Just a quick post, this one.
Yesterday, I wrote about my name in French class at school being Étienne. I wrote this as I had discovered that Étienne de Flacourt, Governor of Madagascar from 1648, may have been the only western person to have witnessed the huge Elephant Bird. I wrote it due to the coincidental link between the names.
However, I overlooked another Frenchman from around the same time, although I have briefly mentioned him before. Once or twice: Blaise Pascal. The inventor of the calculating machine. The early days of the microprocessor. Possibly, the man who, if he hadn’t invented his little remarkable gizmo in 1642, wouldn’t have given us the opportunity to use blogs, social media sites, send email and do whatever else we do on these modern computers of ours.
Can you imagine a world without computers? Everything else around us as normal, but anything that uses a computer would use something else. I can’t imagine it. That is how much the modern world has come to rely on computers, on microprocessors.
I bet Blaise is very pleased with himself, when he takes a peak into how we live today. Blaise, and Étienne, his dad, too. (Étienne Pascal, that is, not de Flacourt; but de Flacourt can be pleased as well if he so desires!)
In fact, we all should feel pleased once or twice in a while. I feel pleased often anyway. It feels good. And I like to feel good!
The Mansionic Perspective 
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