#1 - A Place to Write

I created this new blog, because I needed a place to record stuff (get it out of my brain). The more I get down out here, the more neurons available for new stuff. It always amazes me that this couple pounds of noggin can store all those movies, faces, music, and old girlfriends perfumes, recall them at will (most of the time) and still have room to cram more in.

I guess as I get older, I am getting more curious about ideas. There are some amazing people out there with ideas and explanations of how everything around us works. Someone introduced me to ted.com where interesting people are invited to give the 20 minute speech of their life. I would recommend you check it out.

For years I have followed the writing of David Brooks who is a columnist / political pundit (slightly right wing) for the New York Times. A couple of years back he got off on a neurology jag, trying to explain in his own mind, why politicians who are gifted people people, could go on and make really bad decisions. He started passing on, through his column and subsequent blog, what he found and I kind of followed along.

Humans are fascinatingly complex, as is the world, and he sort of discovered this.

So this is my little journal to jot stuff down. My disclaimer is that I am an engineer not a writer of any kind, so be kind. I think I the name Graham R. Spelling fits about right ...