Innovation and Creativity from a recent blog source via EntreCard

Taking one's self too seriously is not good policy for Creativity and Innovation.

I am most indebted to David Farrimond for his links and introduction to his non-vulgar humerous approach and work.

A few rapid personal picks.

IDEA GENERATION THEORY -Full Menu and Game


Game Direct Link

EMBRACE FAILURE

NB does not mean:
"Do not seek success and its rewards", but rather should be consider as a means to re-gain the elasticity, necessary to rebound. "The ups and downs of life like cars gas guzzlers or the clean car, still in the "pipeline" need rubber like elasticity."

Embrace Failure (Prose- almost poetry)

But do seek success
For and in, it's own,
rich Rewards.

Most economical
Don't you think.
No stress on me
Fat-Cat-Lid, comical
laugh's Inwards.

Re-gain that elasticity,
So necessary to rebound.
"The ups and downs of life
Need rubber like tenacity."

Gas guzzlers or clean
Car dreams , alike!
The latter lacking liquidity.
The Fat and the lean

Are still, very much,
"in-the-pipeline"

Prose or poetry? My franco-Scots playing tricks on my mind
for prose : pro - ose (ose in french means dare)
MacDiarmid must be turning in his grave!

An Innovative Energy Network Brings Carbon-Credit Hope-Highlighted by my poem "THE DC NETWORK" High Voltage Direct Current -Also Sound Advice on HIV

This militant poem, "The DC NETWORK!" was posted earlier as an add-on to

"Letter in the Scottish Tradition-"LE TRAVAIL C’EST LA SANTE…"
(a damned good job too!)

Due to the value of the Innovation's refered to,(1)HVDC[link] & Materials Science's Role (rubber)[via IOM3 Link] in Battle against HIV, I appeared highly desireable to give my poem & links (TBD)higher visibility.

Source of Inspiration:
Footnote Sus Dev: ref. "Material Matters" & Letters to the Editor Materials World & our following debate on HVDC:

"The DC NETWORK!"

HVDC should in no-way be confused with HIV.

Both refer to distributed energy, waste to flee!

HIV needs no explanation for today's generation,

-Remember...!

HVDC means High Voltage Direct Current, premption

Notice here that, "mean" takes an "s", giving "means"!
Both relie on the Materials Sci. Scot, rubber(s) for insulation.
Let worldly saints see,

Lack of protection is Devil's temptation.

Soon the world solar energy links,
May end the current energy jinks,

Wind in Scotland powering Poland & Germany!

Can you just imagine, more than one man thinks

A 6million kilted, bagpipe nation starts to dream a link

Fossile energy sources may end some day - happily,
Spreading, comfort instead of dire, wild-fire
The latter is a climate change hard trier.

Trust the solar-nuclear; Wind & water
Marine-Hydro, Fuel Cells & Geothermal
Decide on Solar source, dash...
Not just all that,trash and hash.

Scottish Mettle!

copyright JA (080328)

It is particularily fitting to dedicate this post to the Pylon Poets.

[& again thanks Jack -Material Matters, Materials World -IOM3, Sept. 2002, p70. ]
The so-called "Pylon poets" of the 1930s were mocked for writing poetry that seemed to praise the scourge of the National Grid spreading itself across the hills and valleys; Stephen Spender, W.H. Auden and Louis MacNeice all got tainted with the brush (even though Spender's original Pylon poem doesn't seem all that straight-forwardly enthusiastic if you read it now).
But it reminds me of our current national debate about wind farms. I absolutely love the idea of a landscape which combines respect for our architectural heritage, with a delight in what is to come - and for me, wind farms and pylons are exciting: a gorgeous, exhilarating sight. But to listen to some Radio 4 phone-ins, you'd think I was completely alone. Now I've got Brian Hayes, though, I know there must be other people out there who like pylons. courtesy of The Independent, Emma Townshend.

Footnote: The excellent "Leonardo Energy" web site, is managed by The European Copper Institute

MORE on RUBBER - Roadmap for Rubber & Polymers, please Comment

My Poem on Mechanical Limits-"NEWTON IS DEAD."

LIMITS TO A PHYSICAL & MECHANICAL APPROACH.

NEWTON is DEAD.

