Tag: technology
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April 26, 2025
Richard Mitchell 1929 – 2002 ”Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations BIRTHDAYS: 161 Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher. 1785 John James Audubon, French-American…
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April 25, 2025
”Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” — H. L. Mencken BIRTHDAYS: 1614 Marc’Antonio Pasqualini, Italian composer. “Perche dolce bambino” 1677 Guillaume Coustou Sr, French sculptor (Chevaux the Marly) 1690 Gottlieb Theophil Muffat, German composer. Toccata prima et due Fugae in d, and Fugue in g minor, and Rigaudon in F Major…
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April 24, 2025
”Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellowmen bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable dose of inanity beyond…
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April 23, 2025
”What is progress? You might think that the question is so subjective and culturally relative as to be forever unanswerable. In fact, it’s one of the easier questions to answer. Most people agree that life is better than death. Health is better than sickness. Sustenance is better than hunger. Abundance is better than poverty. Peace…
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April 22, 2025
”Everybody wants to save the earth; no one wants to help mom do the dishes.” — P.J. O’Rourke BIRTHDAYS: 1658 Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (Concerti Grossi), born in Verona, Republic of Venice. Trumpet Concerto in D Major, complete (Roger 188) 1682 Willem Ignatius Kerricx, Flemish architect, sculptor and painter MISCELLANEOUS: THE COVID 19 INJECTIONS AND…
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April 21, 2025
”The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.” — Ayn Rand BIRTHDAYS: 1816 Charlotte Brontë, English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, which she…
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April 20, 2025
”Liberty becomes a question of morals more than of politics.” — Lord Acton BIRTHDAYS: 1748 Georg Michael Telemann, German composer, and educator. Chorale Prelude on Straf’ mich nicht in deinem Zorn. 1850 Daniel Chester French, American sculptor 1860 Charles Gordon Curtis, American inventor (Curtis-steam turbine). 1904 George Stibitz, American mathematician and scientist (father of the modern digital computer). MISCELLANEOUS: I’LL SLEEP…
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April 19, 2025
”Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export…. Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, socialism remains…
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April 18, 2025
”Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” — Carl Sagan BIRTHDAYS: 1605 Giacomo Carissimi, Italian organist, choral director, composer (Jephta), and priest, baptized in Marino, Papal States. Plorate Filii Israel, and Così volete, così sarà 1819 Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer), born in Spalato,…
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April 17, 2025
”The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” — J.P. Morgan BIRTHDAYS: 1587 Ivan Lukačić, Croatian composer. Panis angelicus 1683 Johann David Heinichen, German Baroque composer and music theorist, born in Krössuln, Electorate of Saxony. Violin concerto in D major Seibel 224 1837 J.…
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