Tuesday, December 16, 2008

5 Years!

That's the last time I posted anything. To say the world (and my life) has changed in that interval would be an understatement.
OK - update - I'm almost 57, still married to the same woman for over 30 years, have both my 20-something daughters living at home, our cat (Emma Peel) is still alive, I recently lost a job, and spend a lot of free time engaged in geocaching. Life is weird.

Sunday, August 24, 2003

K Y F H O - Mitch Wayne's Digital Domain

"I swear - by my life and my love of it - that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine". -- John Galt

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This is a Politically Incorrect & Subversive Zone

In accordance with New World Order Directive #666, drones who have been assigned to one or more of the following categories MUST LEAVE NOW

• Statists
• Government Lawyers
• Scum-Sucking Politicians
• Humorless Droids
• Religious Proselytizers
• Fools & Useful Idiots
• Control Freaks
• Victim Disarmament Advocates
• Thought Police
• Environmental Ayatollahs

What Few Brain Cells You Have Are At Risk Of Contamination!

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Welcome to my piece of Cyberspace. Here you will find an assortment of topics I find interesting. If you do too, then welcome. If you could care less, so be it. If you find anything offensive, go elsewhere. You are in control.

Who is Mitch Wayne? While this may be a metaphysical question, I am 51, a "Native American" by definition (I was born on the land claimed by the Federal Government as being part of the USA), and have been married to the same woman (Sharon) for 26 years. Why she puts up with me, is beyond my comprehension. We have two daughters, Gillian (age 21) and Nikki (age 16), who I love dearly, but they sure know how to make me crazy. Our home is run by a cat, Emma Peel .

I am not a SNAG...Sensitive New Age Guy ( Sharon will tell you that the preceding statement is pure bullshit ). I like action/adventure/sci-fi movies with lots of blood. I am definitely not into "chick flicks." Comedies also work, especially from non-American directors. I like most music including Blues, Rock (Classic and New), Classical (Wolfgang Lives! Nothing beats the Piano Concerto in D Minor), Reggae, World (especially Peter Gabriel), and "gasp" New Age. I don't listen to "conventional" radio...strictly Digital Radio, and have the Blues channel turned on all the time.

Sci-Fi occupies most of my reading time (Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov, Ellison, L. Neil Smith, J. Neil Schulman, Wm. Gibson, Brin, Card, Bear, Benford, Kim Stanley Robinson, Neal Stephenson, George Foy, Robert Sawyer, and too many more to mention). I also like to read popular works on physics (especially quantum mechanics) and mathematics. One of my all time favorites is a work by Douglas Hofstadter, "Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" Finally, the non-fiction literature is rounded out with everything by Alvin and Heidi Toffler. Recently I read two books by the same author - Simon Singh -a "popular" math text entitled, "Fermat's Enigma", a discussion of mathematical history, and how Fermat's Last Theorem was solved, and "The Code Book - The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography". Both are highly recommended. I've recently picked up a book on the History of Zero, and another on "Hyperspace".

Then there is Ayn Rand. More about her later...