Back to Work

I was up way too late last night, but as I was enjoying the conversation I think it was worth it : ) Happily my confused internal clock had no trouble waking up this morning and the work day is zipping along. Something fun to consider for today:

Sixty years ago, on July 5, 1946, the two piece bathing suit known as the "bikini" made its debut during an outdoor fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris. The inventors were two Frenchmen, Jacques Heim and Louis Reard. The modern term "bikini" for a particular bathing suit design was first used by Heim and Reard (who were, in reality, the re-inventors of the bikini). Heim was a couturier designer from Cannes, France, who had designed a very small bathing suit called the "Atome" (French for atom). He hired a skywriting plane to advertise his design by skywriting "Atome -- the world's smallest bathing suit" Three weeks later, Reard, a mechanical engineer, had another skywriting plane write "Bikini -- smaller than the smallest bathing suit in the world"-Named after the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the site of atomic bomb testing-atom smashing if you will.