I stumbled across this nice little quote on dictionary.com:
The French aviator, adventurer, and author Antoine de Saint-Exup'ery, probably best known for his classic children's book "The Little Prince", was also an aircraft designer. He gave us perhaps the best definition of engineering elegance when he said "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
The French aviator, adventurer, and author Antoine de Saint-Exup'ery, probably best known for his classic children's book "The Little Prince", was also an aircraft designer. He gave us perhaps the best definition of engineering elegance when he said "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
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>Science stuff. Making artificial arteries. Its kind of my thing. I'm excited about it and about moving back to Boston.
Yeah, my bias for Boston aside, it's a great place to be working in that type of field. I have a friend from college who is doing some kind of genetic research at Harvard.
>So what keeps you busy way out in Northhampton. That's halfway across the state, isn't it?
Yes, it is in Fascinating and Mysterious Western Mass. I grew up just south of Boston and though I was just as guilty, it always amuses me now how little anyone back there knows about the other side of the state.
What do I do? My answer depends on what mood I am in. When I am feeling uppity, I am a treasurer in a small corporation. Most of the time I am just a landlord though. My father and I have a small real estate thing going on. We have 2 mutli family properties and I am kind of like the point man in the field. All that means is, despite my multiple degrees, at the end of the day I fix toilets.
As far as recreational activities, we have a pretty decent amount of art/culture related venues out here, but we do have to head back to Boston time and again to catch some shows or what-not. If you go back to my first journal entry, you can see a scathing review of what it is like to live in the liberal freak-friendly bubble that is Northampton.
Thank you