"Info_tech since '72; compulsively tech_doc"

16 years old: infantry reserves.
17: paratroop training
18: tracking Soviet assets in the North Atlantic
20: in the arctic running comms for NORAD/SAC
22: master control for CBC Radio
24: driving my taxi while studying phil at UofA
27: exploring $$$ made in real-estate speculation
29: to the hills of Cape Breton!
36: Gampo Abbey
41: bringing SMU/IEC onto WWW
44: cog-psych, ethology (VRML!) and historiography at Dalhousie
47: down and out in Halifax and Edmonton

"Death is not the greatest loss in life.
The greatest loss is what dies inside us
while we live."
--Norman Cousins

Confusion is a kinky form of enlightenment, clarity in drag.
Uncertainty is certainty that has stepped on a banana peel.
Negativity is brilliance competing with itself.
--Sherab Chodzin Kohn

"If we wish our civilization to survive
we must break with the habit
of deference to great men"
--Karl Popper

"The investigator must steadily face the facts ... with open eyes, and unburdened by any theory; and just because he is an experimental investigator, s/he must know that only the surface of the mass of so-called facts is clear and unequivocal, and even that only to a limited degree, while its depth is mostly unclear and ambiguous."
--Kurt Lewis

"Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible.
Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and see if you recognize your neighborhood. The right local questions and answers will be the right global ones.
The Amish question, ''What will this do to our community?'' tends toward the right answer for the world."
--Wendell Berry

"Fear not the path of the truth because of the lack of people walking on it.".
--Fadia Rafeedie

"Calculative thinking computes… it races from one prospect to the next. It never stops, never collects itself. It is not meditative thinking, not thinking which contemplates the meaning that reigns in everything there is…
Meditative thinking demands of us that we engage ourselves with what, at first sight, does not go together."
--Martin Heidegger

"A community will evolve only when the people control their means of communication."
--Frantz Fanon

Being loved by others gives you strength; loving others gives you courage.
--Lao Tzu

A Zen student came to Bankei and complained:
"Master, I have an ungovernable temper.How can I cure it?"
"You have something very strange," replied Bankei.
"Let me see what you have."
"Just now I cannot show it to you," replied the other.
"When can you show it to me?" asked Bankei.
"It arises unexpectedly," replied the student.
"Then," concluded Bankei, "it must not be your true nature.
If it were, you could show it to me at any time.When you were born you did not have it, and your parents did not give it to you.
Think that over."

On the hippie bus in '68!

And living in the hills of Cape Breton Island with wife, 5 kidz, 3 cats, 2 dogs, horses, goats, pigs, chickens, apple trees, a running brook and a view of the Bras d'Or Lakes.

#1: participatory deliberation
see http://bentrem.sycks.net/gnodal/ and http://gnodal.livejournal.com

French (maternal)
English (tech_docs)
Spanish (un pocito)