A list of things that I spend my time doing, in no particular order.
Learning
I know, it's too cliche. But it's true, I love to learn new things. When I find something interesting that I want to learn more about, I Google it and more often than not, read the Wikipedia page. Wikipedia may not be able to be sourced in a paper, but it sure is a great tool when you want to know the basics of something.
Sometimes I myself feel like a recursive function, delving layer after layer into the knowledge put on Wikipedia, until finally, I get to an article that I understand. From that article I continue back the way I came until I come upon something else which I have to read more on. Eventually, after having read more of these detour articles than I intended, I have gained enough knowledge to understand the article which I originally came for, and find an answer.
I imagine this was what life was like before Google.
Sometimes I myself feel like a recursive function, delving layer after layer into the knowledge put on Wikipedia, until finally, I get to an article that I understand. From that article I continue back the way I came until I come upon something else which I have to read more on. Eventually, after having read more of these detour articles than I intended, I have gained enough knowledge to understand the article which I originally came for, and find an answer.
I imagine this was what life was like before Google.
Running
I used to be good at running, then I stopped, then I started again, and by the time I started again I was average. Which is fine; I no longer have the drive to run 5 miles a day, everyday, sometimes twice a day. I used to, and I used to really enjoy it. Now I run twice a week or so and enjoy it just as much.
Picture taken by my dad, Frank Burkhardt, at Rim Rock Farm in Lawrence, Kansas at the 2008 US Track and Field Nationals.
Picture taken by my dad, Frank Burkhardt, at Rim Rock Farm in Lawrence, Kansas at the 2008 US Track and Field Nationals.
Skipping stones remotely via Skippy the Robot
Oh yes, I was one of the people who remotely threw a rock into a Sun Valley lake. The website was even kind enough to record a video which can be viewed here. The site even proclaimed me to be a "Worthy Skipper!" The video was started too early though and did not record the full skip :(