THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“My ‘thinking’ time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of a set of assumptions or hypotheses, preparing the way for a decision or an insight. Moreover … the operations that fill most of the time allegedly devoted to technical thinking are operations that can be performed more effectively by machines than by men.”

— J. C. R. Licklider

BIRTHDAYS:

1903 James Franklin Hyde, American chemist and inventor. He has been called the “Father of Silicones” and is credited with the launch of the silicone industry in the 1930s.

1915 J. C. R. Licklider, American computer scientist and Internet pioneer.

1952 Douglas Adams, English author, humorist, and screenwriter, best known as the creator of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

MISCELLANEOUS:

I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THAT. Newly discovered comet could be visible in daytime skies this April

BEFORE THE NEXT LOCK DOWN (INCLUDING VIOLATING FREE SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE), THE AUTHORITIES SHOULD BE OBLIGATED TO READ THE FOLLOWING: