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When it comes to web development, or technology as a whole, I want to be Julian Delphiki. You may expect me to tell you that Delphiki was a famous scientist or some brilliant engineer who created an enhanced beach ball, but in fact he was just a child when he had his greatest success.
Julian Delphiki is better known as Bean, the diminuitive greek kid who helped Ender Wiggin save the earth from the buggers in Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game. His specialty was being the problem solver. He thought of the stupid ridiculous over-the-top ideas and made them work.
I want to be the mad scientist of web design. Ask me for the impossible, give me the time and the resources, and I’ll find the way or I’ll blaze my own trail.
There’s a magical idea here, the seductive power of the infinite. Web design is an infinite canvas with infinite canvases available. But even in the infinite boundless workspace the possible can be hard to find. I love web design for that feeling, the same feeling a sculptor has as he digs his fingers through clay. The way that Edison felt when his light bulb lit and held its burn for longer than the flash so many others gave off as they went off.
Or when the Pirate Blackbeard first spotted his prey and then successfully overran them and began to pillage and plunder. The feeling of satisfaction and pleasure basking in victory. He created a victory where in many cases there should have been none. Now imagine if Bean had been a pirate, Somalia would have been deeply interested in that.
Invention is a wonderful and powerful thing.
