So much to do, so much to see!

I did some thinking during the week and realized that there is always so much to do! Between all of the well written shows, well made movies, entertaining web series its amazing anyone ever gets anything done at all! Thankfully there are educational websites, certifications of everything you can imagine, and resources that make work easier. It seems like I could spend the rest of my life doing something an not even scratch the surface of all there is to know, but you know what? I like it that way. It might make life harder always having to relearn revamped systems, or introducing superior systems but i am happy for it. Some of the excitement generated here is for Google chrome frame. It means that with IE now being able to conform to HTML 5 that the the internet is going to be changing before our eyes very soon, and we can only hope its for the better, but just knowing that I was here when it happened means I might be able to implement it for the better.

my website idea and more.

So it turns out that the idea for the website that I had with my friend is not as novel as we originally anticipated. The idea was to create an RSS feed program that would allow us to get updates from our favorite employers when new openings were posted to their websites. It turns out job search RSS feeds are nothing new, but something as specific as we thought does not appear to be as available. So we might do something with pipes related to that but thats speculation. Been working on my CSS and javascript in class. While I have a little while before I become an expert, the tutorials on w3 schools have been pretty helpful in learning more about these areas. After I feel a bit more comfortable on CSS and javascript I might move to SQL to polish up that area some. Also , my project management professor has been talking about offering a PMP level 1 certification class and I am very tempted to try it because project management just seems like something that would be good to be skilled at. As a member of SME, I also qualify for earning my Certified Manufacturing Technologist (CMfgT) certification. While not as potentially diverse as a project management certification, it seems like anything that expands my current knowledge can only help me in the long run.

In other news,the new seasons of Big Bang Theory, Dollhouse, and Dexter start soon! So I will be enjoying these shows when I find time.

Im spending more of my freetime learning

I know this is the fourth post in one day but the other entries were from a blog I was keeping on an intranet for a class and realized soon after that it was not accessible to the outside world. So this is the blog entry from today and I promise its the last one. Its interesting how my summer was relatively uneventful but now that I am busy with school is when I do more learning outside of what was covered, I guess its all about frame of mind? I have started learning CSS and some JavaScript in order to be able to start working on building my own website. I don't really want to give away what I am going to try and build but it involves an RSS feed reader and something that probably should have been done a while ago, or has been done a while ago and I just don't know about it. That aside, I am finding my class in project management interesting and am considering getting certification in the spring when I will be more familair with the area. Anyway, my next post might be about my website idea, so until then!

See you around the Blogosphere,
Ryan Luckay

A few things I learned this week.

I was looking through this article called Recession Proof Graduate- Charlie Hoehns guide to getting any job within finishing a year of college, which contained a lot of information that I had not considered before. For anyone interested, here is the link

http://www.slideshare.net/choehn/recessionproof-graduate-1722966

One of the things it mentioned in particular is this website called academic earth. I looked into it and it apparently has a lot of lectures from Stanford, Havard, Yale, and MIT about many different disciplines, and I have already started to poke around the computer science area. Here is the link for anyone feeling like looking into it.

http://academicearth.org/

On an entirely unrelated note, Beatles Rock Band is amazing and I would recommend that anyone who likes Beatles music should try it.
See you around the Blogosphere,
Ryan Luckay

A little more about me.

I guess since this is one of my first posts I should talk a little about myself. I am a 22 year old male who is a rising senior at James Madison University majoring in the Integrated Science and Technology Program (ISAT). I am 6'3, which makes me the tallest in my family and among the tallest of my friends. But then again I have always been tall, its just been one of those things. While not particularly an animal person, I have a soft spot for dogs, since I have always had one. My favorite foods are pizza and steak, making me the "meat and potatoes" cliche. I love movies and have developed a greater appreciation of what they are capable of through one of my close friends. Some of my favorites include Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, the original Halloween, 2001: a space odyssey, the original Star Wars trilogy, and the Dark Knight. I have always loved science and technology, some of the passion for this came through my early start as a gamer, playing video games from about five when the original gameboy came out. I believe this gave me an appreciation for technology and made me curious about how it and other things worked. I used to be an avid reader before most of my reading time got taken up for college. Some of my favorites include 1984, Brave New World, Sun Tsu's art of war, and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Other than gaming my hobbies include playing chess, tennis, and computers. While I have never built a computer, I just recently bought a new one and am installing new hardware and software as needed for better performance. Something others have said to me before is I love to learn, any day I can learn something else useful or interesting is never a wasted day. Other than Science and technology, I am a bit of a history buff for fun, just because its so interesting. Something almost just as interesting to me in some cases is the history of science, just learning about how we progressed from fire to petabites of digital storage is so... inspiring. A cause I am interested in is, as you might imagine, increasing interest in science into the next generation. We used to be the greatest nation in science in the world and a few years ago we refused to participate in the study comparing our country's science education to the rest of the developed world. How crazy is that?
See you around the blogosphere,
Ryan Luckay

Sales Guy vs Web Dude

This is how I would picture life as an IT guy would be like, if it were this funny.
This is not mine, i just found it on youtube.
This is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8_Kfjo3VjU
Hope you all enjoy it as much as I do.
see you around the blogosphere,
Ryan Luckay