Tag: writing
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July 18, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Happiness has more to do with where you are heading than where you are.” — Scott Adams BIRTHDAYS: 1670 Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian cellist and opera composer. Per la gloria d`adorarvi, and La decollazione di San Giovanni Battista” Aria “Giá costretta dal martir l‘alma mia, and Sinfonia per violoncello 1891 Emil…
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July 17, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” — Marcus Aurelius BIRTHDAYS: 1702 Johann Schneider, German composer (pupil of Bach). Präludium und Fuge, g moll, and choral Mein Herze bring ich dir, singing and organ 1797 Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter. 1839 Ephraim Shay, American inventor…
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July 16, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Advances since the takeoff of industrial society (which took hold in Britain around 1800) have multiplied the developed world’s productive capacity by a factor of one hundred or more, if one can compare products as different as wagons and aircraft, or books and computers.” — K. Eric Drexler BIRTHDAYS: 1704 John…
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July 15, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” — Garry Kasparov BIRTHDAYS: 1606 Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch Golden Age painter, printer, and draughtsman. 1638 Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, Italian composer. Sonata Pirma per Trombetta sola 1796 Thomas…
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July 14, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as gold.” — Elon Musk BIRTHDAYS: 1486 Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter. 1707 Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary, French composer and violinist. Sonate 1 opus 1854 Alexander Kopylov, Russian composer and violinist. Memories of Peterhof Op 29, and La…
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July 13, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.” — David Hume BIRTHDAYS: 1921 Ernest Gold (Goldner), Austrian-born American film composer (Exodus) (d. 1999). “Main Theme” – Exodus 1944 Ernő Rubik, Hungarian architect and inventor widely known for creating the Rubik’s Cube. MISCELLANEOUS: TYPO –…
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July 12, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.” — Michael Crichton BIRTHDAYS: 1675 Evaristo Felice dall’Abaco, Italian cellist and composer, born in Verona, Republic of Venice. Concerto a più strumenti in Fa Maggiore n.1 op.5 1813 Claude Bernard, French physiologist/scientist; key figure in…
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July 11, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species.” — Edward O. Wilson BIRTHDAYS: 1810 Eugène Simonis, Belgian sculptor. 1811 William Robert Grove, Welsh physicist and inventor (first fuel cell). 1834 James McNeill Whistler, American-British painter 1836 Antônio Carlos Gomes, Brazilian opera composer. Overture to…
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July 10, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There is in the garden a plant which one ought to leave dry, although most people water it. It is the weed called Envy.” — Cosimo de’ Medici BIRTHDAYS: 1830 Camille Pissarro, Danish Antillean-French Impressionist painter. 1856 Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor (developed alternating current, Tesla coil). 1874…
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July 9, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget…
