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• Bold text. by Brian Zwart - (Programming) on April 29, 2022 at 12:04 a.m.
  

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• Image Test by Brian Zwart - (Programming) on April 29, 2022 at 1:39 a.m.
  
• This is a test. by Bucky Black - (Free Thought) on April 29, 2022 at 5:15 a.m.
  

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• Woman by Brian Zwart - (Free Thought) on April 10, 2022 at 6:52 a.m.
  

  There seems to be a lot of controversy lately about how you define what a Woman is. I would say it is in the eyes of the beholder. You could look at them more closely. As a man I would say they are all soft and bumpy, and don't look like me. Quite likely she is capable of giving me pleasure because of what I have, and what she doesn't have in one respect, and what she does have and I don't have in another respect. Our differences attract us to each other. I get this "fear of being rejected" by them if I let myself get too involved. Oh, but it is a pleasure to admire their beauty. I have studied the superior sex from afar. I've explored my share in relationships, and I never miss an opportunity to open a door for them, or be some sort of moral support. I'm not the kind of guy that would "cat-call" or to gossip about a woman. Classier heads will always prevail. Technically she doesn't have a Y chromosome, and she can easily hide this fact..... Well if she can hide it, then she isn't a woman. I grew up with an older sister who was brought up by my Mom who helped her discover her hidden talents, they were talents indeed. My Mom was the self-driven, independent force for us younger siblings to give us good work ethics and to never give up. My Mom was the woman who played the role of bread-winner over the years, and she also taught us to do the same. My Mom taught me how to be civilized, but she did not have the capabilities to show me what it was to be a Man, my Dad took on that part of my mentorship.

• My perceptions of a competitive gaming world, Part 1. by Brian Zwart - (Gaming) on March 31, 2022 at 12:38 p.m.
  World of Warcraft specifically. When you start to play this game you have to take into account the hours you will spend levelling your character, and the implications of the choice of being an Alliance or Horde character. Although it makes no personal difference when you are starting out, you are still learning about the game, and in a sense learning more and more about strategy, tactics, handicrafts, interactions, communication, and yes, war in its rawest form. What you typically get in the game are two sides of the War coin, Horde (typically evil, ugly, godforsaken creatures including trolls, orcs, tauren, undead, blood-elves, and if i left any horde race out forget about forgiving and may i be ganked to the pits of pvp, bowing down to the lords of humility), and Alliance (typically Humans, Gnomes, Dwarves, Night-Elves, and Drainei, and the other hand if I left any poor suffering Alliance race out of the picture, I know that they will forgive me, given the forgiving nature and life supporters that the really are). This will be the beginning of a discourse, so if I bore you with it by all means you do not have to read further. Chances are you 1) already know what I'm talking about, 2) disagree entirely so far and have me marked down as a newb/noob (a term meaning new to the game, etc.) or 3) are legitimately never played the game, and have been looking for some sort of precept before you decide to play, or if you are the (younger), looking for supportive documentation that you can present to your parents, so they can learn more about the game, and let you play (if you deem my literature worthy to do so). To cut this introduction short, what I wish to delve into further is the nature of addiction, the pro's and con's of the addiction in this game, and how to manage your control not only controlling your addiction, but managing to grasp the difference in reality/fantasy perspective's and some religious/political/philosophical observations of my own that may help anyone make an inference, or decision whether this is the right game for you. As it is not only a game, it is an online game.... it is an adventure and a separate life from the everyday reality of your own life. (to be continued)...
• My perceptions of a competitive gaming world, Part 2. by Brian Zwart - (Gaming) on March 31, 2022 at 12:40 p.m.
