My Personal Blog

Relaxing
Originally uploaded by Stephen Kropp

The past week I have been relaxing in my hometown, Kansas City and it has been great. Seeing my friends and family made me want to take another week off and delay the inevitable trip back to Daytona. I have noticed that the people my age in Kansas City are much nicer than those I meet in Daytona. For now I am going back to the daily grind I have fallen into in Daytona Beach.

• Slideshow of pictures

Labels: vacation

I have been looking for a thesis topic and started a research project with two local companies in Melbourne. We are interested in optimizing the software development processes currently employed at one of the companies. The project has been pretty interesting so far and will be expanded in the future.

• Published Article - Phase I


• Research Proposal

Labels: research, systems engineering

Bike Week 2008
Originally uploaded by Stephen Kropp

I recently acquired an intro sport bike that has proven to be a lot of fun around the area, especially during Bike Week. I have never really enjoyed this week of loud exhausts and crazy bikers in the 8 years I have spent in Daytona but going around with friends has been a lot better behind my own motorcycle. My friends and I all took off the day from work and rode all around to see the sights of bike week. We started at the Cabbage Patch where we saw women's coleslaw wrestling at its finest, then headed to main street to see the hundreds of bikes and people all gathered for the yearly event.

• Sileshow of Pictures

Labels: bike week, friends, motorcycle