Thought.
Rather important to me as an admirer of those who can come up with good ones. I built this site as a way to gather up and focus thoughts. Not everyone will agree about what a "good one" is but then those who don't can just build a site of their own.
I threw the "funnel" part in partly because I liked the connotation of a lot of stuff in the top and a violently focused directed output at the bottom. Also because all the good domain names were taken.
On this site you'll find information about my projects as a Web developer, my recordings as a drummer and some thoughts I find interesting. I won't be "blogging" though. If you want to know what I had for dinner last night we should talk in person... I might even buy the drinks.
Widely attributed to R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the Geodesic dome and generally the kind of naive, well-meaning idealist I tend to admire. In my mind, the phrase is a bit dated now sounding retro-futurist and self-important. The more I think about it though, the more I realize how significant the semantic setting is for the placement of our one and only planet in the context of our language.
We are living on a space ship. To us, a mind-bendingly large and impossibly diverse World, full of just about everything we'll ever know or care about. But it's a speck. A chunk of rock spinning around in a vast and frighteningly dangerous Cosmos. We all know that, but we forget.
I wonder if we'll ever be spread out among other such space ships. Planets, vessels, some other construct yet to be imagined... I really hope so, because all it takes is a big asteroid or a few extra billion of us to empty this one of everything I care about.
I've had it with "spin". Why can't we just get some straight answers? There seems to be no end to the semantic convolutions I am bombarded with. It drips down the walls of my world like an ooze... Leaching from the maw of some agenda-driven pundit and delivered in person again and again by sickened zombies who can't help but regurgitate the poison.
The truth has a certain "ring" to it. I miss it. I need to engage with minds who are interested in the objective reality of things - not skilled in twisting interpretations to fit convenient models.