Noders Whose Work I Seek Out to Read
- wertperch
- BlueDragon
- Two Sheds
- JerboaKolinowski
- Irexe
- Harpsichord_Fanatic
- jon-o
- All Things Tolkien
- To be continued...
My handle is derived from a Renaissance stringed instrument known as the Lute. I once spent considerable time performing on the instrument in the late 1970s. I was also studying at the university for a Bachelors in Fine Arts on the instrument. Even though I have not even tuned the instrument in over 20 years, let alone actually play, I still think of my sojourn in that world as defining (in part) who I am.
My goal is to create mostly factual WUs. I have already created a few personal experiential, editorial, or poetic WUs, but mostly I seek to add informative content to the nodegel.
I. Experienced Avatars Who Have Lent Me Their Wisdom
- dannye who blessed me with 25 votes to play with long before I understood their significance.
- JerboaKolinowski who has some very challenging ideas to discuss, if you have the strength.
- Lometa, wertperch, baffo, and anthropod who like renaissance music related write-ups.
- themusic and Whickernipple who enjoy the occasional philippic.
- sloebertje for "bon mots" on a WU in the Chatterbox.
- Ereneta and JayBonci for my Content Rescue contribution. I really must get back there and help out again. It was FUN!
- Pseudo_Intellectual, ProfessorPi, and nine9 who think scrolls of Tolkien stories are cool.
- mellamaphone, SEF, and BlueDragon who all offer thoughtful words of encouragement to a stranger (me) during a time of personal distress. (Thanks, ladies).
II. The Content Rescue Team
I have been fortunate to participate in one Content Rescue to date. JayBonci and team are a thoughtful set of E2ers working hard to improve the nodegel. Mosey on over to the Content Rescue set of write-ups and take a look at nodes in need of TLC. I found one I could assist with and was well rewarded for my efforts.
Nodes I hope to help fix, unless someone else finds the time before I get to it...
- strip mall: Nicely done by Ikura. Go vote for it, please.
Node I rescued:
III. Nodes I plan to Work On
Below is my planning list. It is subject to change based on searches of E2 for what may already exist as well as refining as I get into actual writing. For example, the Music Theory outline will probably change as I reacquaint myself with that field and figure out a way to properly organize the information.
Please do not hesitate to /msg me if you have comments or WU to point out to me.
- A World of Ideas: this is a node I have already written. It contains the possibility
of many more nodes - one or two each for the separate chapters in the two books by
Bill Moyers. This is what I consider my magnum opus. It will take me a long time and
will result in about 130 +/- WUs. I haven't created all the links from A World of Ideas
because I did not want to clutter the nodegel with 100 new nodeshells. If you create a node
from this page, let me know and I will link it in (i.e. author bio or a chapter summary).
I will have to periodically search E2 for new WUs that may fit here. Time has been my greatest constraint.
- Musical Theory
- Basic Materials and Properties
- Tone
- Time Elements
- Melody
- Harmony & Tonality
- Texture
- Dynamics
- Basic Materials and Properties
- Definitions
- Vocal
- Instrumental
- General Principals
- Simple Sectional Structures
- Variation Forms
- Larger Sectional Forms
- The Principal Contrapuntal Forms
- Free Forms
- Compound Structures
- Symphonic Music
- Opera
- Dance Music
- Folk Music and Nationalism
- Art Song
- Religious Music
- Absolute and Program Music
- Humor in Music
- Musical Style
- Medieval
- √ Renaissance is done in a general overview, but I wish to add another WU specifically for Renaissance Music.
- Baroque
- Classical
- Contemporary
- Galliarde
- Pavan
- Other dance forms
- Lute
- Sackbut
- Hurdy-Gurdy
- other musical instruments
- Valintin Bakfark (Hungarian Lute Player)
- Promissory Note
- Loan Prepayment Premium
- Mortgage
- Assignment of Leases and Rents
- Guaranty
- UCC (lien on personal property)
- Mortgage Financial Underwriting
- Commercial Mortgage Property types
- Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMO)
- Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS)
- Mortgage Loan Terms
- Commercial Mortgage Loan Due Diligence
- Commercial Mortgage Delinquent Loan Resolution Strategies
- Present Value Formula (6 functions of a dollar)
- Real Estate Appraisal
- Mortgage Banking Company Operations
- Servicing Agreement (a type of contract)
- Inspection Report
- Property Operating Statement Analysis
- Debt Service Coverage Ratio
- Foreclosure Process
- Receiver
- Partial Release
- Eminent Domain
- Average Life and other financial terms
- Loan Amortization Schedules
- Right of the Guest Friend in Ancient Greek Literature
- Development of the Ricercare (a music form for the Lute)
- Object-Oriented Development Methodologies
- Prolog - already been done. Nice work by irexe.
- Comparing Programming Language Paradigms
- Interpreters
- Expert Systems
- Patterns - a taxonomy of learning programming patterns.
- √ Client Server
- √ Enterprise JavaBeans
- √ Writing Effective Use Cases
IV. Other Ideas or Subjects I would like to see in E2
- The Paideia Program - an educational philosophy and program by a consortium of educators led by Mortimer Adler
- How To Read A Book by Mortimer Adler.
- Organizations of encyclopedia by Adler
- An Outline form for write-ups on books: fiction, non-fiction (science, philosophy, etc.)
