Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Nano Nano II, What Would You Do With Yourself in a Nanotechnology World?


Residing in the crevices of fact and fantasy, dwelling in the atoms of fear and knowledge, lies the ultimate technology high; nanotechnology.
Imagine a world without taxes, a place without unwanted deadlines and meaningless hours spent earning money for big oil, landlords and other merchandisers. To live without poverty and the loss of loved who become victims of time and cancer. Nanotech can provide all this and much more.
Nanotech is the answer to all that is positive and uplifting, the one thing that can make money obsolete, thus ending corruption in politics, big business and thrusting the world into a place that ought to be.

With nanotech there would be no starving people in the world thus squelching the use of the following lyrics by Neal Peart; "Hungry child in the desert and the flies that cloud her eyes, I get this feeling"...

With the advent of nanotech, the three classes of people would be reduced to one class. That one class of people would be much better than our current system of the three classes of folk; the rich, who do little work and pay no taxes, the middle class who do all of the work and pay all of the taxes and the poor who are present to scare the life out of the middle class, keep them showing up to those unrewarding jobs. The late comedian and philosopher George Carlin defined the current system of the three classes of people.
Nanotech would make money primitive and obsolete, enable everybody to have everything they wanted with the touch of a few buttons according the web site; http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/secret_projects/project263.htm

"Hello Nanotechnology, Bye, Bye Money!" by Benjamin "Quincy" Cabell V on the above web site provides the details for the anything box. In short the anything box is a device that creates matter, hence making it possible‎ to create things from nothing.
Eternal youth and life via nanotech is possible by replacing or repairing dying cells in the body. Yes this is currently pure fantasy. As of now matter cannot be created or destroyed. Science experts are working on ways to create matter and live forever with the emergence of nanotech.

"Nanotech Could Make Humans Immortal by 2040", said futurist Ray Kurzweil in his October 2009 article on the web page; http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138726/Nanotech_could_make_humans_immortal_by_2040_futurist_says

Kurrzweil's article refers to nanobots that may one day exist, taken like a pill and filter the blood stream for damaged or dying cells and repair or replace them all together. Nanobots would also have the means to reverse ageing. According to the above article anyone alive in 2040 or 2050 may live forever in a healthy and youthful body if they so desire.
Some people will always claim there would be no challenge in life if nanotech were a reality and I understand their point of view which is valid. Certain skeptics of nanotechnology claim we need to work or even toil for the things we need. I disagree with this way of thinking. I think life would be more challenging in a nanotech world.

Sure, if nanotech were a reality, anyone who wanted a car for example could simply push some buttons and have the color make and model of their auto of choice. If you want a car now, you have to work or steal for the money to pay for it, so in that aspect the nanotech way of life is much less challenging. Factor in the above example to pay for food and shelter as well. 
I still contend life would be more challenging with nanotech. With nanotech, people would no longer have to work unless they wanted to and everybody would have anything spawned from their imagination with the use of the anything box. Where's the challenge in that? If nanotech was in full force, what would people do with themselves? Just think how easy it would be to do absolutely nothing with your life.

Some people in this would work extremely hard at their job or jobs, have a nice dwelling, loving spouse, family and material things, but some of these people when their not at work, do nothing but relax is front of the boob tube (television set) on their free time.
A lot of people would do nothing but take up space if nanotech were a reality. Hence the big challenge in the emergence of nanotech, you no longer have to work and you can have anything from
a BLT sandwich to a really cool iPad with the touch of a buttons.
Again the question, what would you do with yourself in the presence of nanotech? Watch lame reality TV shows every waking minute, sleep, rise and do it all over again for the rest of eternity?
 
In a nanotech world I'd learn how to fly an airplane and helicopter for starters. I can't do that now
because of my income situation. I'd also land my helicopter on the top of a high mountain over looking fantastic foliage highlighted by a captivating water fall, and write book reviews from there.
Be skeptical all you want about nanotech if you choose, think it will be nothing more than a really cool science fiction book or movie, but think about the following. What if someone or a group of people had the idea for cell phones in the 1300s, the ideas for auto's and air transportation way back in the day or the thought of taking photo's, (color even) without having to paint portraits or landscapes six or 700 years ago?  

What will people dream up next? Taking pictures and watching movies on a portable phone?    

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Every Time I Visit the Children From my former Work, I Get Inspired To Dream...


Children III

 

                                    Intrigued understanding radiating from their eyes.
                                    Innocent poise blends subconscious non sense
                                    into realities moments. Coherent confusion weaves
                                    the fabric of our dreams and creates serenity.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Zero Character Development Destroys the Novel "Blood Money."


“Blah Money” would have been a more appropriate title for the novel “Blood Money”.

New York Times best-selling author James Grippando completely ignored character development in the January release of “Blood Money,” thus earning a one star rating.

Not a single individual in “Blood Money,” was remotely interesting, thus sending all conflicts and resolution into a pit of oblivion.

The main character Jack Swyteck, a defense attorney returns for the 10th time in Grippando’s 20th novel.

