DorkbotPDX people doing strange things with electricity

redheadedstepchild.org

Okay, okay. In keeping with all the other pages on here that have a big list of "things I do":

• I do not understand electricity, however
• I can use most powertools
• I also understand and work with the Internet
• I would like to be an historian
• Sometimes I build things
• Sometimes I build websites
• Usually I just come up with ideas to (build|start|open|run) projects but never actually (build|start|open|run) them

Currently unfinished but actually in progress projects include:

• A reed & bellows upright instrument (in other words, an instrument which works more or less like an accordion, but which is not squeezable)
• Learning to read 1 or more foreign languages - currently Spanish, probably followed by French
• Overseeing? Organizing? dorkbotpdx's entry into this year's Portland Adult Soapbox Derby
• Teaching myself everything that my high school and college educations failed to teach me, either through negligence or inability (on my part or theirs)
• Pimpin out a clock

Current projects which there is a good chance I will tackle shortly:

• A paper on an undetermined topic that will get me into an undetermined graduate school program in an undetermined field, but where I am able to dissertate on the "history of information"

Current ideas which I am not willing to give up, but which I have no real expectation of getting to

• Building a firebox smoker (more commonly known as a Texas-style barbeque pit or grill)

Current ideas which I will almost certainly never carry out:

• Starting an online journal
• Starting a physical journal
• Starting a charter school
• Building barbeque grills for a living
• Apprenticing with a (sausage|cheese) maker and starting my own (sausage|cheese) making business
• Creating a non-military, non-volunteer construction force that travels around the world (ie - Louisiana, Iraq, etc) and builds shit that needs to be built, mainly because no one else seems to be capable or willing to do this
• Starting a company of any sort
• Fixing the American educational system, including our currently useless public school, and even more useless higher educational, system
• Making American academics speak and write in English
• Winning Powerball