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Physics and Helicopters

Following is a presentation I created for a science-trained audience on the physics of helicopter flight.

How do Helicopters Work?

This is a presentation I created on how helicopters work, for a “Physics for Non-Physics Majors” audience.

On Being Ten, as a 33-Year Old

I think a part of each of us will always be ten years old. When I was ten, I’d look up at HealthNet’s BK-117 as it flew over Morgantown and say, “I’ve gotta do that.”

Last week, I landed on the roof of Ruby Memorial, Morgantown’s main hospital, as a HealthNet pilot.

My personal 10 year old is pretty darned thrilled right now. :)

Of Christmas Lights

This year, for the first time, I hung Christmas lights on my door. Also for the first time, I threw a dinner party. Later today, I’ll be throwing a New Year’s Eve party.

The lights look good. The dinner party went well. The party most likely will go well.

For 20 years, people seemed to be mostly stupid, cruel, and amoral, and I had no desire to do any of the things those kinds of people found fun.

But gradually, though, I’ve come to realize that there are quite a few people out there who are decent and interesting, and who it’d be nice to hang out with. And also that the only way to be around them, and find more of them, is to get myself out there. So I’m attending parties. And throwing them.

And hanging Christmas lights.

A small step, sure, but it’s mine. And it feels good.

A Belated Beginning

Welcome to my site! This website exists for two reasons. The first is that, as a graduate student in computer science, it would be shameful to graduate without knowing html, CSS, MySQL, and php. Since (to my continual amazement) my department offers not a single class in web design or these languages, it’s my job to learn them, and the best way to do so is by practicing them.

Here.

The second reason is so the world has a window to me. Once the site is fully operational, it should have employment information for those interested in hiring me for engineering, helicopter piloting, or computer science. It should also have what any good personal website should have: pictures, blog entries, quotes, links, and other cool stuff.

All in good time…

For now, only one thing is needed:

A beginning.

And here it is.