Index

  • Why I Wander America

    When I retired, the last thing I wanted to do was go to an airport, let alone think about getting on an airplane. And for five years, I was successful. Instead, I have spent those years wandering the back roads and small towns of America. Many times I have been driving slowly down a two-lane…

  • Presidential Geek

    Hooverville

  • Geek Etymology

    Maybe “Geek Entomology” is more appropriate. Confused? Find the difference here. “Why have you suffer’d me to be imprison’d,Kept in a dark house, visited by the priest,And made the most notorious geck and gullThat e’er invention play’d on? tell me why”.    Shakespeare in Twelfth Night, V.I

  • Geek, Nerd, Dork or Dweeb?

    This beautiful diagram is best definition I have found those of us who are more complex than ordinary folk. Not entirely complementary, but accurate. If a picture is 1,000 words, then a well-crafted diagram is 10 times that. In November, 2010 BBC Four aired a 6 part series titled “The Beauty of Diagrams”. In the…

  • Teaching

    We in the US are in the unfortunate position of dealing with many years of “dumbing down” of our education system. Efforts to standardize education–while noble in concept–have really just established a standard for conformity and only served to maximize mediocrity. A car race where everyone is required to drive 55 offers little motivation for those who can go…

  • Putt, Putt

    In the mid 70’s there was a series of articles published in Research & Development magazine by Archibald Putt titled “Putt’s Law: The Successful Technocrat”. I was just a young Science Geek at the time, had been doing research on blowing holes in stuff with lasers, but wanted to develop chops as a Business and…