  Playing all Alliance, all Horde, or some variation of both. You could say that I don't mind playing some variation of both, simply because I do not get into the bitter wow reality that most players see "behind" the game. I have found a great deal of prejudice in the game, Alliance hating Horde, Horde hating Alliance. I embrace the indifference presented to me. The game is not a reality that I embrace at that level. I would call a person who plays to one or the other extreme, an X-type player. This is the type of player who embraces Alliance or Horde exclusively, and will hate the other side to the end. As far as players that don't get too involved in the reality of the game (fantasy, because the game is just a game), you would be a Y-type player, because you exercise indifference as to what I would consider what Blizzard Entertainment (The money-making corporation prefers to exclude the Y-type player because war "sells", quite likely just as much as sex). I choose to be a Y-type player because I like to do other things than playing World of Warcraft, like reading books, watching TV, doing my laundry, going to work, the hard cold reality which in the game you would abbreviate as "RL". Oh, and the X-type player has no idea what RL really is, well they know what it means, but their reaction is "Ahhhh....", and their own wow-life continues in the "PVP" they are planning to destroy the fictional world, becoming "uber-geared" so they can PVP effectively enough to become "PVP uber-geared"..... and to them that is a big difference and the only difference. Within the game there is no limit to how far you can take it. (an interesting note: a cable company here in south florida had an advertisement with a specific finite number of web-sites you can visit, where Ironically yet quite realistically, I personally know nothing about a running tally..... new websites are always being added, subtracted everyday.... the internet is just the internet). In my next section I will delve a little further into wow as a reality-game, and the real reality that is your life, and the racial-nationality divide I tend to call my Racism vs. Nationalities discourse. I strongly believe and support the "We are a people divided by nationalities, and not by race." stigma.... For Example I am 50% Dutch, 25% English and 25% Swedish...... I am not a race... I'm a mix of different origins..... my family had different preferences in their mates and I am who I am, because my parents parents, and their parents made it that way by happenstance, and I'm sure there is a tree of geneologies supporting that claim. (to be continued)....
• The Kinsman Saga by Ben Bova by Brian Zwart - (Science Fiction) on March 31, 2022 at 8:07 p.m.
  Chester Arthur Kinsman (named after president Chester Arthur) becomes a hero to the United States by single-handedly killing a Cosmonaut on the moon, had other ideas in mind that would make him more of a legend near the end of the 2nd millennium. He along with other scientists/astronauts found the city of Selene at Space Station Alpha where they manage to initiate a Star Wars Defense System, controlling the earth's Nuclear War and Further Space Exploration as an Independent State he manages to grab the attention of the United Nations and lose popularity with the people. The United States had him pegged as a traitor and unsuccessfully plot his downfall. Kinsman was an astronaut deeply set against war bares the burden of founder with a life support system that he only used when in full g-gravity because he is so weak from the experience he has on the moon in 1/6th g. Among his task of being an earth police force, he had hopes of using weather control systems to control the accessibility of natural resources in certain smaller countries making them more globally competitive. The author didn't go into a great deal of elaboration in weather control, but this is a Saga, and may have been more abundant in Ben Bova's Millennium, or another book As on a Darkling Plain. Ben Bova has created yet another masterpiece that I simply could not put down.
• The Power of If, and Reading by Brian Zwart - (Free Thought) on March 31, 2022 at 8:09 p.m.
  What might "If" be? It is in the middle of life... If Then do until operand>. I don't want to get too technical about this because this is not the purpose of this new discourse of mine. I will create a technical section that might address these concepts more appropriately. But Life..... is a beautiful thing.... is given only once, and it must at some time or another come to an end (unfortunately). To further demonstrate my meaning, why is a Sheriff called a sherriff? Because things in "Life", and the non-guarantee that comes with life, has its indescrepancies or further conditions that things can go wrong.... Laws are setup in Life, whether these laws established by a government or a church is beyond the comprehension of this discourse. A Sheriff has to be very aware of surroundings, whether suspicious or not, he is there to analyze a condition that may or may not exist under certain circumstances. If then me as the Sheriff have been appointed to exercise take a certain action that justifies himself as the Sheriff for further reference, recorded and further analyzed by judge and jury, etc.... Many of these conditions are exercised based on guidelines that have been set forth in policy, which is written by (God save us all), the government and the politicians which are elected by citizens, whether they qualify as citizens or not leaves integrity up in the air throught this vicious cycle. You can refer to my previous part of such discourse in the Tic and the Ic. Where politicians can be deceiving in several ways, they have so much power that what the Sheriff might tend to be confused as to what are the appropriate actions, that are supposed to be pre-determined by the law in question. This is where reading comes in.... Be prepared to read, and read, and read some more..... Be a perpetual reader, because this whole process repeats itself and never ends..... There is this joke I have about how things never end. If you think there is an end to the world, then you have this mistaken belief that the world is not round. Didn't we prove this in the year 1492? Is there any question that the world is not round, and that it orbits the universe in some manner..... believe it or not, there is still some percentage of its occupants that still question this understanding, and persist on thinking that it is as flat as a pancake, nevertheless it is continuous, don't worry it does not end. Well, like I said that was a joke, there are very distinct possibilities that something can happen, but I leave that with the Big-Bang theories and Doctor Strangelove where he nervously twitches to try and further explain it..... Nobody knows how to define the infinite, especially as mortal human-beings we have finite ways to define Life.... which is the big "If" in the first part of this discourse, ....
