A hodgepodge of pictures from the archives

    In December of last year, I quit instagram and started this blog. I then proceeded to post nothing for the following three months. In an effort to keep the blog alive, I scrapped this post together from a random collection of photos dating from last summer onward.

Starting in early July, I had the opportunity to travel to D.C. for the first time to attend a D.o.D. intern symposium. My initial impression of D.C. was surprise, it demonstrated a level of cleanliness which I frankly was not expecting. The metro system was also a shock, as I had never used inner-city public transportation. You boarded, held on for dear life, and ten minutes later you were on the other side of the city.

I never gave thought to the scale of the National Mall until I walked the endless expanse of manicured grass that stretched from Capitol Hill to the Washington Monument. Figure 1 gives a small grasp of the expanse.

Fig. 1. The view of Capitol Hill from the Washington Monument

One of the most interesting pieces of information I learned while traipsing around the capitol was the ability of the public to take an elevator to the top of the Washington Monument, which is managed by the National Parks service (Figure 2).

Fig. 2. The Washington Monument

The view from the lawn facing the White House, with a summer storm on the horizon (Fig. 3).

Fig. 3. The White House

This guy spent what must have been at least 10 minutes finding the perfect framing of himself flipping the bird in front of the White House (Figure 4).

Fig. 4. This Guy

Outside of my time in D.C. I spent the majority of last summer in my hometown north of Dayton, OH. During this time, one of my sisters returned to her car after a late night on the river to find her windshield had been stomped in. I had the privilege of driving the death trap shown in Figure 5 to our mechanic's shop.

Fig. 5. Ford Focus with a windshield that slowly caves in towards your face as you drive.

Fig. 6. Almost made it (Cop was cool, let me go)

The following pictures are taken from moments in the greater Dayton area.

Fig. 7. The Miami River, Downtown Dayton, OH

Fig. 8. Kayaking & Fishing the Mad River, Springfield, OH 

Fig. 9. Closed bridge over the Miami River, Dayton, OH

Shortly before returning to Orlando, I attended a RedBull Flugtag event in Cincinnati.

Fig. 10. View of the Ohio river from the Cincinnati riverfront

Fig. 11. The Runway

Back in Orlando, there was not much worth posting from my first semester of graduate school, say for these gems.

Fig. 12. Clean Firebird WS6 in a Walmart parking lot

Fig. 13. Mold

Fig. 14. More Mold

Fig. 15. Most Mold

I wish I had more pictures of the great mold battle of the bedroom closet, but I can at least say it was defeated. I hope ya'll enjoyed this disjointed post, I plan to post more "regularly" whatever that may look like.

- Zion

 

Inaugural Post

Welcome to the Blog!

    I have decided to trade in my Instagram account for an archaic Blogger page. I have many reasons to dump Zuck, but the primary factors are:

    1) I hate scrolling, yet I've consistently found myself digging through brainrot. I have deleted and reinstalled Instagram over 10 times at this point.

    2) Recently, Instagram changed their terms of service to allow their AI to train on users. I would rather not be one of those users.

    3) Homestar Runner

    Below is a sampling of content you will find on this blog, including:

Fig. 1: Questionable Financial Decisions

Fig. 2: Unfortunate Oren Occurrences 

Fig. 3: Various Electronics Projects

Fig. 4: Nature in Central Florida

 Thanks for checking out this post, hopefully there will be many more to come!

- Zion