For the past two weekends I’ve been working on organizing and executing my Eagle project, which is to construct a pair of lecterns for Lynbrook High School. Noticing that we have a shortage of such pieces of furniture, and that they are rather expensive to acquire directly, I decided to build these lecterns to benefit both the faculty and the student population at my school.
I started my project by designing a quick 3D model to lay out the dimensions and get an idea of what it would look like:
And then built it over the course of a weekend with the help of scouts from my troop. This weekend, we put the finishing touches on it by staining and varnishing the wood, so that the color will last longer and the lectern will be sturdier and more durable in general.
A slideshow of the various service project sessions:
More details about the project can be found by reading my project reports, linked below:
Thanks to all of the people who helped me out on this project!
]]>I’m actually doing Science Fair this year, with my partner (not in crime) Cynthia! She’s totally awesome at math and science and such, so this should be good. We’re going to be making some distress radiobeacons, for search-and-rescue purposes. If we’re lucky, they might even work! I’ll try to keep everyone posted on its progress.
Also been doin’ some calligraphy lately. Not very good at it, but it’s good for my handwriting – I’ve noticed a marked improvement over last year. This should prove beneficial for APLAC and APUSH, both of which require absurd amounts of hand-abuse. Fun!
As a result of all this schoolwork and extracurriculars piling up, I haven’t actually gone to any debate tourneys this year (as of yet) =(! I’ll have to get to one soon. I guess I’ll try to write more later.
]]>Today I finalized my migration of Aeturnalus to linode. The reasons behind the move are primarily technical, ranging from rather high downtimes to annoying and useless support and slow connection speeds. As Linode is a VPS, or a virtual private server, I get the opportunity to administrate the lower-level functions for myself, which is quite useful. The speed that comes with it is probably noticeable to you, as well. Most of the sites I host will be properly migrated soon, and are only limited by my time. Please comment if you find anything broken and/or not working properly.
]]>Also, as a culmination of the summer, my sister is leaving from China on Monday and arriving at SFO on Monday, so we’re going to go and pick her up. Yesterday, I also managed to get my driver’s permit, which was quite easy, actually. It was kind of interesting – they accidentally gave me the 18+ driver’s license test, which I passed, then they made me take the normal permit test, which I passed too. My lesson is arranged for next Sunday… the day before school!
About 15 minutes ago I got my first debit card… Not sure what I’m going to do with it, as most of its features are also present in Paypal, and Paypal is more safe to use, as I don’t expose my bank account directly.
]]>I also received my Lamy Safari in the mail – its a nice pen, albeit not as fountainy as I expected.
]]>I’ll be in New Mexico very soon… without any internet access or electronics (excluding a flashlight or three), and likely very tired. The plane flight’s departure time necessitates that we leave SJ at around 3:45AM, a rather ridiculous time to wake up; therefore, I’ll probably just stay up until then. We’re going to be flying for 4 hours – much fun, si?
I’m apparently required to keep a “journal” about the trip, which will be written in bad cursive and worse print… Since I will be unable to decipher it, I’ll just scan the paper and upload it for you guys to read.
Two weeks.
Eight people
Five tents
Too many mountains
hasta la vista
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