User:MerchantofLight

Max Pfingsten

Merchant of Light
We maintain a trade, not for gold, silver, or jewels; nor for silks; nor for spices; nor any other commodity of matter; but only for God's first creature, which was Light.

                   -Francis Bacon's New Atlantis 

Things I'd Like to Do

• Build a website for my tutoring business
• Make a language learning video game
• Build a working piezoelectric footbridge
• Establish a people's independent surveillance system to "watch the watchers"
• Invent something!
• Learn flash
  • Just in time for it to become obsolete

Things I can do

• Skills
  • Carpentry
    • Framing
    • Finishing
  • Basic Electrical
  • Metalworking
  • Pipe fitting
  • Glazing
  • Engine repair
  • Build a computer
• Arts
  • Teach
  • Write
  • Edit
  • Tell a mean story
  • Voice Acting
  • 3D animation
  • Sculpture
  • Improv
  • Philosophy
  • Poetry
  • Languages
  • Singing
  • Accordion

Things I've Done

• Created an animated History Course
• Designed and implemented about 30 learning games and simulations
• Built 3 houses from the ground up
• Flipped over 20 houses
• Won a poetry slam
• Built a go cart
• Got 3 degrees, each one worth less than the last.
• Figured out Ubuntu
• Built a piezoelectric footbridge that did not work
  • Burned the aforementioned piezoelectric footbridge to the ground