Quick Updates.
Christmas Loot:
One(1) Gerber multitool with _carbide cutting bit wire cutters_
One(1) Jim Beam Special edition handle and limited edition leather wrapped flask
Three(3) Awesome pieces of sweater and PJs
One(1) Fat cash
As soon as I land in Boston I’ll be posting the coilgun in its current state, the plans for the LED lamp, the motorcycle, and a special suprise we’re working on.
Happy Holidays.
It is 3:20 A.M. on (what is now) Christmas Morning and I sit in the single light source for miles and miles sipping hot tea and furiously writing in a notebook. Rural Ohio doesn’t bode well for people up at this hour, and I have to say I am beginning to miss Boston dearly. A small town was fun to grow up in, but there’s a whole world moving out there and I always feel I am missing it once I’m away from MIT for long enough.
I don’t know what drives a man to such lengths, to be up at such an ungodly hour, head buzzing full of thoughts and unable to keep up in his notebook. But each night I find myself in just such a position I feel closer and closer to discerning the divine, only to fall just short. Perhaps that is the truth to discover, the endless toil on repeat. But I wouldn’t believe it.
My current reading is “All The King’s Men”, an excellent novel to say the least. The lead is a quickly rising politician in the South and his story as he comes of power. But the image constantly delivered throughout is the relentless toil of this man and the effect on those near him. The wife who waits awake as he reads through book after book studying law cases; the assistant who adjoins his midnight adventures to hassle neighboring political characters; the father who cannot see his son stay for an entire night. So, as I sit and toil in just such a fashion on a lonely Christmas Morning, I remind you not to hate your nearest and dearest lonely thinker. Fruition lies ahead, and only that work will get him there.
I’ll keep working late, and expect my first tech post sometime near New Year’s Eve, as I get back to Boston and can show off my recently finished Coil Gun from 6.131, Power Electronics.
