Life Lesson from Big Brother

I consider my brother to be a giant influence in terms of the person that I am and he'll continue to be that way for as long as I have my way. At a very young age, my brother taught me an important lesson, totally unintentionally. I can't recall a specific example but my brother would be playing or using something be it the computer, the Gameboy, or a certain book and I'd pretty much just wait there patiently, or impatiently, until he was done. Then it'd be my turn. But he'd find something else to do to occupy his time and all of a sudden, I wanted to do that. People always want what they don't have or can't have - my older brother taught me to appreciate what I had and, what I think is more important, do things you like, regardless of what others are doing. It's a small but powerful lesson that I carry around with me all the time.

Engineering?

Ever since I've graduated from Environmental Engineering I really haven't found too much use from the knowledge I've gained except for enlightening a friend here and getting a quiz show question there. But what I realized is that I understand people more. I came to this realization when I was at Tim Horton's with my family I can't of acted as kind of mediator between my family member in terms of gestures that require responses and even in what they mean. It was kind of freaky how I understood but there's always the factor that I've lived with them for some twenty-one years...

Decibel Venn Diagram

So, I have a brother and a sister and we grew up with this other group of three children who were almost exactly the same in age. We still get together a few times in the year even though some of us have moved out and live in other provinces and when we do it tends to get pretty heated and pretty loud. Inspiration hit the nerd sector of my brain when I got the idea to do this venn diagram. I brainstormed with my sister approximate decimals of each group of kids then I went to work on Adobe Illustrator. I think it turned out pretty good for my first vector image project. Even though it took 8 hours plus...

Venn
The coloured venn diagram is my family and the grayscale is the girls (that family has all daughters) and every mini-venn is them again. This was the best way I came up with representing every interaction. For example, the very middle is everyone. The darkest section in the purple would be my older brother, younger sister, and the eldest girl from the other family. Nifty? Yeah. Nerdy. Oh, hell yeah! It was a hit when I showed my friends what I'd done - they're already talking about making prints and shirts. Even people I don't even know are commenting on it. It's actually pretty flattering.