tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post5372077828348678161..comments2023-11-29T01:47:52.439-07:00Comments on clarity2010: Sharing the tickRelax Maxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-41587853048360452752011-11-13T07:06:49.035-07:002011-11-13T07:06:49.035-07:00@A: As for the limp, I think my spam inbox is full...@A: As for the limp, I think my spam inbox is full of products which are intended to reinflate the limp.soubriquethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-76565587660674130442011-11-13T07:04:18.599-07:002011-11-13T07:04:18.599-07:00I hear what you're saying. I guess, at the tim...I hear what you're saying. I guess, at the time, I was too busy trying to do the pottery thing than to write a book. Sad to say, my notebooks of twenty or so years were lost in a flood, turned to mush. <br />Had that period in my life occurred during the computer age, each lesson I learned, each data-set recorded, my experiments and conclusions, illustrated, might have been turned into individual blog posts, published and disseminated, available to anyone else via a simple internet search.<br />But, it seems to me that the business of writing and publishing is an end in itself, and it raises the question "who wants to know?", and "would my writings add anything to what's already available"?.<br />I never felt I was likely to produce a book that anybody else would ever want or need.soubriquethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-33250890288819411172011-11-10T10:27:43.861-07:002011-11-10T10:27:43.861-07:00Gah!!! I tried!
I love your blog and I learn a lo...Gah!!! I tried!<br /><br />I love your blog and I learn a lot coming here.Suzannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10035409330352625930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-79272607407566971142011-11-10T00:10:07.130-07:002011-11-10T00:10:07.130-07:00@Adullamite - And what makes your clock go tick?
...@Adullamite - And what makes your clock go tick?<br /><br />@Soubriquet - had you published a record of your pottery experiments and learnings, I would have gladly bought it. Many analytical people are on a lifelong quest for knowledge for their own pleasure and edification. But no one is willing to pay you to go learn things. You have to share in order to be paid for your discoveries. That was really my point. And if you are not interested in being paid for doing what you love enough to do for free, then it is the world's loss. Do I sound bitter?...<br /><br />I will research porcelain. :)<br /><br />A. I shan't go into what I was about to go into because only you would know what I was talking about. But I picture you in your blown up Wellingtons walking on water nonetheless. You have good balance as you churn to the rescue, I reckon. :)<br /><br />The limp is accounted for by the Irish curse being fulfilled.<br /><br />@Stephanie Barr - I can't think of anything that ticks outside of engineering. :) It is all engineering in one way or the other. I guess textbooks could be considered sermons by some, as well as much of the content of this blog, though it isn't intended as such. I know what you mean though, about fiction. Your learnings can often be expresses seamlessly in fiction.<br /><br />@Sue - You have two mechanical boys? Are they transformers, or just the regular robot kind? :) :)<br /><br />The record of learnings is not taken just so you can remember how to put it back together again. And sometimes the thing being taken apart are molecules. True? Your philosophy is becoming very deep. I am a bad influence. I am SO glad you, at least, write things down for others to share. I like to read them. Not going to pay you though. Someday. :)Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-12533326814441380402011-11-06T12:27:34.617-07:002011-11-06T12:27:34.617-07:00Two of my three boys are mechanical. They have tak...Two of my three boys are mechanical. They have taken things apart since they were small and always put them back together without ever writing things down. I think whatever it is that makes a certain individual tick contributes to how they perceive how other things tick.Suzannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10035409330352625930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-33683038554192024712011-11-05T21:22:07.913-06:002011-11-05T21:22:07.913-06:00Agreed. I'm a demon for documentation. However...Agreed. I'm a demon for documentation. However, when it comes to learning what makes things tick outside of engineering, I document it in my writing, try to absorb different points of view and ways of looking at things and effectively utilize them in my fiction so the lessons I've learned are perfectly obvious without being a sermon.Stephanie Barrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17772217449161603561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-76910200985957164632011-11-05T12:37:08.320-06:002011-11-05T12:37:08.320-06:00@Soubriquet, that accounts for the dreadful limp.@Soubriquet, that accounts for the dreadful limp.A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04709794851766685322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-37068498960317140132011-11-05T12:09:55.729-06:002011-11-05T12:09:55.729-06:00@A: So you lived your life ever after with a defla...@A: So you lived your life ever after with a deflated foot?soubriquethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-19008103254565837862011-11-05T10:45:56.356-06:002011-11-05T10:45:56.356-06:00I did take apart a foot pump when I was a child. ...I did take apart a foot pump when I was a child. I didn't take notes unfortunately because I couldn't get it back together. What I learnt was that I'd never hear the last of it.A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04709794851766685322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-84069816637144913332011-11-05T09:01:00.640-06:002011-11-05T09:01:00.640-06:00On alchemy and potters.... That might make an inte...On alchemy and potters.... That might make an interesting subject for you. I particularly recommend the story of porcelain. I can deliver a lecture on that, guaranteed to raise laughs and make a lady blush.<br /><br />You know where 'porcelain' gets its name?soubriquethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-85778344684213654242011-11-05T08:57:32.519-06:002011-11-05T08:57:32.519-06:00I do that, it's the story of my life, questing...I do that, it's the story of my life, questing for the mechanism behind the tick. <br />I rarely write it down for posterity. I usually justify that with the idea that greater minds than mine have already done so.<br /><br />I suppose it's because I'm doing it for my own enlightenment.<br /><br />Also, I'm bad at note-taking. Or I have become so. My earlier life, as a potter, was a thing of notebooks, observations, record, graphs, because making pottery is closely related to alchemy.<br />After a certain point, no other person, no book, no guru, can teach you what you need to know, only experience. The slightest nuances- atmospheric pressure on the day of the firing, for instance, makes a difference.<br />Yes, you can buy the ready made stuff, follow the instructions, and make stuff that has none of your own soul in it, glazes that are are selected like cans of paint in Home Depot.<br />Or you can grind rocks, and mix them with ashes and oxides, and make them truly your own. <br /><br />I have lots of published books by other people. But I was bereft when I lost my own old dog-eared notebooks.soubriquethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-45371852979098063332011-11-05T06:43:14.231-06:002011-11-05T06:43:14.231-06:00My clock goes tick.....My clock goes tick.....Adullamitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15537659871829290071noreply@blogger.com