A Grand Introduction

This is me.

As my profile suggests, I currently go by Ben Miller. As this sounds terrible as a username, you can assume it is my actual name. I hail from Texas, in a moderately sized town called Granbury just southwest of Dallas. It hit 100 degrees for 48 consecutive days this summer, raining the day I left for Nova Scotia and ending the streak. It rained only once while I was there, shortly after I came home for the summer, and I am curious as to whether the puppy we got around then even knows what rain is. Now I'm finally back at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York.

This is the part where you ask me what I think of snow and all that cold weather stuff.

My reply is to explain that I lived in the hills of northern Pennsylvania for my first 16 years and I much prefer it. It's nice not to sweat through your shirt when you go turn the garden hose off in the backyard.

Here I am.

I'm attending RIT for 3D Digital Graphics, a major which (officially) came into being the year I arrived. I'm now in my third year and am glad to have finished up my liberal arts classes, allowing me to focus more on 3D. Though I've compiled a list of industries the skills I'm learning are useful for, (gaming and movies, of course, but also medical, military, architecture, engineering, and just about any science you can imagine at this point) I still don't know exactly where I'll land. I'd prefer it to be somewhere soft, like in the grass or in a lake somewhere.

What I am that isn't me.

I do quite a lot of things. I'm doing several right now. But when I'm not doing those things, I'll probably have found something else to do anyway.
     *One of the more unusual things I do is to tend to my herd of myotonic goats (fainting goats). I never go out of my way to faint them (unless I need pictures of them fainted to register them) because they faint so much on their own. They eventually learn to spread their legs out so they'll remain standing (most of the time) and the boys are so stocky (packing my own weight into an animal that is still shorter than my waist) that they become immovable tables when they faint.
     *More things I do when I'm off doing include biking and hiking, collecting and building meaningless items out of useless junk, playing guitar, and consuming copious amounts of oxygen throughout the day.

One of Many Ends.