About Me:

Vital Statistics

Name:Karl
Dorsal Length:1.85 Meters
Mass:65.7kg
Hair:Lots, getting worse, in fact.....
Eyes:Brown, 4
Age:20
Occupation:Unmotivated college student
Major:Chemistry
Year:First Semester Junior (A little over 3 semesters left) as of 9/10/03
Technical skills:see below
So, what does one write about oneself to be left for discovery by some unknown wanderer of this vast sea of silicon, fiber, copper, aluminum, and electrons known as the internet?

Good question. Despite all my deep "philosophical" analysis of the possible mentalities of people visiting this site, I have deduced only a few possible groups of people who will see this site who I wish to address directly:
1) Those people looking for live web cam material to support thier delusional fantasies ,
2) Those people who already know me pretty well and want to see what I've done this time,
3) People who are looking for the cheapest possible way to educate themselves or someone else about photoshop and,
4) Those poor people who were dropped here by some other strange twist in reality.


Unfortunately, I don't have the time to address you all according to you specific needs, so I'll just ramble and see what happens....
I find myself to be a very interesting person. Not that I am vain, more that I continually find myself doing and saying things that no one else does, and that entertains me, starting a vicious cycle. Things like researching potato cannons, integrating a stick figure to find the area under it (turns out the area is proportional the radius of its head and how wide its arms and legs are spread, it's pretty easy actually, although the set of equations to produce a really good stick man on a graphing calculator is not obvious), or the drag coefficient of bubbles in rootbeer.
My original purpose for this web page was to have a place to post pictures from this web cam my brother gave me on the pretense that it was broken, although it just needed to be focused. It grew from there as it occurred to me that HTML was actually pretty simple and the WWW would be a neat place to express myself. The site has become an outlet for me to test my new found knowledge in the exciting field of building web pages (this particular section allows me to practice with my newfound skill of using the < TABLE> tag). I write most of my HTML inside a text editor; it keeps you close to the computer, and inside on what is going on in it's head. I hope to one day know enough to make a little change on the side building web pages.
I am a student at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, affectionately known as "Tech". Tech is a small research school in the middle of the desert; there are about 1000 students studying here. It's really similar to Colorado School of Mines, with exception to the fact that there isn't much to do but study (although I've noticed that drinking and computer games are also popular activities.) On rare occasion, something truly interesting and amazing happens in the world around me (aside from car bombs exploding: that's actually normal)
I'm studying chemistry as a major, although I do a lot of work with computers, which I find to be very interesting, although less so than they were when I was younger. As I have aged, I have found that I'm really drawn to the outdoors, and I don't spend quiet so much time chasing inane concepts that will be obsolete by the time I need to use them anyway. Instead I climb, bike, run, backpack, cave, and generally seek adrenaline while avoiding a normal life. I'm currently considering careers in research, teaching, and medicine.
As I am advancing in life, I am increasingly finding myself cast near and far, engaging in all sorts of marvelous adventures. The summer of 2002 I spent traipsing between Socorro, Charleston SC, Mt. Pleasant MI, Portsmouth (and Dover and Durham) NH, and the R/V Ron Brown. I spent the summers of 2001 and 2003 guiding backpacking treks in the Pecos Wilderness for Boy Scout camp Frank Rand. You can usually find photos and stories from these adventures and more the adventures page.
I'm a pretty quiet person, and keep to myself most of the time. I have a few friends about who I see intermittently. I'm not currently dating anyone, although I'm more or less open to the concept, baring the fact that I really don't seem to have the time to share a chunk of my life with someone. Unlike many of my fiends, I don't feel compelled to settle down and get married. There are greater truths, duties, callings, and adventures. It is hard to have devoted ones life to another and at the same time wake up in the morning and say "Where can I go today?" without some restriction.



Even more to come later....


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