Today (26 April) is National Richter Scale Day, on the birthday of Charles F. Richter (1900-1985) who developed the standard measurement for seismic events. Tomorrow (27 April) is the last of our "Spring Break" days scattered across the semester, so I'm not working! But I want to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the computer mouse, so I'm wearing my tie showing cartoon mice chasing cheese across a monitor screen, with a background full of desktop computers with wired mice. In 1981, Xerox became the first producer of personal computers with mice as standard equipment. Steve Jobs saw the enormous potential of combining mice with graphical displays, and that's how Apple computers got started.
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