"Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father." --Barack Obama
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Unappreciated People Please Apply
In my never ending search for internet material, I have come across a blog dedicated to what it calls "the most ridiculed and unappreciated being on the planet….the white male". This blog panders to the whims and whining of some white dude who needs some serious psychotherapy and a melanin transplant. Ah well, see what you think!
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
comic relief
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Death Of An Icon
My first introduction to Netscape Navigator occurred during my college years where ensconced at a prestigious engineering (premie) university, I traversed the internet with reckless abandon--chatting,
downloading music from our college wide intra-net, emailing and surfing.
Those heady days may be over (I've moved onto Mozilla Firefox) but I'll never forget my first!
Vaya Con Dios Navigator, Vaya Con Dios!
Friday, December 28, 2007
Thank You Jason Clark!
"One session on the writing course I was on this week, was on ‘idea generation’ and ‘creativity’.
A background idea to creativity that I have often heard and believe, is that creativity is something to be practiced, and that you learn with practice.
Some of the highlights/tips from Nick Page for practicing creativity that you could use for blogs ideas, talks, books, anything, were:
1. Bisociation: Make use of bisociation, a term coined by Arthur Koestler to describe how two different semantic fields produce a different meaning.
In other words combine things from different worlds, and see what it produces. Do this with words, ideas, themes, topics. We see this with inventions, where someone observing a fly on a ceiling, gets the idea for velcro. Ideas and inspiration come from association.
Evangelism and mission involve bisociation, the entering into of other people’s worlds.
2. Environment Scanning: Go into different book sections in a large book store, scan and read from a wide variety of areas, to enter into other peoples worlds and get more ideas, from bisociation etc.
I do this monthly already, over a coffee and a few dozen books and magazines from Borders.
3. Ideas Bank: When you have a great idea and think you’ll remember it, you often don’t. Carry a notebook, use a memory system, or something, but make sure you record your ideas. Build an ideas bank. I use a memory system, and in particular a memory bank route (journey method) that lets me park potential blog ideas for later use, and doesn’t rely on a notebook.
4. Ideas Matrix: Make a grid with event, place, time, purpose, people and put 10 ideas in each, and then look for patterns an associations, between ideas. You can generate 100,000 ideas from this simple matrix, and maybe at least one will be useful.
5. Reverse Thinking: Look at the opposite, flip things around, turn them upside down. Think of the opposite extreme and move it back a notch.
6. Question: Don’t be defensive, question and let other question your ideas, it leads to better ideas."
a question of past or future
Would you rather meet your great great grandparents or your great great grandchildren?
Why?
Why?
one for you, one for me
the ideas are not new -- empowerment of the "plebian majority", education as the key to upward mobility; charity beginning at home.
the technology is not new either -- we now have the capabilities that were once only a figment in Gene Roddenberry's fertile mind.
neither is the incentive -- earning for me and for you
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