Learn from the best
My favorite pastime is building things. Few occupational tasks in life bring me more enjoyment than the logical process of combining parts in a carefully chosen way and order, applying the necessary manipulation, in order to achieve the desired end result as quickly as possible. It feels sometimes like from the age of two, my brain broke the most common tasks and problems down into mini building projects. If only I had been blessed with a bit more imagination, my favorite toy would have been Lego’s.
Much of this ingenuity is due my parents, in particular my dad whose job it was to design and engineer buildings and design site plans for empty plots of land. As a kid, little fascinated me more than the few times that my dad would bring home one of his engineering plans to work on. Now I think I would have liked being an engineer but all the rules - in particular those from the government - frightened me. I’m glad I became a software architect, I think we have quite a bit more freedom.
Anyway, in tribute of the knack for building I inherited from my Dad, and his special birthday on Sunday, here follows a photo-report of his latest free-time building project:
(more…)