More Creations from SolidWorks Class

Wednesday: We're still creating single parts, though they're getting more complicated.





This pulley is made of solid gold, by the way.

Thursday: We've finally started making assemblies (things that move). My favorite creation - the Nerf gun.

Look What I Can Do!

The wonderful world of engineering has just become a little less mysterious. I still think I'll stick to writing, though.

The Old Man's Poem

from Tennessee Williams' Night of the Iguana

How calmly does the olive branch
Observe the sky begin to blanch
Without a cry, without a prayer
With no betrayal of despair

Some time while light obscures the tree
The zenith of its life will be
Gone past forever
And from thence
A second history will commence

A chronicle no longer gold
A bargaining with mist and mold
And finally the broken stem
The plummeting to earth, and then

And intercourse not well designed
For beings of a golden kind
Whose native green must arch above
The earth's obscene corrupting love

And still the ripe fruit and the branch
Observe the sky begin to blanch
Without a cry, without a prayer
With no betrayal of despair

Oh courage! Could you not as well
Select a second place to dwell
Not only in that golden tree
But in the frightened heart of me

Oh Happy Day!

August 14, 2007...

A day I have waited for since sophomore year in high school...

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