Arr and Dee

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.