AWESOSeNationIKI!
Is it too late now?
Yo!
This is the first time tha dice have rolled in my favor.
It was Spring of 1976 when my story began, what about you?
I grew up, like most people, in a society where you had two classes. In one type of school you might have one computer per two dozen kids. Kids were able to explore new parts of the intellectual paradigm of the constructed imagination in games like OREGON TRAIL. The Ecological ideas of Energy Balance were present in “Lemonade Stand”. By using the I=O+TRIANGLE(S) equation to create simple inventory based budget it is possible to understand the relationship between many phenomenon.
We’ll like I said, I started rollin’ dice in the morning if we had a rainy day and stayed inside for recess. I started getting some ‘lucky’ numbers and got a place in a better town and set up a spot for my Brother and I. I headed up first to set up the spot. I went down hill, uphill, over the train brigde, left on Baltimore Pike. Baltimore Pike is an Awesome ROAD! It runs from about 60 miles North of Cuba to way up in Maine where Fish had the Great Went.
The new offices were pretty Phat, with many computers. Now we had Basic. We started up DEGITEC GLOBAL Officially in 1987. We were running a TI machine with Magnetic Cassette Tape External Storage Drive. Up at the Lab we were running a mix of computing devices, from Punch card computers to INFO LIGHT BOARDS. We worked on AI in BASIC.
10 PRINT “Hello how are you today?”
20 if this then that
30 GOTO 10
We first published DEGITEC CUSTOM LOGO PAPER PADS in 1988. Using letters to make logos on the paper, three colors available. For example:
D EEEEE GGG IIIIIIIII TTTTTTTTT EEEEEEEE CCCCCCC
DD E G I T E C
D D EEEE G I T EEEEEE C
D D E G GG I T E C
D D E G G I T E C
DD EEEEE G IIIIIIIIII T EEEEEEEE CCCCCCC
I thought the Black text on Yellow looked most professional. Our early successes were on a parallel processing track with development of computers. In those days people designed computers in their heads. There is a great story by Issac Asimov. It is set way in the future. The Earth is at war with another planet. On person is brought to the General to demonstrate their strange “hobby” of calculating mathematical equations with “numbers” written on paper. Soon this old Art is rediscovered and the military no longer has to waste valuable computers on warships headed to the front lines.
We soon expanded our operations to include VIDEO EDITING. The AMIGA was an incredible computer. The computer should have a documentary similar to Who Killed the Electric Car?
By ‘99 we had built so many innovations into hardware and webware that a complete collapse of the old paradigm was necessary. We set many people up with new jobs, on the Bleeding Edge as always on technology issues. On of our top spots involved headhunting for Y2Kbug-killers. We ran a two country inspection tour in Spring making sure all of our ducks were in a row. We held the Shadow Government WTO peacefully in Vancouver while the “Battle of Seatle” raged across the border.
I still can’t really talk about Y2K. It is as if I had a microchip in my head that failed. Do you remember that Book/Movie D.A.R.Y.L.? It was about a kid that has a microchip in his head. I think the book has a part that was left out of the movie. The microchip’s battery was only good for 3 years. It was a design limitation of the current technology. Even today we have trouble with heavy metal battery storage. Degitec Global is working on a proposal to build a 175 foot tall Zero Emission Hydro-Cell down in the Navy yard in South Philadelphia.
We launched
www.DEGICANK.com in 2001. We had pod-casts, AI chat, Download-able Music tracks, Literature, Fractals on a white screen with blue writing similar to the current DEGIWIKIDRUPAL. We set up our non-profit arm, “Degicities” in 2001 also. Our main goal was to bring live music to people with disabilities in a comfortable smoke free alcohol free environment. You can see a great example of one of a “Degicankfest” at Degicankrecords.degicank.com.
Well in ‘07 we are running a test on Degicank Records. If all goes well we will launch a really big project on 9/9/9.
Oh yeah like I said then their where other type of school where there was more than one computer per school. It is like former Gov ? said, There are Great Schools, the problem is not every kid goes to one. In the other school a kid could pass the alphabet test by cheating, go on to IV league school, fly jets around for fun, become President and not learn how to play Oregon Trail, thereby missing out on a great Inquiry based Student led Intellectual Paradigm of the constructed Imagination.
If only we had a true meritocracy where all school students received the same allocation of a nation’s resources. If we had a more standardized curriculum and equality of materials distribution our Supreme Court Justices would have a better understanding of complex Ecological Systems Energy Balance
{I=O+TRIANGLE(S) }equations. If our leaders could create a simple inventory based budget to create simple inventory based budget, than it may be possible to understand the relationship between many phenomenon.
HERES OUR NEXT QUARTERLY SCIENCE CONTEST:
WHAT IS GROWTH?
According to the Universal Standard Encyclopedia from 1931, Growth is the increase in total volume of any animate or inanimate object. Growth is one of the primary characteristics of living things. All plants grow until they die.
CONTEST: CREATE THE MOST GROWTH IN 4 WEEKS!
For the next 4 weeks you will have the opportunity to earn Keys by solving a series of challenges. You will be able to use these 5 keys to unlock the secrets of nature.
KEYS:
CLAY
SAND
SILT
H2O
SEEDS
We will also encounter the unlocked doors of Light and CO2. Through tall windows we will see capillarity, photosynthesis, and “y=e^x” peeking in. As a Scientific Community we will need to come to a consensus on how to measure the increase in total volume of our Growth. Individually you will need to craft a way to collect and analyze your data to give you the edge in outgrowing your classmates.
Each Friday you will have a chance to use your keys to start a new Growth. Your Key challenges and observations will help you determine how to proceed each week to create the most growth. The Winners will be determined in three categories;
-GREATEST TOTAL GROWTH
-STEEPEST GROWTH CURVE
-GROWTHEST INDIVIDUAL PLANT
Today you will have be able to get a head start with access to the locksmith’s skeleton key. 19 days left of growing left until the contest, you better get started!
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