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soon to be a Borg!

I AM...

-an inventor

-a futurist

-a teacher

-a scholar

-progressive conservative

- Libertarian Republican

-a walking oxymoron

-social hermit

MY HEROES (this is an obviously unfinished list)..

• Archimedes: If not for him, computers would not be possible. (of course that applies for others too) He was one of the first ones to build working, "complicated" mechanical appartuses.
• Jesus Christ: There is absolutely nothing you can criticize about him! Once you realize that, and get past the rose-colored glasses, you will discover that virtually everything that he says carries a LOT of wisdom One of my favorite sayings by him is the one where you cannot remove a wood plank that's impaled in your friend's eye, unless you first remove the silver of wood already sticking in your eye. Essentially, you cannot criticize someone else unless you can actually practice what you preach!
• Laurent Clerc: Without him, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet wouldn't have seen the "light." The Deaf would still be in the dark, the echoes of Milan 1880 still resonating.
• René Descartes: "I think, therefore, I am."
• Thomas A. Edison: His peak inventing period was from when he was 25 years old to 40. I just became 25. It is the perfect time for me to really reach my potential.
• Albert Einstein
• Benjamin Franklin: A scientist first, a politican low on his lost of priorities. He was an inventor, amongst many things. Essentially, a jack of all trades. One of my true inspirations. He even started a newspaper so he could get his say out. Like what I am doing now?
• Galileo Galilei: He stood high on the shoulders of Copernicus and Ptolemy and others to cause a paradigm shift still felt today. We are about to see a new paradigm shift.
• Carl Friedrich Gauss
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Alexander Hamilton: immigrant (a native of the British West Indies), soldier (a member of Gen. Washington's staff), lawmaker (the only New Yorker to sign the Constitution), economist (a founder of the Bank of New York and later President Washington's Treasury secretary), activist (including his work with the New York Manumission Society and the New York African Free School) and futurist.
• Stephen Hawking: One of my TRUE heroes from the beginning, before I really started consciously trying to emulate certain historical people of importance. Despite the challenges he faces, he still became one of the world's pre-eminent scientists. In fact, his weakness in mathematics was one of his biggest worries when he was in graduate school. Look at him now. It is his books which elucidated stuff like the Theory of Relativity for me. He inspired me to want to do the same for the Deaf. I want to create 3-D ASL animations that visually explains string theory, black holes, quantum mechanics, etc. Not only that, he bridges his communications gap by using a speech synthesizer. I face precisely the same obstacle. What's stopping me from doing the same, in that I use the same type of equipment he uses? After all, it works for Stephen Hawking. It ought work for me. I dream of meeting him someday soon, and conversing with him with an speech-enabled AcceleGlove and a speech-recognition system, with my eye-mounted LCD monitor. I doubt that ever happened before in the history of mankind. In addition, I would love to discuss some theories I have dealing with magnetic levitation, antigravity, nanometric bubbles, sonoluminescence, cold fusion, and the such. It might sound absurd, but it is best described in ASL. I think it would be a very good example of the richness of ASL being able to convey "heavy" concepts, such as quantum electrodynamics, something a bit difficult to explain in plain English.
• Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi: One of the great early Islamic scholars; we got the word algorithm from his name, and a word he coined, al-jabr, which evolved into Al-gebra, or algebra.
• Edward Leedskalnin
• Sir Isaac Newton: As soon as I finish reading his Opticks and The Cambridge Companion to Newton, I'll have a commentary on him. I visited his tomb at the Westiminster Abbey last summer, one of the most spiritual experiences I ever had. Travelling to London to celebrate my 25th birthday, which coincided with the June 8, 2004 transit of Venus, barely visible from America. Westminster Abbey is very strict with their no-picture policy, but knowing that I was there to specifically pay my respects to Sir Isaac Newton, they led me into a cordoned-off area, off limits to the general public, where his tomb was at. The priest then told me to take as many pictures and videos as I wanted. I couldn't believe it, I was able to lay my hands against his sarcophagus, and kneel on his grave, literally inches away from his body (if it is still there). Ever since then, I have striven to emulate him. Click for pictures
• Ronald Reagan
• Nikola Tesla
• Leonardo da Vinci
• George Washington

My Interests

Stuff I have been meaning to do but constrained by my many priorities:

• Holography: I have two books on how to make holograms. It is relatively simple to do and set up. Light resonance is a really interesting area. You can do a lot with light. Especially as a 3-D medium to store and display sign language.
• Fly my radio control plane that I built in high school, but never had a real opportunity to fly and crash it.
• Build robots
  • One (or two) to keep Akhenaten and Nefertiti, my cats, busy
  • One that fingerspells. It will evolve into an android that can sign, useful for deaf-blind people.
• construct an augmented-reality system
• Write a book(s)
• Build a 360° camera-shot-revolution system (think the Matrix) so a 360° surrounding view of a person can be taken while signing, useful for learning sign language.
• build a speech-recognition system for Lola, my parrot.
  • Create training videos for Lola- so she will be able to understand what I sign and speak what I say. Don't laugh, I have done the research, it is possible.
• continue practicing writing backwards
• continue practicing my omnidexterity
  • developing my ambidexterity - writing with my wrong hand, the right hand (I am a southpaw)
  • Writing with both hands, simultaneously. Useful for developing an script for ASL. how can you think in ASL and write in the same time, in a fluid manner?
• keep up with my foreign language studies (first, get started!)
  • Chinese At least Ihave made some progress with Chinese. Chinese characters are so beautiful.
  • Hebrew- very, very dynamic! I am very interested why this is considered very close to our proto-language
  • Arabic
  • Hindi
• practice my sharpshooting so I can attend the 2009 Deaflympics in the shooting event. It has been one of my lifelong goals to go to the Olympics, and shooting is my best shot (no pun intended).
• much more! I have to translate them into binary form from either my inked paper-notes or holographic memory banks. Only then will this list grow.

Why am I telling you all this? I am no egoistical cockhead. I do not want to brag, thats the last thing I want to do. Rather, I just simply have too many things to do, and I have begun believing that the only way I can really get everything done is to call out a S.O.S., if you will, for me to join forces with others. That way, other like-minded people can roll up their sleeves and start doing the stuff necessary to prove that we, the Deaf, are capable of advancing ourselves. I already have too many things in my house waiting to be utilized! Ebay has a lot of stuff for sale. Women have their shoes. I have my Ebay. :)

Like Mark Twain said, "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

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