I finally decided to put in some more stuff on the Work page. Since I’m not really intending to farm out this site as a work-professional hotspot, it’s looking resume-like without actually being a resume. The actual impetus to put some meat in it actually came from a conversation I had with a twelve-year-old on a connecting flight I had from Salt Lake, UT to Missoula, MT today. We were coming in for a landing, and he started talking about the airplane and airspeeds and, of course, I had to mention my involvement with Insitu and UAVs. He was also, naturally, interested in games, and when we landed, I ended up giving him one of my cards, on the back of which I wrote Insitu’s web address as well as the name of the game company my brother works for.

Since we had such limited time left on the flight and he was such a curious soul, I thought it was a shame I couldn’t just direct him to my site and say – “Hey, I think you’d be interested in this! Go check out this page.” This was only reinforced when I arrived at the hotel this afternoon and played around on the piano in the lobby, and a man came up afterwards to chat with me. We talked a lot about his two teenaged daughters, who have been taking piano for a while and have talent but who, like me, were somewhere on the sliding scale between “interested” and “indifferent” most of the time. I ended up giving him one of my cards too, and suggesting that he have his daughters check out my progress videos on Bioshock’s “Cohen’s Masterpiece” and the story behind them. (And, in the interest of nudging more bright girls toward the sciences and other interesting subjects, I hoped that they too would explore the Work and other tabs.)

So, it just seemed the right time to get that page fleshed out. Who knows if it will actually be useful, but at least the entire site is now complete (if still somewhat lean in certain sections).