Monthly Archives: February 2011

It seems to me that beliefs have value in terms of 1) their truth, falsehood or accuracy; 2) their psychological function, in terms of happiness, suffering, human endurance, human creativity, human problem-solving ability, etc.; and 3) their survival value, both … Continue reading →

Just think, if Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today, he would probably be blogging like crazy.  But then, no one would read his posts either, any more than they read his notebooks, until hundreds of years after his death, if … Continue reading →

It’s 322 am and I just woke up.  One reason I woke up was that the following ideas were bouncing around inside my head making noise.  So why not blog a little and say why I think my air compressor … Continue reading →

If you read my last post, you probably figured out that it may work to have the “wings” of our “static rotor” really just all be joined together in the form of a lamp shade with moderate slope.  I’m not … Continue reading →

Good morning readers.  As you know if you’ve scanned some of my blogs, I am determined to destroy the rotors on a helicopter if I can do so.  In a previous post I proposed using a high-power (e.g. 500 hp), … Continue reading →

We’ve all heard “Practice makes perfect.”  But Wynton Marsalis quite handily put the lie to that one.  He said, that’s just not so.  “Only PERFECT practice makes perfect,” he said. Sadly, most piano teachers spend little time, if any, telling … Continue reading →

Thanks for listening to me now as never before.  I miss you both.  And I love you both, though to love one is to insult the other, based upon your own mutual hatred of each other.  Sorry.  That contradiction persists … Continue reading →

Harmony and changes.  How do you hear them so you can pick them out and play the piece yourself when you do not have the sheet music or lead sheet?  Often you’ll find “picking out” music might free you up … Continue reading →

I’ve received some very good and constructive comments on my pistoncopters and pistonsubs since posting descriptions of them on this blog.  So, I’m going to start adding posts here which amplify and clarify (hopefully) my explanations and which begin to … Continue reading →

In a few recent posts I discussed some novel concepts for propelling submarines and for flying “helicopters.”  (The “” are used because the new “helis” would no longer be “helicopters.”)  I think a few more “summary level” comments may be … Continue reading →