Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Ethernet►Energy



[Recorded: March 10, 2009]

Bob Metcalfe led invention, standardization, and commercialization of the Ethernet local-area networking system for personal computers (PCs).

In this discussion, Metcalfe is joined by Cisco Senior Vice President Kathy Hill to discuss his experiences in the technology industry, life lessons and current passions.






Enjoy the Future,

Peter


Mistakes are inevitable




In this 1969 video, Jane Morgan interviews William Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor. The interview was part of a series done for the Palo Alto 75th anniversary celebrations. Thanks to the Palo Alto Historical Association.
Category: Education






Enjoy,


Peter

Secrets=Open Sources



From



[Recorded: November 20, 2008]

"Today, Silicon Valley is known around the world as a fount of technology innovation and development fueled by private venture capital and peopled by fabled entrepreneurs. But it wasn't always so. Unbeknownst to even seasoned inhabitants, today's Silicon Valley had its start in government secrecy and wartime urgency.

In this lecture, renowned serial entrepreneur Steve Blank presents how the roots of Silicon Valley sprang not from the later development of the silicon semiconductor but instead from the earlier technology duel over the skies of Germany and secret efforts around (and over) the Soviet Union. World War II, the Cold War and one Stanford professor set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. The world was forever changed when the Defense Department, CIA and the National Security Agency acted like today's venture capitalists funding this first wave of entrepreneurship. Steve Blank shows how these groundbreaking early advances lead up to the high-octane, venture capital fueled Silicon Valley we know today."






Being Informed,


Peter Lott Heppner

Criticizing is easy

Mornin',

So before these storm clouds arrived with cooler temperatures, the world, my memories, the present, the future played calumny with angst. Derision against decision quagmired this solo voice of contra-experience with majority rules. Outnumbered, alone with zero support again, getting stymied by private perfidy.

Why was I culled? How long must I contend with small minds? Who are these well organized angry people? Thinking Causality, How did they become them?

These 4 walls with a keyboard do give sanctuary with insight but sooner more than later interaction with them will occur, and it is rarely good. It is mostly predatory on their end and I am not prey, never have been, never will be. So the contension continues. Their cries of victim are well cloaked lies of the victimizer. Solace is found in awareness of their presence but is challenged by the majority support for their masquerade by the deceived.


Herein is where Truth recharges:

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

You are reading from the book Touchstones

There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don't take much to see that something is wrong, but it takes some eyesight to see what will put it right again.
—Will Rogers

We come to this day with a choice of whether to be for something or against it. Shall we put energy into what we seek and admire or shall we give our energy to opposition and resistance of what we dislike? If someone asks a favor, we have a choice to resent and resist the intrusion or to engage with the person and see where it might lead. If a project we are working on is frustrating, we can wallow in criticizing it or try to get a clearer picture of what will work and what we want.

Criticizing may be a helpful first stage in learning, but it is seductive because it holds little risk and we feel safe doing it. In that comfort we forget to go forward to create what we really want. Our negative energy, when we are seduced by it, creates negative results. When we look back upon today, we will admire those choices that risked creating something positive.

Today, I will not give my energy to denouncing but to creating what I believe is worthwhile.

From Touchstones: A Book of Daily Meditations for Men ©1986, 1991 by Hazelden Foundation. All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any manner without the written permission of the publisher.


Friendly reminder to me,


Peter Lott Heppner








Monday, June 29, 2009

Reminds me




The Election dissent in Iran, reminds me of the dissent here in 2000 & 2004 but the Iranians are more engaged now than We Americans were then.

