I would love to! I even know a little bit of German. I've even got some major projects I would like to do - take a read of this, part of an Open Letter to the Leader of the Opposition Don Brash in relation to his comments on beneficiaries - the major problem with that being that I don't have any money to travel:
"<snip> So I acted very improperly and unpatriotically, and instead of investing in alcohol a la Jake the Muss where I could guarantee a return of 5c per $5.00 can, I squandered the taxpayers� precious money on books like Guyton�s �Basic Neuroscience : Anatomy and Physiology�, Lezak�s �Neuropsychological Assessment�, and A.R. Luria�s �The Working Brain�. Where I could not guarantee any returns at all. </snip> P.S. In relation to my medical history and how New Zealand has gone out of its way to ensure that I never get any returns from my investment in learning about it, I took a class in Speech and Language Therapy last year, Acquired Language Disorders. There was an interesting lecture on people who had lost their larynx [and pharynx](voice box), and my ears pricked up immediately. I knew about broken bones knitting together quicker because they had been connected back together with carbon fibre instead of being screwed back together with steel rods, having read about it years ago in The New Scientist, so I started wondering if the same applied to cartilage. I don�t know if it would; I don�t know if anyone else knows either. Other questions also sprang to mind around this topic: E.g., is it possible to grow/regrow bones outside the body? What sort of environment would encourage that? E.g., what mixture of blood plasma and nutrients would encourage it? The human body runs on low-level electricity and is itself an electrochemical engine � what level of electrochemical stimulus is required to encourage bone to grow/regrow? Is it possible to transplant muscle tissue to an out-of-body lab situation and grow it? If so, what conditions are necessary for it to thrive? Is it possible to transplant muscle tissue from e.g. the leg, to the throat, and if so, how does one encourage the establishment of vital mucus tissue around it? What is the minimal amount of bone marrow tissue necessary to drive bone growth/regrowth? What are the precise conditions for bone marrow health, and can they be duplicated in an out-of-body lab situation? Do any of these conditions apply to cartilage growth/regrowth? Is it possible to treat bone, muscle, and cartilage as independent body regrowth factors the way blood plasma is currently used? And after all that, I found I had an impossible dream � to be able to rebuild those who have suffered grievous bodily harm like that Iraqi boy rendered armless by an indiscriminate barrage of military hardware. It�s impossible, because although the questions are askable, thus by the nature of scientific equiry they are solvable, thus answerable, this is New Zealand and I am unemployed thus in the minds of most New Zealanders, unemployable. And we made a great start with our aviation pioneer Richard Pierce, ignoring him until it became politically correct to exhume the bones of our failure to support him and his ideas, and boast how inventive we were as a nation � particularly in the crucial lack of support we are capable of showing. We have the barnyard�s attitude to the Little Red Hen � �Not I!� said the dog. �Not I!� said the duck. �Not I!� said the cow. �Not I!� said the horse. �Not I!� said the pig. " Quoting Martin Baehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 01:07:57PM +1200, Wesley Parish wrote: > > I'm thinking - if I'm fortunate enough to find a decent place to > stay, > > secure enough to get my computer back in operation - of writing a > GPLed > > Wordperfect 5.* clone for FreeDOS. I've already worked out how I want > the > > central loop to go - it'll all depend though, on whether or not I can > > find such a place to stay. (One of those nasty political things that > > makes creativity etc irrelevant in its frame of mind - or what passes > > for it.) > > what kind of place are you looking for? > wanna come to good old europe? > > there is a place here in essen where a linux enthusiastic investor > bought a building where creative people can work (and live if > necessary) > to do interresting projects. you get to use the place for free. > conditions are that what you do is creative, interresting for visitors > and of course legal. > > you could come over here and work on this for half a year. > www.unperfekthaus.de (in german unfortunately) > > greetings, martin. > -- > looking for a job doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen > training, > sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration anywhere in the > world. > -- > pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org > unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at > administrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.schon.org > Martin B�hr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
