Got my January issue of IEEE Spectrum – all about the work of members of IEEE. The cover picture featured this arm – was that ever a shocker. Work is going on to make new prosthetic arms that will allow the user/wearer to touch, feel and control with their own nervous system! Reading about the work gives new meaning to “nanotechnology.” This issue of Spectrum was about the “Winner and Loser Technologies of 2009”. The article begins by telling of an engineer who is playing “air guitar hero” (take off on “Guitar Hero”) without a guitar! “More to the point,…
Confused?
It's easy to get that way. With all the information available to us – radio, TV, internet, newspaper, teachers, preachers and friends, it's a simple matter to lose direction. Remember "My mind's made up – don't confuse me with the facts"? Well, the other day, looking through a magazine, found "DLTIYHBTIYN" in an ad from Computer Associates. If you aren't into computers and computer software, they are not the main point of this – it's "DLTIYHBTIYN" that stuck out. Don't Let The Information You Have Bury The Information You Need Unless you really know, how do we know what we…
Wrap Your Mind Around This
The facts are always confusing. Moreso when we have to dig a little and get out of what we call our "comfort zone." That was one of the things that John talked about in his second letter. In effect, he said "some of you walk in truth" and "some don't." He did not actually say "some don't", but that has to be implied from the words "some do." The amazing thing is that he did not harp on the "don't" people. He marched right on with the instructions to keep going the way you "learned." More correctly, he said "keep…