Superheroes don't always wear capes.
I know you’ve been waiting….
…and I have no excuse. You’d think I was busy going places and seeing things, wouldn’t you?
Larry Tesler, 1945-2020, American computer scientist. Among his accomplishments at Xerox and Apple, he invented Cut-Copy-Paste. Aren’t we all grateful for that! In honor of this superhero, I penned a pithy poem:
“Command-C
Command-V,
Who would have thought
That this was to be.
Control-X
For terrible wrecks,
And words typed in anger,
And clumsy texts.
It’s all copy-paste now:
The way you’ve erased now.
And after that sentence,
It’s just single-spaced now ”
Maria Sibylla Merian, 1647-1717, German naturalist and scientific illustrator. She was one of the first naturalists to observe insects directly and illustrate them . She was a leading entomologist of her time, studied and discovered new things about insect life.
Corrie Ten Boom, 1892-1983, Dutch watchmaker and writer. With her father, sister, and other family, she helped many Jews escape during the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands by hiding them in her home. She was caught and arrested and sent to a concentration camp.
Annie Easley, 1933-2011, American mathematician, rocket scientist, and one of the first African-American computer scientists at NASA. She led the team which developed software for the Centaur rocket stage. At one point in her life, In an enlarged photo of Annie and her co-workers for display, her image was cut out.