- Thanks for visiting my website!
- It is intended to be a gallery of projects/work done, work-in-progress, a smattering of reference and a taste of design philosophy.
- Credit
- Sir Isaac Newton wrote to the effect that, "...if I have seen further than other men, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants". While "giants" is a relative term, I submit it is not plural by accident. I consider this to be definitive testimony that IQs are additive and that we thus reinvent ourselves with each new experience.
- Philosophy
- Our
meeting of ‘who I am?with 'what I’ve got' sometimes yields
a 'what I’ve done' worthy of mention. I share my thoughts here in
the hope that doing so will facilitate further experience, promote
greater understanding and (thereby) extend our collective horizon with
each project. As testimony to our culture’s ongoing and cumulative
success or failure in this regard I offer the following:
Consider the ion engine with a thrust of mere grams. Acting continuously for years, it can propel a spacecraft with tons of mass to near light speed- traveling immense distances- just a ‘tiny?force, over time.
Victor Hugo said, 'there is nothing more powerful than an an idea whose time has come'. If true, then it seems the force of a precursor to an idea (a notion, a hunch, a suspicion, a glimmer, a hint, a premise, a query, a possibility, a promise, even a hope, manifested as a glance, a touch, a dream, a charity, a gift, a sigh...) can exert conceptual 'grams' of force on the present to have great effect over time..
it seems to follow that the magnificence of 'an idea whose time has come' is really the integral of those precursors acting over time with a force of conceptual 'grams'. Building on themselves for years (just as an ion engine runs for centuries), idea precursors might travel immense distances as time passes, gathering a sort of intellectual inertia as they find validation, one day to seemingly burst upon the present with a grand Viola! And the accolades for brilliance, and clarity, and truth can shower upon the person who has had an 'idea whose time has come'.
I think about these things sometimes and try to expect the unexpected; I sing the praises of art and extol the virtues of a clean environment; I try to eat healthy and I love my family. I try to put 2 and two together in as many ways as can be found, and So Far (how far?), it still adds up.
The healthcare debate is raging as I write this addendum. In that regard I found a thread on newsvine.com where someone's thoughts seem simple yet complete enough to describe an overall insurance plan. I agree with them.
In the spirit of my (above) comments about the power of an idea, I pass this person's thoughts on to you...