This was to have been my Father's Day tribute but I was having a hard time figuring out the picture thing and an even harder time trying to formulate the sentiment.
My Dad was always interested in the innovative -- be it a new way to do something old or a new way to do something new. Of the former, he once built a vibraphone using aluminum bar stock for the sounding boards and paper towel tubes as the resonators. Genious! Real genious!
Dad was my hero in many areas. He was my original "outside the box" thinker. My first real teaching was "never the same river." I don't even remember the name of the book now, but the lesson for me at age ten was awesome. Dad learned about computers early on and was into e-mails when his old poop peers were doddering to their pill boxes. He did crossword puzzles daily.
When the first leaks about a new and innovative means of transport were first heard, Dad was on it -- before it was even named. He tracked down some of the early schematics and subsequently followed its progress. I don't remember if he lived to see a picture of a proto type, but he KNEW that it was going to work. And it has.
The point of this whole thing is that on Father's Day this year there was an "old car" show at our local park AND the Segway people had their models there for trial runs. Well, here I am. Here's to you, Dad. You knew.
My Dad was always interested in the innovative -- be it a new way to do something old or a new way to do something new. Of the former, he once built a vibraphone using aluminum bar stock for the sounding boards and paper towel tubes as the resonators. Genious! Real genious!
Dad was my hero in many areas. He was my original "outside the box" thinker. My first real teaching was "never the same river." I don't even remember the name of the book now, but the lesson for me at age ten was awesome. Dad learned about computers early on and was into e-mails when his old poop peers were doddering to their pill boxes. He did crossword puzzles daily.
When the first leaks about a new and innovative means of transport were first heard, Dad was on it -- before it was even named. He tracked down some of the early schematics and subsequently followed its progress. I don't remember if he lived to see a picture of a proto type, but he KNEW that it was going to work. And it has.
The point of this whole thing is that on Father's Day this year there was an "old car" show at our local park AND the Segway people had their models there for trial runs. Well, here I am. Here's to you, Dad. You knew.