• The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks by Brian Zwart - (Science Fiction) on March 31, 2022 at 8:10 p.m.
  This is a fine piece of science that takes you to a planet unknown, a galaxy uncomprehending, and if there was a solar-system; the book made me escape earth for the time I was reading it. The Techno-scientific reverbering, chemistry-laden terms that twisted my thoughts about scientific possibilities. Two lovers communicating by tapping each other on the back, was a thrill the way it was explained, sort of a joyous morse-code between two intimates. There is a strong military presense among the Dwellers, kind of giving the feel of freedom-fighters and a countering from the Interplanetary Society. My mind but can only imagine how primitive we are on this planet, compared to the imagination. To say that Mr. Banks has a wild imagination, would not do him the justice in this book that he so richly deserves. I found myself lost in fantasy, thinking it would be more about a book about mathematics, i.e. algrebraist.... it means to understand the twists and innerworkings of the fictional galaxies, and forces of a nature typically unknown to our primitive earth. Characters that would retreat and turn into vapor when attacked, or girls young and energetic you can imagine them having pink hair and wide eyes like you would see on speed-racer or other modern cartoons. I found myself lost in my imagination, and I wanted the story to go on.... I think I'll pick up some more work by this author.
• The Sam Gunn Omnibus by Ben Bova. by Brian Zwart - (Science Fiction) on March 31, 2022 at 8:11 p.m.
  This is yet another good read where the storyline is hard to follow, as Ben Bova seems to disregard structure, he is adept at grabbing the attention of the reader. Among the many adventures of Sam Gunn I find myself running into previouse characters such as Martin Humphries and the exiled Lars Fuchs. Sam Gunn finds it easy to work with other scientists, geolgists, rock-rats, businesspeople, lawyers, congresspeople, senators, etc. Full of livelihood, the women find him exhilirating and exciting. You never know what Sam is up to. And he is always turning on the charms to the many beautiful women that come his way. Sam at some point finds himself, the schemer that he is, gambling with the mafia, he and the Rockledge Industries owe the Godfather some 20-blllion dollars, so Sam puts on a micheivous grin and has the idea to play poker for double or nothing. Of course he loses, but later on it tured out to be a scheme that turns profitable in the end. As tiring it can be to keep up with Sam Gunn, the quantum physician he schemes with manages to reproduce or duplicate him using a Matter-Duplicator, and it successfully duplicates Sam. As if one Same were not enough, it is comical how two Sam Gunn's make the book more interesting, as science fiction does get interesting, Sam gets trapped by his little known daughter, which is discovered towards the end of the story, and he manages to satisfy two different wives where one was totally in love with him, and wanted to make him an honest man. The other simply was after his money. Well with two Sam Gunn's was able to divide himself among the affections of the ladies, and also manage to be two different places at once. Eventually his idea of a Matter-Duplicator, actually he finds himself correcting himself (Matter-Transmitter), as he made a promise to extinguish any idea of a Matter Duplicator. This was an enriching read, very rewarding. I found myself thinking about Star-Trek, and I am not a Trekkie.... in the possibilities of materialization/dematerialization, made manifest. This was a very enjoyable book.
• Harnessing Energy by Brian Zwart - (Free Thought) on March 31, 2022 at 8:12 p.m.
  Harnessing Energy, and how it might be approached. This is an attempt to brainstorm some theories, but from what I understand about nuclear fusion there is a tremendous mass of energy that can be generated it what I have seen on the Science Channel as the Z-Machine. They would go as far as to show isolated photo's of the effects of that energy in the form of bolts of electricity and radiation. If anyone is reading this, please correct me if I am wrong. According to traditional harnessing of energy you give something fuel, and it responds. The sun shines on the planet to make the leaves grow, animals partake of the environment..... the fact that life exists on earth, and may not exist on other planes has more to do with the earth's distance from the sun, a great deal more than fundamentalist christian observations, and what we read from previous generations. Science is never wholly accepted, nor is Liberal and Indpendent thought on several different layers. What many would perceive as an algorithm, may or may not be the right algorithm for the particular situation or solution. If there were a formula for harnessing energy, I as a scientist would start with the prime number set. This is where you take the infinite set of whole numbers and discard the numbers with fractions in them after being divided by say 2,3,5,7.... other prime numbers. Working with such a set you can make an inference based on the distance you approach the energy you are trying to harness, but the right material to harness the energy I have a lack in experience where research is entirely necessary. If you could take nuclear energy and make affective use of it right at the source of consumption, for instance gasoline..... you fill your car up with gas.... it is injected, fired-up and makes a set of pistons move up and down to rotate a contraption that make the wheels turn..... hmmm... sounds like a primitive explanation, but the meat of what I am saying is where do we look as a metaphor for where nuclear energy comes in..... it would be the fuel being fired up that causes the pistions to move up and down? Or would it be the reaction that does the same? With a controlled reaction, and I say controlled..... if you were able to tone down the reaction to a certain extent it could be harnessed much more easily. I will do more research on this topic and present other theories on my blog.
