Steven-- This quote from today's NYT's attributed to the Wis. Gov seems to say it all.
>>> “I can handle being a black, disabled, one-armed, drug-addicted, Jewish >>> homosexual on a pacemaker who is H.I.V.-positive, bald, orphaned, >>> unemployed, lives in a slum, and has a Mexican boyfriend, but please, Oh >>> dear God, please don’t tell me I’m a Democrat!” By the way, I am bald, unemployed, have a Mexican girl friend, becoming one-armed, and looking for a pacemaker. I'm suprised he didn't note my religion--pantheism with a touch of U-U'ist. He may have an elitist, rightious bias not unlike some in the established physics community that shun LENR. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2014 7:35 PM Subject: RE: [Vo]:World of Warcraft Macros Greetings, Blaze, What a pleasant surprise to discover you do other things besides betting - for a living. Or have I got that wrong? Regarding LUA: LUA is an interesting programming language. Reminds me of C++, and C#. I programmed in LUA extensively on and off for a number of years when I was, in the evenings, performing simulation work with an open source software package called FEMM, (Finite Element Method Magnetics), created by David Meeker. It's a free 2-D magnetic modeling simulator for determining forces, torque and what not. For the curious you can download the free software here: http://www.femm.info/wiki/HomePage Give it a whirl. It can be fun! While using LUA I was trying to discern configurations that might reveal an over unity in certain torque configurations brought on by magnetic forces. I was trying to create one of those mythical magnetic motors configurations you hear about every now and then on Vortex. Initially, I created several magnetic simulations that seemed to show definite over unity. For a while I was on cloud 9, believing I had come up with something that would save the world. It is difficult to describe what a horrible responsibility it is to acquire a belief that something you think you've personally discovered could save the world - but more on that later. Fortunately for me, my efforts failed. Unbeknownst to me at the time, I was using the FEMM s/w package in a way that accentuated internal flaws, due to no fault of its own I might add. I was using FEMM in ways that accentuated and compounded tiny flaws in the constant iteration of calculations. As they say GIGO, garbage in, garbage out. Strange as it might seem for me to say this, it one of the most fascinating, educational, and worthwhile experiences in my life. While my ultimate goal of discovering a magnetic motor (to save the planet, I might add) failed miserably I ended up learning so many other priceless things that I wouldn't have traded this tragic failure of mine for anything. Not only did I learn fascinating things about the properties of magnetic fields, I learned far more valuable things about myself - what makes me tick. In the end I was relieved to learn that my failure to create a magnetic motor meant I was no longer personally responsible for saving the entire world. The demotion helped me get back to a more sensible goal of simply trying to improve a smaller and more intimate portion of the grand simulation we all participate in. Just trying to improve a few local domains, well... that's enuf for me. And now, on to something of a much more personal nature. This is a subject that might possibly annoy a few Vorts with conservative leanings. If so, I don't care. Stop reading on if it offends you so. I'm making tenative plans to retire soon. I have worked for the state of Wisconsin for over 36 years. The last couple of years, under the stewardship of an ultra-conservative Wisconsin governor, my supreme employer, a boss which I can assure everyone on this list most state employees didn't vote for, has made it abundantly clear to me that it's time for me to move on to greener pastures. I have no interest in participating in a brave new work environment where management seems to be becoming more and more enthralled in an aphrodisiac of reducing the value of state employees into collections of metrics... statistics loaded into Excel Spread sheets, as if they have finally found the Holy Grail of measuring the ultimate worth of workers. Having worked for state for more than three decades... all I can say is that this is the third iteration I've personally experienced of a self-improvement campaign hell-bent on transforming the entire employee work-force into efficient worker bees for minimum cost. Of course, the current administration thinks they are the first visionaries to have ever thought of implementing something like this. Forgive them, father. They know not what they do. They are enthralled in the rapture of fulfilling the 2nd coming of their own corporate ideology. To be honest, coming to this realization has been a good thing for me. It has given me impetus to get out, and to get on with my real life's work. And what might my real life's work be? Not telling... not quite yet. Embarrassingly, I have made many promises on this list of things I was going to create and/or publish over the last couple of years. Sadly, I have not made good on damned near any of my grandiose promises. Just a few posted hints here and there is about all that I can point others to. The last couple of years working under the ideology of ultra-conservative fiscally retentive administrators has not been pleasant for me nor for many of my colleagues. The battle just to survive annual performance evaluations, such as where two years ago a former supervisor who had only been hired about nine months prior had essentially placed me on probation, a supervisor who then decided just a couple of months later to leave the state because they weren't paying him enough... such senseless fights have drained me. When I finally walk out the door I'll need to spend several months just decompressing from the experiences of the last two or three years. I'll probably go through some weird kind of withdrawal as well. Afterwards... There are apps I want to develop. I want to install them in this shared simulation we all participate in. I want to accomplish that before I finally exit my current subroutine. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson svjart.orionworks.com
