My friend Dave Maymudes ... points out that over the years, as Microsoft employees got rich from stock options, people left the company in waves....
So he got rich, then what?
Seattle-based David Maymudes studied number theory, computer science and theoretical physics before spending a decade as a software architect and development lead at Microsoft. In 2000, David headed in to the outfield to work on PRT (Personal Rapid Transit) systems, studying the mathematical theory underlying them and the computer software necessary to implement them. He and his cohorts have come up with a notion that is extraordinarily elegant, reasonably priced, and at first glance, quite nuts. See what you think! http://www.gettherefast.org/
David Maymudes is on the Taxi 2000web site.
David Maymudes also has a PRT-supporting foundation.
Maymudes is also a member with some other PRT promoters such as Emory Bundy and Jerry Schneider in CETA which opposes LRT and commuter rail.
... and the creationist think tank Discovery Institute's Cascadia Project invited David Maymudes to give a talk about PRT (the event also offered a "selection of regional wine and cheeses)... Microsofties and Discovery Institute... hmmmm. ...
Here's Maymudes doing what PRTistas always do, bash light rail transit:
"Light Rail gets justified a lot by saying "well, we need to have *some* alternative to driving, so we should make this investment, even if it ends up costing a huge amount for each new transit passenger." For a potentially much better alternative, which may really happen in the next 3-5 years somewhere, you should learn about Personal Rapid Transit. For a video of what it would look like on the Microsoft Redmond Campus, see http://www.bettercampus.org or http://www.cities21.org/Redmond.htm"
Here's a picture of Maymudes on the board of the "Advanced Transit Association" without anything to say for himself:
What a waste.
Why didn't he just use his money to buy a yacht or a baseball team or his own island?
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Hey Kentweed, it's me trying to help again. When are you going to stop with the personal attacks? Because this is the lamest one yet, you're not doing what's left of your image any good.
Especially the stuff where you sneer at Maymudes because he earned his money through his intelligence, instead of inheriting it. You just sound envious as well as anti-intellectual, you know?
Define "bashing." I read what you think is a bashing, and Maymudes sounds quite reasonable, and you sound like the frother.
Maymudes also donates to the University of Washington School of Public Health & Community Medicine, are you going to go after them too? That's rhetorical, I don't mean you should actually go after them.
Hope this helps!
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Why so nervous, Mr. Gow?
Shame on Maymudes, putting his money where his mouth is! Shame on him for not supporting light rail, even though he believes PRT is a better way!
How dare he leave Microsoft for a project he believes in! How dare he invest some of the money he earned in something he supports! The nerve of some people!
Nervous? I think you're projecting. I'm just trying to offer my help to a man. A man I know as Kiln Ovendoor. An artist. A community activist. An environmentalist. A perfectionist, who will repeat the same action again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again, until he gets it right!
But my point is that Kiln is a human being! He's had a hard life! He was raised by wolves! In an abandoned streetcar! Under a freeway overpass!
Knowing that, can you blame him for his seeking comfort in light rail, his fear of highways, or the fact that he volunteers for a wildlife rescue center, where he personally breastfeeds orphaned wolf pups? How can you dislike someone like that? I know I can't.
Don't worry, Kiln. I know your 'hatred' toward me, your 'suspicion', 'the 'accusations' are just cries for help. And I'll be here for you, man! I'll keep creating the Funny to brighten your day as long as you have this blog, or any other blog! No no, you don't have to thank me now.
What do you say, everybody? Are you with me???
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Yeah, Jarry, I agree, we should all go back to using slide rules!
All I can say is: Thank GAWD we realized the error of our ways and stopped building any more suspension bridges, because those were obviously some kind of pie in the sky scam. You get one strike in innovation in the civil engineering world--then it's back to the PROVEN, right guys?
Basically, suspension bridges are a stalking horse for the ferry industry. Suspension bridge proponents can say things that ferry boosters could never say, such as "people don't like to look at steel trusses". This anti-bridge propaganda divides and conquers the opposition to ferry projects.
No! Ferries are a stalking horse for the maritime-industrial complex! Jumping from Big Flat Rock to Big Flat Rock is a proven, millennia-old river-crossing method.
Ferries have been used as a distraction from proven river-crossing methods, with the result that in some cases no crossing method has been adopted.
Ferries are also dangerous, because they can hit the Big Flat Rocks and sink! Loss of buoyancy is a problem no technology can fix!
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