A sample of my work

Thought that, since I have been liberal with my often abrupt opinion I should share something other than that.

This is a small sample of a few works, Some old and some under construction.

As a sign maker I worked with many materials.

As a hobby my supture is in whatever gets my attention or pops in my head.

Wood is my favorite material. I like wood with metal, glass, and light.

I used to carve animals, but everybody does that so I got bored with it.

I like scupture that has function. My more recent interest has been in abstract furniture with light at work and play. The way light plays with glass or wood grain in twisted shapes. Natural or changing artificial light reflecting and refracting on twisted surfaces. Knargly smooth surfaces in wood.

I have several large projects under construction that I hope to finish by late spring. Physical constraints make it impossible to work every day. Budget constraints force me to work with found objects and raw materials that people give to me. Some set aside wood from their wood piles or invite me to explore their woods for fallen trees. I never cut down a living tree, and aged wood looks better anyway.

I do whatever I image in my head and often change it as I go. If I don't like something I smash it and salvage the materials for a redo.

If you don't like my work that is OK. I am selfish with it in that I strive to please only myself. When I need space and choose some works to dispose of it always finds a home so there are at least a few people who want it.

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Time

Time. We keep it with clocks. But our concept of time is an artificial construct so that we can regulate our lives.

What is time to the universe?

It is the histories of all the particles of the universe and the future possibilities ordained by those histories. It is the course all particles take in a final decay to some fundimental particle at its lowest energy state. The big bang was infinitly compacted thermodynamic energy. It will ultimatly decay to very diffuse and widely scattered particles of the lowest energy state possible.

Consider a tree that is burned to the ground. Each of its atoms has a history. A mineral atom in the ground is changed by photosynthesis to become part of the trunk. It is burned and becomes a part of hydrocarbon smog in the atmosphere.

Can we go back in time to before the tree was burned? There is no such destination. Only if you can reverse thermodynamics and entropy and bring all the atoms of tree tree back to an earlier point in its history.

Relativity tells us time is a varible. And so it is. What does this do for us? It means that rate of progression is variable.

If you can control time frame of reference then you can do magic. But you cannot go backwards.

Consider a car speeding at you with impact iminent. If you could slow your rate of progression through time? The car is moving rapidly into your future. It appears frozen in slow motion while your future continues at what you see as a normal pace. You step aside and watch the car slide past you very slowly.

What does the driver see? The history of your particles are progressing at a different rate. Impact was unavoidable, then suddenly you are beside him.

There seems to be a paradox. You slowed your rate of progression through time, but you lived many minutes in just a few seconds. Keep doing this and you will be very old in days.

The solution? For both you and the car the histories of your particles continues at their normal pace. But each is in its own frame of reference.

Time cannot be reversed. There is no there to go back to. However time frames of reference can be different. Rate of progression is dependent on frame of reference, but there is some value of rate in all frames.

So aliens capable of controlling rates of progression can do all kinds of tricks. Like vanishing before your eyes and appearing in a different spot. Or make a rocket seem to freeze for a few seconds while they blow it up.

Within each frame of reference time there progresses just the same. Inside its own frame the rocket never froze. The alien moved from one spot to another at normal speed in his own frame.

What they cannot do is reverse the histories of particles.

What this says is that ultimatly the end of the universe has nothing to do with expansion or collapse. It ends when every particle of the unverse has reached a point of lowest energy state and no thermodynamic changes are possible.

Bigfoot, The Alaska Experiment

I just watched a production on the Discovery channel titled "The Alaska Experiment".

Experts from various universities performed an in depth analysis of the best Bigfoot evidence.

DNA was contaminated and unusable.

All the other evidence led the experts to conclude that Bigfoot was likly a previously unknown primate living in North America.

One notable piece of evidence was a bulge in the theigh of the animal in the famous Patterson footage. The experts stated the bulge, and the way it flexed, indicated a rupture in the theigh muscle. The rupture affected the gait and would have been impossible to fake by a man wearing a suit.

The experts concluded that the many years of footprint evidence correlated to a species of unknown primate. Achiles tendon imprints, dermal ridges, and length to width ratios led them to conclude the majority of footprints were not faked.

Even the experts agree that Bigfoot exists and is likely a previosly unknown primate.

Wow.

The 700 billion bail out

Predatory lending and inflated paper profits. CEO's and executives getting huge incomes on a paper profit they oversold to investors.

A house of cards that had to fall. Now they have their hand out for rescue. Help from the taxpayers they sought to gauge in the first place.

With 700 billion in cash I say it is wall streets depresion, not the taxpayers. We got the cash.

Instead of handing them a silver spoon I say we should start a publicly held investment bank with the 700 billion. Let them borrow the bailout at rates that reflect their credit ratings. Forclose on them if they fail to pay.

And if they want to borrow our money then a major percentage of all their jobs must be in the USA. Want to borrow for mfg then build your plants here and give jobs to the people you want the mony from. Want to finance an investment firm, then most of your investments should be here giving jobs to the people you want to borrow from.

Taxpayers who can't afford gas have to assume a 2,000 dollar debt per person to bail out the people who gauge us and ship our jobs overseas. I say they borrow from our bank and a condition of the loan is bring their jobs home, or let them collapse. Invest the 700 B in new corps dedicated to employment here with reasonable caps on executive saleries.

The guys with the money have always called the shots. It is taxpayer money.

Your thoughts?

Mass Extinction of Species

I just watched a film on National Geographic Channel about the Grand Teton Mountains.

The yellow leg frog once numbered in the millions. Ninty five percent of them are gone. There is no mystery as to why. Insecticides from the surrounding environment are proven to be the cause.

Insecticides in farm and lawn products. Herbacides in these products. I keep being asked where is the proof? National Geographic presented biologist stating this is the cause.

Monsanto corporation manufactures these poisons and we use them indescriminently.

The list of species being lost is almost to long to present. And nobody seems to get it.

What is wrong with us. We are destroying the environment with poisons. We are in the middle of one of the greatest extinctions in history. It is one we created and we continue to ignore the cause and use these products.

It is so far reaching in scope that the most remote areas in the world are being devistated. These poisons are in the worlds water system. They are in our food and we drink them in our water.

The legacy we leave to the future is one of shame. It is insanity.

I am ashamed to be a member of the human race. Perhaps Aliens will invade and rescue the planet before we totally destroy it. Perhaps the world will recover when we are extinct and our poisons are no longer being spread throughout the environment. We are poor custodians of this world and do not deserve it.

The human race is destructive to the level of mass lunacy. We are a race gone mad. You can sit in your beautiful green lawns and describe what butterflies and bees and frogs looked like to your grandchildren. Try to convince them that their lawns are worth the loss.