big job, apply for a position at a cutting-edge computer company. They're both equally qualified, sporting resumes filled with internships, certifications, and projects. After their interviews, the department manager explains to them that in order to decide which engineer will get the job, they must both take a written test.
Both candidates are escorted into a conference room and the test begins. After 30 minutes, both applicants hand in their answer sheets. They both feel confident neither found the test particularly hard. A few minutes later, the department manager returns. He walks over to one of them and says, "Though each of you only missed one question, we've decided to give the job to the other applicant."
The rejected applicant is taken aback. "Wait a second. Why?" He asks incredulously. "We both got the same score. We each missed only one question. Nine out of 10 correct, right?"
The department manager nods. "Yes, that's true. But we made our decision not based on the questions you got right, but rather on the question you both missed."
The rejected applicant frowns, bewildered. "How does that make any sense? I mean, how could one wrong answer be better than another?"
The manager explains, "Well, it's really quite simple. You see, on question number five, your competitor answered, I don't know. You, on the other hand, answered, Neither do I.
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1184 BC - The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse.
1877 - Russo-Turkish War: Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1898 - Spanish–American War: Spain declares war after rejecting US ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.
1916 - Easter Rising of Irish republicans against British occupation begins in Dublin.
1962 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology sends a TV signal by satellite for the first time from California to Massachusetts.
1967 - American General William Westmoreland says in a Vietnam War news conference that the enemy has "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily”.
2023 - India surpasses China as the worlds most populous country according to UN estimates, with 1,425,775,850 people (estimated to reach 1.7 billion by 2064).
1942: Memory, that’s what Barbara Streisand will be singing today as it is her birthday.
National Hairball Awareness Day - My cat reminds me of this about three times a week!!

I started writing The Digest in the third quarter of 2015. I was filling in as temporary General Manager until we could find a permanent one to take over the leadership of the store. I had some time on my hands and was kicking around how to fill it when I remembered an idea I saw in a hotel in Winslow, Az. called La Posada. (Wonderful hotel BTW) In the lobby, they had a chalk board and on it was some simple trivia that happened on that day as well as the weather forecast of sunny, hot, cold rainy or whatever the day was going to bring. I stole some of those ideas and came up with the WNTS Digest. As I was temporarily living at the time in Why, I would spend some time each morning putting together those trivia facts, weather, a cute Pet Picture of the Day from Freekibble.com and an ad hoc picture of something I talked about in the Digest. I would then print the two pages out and tack it to our Bulletin Board in front of the store. The two pictures to the left are from a copy of the Digest that was published in or around February 2016. Eventually we found a permanent GM and I went back to my home in Northern California. A few months later, I was asked to stand up a website for the store and because I didn’t need to be at the site, I was able to do my work in California. When designing the site, I wanted to incorporate the concepts of The Digest. It had paused publication when I moved and here was an opportunity to bring it back in electronic form.

So, over the years, I made a few changes to the format, but it still has the basic constructs I started out with. The ‘Weather’ report is now the 'Current Weather' and is displayed as a widget on both the Home Page and The Digest. We kept Today in History, Born on this Day, Today is (national quirky holidays), moved Pet Picture of the Day to its’ own page, which later became a contest for Pet of the Month. The static graphic that referenced something in The Digest became “Why Nutts!!” and transitioned into a YouTube related video to something I referenced in The Digest. We added a ‘Quote of the Day’ but transitioned that into ‘Joke of the Day’ after I felt that the quotes were getting to bizarre, even for me.
And that is how we got here and looking for the next ten years!!
- Digester, 2025