THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“By the age of 70, he who doesn’t read will have lived only one life. He who reads will have lived 5000 years. Reading is immortality backwards.”

— Umberto Eco

BIRTHDAYS:

1634 Adam Krieger, German organist and composer, born in Driesen, Brandenburg-Prussia. Komm Galathea, komm mein Herze, and Nun sich der Tag geendet hat

1830 Albert Bierstadt, German-American painter.

1834 Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (Reis telephone).

1858 Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Lithuanian-born Jewish lexicographer, journalist, and Zionist activist widely recognized as the primary architect of the revival of Hebrew as a modern vernacular language.

1899 Francis Poulenc, French pianist and composer. “Les Chemins de l’amour”, and Melancolie

1981 Chris Messina, American blogger, product consultant, and inventor of the hashtag, ‘#’, usage on social media

MISCELLANEOUS:

“HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF, FIRST AS TRAGEDY, SECOND AS FARCE”. Larry Page is officially moving business out of California ahead of a proposed billionaire’s tax.

MAKING CALIFORNIANS SAFER. With law taking effect, California strengthens plastic bag ban

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