We’re Surfers not Waves

Perhaps you and I are something like compositions, concepts, ideas, tunes, or maybe just alphabetic letters in/of the Mind of one spacelesss, timeless, placeless Being.
Meanwhile, each tiny atom is encapsulated in its own tiny electron cloud; a minuscule prison. Each infinitesimally small prison is coupled to the next to create a vast network [...]

Tips For Inventors

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Got a ‘great idea’ and want free advice on how to handle it? Here:
Promote rather than patent
I believe it is usually better to give an idea to the public via an announcement, article or video uploaded to http://youtube.com/ than to start dumping money into attorney’s fees. Patents are expensive to begin with, then suck you [...]

Brain Swells

My brain is a reef, immersed in fluid. It’s subject to the same tidal influences as the sea.
Moon phases, astrological alignments, infusion by sunlight, occlusion by fog, even subtle changes in clouds overhead … all vary my mood, interests and capabilities.
Face this way or that, shave head, kink, straighten or part hair left or right, [...]

Morey’s First Surfboard Ride

Summer 1951, Tom Morey is 16, and walking south from Main beach until he comes to the south end of Oak Street Beach. Lying directly across his path was a redwood/balsa board . “I would have had to step over it to continue so instead I stopped, looked to my right and saw easy low [...]

Why Y

My parents, your parents: they were kids.
The name they gave me, thank you, nice try and I am honored.  However, I’ve changed, times have changed and “Thomas Hugh Morey” is pretty long… also a little stuffy.
Plus, lately I’ve been trimming down my kit. So there being hundreds of “Morey”s in the world, and zero people named “Y”, I’m gradually [...]