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Liquid3D · 02-14-2004, 06:01 PM

I am truly grateful for all the help! It's true many people have their struggles, and many are much less fortunate then I am. I too re-kindled my interest in PC's because I loss partial use of my legs. I can walk, but can only stand for a few minutes. In so far as my personal problems and struggles in life, they weren't really germane to the conversation, that simply came from an emotive place. One thing I do want to make clear, I am very fortunate, and extremely grateful. Although I live in Low Cost housing, I have a million dollar view, and live in a wonderfully quaint New England town a few feet from the ocean.

I too had a car accident after my original back injury, being struck in the medical van on the way to a Pain Management clinic, hehe. I'm lucky I can look back and laugh at the irony in that. Yet it did give me the opportunity, to stop running around as a 30-something yr-old kid, trying to surf bigger, and bigger waves, until I perished. It gave me pause to self-acutalize, mature, and begin to write (beyond PC hardwarel). At least I was able to do those things, because I had so many problems when I was young, it was easy to rationalize living in Central America, california, Colorado, Utah, Hawaii, etc surfing, and basicaly doing a lot of playing. years prior when my addiction came to a head, I went from a maximum security prison, to a 21-month inpatient drug treatment program, to the National Student Exchange. All so I could go to the University of Utah take graduate level Philosophy classes, and ski Park City, and the Wassatch. By the way I never killed anyone or anything, I was cuaght carrying a pistol without a permit, as cocaine makes one slightly paranoid. And I'm not proud of my past, I spend almost every day learning to forgive mysself, but remembering I owe society a debt for saving me. The program I entered practized self-acutalization through total honesty. they didn't care about drugs, they cared about why you did them. They knew anything could be a drug. There are all sorts of addictions. Drugs, money, status, power, relationships, etc. They allowed me to experience the childhood I'd never had (and I don't blame my family either). Looking back, when I'd left that program I was physically 25, and emotionally 15. I'd picked up where my emotional development arrested. Anyway, I'm basically saying, I really don't sit around feeling sorry for myself, I am a VERY fortunate person. I'm very lucky to be able to think, when so many drink or drug themselves into mental illness.

I am being completely honest, when I say the last few posts have been the most astute, and thoughtful advice I've ever recieved resulting from a critque of a review. I did read the article on improving flow rate, and bookmarked it for reference. I'd also like to thank Jay Dee 116, that was a very kind offer. This is why I became slightly defensive around JMKE, he has assisted me in this area, with the following www.ksBrainstorms.com . I have a long way to go, and perhaps what frustrate's me most is my illnesses. I'm often very tired, or unable to work a full 8-hours even though I'm not on my feet. At 41, my body has been ravaged from all angles. When I stopped using drugs twenty years ago, it seems I abused myself physically extreme skiing, surfing, and biking. I had an excellent diet, but lately Ben&Jerry's is winning the battle.

All that personal fodder aside, I simply wanted to share this info about myself, as I acutually joined this forum about 10-days ago (before the review was published). I feel this is one of, if not the best, water-cooling forum on the Net. Yes that contradicts my earlier statement, I was being defensive, and that's one reason I apologized. So I want you to know, I'm not that pompous ass who attempts to be superior through wirting style. I re-read the article, and will be implementing much of the advice I've read here.

Some points were made which really illuminate what's happening here. I happen to love those well written essays in neurophilosophy by authors such as Thomas Nagel; http://www.silcom.com/~teragram/bat.html While I beleive many PC-Enthusiasts are highly intelligent people, who have no problem understanding extrapolate (by the way your right, to extrapolate is to take known facts and create a hypothesis, I basically did the opposite) if i'm "writing to educate," then I'm "singing to the choir." It's difficult to find that balance of reaching a large audience, yet being able to use terminology which best describes. I guess that's what makes the article on Maximizing Flow Rate so dam god. it takes highly technical information, and makes it accessable to a large audience. I see now I'm doing the opposite. Because I lack some of the proper testing hardware, I beleive I may be trying to compensate with esoteric terms. This is a an esoteric subject, but even I said watercooling is becoming more mainstream. Thank you all, I'm being serious when I say I haven't had such a good lesson in writing since I took a Sophmore level philosophy class at Mount Holyoke College. I really struggled in that class, and I remember that Professor telling me some of the same things you are. Thank you.

