foosayer
foosayer
| Forum role | Member since | Last activity | Topics created | Replies created |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Jun 25, 2009 (17 years) |
2 years | 4 | 11 |
- Forum role
- Member
- Member since
Jun 25, 2009 (17 years)
- Last activity
- 2 years
- Topics created
- 4
- Replies created
- 11
Bio
I am a retired software engineer, career spent in sunny climes of California, now living in a more compatible environment of the Pacific NW, similar to my childhood in New England.
My current day job continues to involve my life's roles as husband, father, grandfather, citizen, student of life, striving to integrate my hedonistic and spiritual self, my rational and empathetic self.
My writing habit is expressed through my blogs. I blog notes to myself, as pages mostly in the style of a discourse with my Generalized Other, talking us through various subjects that interest me.
There are challenges here: maintaining social presence with family and acquaintances, while being involved in often solitary activities; avoiding catastrophe (e.g. elder dude on bicycle at speed); resisting entropy that pushes harder on us as the years pile on and internal energy wanes.
Factoid: The first computer game I played was Spacewar on a PDP-1 in 1963.
Factoid: Music is my favorite art form. I am a life-long piano student, currently back at beginner level. While I love to listen to many genres of music, the only music that really engages me emotionally and intellectually was composed over a century ago, by Brahms of course. I took the time and effort to appreciate him, and have as a result become a lifelong student of his works, deriving timeless pleasure. My other significant playlists are slow jazz from the 1920s to current, and popular songs from the 1930s to 1990s (when the world hopped over the line into hip-rap).
Factoid: Genealogy is another life passion. Our well-evidenced family members come to life through centuries of discovered shared history. Beyond history, find me analyzing our shared family DNA, to glean a general picture of our deep pre-history. Genetic confirmation has been found; our paternal line migrated from Frisia to Finland in the Dark Ages. From that factoid, pure speculation connects the dots, through 30+ generations of Finnish axe-wielders, hacking out a primitive agrarian living within the deep primordial Fennoscandian forests, to a lone grandfather, likely a blacksmith, finding his way to America in the 17th Century to help tame our wilderness.
Factoid: My days seem to wander frequently into researching the nature of our ultimate realities, commencing with our molecular-scale biological presence on starship Earth, and further beyond through banging my brain against impenetrable math and physics in an attempt to identify the most promising theory for uniting cosmic-scale General Relativity and sub-Planck scale spin foam. The staggering difference of these scales suggest several realms of theory may be needed to express reality's workings, further complicated by a universe that appears to be vastly larger than the immediate cosmos with which we can interact (light-speed limited). Multi-national teams, using instruments for interpreting the heavens around us and the innermost details of sub-atomic physics, propel this research and enable testing our theories. From CERN to the viewable Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), we learn both limits to our theories and validation for our hypotheses. At the finest scale, the once-promising String Theory has been sidelined by a failure to find predicted support for its foundational precept of supersymmetry. At the largest scale, the several theories of early universe exponential expansion can be graded by how they mate with evidence in our CMB.
Factoid: Bucket lists filled with experiential gratification make no sense to me. I am more of a macher-type. My bucket will hold a list of things to understand/create. Knowing me, I will live for the process, which includes documenting my travels of mind; reaching any goal is secondary.
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