About
I am Ryan Harne. This website dispatches as many of my creative outlets as possible, in part to exercise and expand them until the time comes that I actually do need those nunchuk skills, and, also, in part to get my ideas and words out there. A million spoken ideas are always better than the chaotic, olympian track&field going on in our heads.
Academically, I am a graduate mechanical engineering student at Virginia Tech, as well as an industrial design minor. Friends and professors always associate me closer to the image of design than engineering, but I tend to mix & match everything I come across, in hopes that something new will be uncovered. In all honesty, I am interested in almost anything that has depth - I find psychology, sociology, mathematics, physics, politics, economics, and so forth all engrossing (of course, including engineering & design). I will likely continue my love of mechanical engineering into a PhD.
I like photography, talking to people, watching people, eating baked goods or pastries, reading in silence, waking up on a Saturday morning to make a latté. I am fairly tolerant of different peoples and habits, so people themselves rarely upset me. However, I truly dislike almost all modern movies and television series, monthly payments, driving, and watching people throw away recyclable plastics.
Prior to the 2003 domain purchase, I was writing online at other venues dating back to 1998. ryanharne.com is an amalgamation of past, present, and yet-to-be journeys and commentaries. Email me, if you would like; I sincerely enjoy receiving new contact and am usually prompt with a reply.
Credit to the font of ryanharne.com, used between 2004 and 2006, goes to Eduardo Recife of misprinted type. Please check out his astounding work.
The current ryanharne.com font is Helvetica Neue.
Every single HTML ability I have picked up from this website was spoon fed to my by Google.
Software - Wordpress 2.0; Photoshop CS; Cyberduck
Hardware - iMac Core 2 Duo; PowerBook G4; Canon Rebel XTi and Powershots; a few iPods