THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

— Isaac Newton

BIRTHDAYS:

1583 Orlando Gibbons, English composer, virginalist, and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, celebrated for his mastery of sacred anthems, keyboard works, and viol consort music that bridged Elizabethan traditions with emerging Baroque styles. Fantasy

1628 Noel Coypel, French painter.

1601 Jose Ximenez, Spanish composer. Batalla de Sexto Tono.

1907 Cab Calloway, American jazz singer, songwriter and bandleader. He was a regular performer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, where he became a popular vocalist of the swing era. Minnie the Moocher

MISCELLANEOUS:

MAYBE THEY WILL COME UP WITH A SOLUTION. Google’s proposed data center in orbit will face issues with space debris in an already crowded orbit

REMINDER:

In the future, before locking things down again (including free speech and the freedom to assemble), the authorities might want to reacquaint themselves with the following:

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration