Friday: Hili dialogue (and Leon lagniappe)

I am in snowy Ottawa, scheduled to speak for the CfI tonight. As for today in history, on February 26, 1616, Galileo was banned by the Church from saying that the Earth goes around the Sun. In 1815, Napoleon escaped from Elba, and the first jazz recording was made on this day in 1917. In 1993, the first World Trade Center bombing occurred, when a group of Islamic terrorists detonated a bomb beneath one tower; it failed to bring down the building but killed six people and injured more than a thousand. Births on this day included Victor Hugo (1802), Levi Strauss (1829; without him there may never have been jeans!), Jackie Gleason (1916), and Johnny Cash (1932). Those who died on this day include trumpeter Roy Eldridge (1989), and, exactly one year ago, the Bangladeshi secular blogger Avjit Roy, hacked to death on the streets of Dhaka. Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili is VERY serious as she lays down her worldview:

Hili:I have immutable principles.

A: What principles are those?

Hili: It’s difficult to say.

Leon: I’m taking a dry bath, precisely as I like it.