Duke-Orientation by Boonie the Ace

Team. It is said that as we age we forget some of the basic fundamentals learnt as children. This is one reason that researchers in advanced fields often redraft complex research problems in simple elementary terms and then see if a K-12 student can solve one or more of them.

Well, how is your natural Duke-Orientation, in light of your advanced degrees in computing, information, and the sciences or numerous years of experiences with the most advanced concepts in this field. Can you find the upper-left corner of the screen and now the lower-right?

Let us ask Duke?

Did you do an about face in your desk chair, once you where properly oriented?

The following portable document file should help you relearn what you have forgotten. Share it with a friend in computing. Maybe this will help us all sort out the RHS := LHS inversion in formal languages. It will not change the nature of the production, but one might find that he can think more freely and follow blindly less often.

Subconsciously, when one's left side is on the left of the entity with which he is facing and communicating, he is necessarily behind the entity and following. When one is oriented left-on-right and right-on-left, he can communicate and think freely, breaking away from the discussion for a moment of reasoning and returning later so he might add a few salient points.

A similar note was placed earlier in this weblog, yet this fact on "modern lateral disorientation" was repeated. It seems that this legacy is slowly seeing adoption among the future generations as "natural" and is deemed healthy and acceptable. Yet, it is simply one of many "new normals" which is one of yesteryear's "gross dysfunctions".

Sayings such as "righty-tighty" and "lefty-loosey" were for those who had trouble telling time on an analog clock. "Clockwise" tightens a threaded bolt and "Counter-clockwise" loosens. And, considering the rise in digital time-pieces, the "new normal" for orienting one with what he is facing, and that classic freshman Pascal-dilemma ( lhs := rhs ), our modern zeitgeist does not speak well of the current international pool of free thinkers. This pool includes the author who was inverted for about a decade after taking a course in data structures that discussed left and right sub-trees that, at first, seemed out of place and then, gradually over time, appeared properly-oriented.


Hunt. Peck. Think. It works quite well for the birds...