• Powersat by Ben Bova. by Brian Zwart - (Science Fiction) on March 31, 2022 at 8:13 p.m.
  The head of the Astro Corporation is determined to bring alternative energy to Earth in the form of a Power Satellite that captures solar energy and beems it down to the earth at 10 gigawatts at a time. His struggle with terrorists in the Mid-East through financiers that have ulterior motives, makes the story gripping and believable. Assuming that what seems fictional could quite happen given the scientific know-how, and the Technology. This book was a good mix of Science, Ecology, Economical Ideas and Politics, and how they all come together to prove that there is a future in independent and alternative energy. To be independent of the middle-east and their contibution to the oil industry, sends ideas to my mind the possibilities of lowering the price of gas, investing in these alternative engergies, and keeping the U.S. only dependent on domestic sources of energy. What may seem to be insanely fictional yet believable, who knows what is sanely realistic without literature like this to give you hope.
• The Rock Rats by Ben Bova by Brian Zwart - (Science Fiction) on March 31, 2022 at 8:14 p.m.
  Lars Fuchs is the geologist turned pirate, murderer in this sequel to Precipice by Ben Bova. The Rock Rats are a group of miners prospecting for ores and minerals, trying to make a living or a big financial break usually hindered by interplanetary corporations such as Humphries Space Systems, run by Martin Humphries, the villain that persists to make it harder for the underdog to take him down. Outwardly lusting after Fuchs wife, and at the same time seeking to eliminate Fuchs, as he has turned into a liability expendable. Competing fiercely with the Astro Corporation, Humphries is finding it extremely difficult to keep his thugs alive, yet he can lose billions and still have the power to feed the judicial system to see thing his way. Eventually Fuchs is tried for piracy and murder, his wife which he abandoned agrees to marry Martin Humphries, as long as he spares Lars Fuchs life, as he gets exiled for another possible continuation to the story.
• Introduction to Anthropology by Brian Zwart - (Free Thought) on March 31, 2022 at 8:15 p.m.
  The Peoples of the World. How we worship God, or a deity that helps us cope with Life, and the prolonging of it. Anthropology is the study of how we interpret life to subsist and survive. I could go through the many variations set forth upon earth and generalize under several circumstances. There will always be views that are generally accepted, and can explain alot of unknowns. It would make you think of this as a science as explaining the unknown, but it is merely a tool to research what different societies observe a deity based on their needs for survival. Common to us all... we may find there to be one true god, being part of western culture, we are brought up with certain values that are marked as respected values, and find it hard to deviate from them, as our parents find deviation unacceptable behavior in any society. There are two generally accepted deities in the anthropological sphere of acceptance, which would be the earth deity or the sky deity. As a person who worships an earth deity is more likely to bury their corpses in hope that their soul rises to the heavens. As a person who worships a sky deity, it is more likely that they cremate their corpses in hopes that the ashes would rise to the heavens, as opposed to their soul. This of course is speculative, and different societies behave in their own manner to comfort their living, or decide is what is acceptable in their respective cultures. This is an small introduction for me to explain a broad overview of what anthropology means in this writing.
• The Precipice by Ben Bova by Brian Zwart - (Science Fiction) on March 31, 2022 at 8:18 p.m.
