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Carol H Tucker

Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan

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Chinese New Year's Eve

Today is the 2nd day of the 6th week, the 4th day of the 2nd month, the 35th day of 2019, and: 
  • Facebook's Birthday  -- a social network known as TheFacebook.com, initially aimed at students at Harvard College, was launched in 2004
  • Independence Day -- Sri Lanka from the United Kingdom  in 1948
  • Liberace Day – the flamboyant pianist who always kept an ornate candelabra on his instrument,  died this day in 1987
  • Medjool Date Day
  • National Create a Vacuum Day
  • National Hemp Day
  • National Homemade Soup Day
  • National Quacker Day
  • National Stuffed Mushroom Day
  • National Thank a Mailman Day
  • Rosa Parks Day – she was born in 1913
  • Torture Abolition Day
  • USO Day
  • World Cancer Day
 

ON THIS DAY IN ...

1488 – Bartolomeu Dias commands the first European expedition to reach South Africa and the Indian Ocean.

1703 – In Edo (now Tokyo), all but one of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.

1758 – Macapá, Brazil is founded.

1824 - J W Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to public

1825 – The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.

1846 – The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Salt Lake Valley.

1859 – World's oldest known Bible, "The Codex Sinaiticus" (Sinai Bible), is discovered or stolen in Egypt by Constantin von Tischendorf

1895 - the first rolling lift bridge opens in Chicago

1913 - Louis Perlman patents demountable auto tire-carrying wheel rim

1936 - the first radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E)

1938 - The Thornton Wilder play "Our Town" opened on Broadway.

1961 - Sputnik 7 launches into Earth orbit; probable Venus probe failure

1967 – Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.

1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1971 - The NASDAQ stock exchange, the second-largest in the world - behind the New York Stock Exchange - is founded in New York City

1974 - Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his 1st word, at 2½ months

1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1993 - Russian space agency tests a 82-foot wide space mirror

 

Quote of the day:

"How many people just get up on Monday and do the same thing they've done every single Monday - go to work and just turn on route automatic and no longer have any meaning in their life?"

~ Erwin McManus, author, mystic, futurist, filmmaker, and designer

 

There is an element of repetitive automation in every job at every level – it is this that makes us so fearful of being replaced by AI or robots.  But does this mean there is no meaning in your work and/or your life?  Me?  As I have often said, I work to live; I do not live to work.  



 

 

But just because I am a cog in the wheel, doesn’t mean my work doesn’t have any meaning!  Besides, I don’t define myself by the work that I do….
Permalink | Monday, February 4, 2019