Roy Roebuck
Subscriber since: Fri Sep 23 07:28:07 EDT 2005
Location: Folsom, CA
About Me
I am married, have a married daughter with grandson, and am 64 years old. I a Bachelor's degree in Physics, and a Masters of Science in Systems Management. I served 10 years as a US Army Officer, 10 years in US Civil Service, and 17 years as a management consultant. I have worked in many diverse fields, in many locales. I have dreamed of "webs" of connected things since I was six years old, in 1957, seeing everything as "connected". I have studied dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, and semantics since age 12. I created a "spiral of knowledge" diagram at age 14 to 16 to help guide my educational choices. I developed a "whole endeavor management" process, metadata, and technology-specification at age 30, all based on my "terminology management" approach that encompasses recorded content, content indeces, term extraction, definition collection and management, modeling (simple concept maps to complex knowledge models and axiology/value models), taxonomies, and thesauri.
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Favorite Word:

metadata

Favorite Quote:

"The crucial challenge of our world today is to find our voice and inspire others to find theirs."
- Stephen Covey, The 8th Habit

Favorite Topics:

Grammar:

Seven Sentences You Should Stop Writing
How to Make Your Sentences Shorter

Naming:

Shoot! How Gun Idioms Color Our Speech
Understanding "Maven"

Online:

A Recipe for Time Travel

Word Origins:

Shoot! How Gun Idioms Color Our Speech
Scale Your Onboarding

Usage:

Comparative Nonsense
Unexpected Cousins

Vocabulary:

The Post-Dictionary World?
A "Dumpster Fire" of a Year

Words:

Shoot! How Gun Idioms Color Our Speech
"Nine Nasty Words": How and Why We Curse

Dictionaries:

The Post-Dictionary World?