Maybe Swyteck has an ounce of flare and spark in the nine other books he’s featured in, but in “Blood Money” Swyteck is as absorbing as a dead fly in an abandoned attic.

Sydney Bennett, the woman Swyteck defends for the alleged murder of her two-year-old daughter Emma is equally boring and uninteresting.

Had Grippando put any thought at all into character development, “Blood Money” would have been a good if not great novel.

The intense conflicts are well planned and executed. Bennett has the reputation of a heartless party girl who murdered her own daughter for money. Did Bennett kill her daughter? How can Swyteck defend such a heatless wench?

On top of all this going on in the book college student Celeste Laramore is beaten into a coma by a mob of outraged citizens because they thought she was Bennett who was found innocent of all charges against her.

Did Swyteck and his posse arrange a Bennett look-alike contest and have Laramore outside the court room upon Bennett’s verdict of not guilty so Bennett could avoid an angry mob? Was Bennett guilty of child abuse, neglect and murder, promised a book deal and did she pay off the jury with promised future money? If you haven’t already guessed there is a lot going on in this book and the plot is indeed filled with intrigue and cerebral arousal.

Despite a barrage of happenings in “Blood Money,” the conflicts are neatly concluded for a solid story. Unfortunately every individual in the novel was no more interesting then dried leaves in a debris box.        

College Basketball Takes Center Stage in American Sports Now


Basketball

 

Ten commandments, the rim is ten feet high.

Five business days a week, five players per side.

Two days in a week end, two points per

basket. Three day weekends, three point

shots and plays. Net profit, nothing but net.

Round sun, round ball. Out of time, fouled out. No

football or baseball in March; march madness.
 
                                           Mark Izzy Schurr

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Back in the Day, Mark (Izzy) Schurr


Cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians. Toy soldiers
and deathless wars. Putting frogs in her lunch box,
kindergarten delights. Recess and gram crackers,
blue horses and green skies-coloring books. Short
pants and cowboy boots. Big wheels and happy meals.
Innocence untarnished. Mud pies and summer skies,
my how time flies...

Friday, March 1, 2013

Baseball

Bears wake in the spring, flowers bloom and
open hearts embrace love. Baseball begins,
it’s unique because the defense has the ball.
The ball is round, the Earth is round.
Winter, spring, summer and fall, three months
per season, three outs per half inning. Four seasons,
four balls for a free base.
Nine months in the womb. Nine innings per game.
Sometimes late births, sometimes extra innings.
Warm summer nights and stadium lights.
Ball games and barbeques. Life and death.
Safe and out.
Fall begins in the ninth month. Nine players
per team take the field.
Fall foliage. Fall classic. Winter season. off season.

Izzy Schurr, aka Mark Schurr

Saturday, February 23, 2013

The book December's Thorn" is Blissfully Bizarre

"December's Thorn" sticks the imagination into a fraternity of dreamers and successfully blends chaos and confusion into a delectable cocktail of magnificent madness.

Award winning novelist Phillip DePoy's January release of the book "December's Thorn" marries fantasy with reality in a three star fashion. "December’s Thorn" is the seventh book in the Fever Devilin series. In DePoy’s latest tail, Devilin dwells in a fugue state; a state in which a person can move and talk, but is not completely aware of the real world.

Devilin has been in a coma for three months. Over the course of eight or nine years he claims he has been killed several times, legally dead twice, seen ghosts, witches, time travelers, racist murders and an Albino dwarf.

Devilin knows none of the above is true. Before his fiancee Lucinda Foxe can celebrate her man’s sanity, he claims a ghost women is visiting him. Issie, the ghost woman tells Devilin of their past life and marriage together. Issie also claims they have a son whose still alive. Foxe brings her friend Dr. Ceridwen Nelson to live with Devilin for psychiatric observation.

With just Nelson and Devilin and his house a young boy fires real bullets through the kitchen window. The local sheriff, Skidmore get’s involved. Nelson also starts seeing the ghost Issie. As DePoy’s words swirl swiftly page after page the questions mount. Is Nelson a real psychiatrist? Are Nelson and Devilin both whangdoodled? Are they falling in love? Is reality fiction and fiction reality?

If you haven’t already guessed "December’s Thorn" is a story that would have made Rod Serling, the creator of the 50s and 60s television show the "Twilight Zone" very proud.

The conclusion is neat and tidy and for everything that went on in this Novel, that’s very impressive. As the story thickens, the reader is engulfed in curiosity. Should or does Devilin leave his wife for her best friend foxe? Is the boy who shot at Devilin really his son? Is Devilin simply imagining all this? For the record, the story is not a dream and the conclusion is succinct and well executed.

Like most books it was slow in the middle with pointless details, but it's compellingly and unique story along with solid character development made it a fantastic read. I never read any of the previous six Devilin novels and "December's thorn" was still easy to comprehend.

For more details on "December's Thorn" and the author DePoy you can check out his web site; www.phillipdepoy.com.