  Where the moon is considered to be another liveable planet, and the Earth struggling with greenhouse gas issues, Ben Bova has put together a book about the struggle for economic stability, environmental efficiency at the cost of the struggles of the characters in this book. Mr. Humphries, the villain... inheritably rich, the struggling, pretentious billionaire that doesn't know his limits, where greed justifies everything battling the Mr. Randolph, an entrepreneur for the Astro Corporation has developed a nuclear-propulsion spacecraft that would help him reach the Asteroid Belt which would help the earth gather necessary resources to save the earth. Precious metals to keep the steel industry in full swing, finding himself an his crew at the mercy of nanotechnology, the idea that you can deteriorate a metal with a bug goes beyond the imagination. The crew finds refuge at an asteroid that provides protection for some kind of meteor shower, where they get queasy either from low-gravity or radiation, finding them swimming in vomit in their spacesuites. The story goes beyond the possibilities, as the other books I have read by Bova. The whole idea of the earth losing its structure through greenhouse gases is a bit out there for me, but using the science fiction frame-of-mind, makes the book relatable from an Al Gore standpoint. Science Fiction is the key to the imagination, and Ben Bova delivers a good dialogue in the midst of what you learn in this book.
• Orion among the stars by Ben Bova by Brian Zwart - (Science Fiction) on March 31, 2022 at 8:21 p.m.
  Orion, a human warrior goes to battle in this science fiction thriller where he revives his crew, (frozen in pods that he thaws them out to bring them to life). He finds himself between the Creators, the Old One's an army of the Hegemony and the Skorpis. In the search for his long lost love Anya he finds himself in and out of a sphere that is called the Continuum which can be manipulated by God's, Creators and Immortals. Immortals can manipulate space and time and Orion a mere human warrior does his best to end the centuries-old war by bring all together within the continuum.... Web-Spinners, the Skorpis (all female elite brigade), the Hegemony, he tells them to negotiate or die, or they are stuck in the continuum until they find a solution. An Evil creator finds Orion to be an obstacle that prevents him from taking over the universe and does his best to foil his plans. The story leaves you asking for more when Orion has lost Anya, but knows nothing of her condition or her whereabouts. He has decided to proceed with his search until he learns the truth. The book is a part of several by Bova, uncertain where this one falls in the series, but it was a gripping read, I couldn't put the book down.
• Orion and the Conqueror by Ben Bova by Brian Zwart - (Science Fiction) on March 31, 2022 at 8:22 p.m.
  Orion finds himself in the times of Phillip the King of Macedonia where he encounters many a battle as a seasoned time traveler in this engaging science fiction thriller. The creators again have control over the space-time continuum and use Orion as a tool to keep the continuum manageable by the creators. Orion finds himself empowered to the point he warns Phillip of Macedon of an assassination plot on his life. Alexandros the heir apparent or the King himself must die in order for the creators to leave the time period, and Orion is simply the tool the creators use to their own end. Still struggling to find his love Anya, who is lost light-years from Orion's situation, seems to be the long drawn out ambition of Bova, as I'm sure the series will continue. This is just a stop in time where history is altered to the author's satisfaction, but in the author's note, most everything about King Phillip and Alexandros is historically accurate. I'm not sure what part of his series or volume I've fallen into, but this is a very worthy read. The whole notion of time-travel makes science fiction opening a whole new world of scientific theory, treading on the unbelievable and yet escaping with the possibilities of space/time travel.
• Coping with what your parents intended for you by Brian Zwart - (Free Thought) on March 31, 2022 at 8:24 p.m.
  In my long journey from childhood being raised spoiled for so long, my parents gave us know sense of what the polly-tic could do for us. We were a christian family that was well accepted in the reformed church back in the later part of the 1970’s. So Dad worked very hard to make ends meet for our family. He was a UAW Auto Worker for what was then General Motors (Fisher Body). 3 years after his only daughter, he and my biological Mother brought me into this world. There were huge expectations for me. I was an adorable baby and was given everything in life that most kids received from their parents back in the post-JFK era. I started out a rebellious child very early in life. When a teacher told me to do something or attempted to get me to behave myself, I would patronize the teacher to the point the teacher would let politics get in the way to giving me the grade that wasn’t based on personal knowledge, but more to do with how well I got along with other people. The teachers would make the assumption that because of my name, whether it was my christian name or my surname, I really had no idea. So going forward in life I thought everything was cool. I knew that my existence in life was to follow in the footsteps of whoever expressed what I thought was the role-model that inspired me. Everything seemed like a child’s dream as far as having a christmas tree. Opening presents on christmas morning. We received over and over again. I won’t list the many material items that gave us a false sense of belonging, yet we felt no animus