Peter Lott Heppner

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Correspondent Tool



From Book Passages

Mickey S. Huff - Mickey S. Huff is Assistant Professor of History at Diablo Valley College, Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology at Sonoma State University, Associate Director of Project Censored, is a member of the board of directors for the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation, and former Co-director of the alternative public opinion research agency Retropoll. He teaches courses in U.S. Media History, Sociology of Media, Post 9/11 Studies, Critical Thinking, and Popular Culture. He has been published most recently in Censored 2009 from Seven Stories Press, co-authoring Media Reform Meets Truth Emergency and>Deconstructing Deceit: 9/11, the Media, and Myth Information.
Benjamin Frymer - Benjamin Frymer is an assistant professor of sociology at Sonoma State University. He is an AERA/IES Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Columbia University's Teachers College. His doctoral dissertation and forthcoming book, The Spectacle of Columbine examines the media construction of youth alienation following the Columbine shootings. Frymer works in the areas of critical theory, alienation, media and cultural studies, aesthetic education, ideology, youth, and the sociology of education, religion, and culture.
Peter Phillips - Peter Phillips joined the Sociology Department in 1994 after completing a Ph.D. at U.C. Davis. He teaches courses Political Sociology, Power, Sociology of Media and Media Censorship. Dr. Phillips is the director of Project Censored an internationally known media research program that annually identifies the Most Censored news stories in the United States. The annual research book produced by Project Censored is entitled Censored: The News That Didn't Make the News, and is available from Seven Stories Press.





Staying Informed,


Peter

mmm Catharsis

Humorist John Hodgman was the entertainment headliner at the 2009 Radio and TV Correspondents' Dinner. Mr. Hodgman roasted the president for being a "nerd", referencing his place in popular culture and passion for comics and science fiction. http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library...




Thanx I needed this,


Peter

Friday, June 19, 2009

Interesting



To hang around interesting people
Be an interesting person

Alley Patron

Thursday, June 18, 2009

To Be Healers


June 15, 2009 Transcript from Chicago

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-to-the-Annual-Conference-of-the-American-Medical-Association/

Comment From New York Times

Lifeline by Papa Roach


Chit with ya',

Peter

Let's Eat

postscript:




Speaking of



Hopefully,


Persevere,

Chit with ya',

Peter

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

It just gets better

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

You are reading from the book Today's Gift

You will jump to it someday. Then you'll fly. You'll really fly. After that you'll quite simply, quite calmly make your own stones, your own floor plan, your own sound.
—Anne Sexton

A young man sat beside a whispering creek all day for years, never moving. The townsfolk who watched him wondered whether he heard the gurgling creek sounds, or felt the sting of insects, or saw the raccoons when they came at night to sip from the cool, dark waters.

One day the young man rose and dashed up the hill above the creek. There, using all the healing strength of the stream, which he had quietly absorbed over the years, he gathered stones. He arranged them layer-by-layer to fit the plan he had thought out by the creek, and feverishly he built his home. When done, he let out a brassy, booming holler of joy. Imagine the townsfolk's surprise when they turned their eyes to that lonely spot by the creek and saw a huge castle of stone above the place where the young man once rested.

What plans can I make during my idle hours today?

From Today's Gift: Daily Meditations for Families ©1985, 1991 by Hazelden Foundation. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any manner without the written permission of the publisher.


DO



OR



&

Introduction/Overview of Brain Disorders

Dr. Susan Hockfield
Mriganka Sur
May 4, 2009

Running Time: 0:25:38



“At MIT we love bold experiments, the kind that change the rules, and we have an impressive record of making bets that win. That fearless experimental spirit coupled with intense collaboration among investigators, with the support of philanthropic friends, is exactly what will drive us to next level in brain research.”
Susan Hockfield





This Mornings' reflections

Enjoy,


Peter Lott Heppner

P.S. We all need to breathe





P.S. 2 We All need to Know our Surroundings



Tuesday, June 16, 2009

♫♪White House♫♪

Brain Break



Apparatus view
Prescient Tree hugger 'Tis
Amalgam Begins




Flip a few

Peter Lott Heppner

Monday, June 15, 2009

Competition

Monday, June 15, 2009

You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go

Competition Between Martyrs

"Yes, I know your spouse is an alcoholic, but my son is an alcoholic, and that's different. That's worse!"

