Wakeboarding photo album link, 2 big projects for next year and an interesting article from Wired Magazine…  More after the break…

As the post title says… wakeboarding is awesome. 2 days of the 4th of July weekend I went wakeboarding for the first time and it was great. It’d be really cool that when I graduate, get a job and all that important stuff, if I could wakeboard. Definately can’t do it in Virginia… not that I’d have time anyways. My last year (maybe) at tech is going to be pretty busy. Anyways… I’ve posted some wakeboarding pictures… which you can view in this photo album. Those pics are some of my favorites of the 200 that were taken (which you can also find if you goto that link)

As far as next year goes… I’ve got two big projects I’m working on. Hopefully Dr. Neu will find funding so that I can work as a research assistant with him next year. It’s going to be weird next winter cause I won’t have a winter job for the first time in a while. Since I’ll be in an apartment I may be able to work a little over winter break if the research job works out… maybe a week after finals/week before school starts back up.

The second big project is the SNAME website redesign experiment that I’ve mentioned before.

(oh yeah, and the massive amounts of homework and all that typical school stuff).

I read an interesting article today in wired (magazine). “A new theory suggests that creativity comes in two distinct types – quick and dramatic, or careful and quiet.” The Quick and Dramatic type has early success, but then largely goes unnoticed later on. The Careful and Quiet type is the opposite. The article goes on to distinguish the first as more of a conceptual person, while the second is an experimental type person. Granted I’m no genius, but if I were to try and peg myself as one or the other I’d fail. Right at this moment I’d say I’m an experimental type… someone who tries something and tweaks it to perfection. But if this SNAME redesign or anything else I’m involved in pans out, it could be a dramatic improvement on stuff, and it in itself is more conceptual. I actually hope that I’m the second because I may be disappointed to have thought that I’d have reached the ‘pinacle of my success’ young and have nothing huge left to look forward to.

Wakeboarding is Awesome