Introducing the Author of the Hardpan Web Log

I am a student of mathematics, logic, the electrical sciences, automation, and computing. Presently, I'm studying under a formal degree program for an Associates Degree with DeVry University.  As my being, informally, a student of general business practices – my having studied, previously, in formal courses about macroeconomics and small business management – I'm developing Hardpan Technologies as a commercial thesis. Though it is not yet an officially registered, formal commercial institution, Hardpan Technologies now represents a personal organizing principal for a small set of technological development projects and thesis concepts, such that I may estimate to be of any manner of a demonstrable commercial relevance.

I maintain the Hardpan Technologies web log, and a corresponding public notebook that I've named, Digital Spelunk 42. Additionally, the Bring Back Lady Liberty web log – though seldom updated – is my primary soap box for political expression, online. I have a personal social networking account at each of the Google+, Facebook, and Twitter social networking forums. My personal social networking accounts are only sporadically updated, typically with an Op-Ed style of content, as those being forums for communication in my own small, personal endeavors in a context of social journalism, online.

As a person being of something of a creative bent, I maintain a small practice in snapshot photography and an informal study of locales not indoors. As previously a young adult, I've performed onstage in theatre, but have since traded my notebook for a small thing of silicates, metals, and synthetic extrusions. Audibly, I'm a fan of some manners of folk music, including genres of bluegrass, post-classical, Slavic melodies, and traditional musics of First Nations.  Literally, I try to keep a broad bibliography, mostly focusing on normative reference content. In a context of literary fiction, my personal sci-fi bookshelf includes works by Arthur C. Clarke, Charles Sheffield, Frank Herbert, Douglas Adams, and Larry Niven. I don't frequent the cinema, though I enjoy the odd work in cinematic storytelling or documentary journalism. Personally, I try to avoid frequenting any pop hubs, but I enjoy coffee, books, and a tread lightly approach to the outdoors.

Mending the Drought News – Concerning Drip Irrigation Systems for Ag and Home

I was reading some international news, this afternoon, when I thought to develop a thesis writ small, towards alleviating concerns about annual rainfall rates, insofar as applications for agricultural irrigation and regular domestic watering– in shorter phrasing, a thesis statement towards a wordy overview about applications of drip irrigation systems for agriculture and for domestic gardening. Although my own studies, this morning, have been about some concepts towards defining a singular model for trusted computing, but as the author is a resident of the state ever referred to as New Albion, and as the author may be a geek with a heart for Aggie works, afield – in anything but the narcotics that some communities in the state may seek to "Legalize" locally – well and certainly, it may seem to call for a bridging idea. Thus....

California is up in arms, so to speak, about annual rainfall. The are already some alternate, less water consuming irrigation systems in use in the state, however the local news is portraying any characteristics of annual rainfall rates compared to previous years. In a practical sense, Flood irrigation might be great for some types of grain, and it's easy in a sense, but with enough low-flow irrigation sufficient to emulate regular rainfall via lighter hose-like systems, measured over soil types with a thought for rate of hydrological saturation, even a so-called drought may be manageable for regular agriculture and domestic applications. Painting that up with thirty bibliographical references in a thesis paper - not as easy.

Following on that item, in beginning to develop the matter into a broader thesis: Three primary types of irrigation, listed in order of an ad hoc estimation of "Rate of instantaneous water flow"

• Mist irrigation - seen with applications of water "Sprinkler" methodologies, commonly used for irrigation for species of grasses. Insofar as ambient water systems, mist irrigation may be seen with environmental "Fog"misting systems,  towards a concept of ambient humidity, such as may benefit an application of some non-native fern type grasses within attending ecosystems.

• Drip irrigation - seen with the common drip irrigation system. Carries water to individual crops, without dumping additional water into further spaces either between plants or outside of furrows. See also: Root distributions of specific species; soil characteristics.

• Flood irrigation - seen with some approaches to rice growing, ie. in agriculture of traditional "Padddies" in rice growing. Seen alternately in some traditional "Furrow flooding" approaches for irrigation of vineards, orchards, and analogous species of agricultural crops. (Proposed: The "Furrow flooding" method of irrigation, howsoever applied with soil as the primary water carrier – in substituting lightweight hose for water carrying, it might find an easy substitute in drip irrigation, pending design and subsequent acceptance of any suitable drip irrigation system)

Books: TBD

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Introducing the Hardpan Technologies Web Log

In no too simple feat of mythology, Hardpan Technologies is the web log of a person studying mathematics in as much as mathematics is expressed in the sciences of mechanical systems, and expressly analog electrical systems, digital electrical systems as applying contemporary semiconductor technology, and the inevitable permutations of technologies in such focused domains, such as may ultimately be expressive to a contemporary information science, whether of vocations in practice of mechanical or electrical trades.

The namesake of Hardpan Technologies is the hard clay of the soil in the basin area of California's central San Joaquin Valley. The hardpan of the valley so low, it is a type of clay soil that the author has been familiar of, for a few decades ongoing – primarily, as with regards to how such a dense clay ground presents a challenge to easy construction in manual earth moving and stake setting. Agriculturally, the same compacted clay surface would present its own features for drainage of any level of water flow from ground surface level, as regardless of however the clay may be surfaced with granular topsoil or humus-enriched earth. Additionally, the same hardpan clay would present its own qualities of capillary flow, as upwards and inwards to wells and roots, from within local water tables saturating the deeper earth. Personally, the author is not one to make politics of water systems analysis, at any scale.

The author, at this time, is a student – presently, a student of mathematics and sciences, previously a student of formalized social scienes, visual arts, and performing arts expressed of performances in dramatic theatre, with some lesser study of the choreography of expressions in manners of dance. Even at such a previous time, as a student, the author was much enamored of the expressive characteristics of nonlinear dynamics – an interest by which the author now recommends the reader's attention to the work of Rom Harré, as in regards to multidisciplinary study, and a further bookshelf that may be forthcoming in a digital bookshelf format.

As a die-hard capitalist, the author is a fan of the simple, ever practical economic theories publushed by the real Phineas T. Barnum, and Andrew Carnegie, and economic theories expressed by the author's own family in this post-Cold War US. Whether it shall be relegated by the inevitable experts, whether to a domain of specializations of species of theories in macroeconomics, or microeconomics, or plainly in neither such specialization, the author is of an opinion that capitalism works, no matter of one's dispotition to any trends of political and social iconoclasm.

Today marks the beginning of the author's Hardpan Technologies web log. It is the 21st day of April, the year 2015 AD, or 2015 CE, or what day by any favorite calendar system of the reader's preference – whether in UNIX Epoch time, or CADR period counts, or Cesium tock marks, or however of a day that it could be counted to be. Politically, it is an odd time to the author's views, but this – in itself – is not designed to be a political forum, the Hardpan Technologies weblog – where capillary action applies, even in the toughest clay.