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Thomas Faulkner
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Michael Donoho
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Ayn Rand's fabulous book, Atlas Shrugged inspired my username, Atlas. I extol Rand's Nietzschian exile, Galt's Gulch, where the nation's intellectuals amassed pending the collapse of a society seized by counter productive ideals. Those intellectuals were the heroes of principle. They were the force of human progress, driven not by charity, but by integrity.
Since reading this book, I've become somewhat of an unintentional activist. I believe that Rand's ideas are not original, but an epitome of a universal desire to live in a world of principle; a world that rejects the takers and embraces a humanity without poverty, without slavery, without genocide.
My Bio: US Army (Signal Corp) 1975-1979, Raytheon - Field Engineer (Hawk Missile System) 1979-1981, MSU 1981-1985. Hercules Aerospace - Test Engineer (Trident C4 & D5, Pershing II, SICBM, Delta, Pegasus, etc.) 1985-1989 and QA Engineer (Titan IV Rocket) 1989-1992. DigiCorp - Software Design (QED, MathStar) 1992-1995. A-Systems - Software Design (CC3, JobView, Visual Bookkeeper) 1995-Present. |
I'm interested in practically everything; but most of my time and thought is spent in Art, Science, and Philosophy. Above all else, I love to THINK. I find great pleasure in reading, enjoy listening to a vast array of music and am perpetually revising my health & fitness regimen. My favorite thing to do is travel, favorite place is by the ocean closely followed by the mountains where I frequently enjoy camping, hiking, collecting fossils, swimming and horseback riding. Distributed Computing: Folding@home, SETI@home Works in Progress: Accounting Software, ArtistsDirectoryItems of Interest: Promethean Movement, The Venus Project, Immortality Institute, Methuselah Foundation
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Atlas Shrugged and Fountainhead (Ayn Rand), Rising in Words (Colin Patrick Barth), American Theocracy (Kevin Phillips), Darwins Dangerous Idea (Daniel C. Dennett), A New Earth (Eckhart Tolle), Meditations for the Humanist (A.C. Grayling), About Time (Paul Davis), Quantum Reality (Nick Herbert), The Passion of Artemisia (Susan Vreeland). Also, I like Shakespeare, Poe, Steinbeck, and all the classics. And, I love poetry.
Movies:Blade Runner, The English Patient, Defiance, Chocolat, Mulholland Drive, The Hours, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Moulin Rouge, Frida, Star Trek (2009), Fargo, Forest Gump, Groundhog Day TV Shows: Star Trek TOS & TNG, NOVA, Discovery/BBC: Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Miracle Planet, L-Word, Big Love, Lost ................................................................................................................................................................ Quotes:" Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true." - Demosthenes (Forum 'Signature', intended to promote objectivity.)" This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man." - Shakespeare, (Polonius of Hamlet) " Great intellects are skeptical." - Friedrich Nietzsche " Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope." - Carrie P. Snow " The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and science." - Albert Einstein
 1) Between a circle and a square of equal perimeters, the circle has the greater area by what percentage? 2) By sub-dividing the square into smaller squares of equal sizes they will not fit inside the circle without overlapping unless sub-divided into small enough squares and rearranged. How many squares would that be?
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** This page is a legacy webpage for a member of the International High IQ Society. The
link that brought you here will be redirected to Atlas once the new webpage is completed.
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