Warp Baya

I read the first chapter of “The World is Flat” tonight (by Thomas L. Friedman, here is the Amazon.com link). I want to write my thoughts down before I read any more. I’ve been mulling over some thoughts for several weeks and this book is so strongly related that I want to write down my [...]

One of my favorite sayings is “To a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” I find that this provides a lot of insight in a wide variety of situations. I use that quote several times a week most weeks. Last week I said it to someone and they replied “Did you ever think that to [...]

For me the absolute big question is “why, or how, does anything exist at all”. Once something exists it can evolve. My best guess is that our universe evolved from something like a big bang… though it may be cyclical… but how did it ever start? I assume that an answer to that is beyond [...]

Here is my current view of our reality. I think of it as based on what I have read about current scientific knowledge of this area. It seems to me that we are in the middle of a kind of unfolding of our universe. It apparently started off with a very simple, almost pure, substance. [...]

In a recent dialog with a friend, Rick Randall, I have found myself trying to state clearly some perspectives that have become important to me over the last 30 years or so in relation to truth, faith, and the possible benevolence of the universe. In particular I want to write up the “truth path” I [...]

I don’t believe in beliefs. I define beliefs rather narrowly for this.. but that’s OK. There is something I don’t like and I need to give it a working label. “Beliefs” is close enough..and I’ll let the readers make the distinctions needed. I distinguish between “beliefs” and “assumptions”, as the terms are used here. There [...]

I found an article by Stewart Brand, entitled “Environmental Heresies” very thought provoking. The introduction said: ‘The founder of “The Whole Earth Catalog” believes the environmental movement will soon reverse itself on four core issues.’ The Web address for the article is: http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/05/issue/feature_earth.asp?p=1

I am re-reading “Hackers” by Steven Levy and find it even more fascinating now that the events are further back in time. I am curious to know where the “hacker” spirit is alive today.

Saturday, May 7, 2005 : First contact between Harry and outside universe via a blog. This is it! So much to say, so little time… so many words, so few needed for the essence. It seems to me that the evolving ecology of blogs and search engines points toward fundamental changes in the nature of [...]