Reboot

I took August off for vacation.
Well that's not really true. But it's been a strange month. I think I nailed a new job on the 1st, but STILL haven't heard anything, and I'm getting a little concerned. I resurrected an old project and it may move forward, which is exciting. And the polyopticon project proceeds astride (whatever that means.)
I did have a very fertile period mid-month, reconnect with some other old ideas, and that experience made it clear that sooner or later, I need to build my own idea foundry. There is no scarcity of ideas and concepts to be pursued, certainly none on the micro-level. Nor, indeed, any on the macro-level -- the sheer scope of where progressive thinking and LEADERSHIP is needed and wanted can seem pretty overwhelming.
I'm reading Bucky's best-known book, "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth". I think I've been exposed to a lot of this thinking through exposure to later works. But this is written pretty simply, and I intend to share it with my son.
I also completed a novel this summer -- "The Kite Runner" is quite popular, and it's a good story. Recommended. I also completed Eli Goldratt's 'The Goal". I was struck by the degree to which I intuited a lot of the TOC stuff he talks about, particularly about theory. Finally, I finished Professor Zuboff's "The Support Economy". That's an architecture for a whole new economic and p
I have fallen in love with my new dSLR camera -- a Canon Rebel XT 350. It's hard to take a bad picture with this thing, and by using Picasa, even the bad ones can be redeemed.
Still not much progress on the Personal Workstation project.