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Originally Posted by Q3ark
I like to read his rants (too strong a word?)
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No some of my stuff IS rants, but I try to make 'em funny rants, especially the Admiral Lockwood posts. They're usually not my real position, just illustrating absurdity with absurdity and a little truth thrown in for seasoning.
I apologize if my earlier post was too hard to read. I'm still decompressing from reading Professor Thomas S Kuhn's "Structure of Scientific Revolutions."
A Wikipedia link
This informal (for him
) essay is a book written in scientific jargon, a foreign language similar to Icelandic. After you read it you speak a jangled mixture of English and Scientific for a couple of weeks until you regain your bearings.
One thing I won't ever do. I will never "dumb down" anything I say to spare the feelings of insecure people. I can't be any good to anybody if I'm not doing the best I can do. I do speak English and I will explain anything if you ask. The sonar guys can run circles around me in the details of sonar operation. My take is mostly philosophical, and that's intimidating to some people. It shouldn't be because it is a lot of fun.
There is no way that my intent is to make anybody feel stupid, make fun of questions asked. lecture anyone, I am making no dunce's caps to make anybody feel stupid. I have stong opinions sometimes, but they are always up for testing and subject to correction. I realize I can be overbearing sometimes and I just ask everyone to try to look beyond that bad habit and understand what I am saying. I'm just here having fun talking about a subject I love. Hope you're doing the same.
But darn, there are some good ideas in there and they're not mine so I can't take credit. Anybody curious at all?