Welcome to my experimental blog. Here you may find links to interesting or useful articles, and meet individuals whom I think have helped decrease misery, or added beauty and happiness in this world.

 

 

Thought for The Day... 

 

“I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories."

 

— Ray Bradbury

 

 

 

Check out the Great Barrington Declaration.

 

 

 

Birthdays:

 

 

Jan van der Heyden (1637 – 1712)

 

 

William Oughtred (1574 – 1660)

 

 

Francesco Gasparini (1661 – 1727): Sonate parte I, and "Par che mi nasca in seno" and "Cor di padre", arias from Tamerlano

 

 

Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 – 1959): Tristorosa, and Etude No. 1

 

 

Momofuku Ando (1910  2007)

 

 

Penn Jillette (1955 -     )