02-14-2004, 06:01 PM	#53
Liquid3D I am such a ****tard. Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Newport, RI USA Posts: 12	I am truly grateful for all the help! It's true many people have their struggles, and many are much less fortunate then I am. I too re-kindled my interest in PC's because I loss partial use of my legs. I can walk, but can only stand for a few minutes. In so far as my personal problems and struggles in life, they weren't really germane to the conversation, that simply came from an emotive place. One thing I do want to make clear, I am very fortunate, and extremely grateful. Although I live in Low Cost housing, I have a million dollar view, and live in a wonderfully quaint New England town a few feet from the ocean. I too had a car accident after my original back injury, being struck in the medical van on the way to a Pain Management clinic, hehe. I'm lucky I can look back and laugh at the irony in that. Yet it did give me the opportunity, to stop running around as a 30-something yr-old kid, trying to surf bigger, and bigger waves, until I perished. It gave me pause to self-acutalize, mature, and begin to write (beyond PC hardwarel). At least I was able to do those things, because I had so many problems when I was young, it was easy to rationalize living in Central America, california, Colorado, Utah, Hawaii, etc surfing, and basicaly doing a lot of playing. years prior when my addiction came to a head, I went from a maximum security prison, to a 21-month inpatient drug treatment program, to the National Student Exchange. All so I could go to the University of Utah take graduate level Philosophy classes, and ski Park City, and the Wassatch. By the way I never killed anyone or anything, I was cuaght carrying a pistol without a permit, as cocaine makes one slightly paranoid. And I'm not proud of my past, I spend almost every day learning to forgive mysself, but remembering I owe society a debt for saving me. The program I entered practized self-acutalization through total honesty. they didn't care about drugs, they cared about why you did them. They knew anything could be a drug. There are all sorts of addictions. Drugs, money, status, power, relationships, etc. They allowed me to experience the childhood I'd never had (and I don't blame my family either). Looking back, when I'd left that program I was physically 25, and emotionally 15. I'd picked up where my emotional development arrested. Anyway, I'm basically saying, I really don't sit around feeling sorry for myself, I am a VERY fortunate person. I'm very lucky to be able to think, when so many drink or drug themselves into mental illness. I am being completely honest, when I say the last few posts have been the most astute, and thoughtful advice I've ever recieved resulting from a critque of a review. I did read the article on improving flow rate, and bookmarked it for reference. I'd also like to thank Jay Dee 116, that was a very kind offer. This is why I became slightly defensive around JMKE, he has assisted me in this area, with the following www.ksBrainstorms.com . I have a long way to go, and perhaps what frustrate's me most is my illnesses. I'm often very tired, or unable to work a full 8-hours even though I'm not on my feet. At 41, my body has been ravaged from all angles. When I stopped using drugs twenty years ago, it seems I abused myself physically extreme skiing, surfing, and biking. I had an excellent diet, but lately Ben&Jerry's is winning the battle. All that personal fodder aside, I simply wanted to share this info about myself, as I acutually joined this forum about 10-days ago (before the review was published). I feel this is one of, if not the best, water-cooling forum on the Net. Yes that contradicts my earlier statement, I was being defensive, and that's one reason I apologized. So I want you to know, I'm not that pompous ass who attempts to be superior through wirting style. I re-read the article, and will be implementing much of the advice I've read here. Some points were made which really illuminate what's happening here. I happen to love those well written essays in neurophilosophy by authors such as Thomas Nagel; http://www.silcom.com/~teragram/bat.html While I beleive many PC-Enthusiasts are highly intelligent people, who have no problem understanding extrapolate (by the way your right, to extrapolate is to take known facts and create a hypothesis, I basically did the opposite) if i'm "writing to educate," then I'm "singing to the choir." It's difficult to find that balance of reaching a large audience, yet being able to use terminology which best describes. I guess that's what makes the article on Maximizing Flow Rate so dam god. it takes highly technical information, and makes it accessable to a large audience. I see now I'm doing the opposite. Because I lack some of the proper testing hardware, I beleive I may be trying to compensate with esoteric terms. This is a an esoteric subject, but even I said watercooling is becoming more mainstream. Thank you all, I'm being serious when I say I haven't had such a good lesson in writing since I took a Sophmore level philosophy class at Mount Holyoke College. I really struggled in that class, and I remember that Professor telling me some of the same things you are. Thank you. Last edited by Liquid3D; 02-14-2004 at 06:12 PM.