Galactic memory . . .

Wednesday, March 11, 2026. It's Odin's day . . . a mostly cloudy morning is forecasted to give way to a partly cloudy, windy afternoon in TulseyTown with wind chill in the 50's. Strong Northerlies are predicted througout the day, easy by evening.

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” – Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, whose birthday was today in 1952, Cambridge, England.

It is also the birthday of Rupert Murdoch who is 95 today. The publisher magnate was born in 1931, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

And the silent film star Dorothy Gish was born on this day in 1898, Massillon, Ohio.

On this day in 1811, in Ar-nold, Nottingham, textile workers staged the first major Luddite riot in England, breaking the machinery that was causing their displacement; the protest launched a movement that spread throughout the country. Luddites were not opposed to the use of machines per se (many were skilled operators in the textile industry); their issue was with organized manufacturers who were trying to circumvent standard labor practices of the time.

All we have is the present, and this is our practice in life, to keep returning to this moment even as it passes, just like looking out the train window, frame after frame. – Susan Moon, writing in “The Way of the Rails,” Tricycle.

You will remember

that time was like never and always:
We go where nothing is expected
and find everything waiting there. — Pablo Neruda, Time, in The Marginalian.