- Book Summaries using the Book Outline Form
- Consciousness Explained and other writings by Dr. Daniel Dennett
- The Meme Machine by Blackmore
- A Question of Values by Lewis
- books by Edward de Bono
- Van Loon's Lives by Henric van Loon
- Creativity Techniques
- √ Daily Creative Thinking Activities
- √ Psychological Theories of Creativity
- √ How Creative Are You
- more to follow
- College Degrees - history of, general requirements of, etc (Associates, Bachelor, Masters, Ph D.)
- Ontology
- General Thinking Skills
- Debate style argumentation
- Personality Types
- Nodes on U.S. Supreme Court Decisions
- Henry Schoolcraft - The First Man in the USA to Ask Directions.
- YMCA Voyagers Program (a parent-child activity group fka Indian Guides/Princesses)
- Lucid Dreaming
- Sonnet form of Poetry
- Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
- Reading Difficulty Scales
- √ Career Planning
V. Nodeshells I Created and Need to Fill In
Feel free to fill these in if the mood strikes you. Let me know if you do and I will cross them off this list.
- nobles - as in a socio-economic class in feudal societies.
- idea cartographer
- flower arranging
- Japanese White Pine
- Trident Maple
- Earl of Essex
- Sir Robert Cecil (from Queen Elizabeth I Court)
- Duke of Brunswick (from Queen Elizabeth I Court)
- Prince Henry (from Queen Elizabeth I Court)
- Landgrave of Hesse (1600s)
- Grand Duke of Tuscany (1600s)
- Christian IV of Denmark (1600s)
- daler (Danish coin circa 1600)
- U.S. Naval War College
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- American Jewish League
- U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
- Radcliffe College
- Institute of Pacific Relations
- War in Spain (a magazine in first half of 20th Century)
- Far East News (a magazine in first half of 20th Century)
- Office of War Information (U.S. first half of 20th Century)
- Jessica Tuchman Mathews
- Joseph (W. ?) Stilwell. American General circa first half of 20th Century
- 14th Century (create a series of individual years?)
- parochial loyalties
- personal intellectual freedom
- obligations of citizenship
- life of the mind
- life of the republic
- orienteer
- √ Family Law in America and Europe
- moral sense
- white collar crime
- false dealing
- Beruit(city in Lebanon)
- Robert Morris (of Revolutionary America)
- Mayflower Madam
- nobility of purpose (what a "hero" has)
- deeds of valor (what a "hero" does)
- independent means
- William the Silent (maybe under another name on E2)
- Family Law
- Human Rights
- Constitutional Law
- The New Republic
- Ford Foundation Fellowship
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- admitted to the bar (law term)
- European Economic Community
- Constitutional Rights
- federal law
- Francis I (circa 1538 in France/Italy)
- City Elders
- broken consort (a Renaissance type of musical ensemble)
- black bird (from Flow My Teares) - give def or add Beatles song lyrics?
- lyra viol
- Tobias Hume (tobacco fame)
- dinner theater
- viola da braccio
- inner voice (musical term)
- Orlando Gibbons
- cittern
- pandora
- Thomas Morley
- finger board (part of stringed instrument)
- pegbox (part of stringed instrument)
- tonal quality (music see viola da gamba)
- concert hall
- Marin Marais (French Viola da Gamba player. Court of Louis XIV)
- discretionary income
- Phillip the Handsome (Renaissance opulence)
- Louis Duke of Savoy (Renaissance opulence)
- Andreas Vesalius
- Badlands National Park, South Dakota, USA
- √ Voronwe
- √ Tumladen
- Huon, the Hound of the Valar
- Thranduil, Elf King in Mirkwood.
- Numenor (a pre-existing nodeshell, I can't believe no one has noded this!)
- Nienor (sister and companion to Turin
- Ted Nasmith (artist, known for Tolkien renditions)
- Ecthelion (elf lord in Gondolin)
- John Howe (artist, Tolkien renditions)
- Tol Sirion (location in Tolkien's Middle-earth)
- Battle of Unnumbered Tears (Tolkien; First Age Battles; add all of them?)
- Vinyamar (location in Tolkien's Middle-earth)
- Roger Garland (artist, Tolkien renditions)
- Karen Wynn Fonstad
- √ The Atlas of Middle-Earth
- Tirion (on Tuna) (location in Tolkien's Middle-earth)
- Xanthippus (father of Pericles of Athens)
- Marathon (ancient Greece)
- Battle of Marathon
- Agarite (mother of Pericles)
- Battle of Mycale (Pericles father fought there)
- Cleisthenes (maternal g'uncle of Pericles; Athens government reformer)
- Damon (Ancient Greek musician)
- Pythocleides (tutor of Pericles)
- Anaxogoras (ancient Greek philosopher)
VI. Personal Stuff
For starters:- male, born 1956
- Location: "Somewhere in the midwest" (says Joan Baez in a song (presumably) about Bob Dylan (circa 1975)
- single
- 4 children
- hair: lets just say that its a lot like money: the less you have the more you are concerned with the location of it. ;-)
- education:
- BS in Elementary Education
- MBA in Finance
- MS in Software Engineering (in progress)
- reading:
- science fiction
- fantasy
- historical novels
- programming skill building books
- playing with my kids
- programming
- occasionally writing sonnets
- making Tolkien Scrolls (see www.TheOneRing.net Green Books Section, Guest Columnist, Sept 2001, "Scrolls of Middle-Earth" by Lute.)
- get in cardiovascular shape
- obtain a new career in Software Engineering