About Delphi Chops
Hello, and welcome to my Technical Blog, Delphi Chops. The name is derived from musician's jingo. When a trumpet player refers to his "chops" he's talking about his embrochure, or the way he uses his mough and lips to produce the sound that we know as a trumpet. Saying that a musician has "great chops" is a slang way of saying that the musician has developed a professional level of competence in the field and his or her chosen instrument.
I hope I can earn my Delphi Chops with this blogging effort.
A Little About Me
I have a long history of doing a number of different things, but somehow I keep returning to IT, software, and now AI.l Previously I have worked in a number of different jobs:
- Railroad Brakeman
- Office Services Manager
- System Programmere
- IT Instructor
- Horticulture
- Greenhouse Operator
- Nonpdrofit Administrator
My IT experience has been in a number of areas:
- Railroad Accounting
- Programming Manager For a Small Corporation
- System Support Engineer
- Health Care
- Insurance
- Banking and Finance
Educationally I hold a couple of degrees:
- BA from Wabash College
- Master of Nonprofit Administration from North Park University
- MBA from North Park University
My values are generally derived from the mottos of two organizations that have had profound impact on my thinking:
- Wabash College
- Scientae et Virtuti (Knowledge and Virtue)
- Bohemian Theater Ensemble
- Truth, Beauty, Freedom, Love
Current Objectives
I have always been interested in learning new things. For that reason, AI has a particular interest for me. I currently spend a lot of time studying, coding and writing about various things, all with the intention of improving my skill set as we move forward with what appears to be a revolutionary technology.
The landscape is changing, and I'd like to be a part of the change and to help others along the way by sharing what I've learned over a long and varied career.
Enjoy the Road to Ithaka
I hope you find my writing and experience useful and informative. Please let me know what I can do to help improve the experience. I'll do what I can to make your visit here something you'll remember and return to.
I'll close with this poem from the Greek poet, C.P.Cavafy, who gave us this metaphore for a life's journey.
Ithaka
by C.P.Cavafy
As you set out for Ithaka
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.
Hope your road is a long one.
May there be many summer mornings when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you enter harbors you’re seeing for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind—
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to learn and go on learning from their scholars.
Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you’re destined for.
But don’t hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you’re old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you’ve gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.
Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you wouldn't have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you’ll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.
See: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51296/ithaka-56d22eef917ec