APOLOGIA PRO OPERA SUA
I initiate this as a dictionary to put ONLINE items which are missing from all the dictionaries I've read in the past 50 years or seen ONLINE in the last 5 years.

The intent of my work is not to compete with other works for mere glory, but to invoke or motivate others to fill in critical gaps in the literature.

All my files on my many Websites are done to provoke some one to sing -- in the spirit of the Irving Berlin song, in the musical, Annie Get Your Gun -- "Anything you can do, I can do better!"

I am "on record" ONLINE as the "Reluctant Rooster" (Cousin of The Little Red Hen), reluctantly doing what others should do.

One of my purposes is "filling in the dots": showing connections between important concepts and processes, especially as they link to everyday life and experience, and especially as they provide strategies and protheses for us feckless humans. There is a wealth of neglected resources in math and the sciences, waiting to be used!

As I've written, elsewhere:

                                 Those who KNOW seldom care.
                                 Those who CARE rarely know.
                                 When KNOW meets CARE
                                 And teams with DARE,
                                 Then Mt. Constipation will blow!
I hope these efforts will inspire others to do better.

We could all win from that!