THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

”Neither can his mind be thought to be in tune, whose words do jarre; nor his
reason in frame, whose sentence is preposterous.”

— Ben Jonson

BIRTHDAYS:

1572 Ben Jonson, English playwright, poet and actor.

1672 Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and amateur composer, born in Padua, Republic of Venice. Serenata in A-Dur Op.12 No.6

1697 Francesco Antonio Vallotti, Italian organist, composer and theorist, born in Vercelli, Duchy of Savoy, Holy Roman Empire. Ora Pro Nobis (Antifone Mariane)

1704 José António Carlos de Seixas, Portuguese composer. Symphony for strings.

1864 Richard Strauss, German composer and conductor best known for his tone poems and operas.

1910 Jacques Cousteau, French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. He co-invented the first successful open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA), called the Aqua-Lung, which assisted him in producing some of the first underwater documentaries.

MISCELLANEOUS:

AI UPDATE: I’M NOT CONVINCED, BUT I WON’T RULE IT OUT. Sam Altman Gentle Singularity

THE COVID 19 INJECTIONS AND LOCKDOWNS BEGAN ON MARCH 15, 2020. THE TRAGEDY THAT ENSUED WAS ENTIRELY AVOIDABLE. TO ANYONE CONSIDERING DOING THIS AGAIN IN THE FUTURE – HERE IS YOUR HOMEWORK READING ASSIGNMENT:

Nuremberg Code (1947)

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza (2006)

Great Barrington declaration (2020)