about our parents until it became an economic issue between my parents when they finally decided to part ways in 1979. At that point in my happy life, everything fell apart. I couldn’t believe this was happening to me and then I blamed myself. I thought I was the problem because I was scolded for trying to get attention during my younger brother’s birthday. It was all about him and my Mother felt I had no right to take away my younger brother’s exlusive attention on that day. It left a feeling in my gut, that sat there for a long time. Sure I had friends, but there was this scar that was noticeable due to the wild nature of the many things I experienced and saw during those years. I was keen to what the other kids were doing, to the point of adopting their behaviors. You could even say that in many ways it had scarred me for life. After my parents divorced my Mom had to take on the role of Father and Mother, with every-other weekends with my Dad. I was still spoiled even then. When going through school, I don’t really know if I was likeable by other kids, because I was never taught social-grace, nor was I trained on what was considered proper or improper. At some point in my life (likely puberty) my attraction for the opposite sex was wild, I would seriously drool at them like pieces of meat, my tongue would hang out and I suffered from buck-teeth, and picked my nose, and yet ate the bougars. I had to have a crib mounted in my mouth to keep it from pressing against my upper teeth and malforming my skeletal structure. So, without getting too grotesque, I will move on to the braces I had, wisdom teeth pulled, and all the financing for it handle by my parents. Once again spoiling me rotten. They did everything they could to make my life as happy as possible, because they really enjoyed my company, but no real sense of how to reach out into the world. Maybe they considered the outside world a sin, being the christians that we were. So my Mother married a younger guy later on, he was a black-belt in some form of Karate I never really rememberd. I didn’t care much about him either, he kept a gun in his dresser and was into bio-feedback. My Mother was never that type, so although he was good to us kids and motivated us to an extent, it was too much of a challenge for him to take my biological Father’s place. So they eventually divorced (#2 for my Mother).
• The Ic and the Tic by Brian Zwart - (Free Thought) on March 31, 2022 at 8:25 p.m.
  I can only fathom what we used to consider achievers, and under-achievers. There were the people that “ticked”, and the people that “slacked”, and there was a fine line between those members of “society” or “my existence”. When I grew up it not unknown for me to be the lazy good-for-nothing burnout, as stereo-typical by any agreeable standards. I agree… I didn’t want to be here. But there was always this mountain I had to climb, or every breath I had to take, morsel, twinkie, cupcake. You get the idea. If there was a profanity that escaped my mouth, it was my Mom who persisted to make me eat a bar of soap as I balled my eyes out in the bathroom. My parents were already divorced at that point, and my sister was likely doing what sisters did back then. Well now that I look back on that it may have scarred me into submission, or deterred me from the realities I face today, or it just made me a well-mannered young man through the years. Quite likely the latter, or to be a good non-profane Christian. In college I was anything but. Most of us remember playing D&D, or Dungeons and Dragons, where you pick your race and your alignment, then you choose a path that the Dungeon Master (sic) deity sets before you in the board game. I was Publius Unum, the fearless chaotic neutral human warrior who decided to politely knock on the door of the dungeon, and my God asked me, “Are you sure you want to do that”? Lol, we didn’t get into it all that much after that. It kind of ended the whole point of the game. It was just a game. So, at 1am in the morning we had our studies to do and knew we had to keep pressing forward, because that was the thing to do for a “slacker” like me. My parent’s expectations were not lofty, my own expectations actually exceeded my parent’s expectations as I developed a strong interest in logic. My programming logic professor, Doctor Judy (for the sake of anonymity this is what I’ll call her). I discovered that people have choices in general, they can branch off in different directions, perform functions and run their own analysis and sub-analysis’ as much as they so desire, and in as many translatable way that anyone could imagine beyond their wildest dreams. All you had to do was lay out a plan, write it down in a way you knew the compiler would pick up on it, stuff it onto a hard-drive, it did something productive, and it sold itself for the purpose I intended it for. All of a sudden I became a part of society, I belonged. My love for logic and anything to do with Technology, got me signed up to go from “Beginners All-Purpose Instruction Code”, to “Common Business Oriented Language” (COBOL) Programming. I don’t want to fall off the deep end talking about COBOL, but let’s just say in my life I was a valuable asset, and didn’t even know it, because I had no “politics”, the dreaded “politics” I needed to make it all come together. Just hearing the word “Tic” in a sentence, threw out the whole idea that logic or log-ic. I never knew how to divide the two. Thus just by mean writing this helps me vent to an extent as I gather my thoughts. So is this “Tic” to impress? So, if it is impressing, then what is the Log-Tic behind it. So I have to laugh at myself….. what’s the difference? I will save it for another post, and to continue this discourse at another time.