Saturday, January 1

Random

> Happy New Year -- and congratulations to Peter Gabriel Imson who came into the world at 12:00:18 a.m. Saturday morning at Guam Memorial Hospital -- the first baby born on US soil in the new decade. (Guam is GMT +10. That means it is 17 hours ahead of Arizona time, which is GMT -7.) His parents missed a 2010 tax-break by 19 seconds. ~ KUAM

The first of the forever young Baby Boomers turns 65 today. ~ NY Times

Arizona set another foreclosure record in 2010 -- 66,000 -- up 12% over 2009. And those are just the properties in which the paperwork hasn't been misfiled, lost, or otherwise glossed over. ~ KTAR

Canada beats-out Germany as the most web-addicted nation. Who would have thunk it, eh? ~ link

Climate change has altered the flavor of tea. Frankly, I couldn't tell you if that's true. It all pretty much tastes the same to me. ~ KTAR

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