Thursday, January 30, 2003

Will it fit into the garage? Here is the first pass at a layout. Mostly this is a test of other ways to place a graphic unto a post. Actually, the tail will not fit under the roll-up garage door. Looking at other builders sites, it may be that moving to the airport prior to installation of the tail is fairly common. I need a better outline view of the plane showing the location of the wheels. We may need some creativity to get it in and out past the post in the center of the space. 4:59:41 PM    comment []

Another observer of Unity principles in action: Frank Lloyd Wright: "The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen." 4:25:07 PM    comment []

The matter of software patents is very much out of hand. The most recent example is SBC's claim to the use of what might be called a 'tabbed interface' on a web page. The arrogance of anyone who would consider this in the least "novel" is nearly intolerable. (How can one boycott the local telephone monopoly?) I am glad to see that Dan Gillmore  has included my example of prior art along with lots of others. 3:56:46 PM    comment []

Just after the State of the Union address. Here is a comment from an author I most respect.   Kurt Vonnegut:   I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d[pi]etat imaginable. And those now in charge of the federal government are upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka [greater equal]Christians,[less equal] and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or [greater equal]PPs.[less equal]   To say somebody is a PP is to make a perfectly respectable medical diagnosis, like saying he or she has appendicitis or athlete[pi]s foot. The classic medical text on PPs is The Mask of Sanity by Dr. Hervey Cleckley. Read it! PPs are presentable, they know full well the suffering their actions may cause others, but they do not care. They cannot care because they are nuts. They have a screw loose!   And what syndrome better describes so many executives at Enron and WorldCom and on and on, who have enriched themselves while ruining their employees and investors and country, and who still feel as pure as the driven snow, no matter what anybody may say to or about them? And so many of these heartless PPs now hold big jobs in our federal government, as though they were leaders instead of sick.   What has allowed so many PPs to rise so high in corporations, and now in government, is that they are so decisive. Unlike normal people, they are never filled with doubts, for the simple reason that they cannot care what happens next. Simply can[pi]t. Do this! Do that! Mobilize the reserves! Privatize the public schools! Attack Iraq! Cut health care! Tap everybody[pi]s telephone! Cut taxes on the rich! Build a trillion-dollar missile shield! Fuck habeas corpus and the Sierra Club and In These Times, and kiss my ass! 12:53:41 PM    comment []