(Inspired by -“Newton is dead” by Peter M. Allen, Prof. of Physical Chemistry,MIT

ref: “La Mort d'Newton”

Ed. Maisonneuve & Larose(in French translated from Italian under the direction of Augusto Forti-Bureau Européen de l’UNESCO, Paris).

"NEWTON is DEAD".
Newtonian physics and thermodynamics have succeeded.

In economy, biology, and ecology, problems have receded.

Based upon some false sense of equilibrium,

We have reduced the complex sys. Triumvirum

To some potential function; utility, convenience, efficiency,

Vital to human condition if only one could wait and see.

The blind watchmaker has had his say.

Old man time has cast his arrows way,

Breaking the egg timers universal symmetry.

Please don’t get me wrong, there is no gimmickry.

Even in evolution, which is where it’s at,

Darwin is in essence a view of the past.

The mechanical world is in a right damned panic,

Dissipative processes have sapped dynamics.

In breaking systems into constitutive parts,

Atoms and molecules have lost life’s spark.

Could it be that my own equilibrium is fleeting

From balanced short time to long* my life eating?

Because all is not of equal possibility,

We simply seek the average probability.

But this machine, I may tell you, can only function.

It’s job is not to compete, co-operate, disposition.

To grow, evolve, and even innovate.

Continuous learning, conscience create!

Only as a mainly mortiferrous linear decision,

Can physics keep its present power of prevision;

Entropy, Free Energy potential associates imposes relaxation,

Inevitably deterministic, predetermined, equilibrium variation.

This last word is to-days reality,

Far from all known bounds of reversibility,

Instabilities three wicked witches, turn, twist, and flirt

**“Out of line” modern body of physics & chemistry comforts it.

Do you get the picture of the human system devotion?

Individual components immerged in a potential ocean,

Whose evolving contours are hills and valley postures,

Hyphens for present and possible (potential) futures,

And each of them as in some fog or smog vaguely visible.

Choose carefully here, the dreams of some brave individual!

For awaits devilish dilemmas fork, requiring doctor’s care,

Or on average smooth, sooth, through fear of life’s dare,

For history moves equally to individuals and to systems rhythm

At least this is Peter’s hope;DASHED & DROWNED?

[**& NSF below ]

Here I must stop least language becomes the new barrierOf our species,

much worse than any animal carrier.

*(Long & short time economic model-pendulum?/eqm.)

**Non-linear

Jas. Alexander © (written about 12/12/1999 .This edition 20 Sept. 2001 & 11Oct.)

Please quote the author in any communication/transmission, written or verbal… copyright © J.A
More on Entropy [Link] or

[Link]

Practical Applications of Thermodynamics &

Communities-Families:[Link]

My Poem,"Toe the line" on LEARNING-HORIZONS/HORIZONS APPRENANTES!

Time to leave my translations of Hugh MacDiarmid and introduce some "pseudo-science..." through one of my own Franco-English poetry efforts.

LEARNING HORIZONS/HORIZONS APPRENANTES!

- The super-cord runners! -

Alternative title: "The Prefect's Prayer"

(It is based upon the very clear short book "Les Constantes Universelles" (Universal Constants in english) by the Physics Nobel Prize winner Gilles Cohen Tannoudji. I warmly recommend both C. Cohen-Tannoudji's book for the concise,insightful account of the universal constants; G, c, k & h the gravitational constant,the speed of light,Boltzmann and Planck'constants respectively
“Les Constantes Universelles”[pdf] par Gilles Cohen-Tannoudji )

Other Inspirations and influences on this approach are due to

Interdisciplinary Reviews Ed. J.E.Harris & Order in Intermetallics by R.W.Cahn.(ref.author's signed print transmitted personnaly, many thanks) & to the late
J. Rotblatt-founder of Pugwash "1st meeting,Pugwash,Nova Scotia,Canada" Hi forever!)

Toe the line

("A vos marques")
Ce n’est pas un terrassement
Toe the line
C’est le début du commencement
Toe the line
C’est l’intention absolue de dépassement
Toe the line
Maintenant, les yeux rivés, fixement
Toe the line
Sur la corde plus que jamais, en filament

Bang ! Soit-il grand !

Big-Bang blum,
On est sur la piste.
Stu-Peur !

