Background on Names
Backround on the some of the names I have used for my workstations:
- Seldon
- Was (is, will be, ..) the psychohistorian of the
Galatic Empire of Isaac Asimov. Seldon's development
of the precise mathematics of psychohistory allowed
him to see that tens of thousands of years of anarchy
in the aftermath of the crumbling Galactic Empire
could be avoided only through careful manipulation of
society and established the Foundation to accomplish this.
- Affine
- af.fine \a-'fin, *-\ adj [L affinis, adj.] : of,
relating to, or being a transformation that transforms
straight lines into straight lines and parallel lines
into parallel lines but may alter distance between
points and angles between lines {~ geometry}
(See for example BL0113560-930820-28TM)
- Phaedrus
- Phaedrus was a 5th century BC Greek philosopher, whose
spirit haunted Persig in "Zen and the Art of
Motorcycle Maintenance". Phaedrus represented one of
two opposing world views: those who try to understand
their world by decomposing it into constituent parts
as opposed to those for who such knowledge of
structure destroys the beauty (and mystery) of the
whole. This analytical approach vs mysticism is
reflected in those who maintain their own motorbikes
because their love the engineering vs those who refuse
to learn how they work because knowing interferes with
the gestalt appreciation. I am a decompositionalist
and so identify with Phaedrus. (There was also a 1st
century AD Roman fabulist by the name of Phaedrus.)
- Arrakis
- The desert planet (also called "Dune") in the novel
Dune by science fiction writer, Frank Herbert,
home of the Atreides family, the Fremen people and the
awesome sandworms -- creatures so huge that one might
swallow a hundred men in a gulp -- and their master,
the Dune Messiah, Muad'dib.
terry@JanAndTerry.net
(Terry L Anderson)