Experimenter of the week Tinsel Koala

[markdansie]

I need few words here.


http://revolution-green.com/2013/07/26/experimenter-of-the-week-tk-aka-tinsel-koala/


Although my intentiosn are honourable, I am sure I will be suffering the consequences for some time
Kind Regards

[TinselKoala]

I'm honored and embarrassed and a bit chagrined. And amused, I don't think I would have chosen those precise videos as my "finest hour".
But just because I post a lot of videos and photos doesn't mean I'm all that. As far as the Ainslie work goes, I think I've learned a lot more than I've been able to teach.

Gadgetmall
Groundloop
Lasersaber
Tinman
Magluvin
Conradelectro
Farmhand
Poynt99
SoheiThoth
MileHigh
PicoWatt
and others...
there are many experimenters and theory people working here whose work I admire and respect and envy, and if I didn't mention someone I apologize already.

You will be getting a lot of flack for this, Mark, because I certainly do have my detractors and even enemies.

[markdansie]

Many of those you listed are also on our inventors of the week list, we feel they are all talented and admire their work
Tinman in August and we will interview him as well,


I wanted to profile your many sides that is why I selected the video.s


PS I have thick skin, my fan mail rarely exceeds my hate mail


Kind Regards

[MileHigh]

I can relate to the detractors and enemies schtick too.

I have had people say to ignore all my postings because I am supposedly an extremist.  I have had people relentlessly bash me for days and days and days, picking apart anything I say trying to twist it into something bad.  People that personally attack me over and over.  People that say that I am "polluting" the threads.  I once tried to explain to someone how to test their transistor because after two years of building pulse motors the only thing that he could do was make sure the wire lengths were equal. (??)  Then that person had a total freak-out on me and went ballistic.  I have been bashed over and over because I don't show any bench work yet in my educational and professional life I have spent literally thousands of hours on the bench.

And the ironic thing is that with good intentions and without malice I am simply trying to tell people the truth and I try sometimes to educate them.  I am not perfect and I can't always speak in politically correct prose so as to not offend someone that in reality has no clue whatsoever about what they are trying to do.  It's too easy to claim that you have a fragile ego and cry that you are being belittled when in fact that's not the truth.  When I sometimes make a really good suggestion the response is mute silence.  If a beginner that barely knows what he or she is doing makes the same suggestion, they are heaped with praise.

What irks me the most is the peer pressure among the forum members themselves.  I coined a term for it, "Orwellian stagnation."  If an outsider comes to the forum with a crazy proposition many people will challenge the person.  But if an insider to the forum makes a crazy proposition, then in the majority of cases nobody will say anything.  And I have seen things posted on this forum by insiders that are ridiculous and counter-productive for people that are trying to learn something.

The bottom line is that I will stand my ground.  Anybody that thinks that I am a "bad guy" because I speak the truth to the best of my abilities is wrong.  This notion that I am "demeaning and belittling people" is driven by the ego issues of others, because I don't consciously make an effort to demean and belittle people.  On the flip side, I have seen many people consciously and maliciously demean and belittle me - without merit - and it all stems from their own frustrations.

You indeed have to have a thick skin sometimes.  I have no problem having thick skin.  But if somebody is going to maliciously and relentlessly go after me and try to make my life miserable I will push back.

MileHigh

[Pirate88179]

Mark:

Excellent choice for Experimenter Of The Week.  TK has always been willing to share his projects and information about them...as well as answer questions from idiots like me.  The thing that impresses me the most is that, even though he quite obviously has a lot of formal training and an excellent electronics background, (to say nothing of his collection of wonderful equipment)  he is still very willing to participate in this "fringe" area of research that we find ourselves in.

I personally thank him for all that I have learned from his efforts.

Bill