C'est une horizon qui s'éloigne

Et une autre horizon qui s'approche.
Ce sont les concurrents qui s’éloignent.

Les un des autres, les horizons témoignent
Par déplacements, expansions bidirectionnelle,
Le corps s’échauffe,

Comme un ressort!
Mais l’esprit reste froid, calme comme la nuit.
Le but atteint, c’est l’horizon affranchi
Les corps se rencontrent, de nouveaux se percutent.
Sourires ou larmes, des visages s’allument,
Embrassant vainqueurs et vaincus.
Dans l’effervescence, le temps s’arrête.
Au-delà du tout "quantum" discernabilité,
On a inventé "l’amplitude de la probabilité".
Nous sommes spectateurs, des parieurs tous !
Mais dans l’énergie de l'action, on vit,
Ici, maintenant, conscience
On découvre la remise des médailles,
manifestation de la life réalité !

So-t
Toe the line! - all in Time-GENTLEMEN-Please.

(Coude à Coude, derniers Verres, Messieurs, SVP.)

Jas. Alexander © (29/03/2001 up-date2008)
(m. j. a. m- mostly just a metallurgist).

LETTER in the SCOTTISH TRADITION

The Poet Robert Burns
portait by Alexander Muir

LETTER in the SCOTTISH TRADITION.

to an english("american") speaking french friend

"LE TRAVAIL C’EST LA SANTE…"

(a damned good job too!)

Too much welfare

Not enough work-fare -

Or is it work-fair,

Not to be confused with warfare?

Every man must ask,

When is workfare not welfare?

Or should I enquire,

When is a fair day's work, welfare?
I would like to reply that in the balance:

Quand bien est biens et biens est bien,

When goods "eez" good and good "eez" goods,

When mean, on average, is written with an "s",

(then neither Gâchi nor Gachette win the day)

Aye indeed, cast your minds eye* owre the latter

parent'thesis.

"Cause",when well is fare and fare is well,

Work-fair is welfare,

Neither deprivation, nor even starvation

But on a bad day, what is the option?

For on a bad day that is adoption.

But I truly feel that this may be;

The eternal Dilemma,

For which no doctor has yet the answer

But we can try; lets say, “Farewell”

Be fair, before degradation and stagnation,

For on a bad day, that is the adoption."

"Let not despair get it's grip,

But continue in good cheer.

"Quand bien est biens et biens est bien

And goods are good and good means goods,

For note here too, mean is written with an 's',

And neither (Gâchi nor Gachette) win the day,

Cause they have been put under parenthesis."

Now work is fair and fare is well

Work-fair is welfare for sure."

-Add On For Good Measure-

"A last one for the road?"

Drive safely, drive with care,
Drive smoothly, drive slowly

easy on the gas, by god!

& Revolution looses it's "R" me lad,

(Of Long John Silver black-spots beware,)

For then Revolution is Evolution & that too is true for sure.

Thus Nature's self is Satisfied.

Post Scriptum

Did I hear you say when cows can fly and elephants too?
Ever try the Beluga-Dirigeable-exUnlead Zeppelin*

Pan EU-rail better than road or boat?

SUN FLOWER on "ZEPPELIN" from BP-"OLEDs meditations"

on Sustainable Development (Sus Dev).

from a french tongue-in-cheek joke:
"Work is good for your health
The less one does the better one feels."

"Le travail, c'est la santé

Le moins on fait

Le mieux on se porte."

*due to the late Scots poet, Christopher Murray Grieve, alias Hugh Macdiarmid.

Footnote Sus Dev: ref. "Material Matters" & Letters to the Editor Materials World & following debate on HVDC:

HVDC should in no-way be confused with HIV.
Both refer to distributed energy, waste to flee!
HIV needs no explanation for today's generation
HVDC means High Voltage Direct Current, premption
Notice here that, "mean" takes an "s", giving "means"!

Both relie on the Material Sci, rubber(s) for insulation.

Let worldly saints see, lack of protection is sins temptation

Soon the world solar energy links,

May end the current energy jinks!

Let confort spread, instead of wild-fire

The latter is a climate change hard trier

Trust the solar-nuclear; Wind & water

Marine-Hydro, Fuel Cells & Geothermal

Decide on Solar source, dash...

Not just all that,trash & hash.