Hobby

This is really mostly just a hobby for me and gives me something productive to put my time towards. Over the years I've settled with playing video games either by myself or online with a bunch of friends. I have to say I haven't played very many games in the last few months. This is mostly because I have a new interest in learning new things and further developing my skill sets. I know very few people are reading this, and probably fewer are even interested in this. To be fair, both learning about web development and working on refining my programming skills is just overall beneficial to me. At my job I do both so really this is just adding to it, but most people would say your hobby should be something different than your work. I do have a few other hobbies, I like working on my car and learning about how things work. I am in engineering after all, sure I've gone into software, but that doesn't mean I am not curious about things in the physical world. I always want to disassemble various things and rebuild them. Physics has always been a very interesting topic to me, as well as mathematics (I'm referring to real math here, not arithmetic). Naturally, calculus has been a very interesting area as well, but because of my lack of devotion to areas other than computers I've never really bothered to extend my knowledge in those areas.

The applets on the website are old ones and I've yet to really update them. I've been working on one of them to provide a basic framework that will allow me to rapidly develop games from so most of the things I've been doing aren't something a user would even see. In Agile, that is a straight no-no but to me it is experimenting and exploring ideas. So far I've found a super efficient way to get user input down to any part of the application in real-time with minimal overhead. It is pretty sweet, and basically will make things very efficient. When it comes to a game, you never want to be wasting resources. Anyways, enough babble from me!