Observations of Life

This blog is my perception of the world around me. It is a dedication to my dear friend Keith Coleman who wrote down his observations of life before extinguishing it. Keith and our adventures will always remain in my memory. I may never understand the pain he felt, but I respect the life he had.

Our relationship in the later years could be described like the movie Unbreakable, where
Samuel L. Jackson's character searched the world for his polar opposite believing that there must be someone out there to balance his evil. Bruce Willis played that somebody who had a propensity towards doing good. I am not trying to say Keith and I were the good vs. evil people, but we had the opposite perception of the world around us. He saw and felt pain in everything, while my looking glass produced images of happiness and wonder.

Keith was a philosopher and many times our discussions fell on this perception dichotomy. Although we agreed many people can fall into these two categories, we often argued over the ability to switch between the two. I do not believe I ever convinced him that this was possible and our brains were not hard wired upon development. Not everything is black and white, so maybe some people posses the ability to shape the lens they peer through, but I fear this is the exception and not the rule.

A Quick Update

This blog is not an autobiography, so I do not feel the need to write about the past unless it pertains to an observation. However, a quick explanation of my current state could help as a starting point to aid with the flow. Not to mention the wonderful benefit of getting the websites I am working on indexed by google. Go figure, write a blog through www.blogger.com and
there is a better chance of getting posted links indexed by google. So the update begins.

I am happily married to Sheri and we celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary yesterday. I work for General Dynamics and this will be a closed book to the outside world as I wish to keep my job. I am currently working on my master's degree in remote sensing and I hold a BS degree in physics. I thoroughly enjoy my hobbies, which include

• Working on a collaborative virtual physics community, the website is currently in the test phase and can be found at www.planetphysics.org
• Robotics, I am currently working on my mini mac robot named Kit. A detailed description can be found at my miniblog
• Rebuilding a 1958 CJ-5 Jeep Willys, a blog soon to come...
• The never ending maintenance on our 1898 home , including the recent discovery of a wonderful wood floor beneath the upstairs carpet, which will need some love