My pain is greater than yours!

What an easy trap that can be for us. We are out to show others how victimized we have been, how much we hurt, how unfair life is, and what tremendous martyrs we are. And we won't be happy until we do!

We don't need to prove our pain and suffering to anyone. We know we have been in pain. We know we have suffered. Most of us have been legitimately victimized. Many of us have had difficult, painful lessons to learn.

The goal in recovery is not to show others how much we hurt or have hurt. The goal is to stop our pain, and to share that solution with others.

If someone begins trying to prove to us how much he or she hurts, we can say simply, "It sounds like you've been hurt." Maybe all that person is looking for is validation of his or her pain.

If we find ourselves trying to prove to someone how much we've been hurt or if we try to top someone else's pain, we may want to stop and figure out what's going on. Do we need to recognize how much we've hurt or are hurting?

There is no particular award or reward for suffering, as many of us tricked ourselves into believing in the height of our codependency. The reward is learning to stop the pain and move into joy, peace, and fulfillment.

That is the gift of recovery, and it is equally available to each of us, even if our pain was greater, or less, than someone else's.

God, help me be grateful for all my lessons, even the ones that caused me the most pain and suffering. Help me learn what I need to learn, so I can stop the pain in my life. Help me focus on the goal of recovery, rather than the pain that motivated me into it.

From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie ©1990, Hazelden Foundation. All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any manner without the written permission of the publisher.

The Language of Letting Go is available for purchase in our online bookstore.

Make Language of Letting Go my default Thought for the Day Category



OR



OR



&

Childhood


OR

Dragon King of Bhutan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcoQjoZ6toI&NR=1


Or

Gross National Happiness From Bhutan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXJwNSkdTH0


From


Ethnic Cleansing of a Nation - Bhutan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1yWZ6j4W5A


For more

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhutan


These were my morning reflections.

Today is here

To do

For me that means get more rest.


Peter Lott Heppner

Sunday, June 14, 2009

mmmm




Temodar

mmmm


Sunshine

mmmm


Birdsong

mmmm


Breeze

mmmm


Peter Lott Heppner

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Sick Around The World by Frontline






For my fellow Brain Trauma Injury Patients
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/0306/02.html

Peter Lott Heppner




Everyone


Everyone



All In?


Peter Lott Heppner


Friday, June 12, 2009

Grandiose Goes



What happens when grandiose goes?


Small things don't seem so big!

Peter Lott Heppner

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Bane

Mornin,

The know-it-all, better-than-thou-istics, have been the bane of my existence.

Stereotypicism, shallow value systems, sheltered by same thinkers created a lifetime of unnecessary disability. Perfidy injured. Perdition maintained. Mind Games for some, Power Trips for others, a Real waste of Time and energy in general.

Life is not painless, it is not meant to be pain full, for anyone.

Childhood is a fixator. In utero is a begatment.

From initial contact at birth, the brain begins collecting data to be referred to in it's learning processors. Male or Female are definite pardigms for progenation. "Boys over here, Girls over there" or vice a versa, either way it is division. Hopefully one makes it to Adulthood physically, but Mentally is that a given? Nope!

Just because one becomes an Adult Physically does not mean one becomes an Adult Mentally. This thought is a consensual understanding in any bar, any elevator, any coffee house, or traffic jam. Chat rooms or Comment sections provide ample clues to ones age through vocabulary. Age reveals itself via opinion, words and content.

Content with that?

Fortunately, the Mentally Matured show up from time to time to show me how to think better.

To you I say,

Thank you for visiting

Peter Lott Heppner



One More Time

This been posted before it is fitting to repeat it



Enjoy Again,

Peter Lott Heppner

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

LifeBlood


Alcohol, Drugs, Sex, Coffee
ain't necessary
Let there be Rock


Feelin better?

A few more Facts!!!!




Then Again


Enjoy,


Peter