THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

— Buckminster Fuller

BIRTHDAYS:

1511 Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and art historian.

1818 Emily Brontë, British novelist (Wuthering Heights)

1855 James E. Kelly, American sculptor (“Sculptor of American History”)

1940 Clive Sinclair, British inventor (pocket calculators, ZX Spectrum computers)


MISCELLANEOUS:

CALIFORNIA, MEET ATLAS SHRUGGED. The Impending Collapse of California’s Transportation Fuel Infrastructure

RELATED. The Defense Production Act of 1950