A low dull din of sound fills the expanse. An occasional whistle here, there, nearby again, distant again. Small firelights flickering near and far. Suddenly a shadow glides across the stage. The crowd erupts into a deafening waterfall of applause. The atmosphere is full of electricity. He steps up to the microphone and says...I always wanted to be a rock star...Joni setup this blog site for me. She also chose the photos. She picked the blog site name and she helped me log on. Now that I have your confidence in my computer abilities, let me share a few thoughts on technology...
The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) is a huge, approximately 17 mile long, circular tunnel. It accelerates two partical beams inside the tunnel in opposing directions and steers
them into each other to create a collision of the two beams (actually four collisions from four intersecting points). This way scientists can study the collisions in hopes of proving the Big Bang theory (more on that later). The LHC cost about $10 Billion dollars. The average cost to feed a hungry person is about 25 cents a day. There are probably about 11 million child starvation deaths every year. We could prevent all of those deaths for almost 10 years with what was spent on the LHC.First, a thank you to my beautiful wife, Joni. Thank you.
Don't ge
t me wrong. I'm a huge fan of technology. I love my new flat screen. The old technicolor movies (like Singing In the Rain) really come to life on that thing, even though one of my daughters swears there's no difference in the color. It's the arguing about it that I really like. I'm a huge fan.The blog photo - A young me on the bow of the Martha Ann just weeks before we were to launch her from a long, upstate New York winter, dry-dock period of maritime refurbishing, back in, umm, 1975 ??? There I am, playing star again... This was definitely just prior to the days when I stood against the wind...OK, I'll stop. This photo would have been much more dramatic had the Martha Ann actually been in the water. But I took her for all she was worth while I had the chance by golly!
The blog name - Questrist - I like it. Sort of Shakespearean sounding, don't you think?
Only that photo could have inspired such a blog.
ReplyDeleteAndy really enjoyed getting a look into your inner thoughts. There was much laughter as he read it.
ReplyDeleteI also like arguing. Apparently it's a family gift. :)
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I look forward to reading more.
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