Structural Breakdown Syndrome (SBS)

If you are reading this, you are witnessing history. That's not intended to sound grandiose or self important, it's just the truth. You could be looking out the window, watching a cardinal splashing in the birdbath in your yard, and that would be considered witnessing history as well; especially if the cardinal were not wearing his cassock. But there's always something so daunting about "firsts". It's actually one of the reasons it has taken me so long to start this blog in the first place. It has to be perfect, or meaningful, or in some way utterly profound, very much unlike when one loses his or her virginity I imagine.

So the name. Stokepoint. It's a play on words using my last name, Stokes, and a culinary term, smokepoint. A smokepoint is the exact temperature at which a cooking oil begins to smoke. Each type of cooking oil has its own exact temperature unique to itself. When any oil reaches its own smokepoint, its very structural makeup begins to deteriorate and continues to do so at an exponential rate as its temperature increases. Stokepoint also refers to a point of view. My point of view, to be exact. Thus stokepoint also represents Stokes' point. It just happens to be a coincidence that very often my points of view, stokepoints if you will, are enough to raise the internal temperatures of some individuals. In doing so, some would argue that I have brought certain individuals to the point where it appears as though they begin to smoke and that their very structural makeup began to deteriorate and break down. As Vonnegut said, "So it goes".