I honestly have no idea what you are talking about on about 75% of your point here.... maybe I missed a previous discussion? I like the idea of helping people.... but uh, I really, honestly, don't know what this post is about.
Scott Bower wrote: > Since most of you use the email version of IxDA here are my comments.. > > There are a very FEW people I have respect for. They started the > IxDA, and I have met and talked to most of them one-on-one. I have > huge respect for Dan Saffer for taking on the entire SIGCHI > community. They are the people that are living their lives to > actually better this thing we call "existence" without the personal > agenda of higher education creds. The fact that Dan and Adaptive Path > didn't give a crap about the politics around diabetic pump design, > wow! You have apx 85 years to live if you live in a Western Culture. > If you are a billionaire, you have access to the institutes that have > been created that hire the smartest kids out of MIT to solve the > mortality problem. > > I challenge anyone that posts to the IxDA to spend a few weeks in > Mumbai, India. I only wish that I had not wasted the 1980s in a punk > band after visiting India. They are the smartest, most talented, > good/honest people I have ever come across, and India knows what life > is all about. > > Some of the people I see on IxDA are what I consider to be the > "affluent globalists" that think they know it all and use the IxDA > to win arguments in coffee shops around Carnegie Melon. It is the > "Silver Spoon" profession of the future. I turned down a > scholarship to CMU after hanging out in the coffee bars around > Pittsburgh and hearing what affluent 18 year old kids thought about > the world. I just want to say, for the record, that I spent 5 years > researching all the IxD schools in the world, and Shellie at CMU is > the only person that thinks like me. I hope that CMU continues to > keep the bar high, and not give in on IxD trend. Shellie, like me, > has been through the disaster of healthcare in the United States. > When I explained to my Indian coworkers that one of my best friends > parents are in jail because of our healthcare systems evil side, they > couldn't beleive it. Imagine, being a truck driver your entire life, > living in rural Kansas, having a heart attack, and being air lifted > to a hospital. SInce he did not tell them he was indigent, he lost > his business, his life, and his legal battles and is now in prison in > Kansas. > > So go ahead and argue about the placement of buttons in a form. Luke > Wroblewski wrote the damn book. People like Luke give me hope for > this "so called industry". Everyone on here knows there was an > episode of Beverly Hills 90210 where one of those idiots went to > Pratt to become an IxD. > > For the people that know what CERN, the collapse of trading firms in > the United States, and the production of the film called > "Neuromancer" is really all about, contact me. > > I am looking for good people that care about saving lives, solving > real, hardcore multimodal problems, and want to design REAL software > that WILL be used by REAL people. Our software is in one out of every > three doctors computers in the United States. I guarantee it will > challenge everything you learned studying under Casey Reas in Italy. > > MITRE is not going to change the world like they think they are even > thought the have, what I consider to be, the best designers in the > world. > > I have been wanting to say this for a very long time, and yes, and > just hit the send "post to list" button and I could care less what > this does to my street cred. > > > > > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=32980 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
