For The Last Time: The Plane Takes Off!

So, after months and months of online dis­cus­sion, Myth­busters Jamie and Adam put the physics where the rub­ber meets the road. Lit­er­al­ly. Almost two years ago, I (and most of the inter­net, it seems) saw a thought ques­tion at Kottke.org regard­ing an air­plane on a giant con­vey­or belt. If the belt moved the exact same speed… Con­tin­ue read­ing For The Last Time: The Plane Takes Off!

A New Direction For My Career

As a result of our mov­ing, I have tak­en a posi­tion of Senior Tech­ni­cal Writer with Bent­ley Sys­tems, Inc. Specif­i­cal­ly, I’ll be work­ing with soft­ware in the struc­tures group. In the past three years, Bent­ley has acquired sev­er­al big names in struc­tur­al engi­neer­ing soft­ware: REI (STAAD), RAM Inter­na­tion­al, and more recent­ly TDV GmbH (RM). I… Con­tin­ue read­ing A New Direc­tion For My Career

Appreciating the Classics

Our new iPod “clas­sic” – which comes in much more com­pact pack­ag­ing than old­er iPods. The large cube box has been replaced with a much slim­mer case. Also, you don’t get a charg­ing block with it any­more. After much debate and self-reflec­­tion in our home over the past cou­ple of weeks, we decid­ed to get… Con­tin­ue read­ing Appre­ci­at­ing the Classics

Published
Categorized as General

Tennessee Tech in the Top 100

Ten­nessee Tech (my Alma mater) made ESP­N’s Top 100 “Great­est Beat­downs in His­to­ry.” Check out No. 70: “Loy­ola of Chica­go 111, Ten­nessee Tech 42, 1963 NCAA first-round game. Loy­ola went on to win it all.” Of course they were on the receiv­ing end of that beat­down. Wa Wa Waaaah­h­h… (via Kottke)

Published
Categorized as General

Fixed The Washer, What’s Next?

With­in less than three weeks of our daugh­ter being born, our oth­er­wise reli­able front-load­­ing wash­ing machine start­ed hav­ing some prob­lems. The wash­er would­n’t spin the clothes – leav­ing us to hand-wring out large piles of slop­ping wet laun­dry. How­ev­er, with some inves­ti­ga­tion and help, the wash­er I was able to fix the wash­er myself (as… Con­tin­ue read­ing Fixed The Wash­er, What’s Next?

Published
Categorized as General

Five Fun Things Friday — June 1st Edition

Well, it’s been two weeks since I last did this, so I should have plen­ty of fun things, right? I’ve been soon busy with work and house stuff, I’m not sure… Watch­ing “Wait­ing for Godot.” After being pub­licly shamed, I fig­ured I’d bet­ter see what all the fuss is about. I tried to watch a taped… Con­tin­ue read­ing Five Fun Things Fri­day — June 1st Edition

Outlook Hack

So many things in Win­dows (and on a Mac/Linux machine for that mat­ter) require you to con­firm dele­tion, that it’s become a reflex to hit [Delete] & [Enter] in rapid suc­ces­sion. Sad­ly, the oth­er day I delet­ed the very hand “Unread Mail” from Out­look. It’s a very handy way to imme­di­ate­ly keep on top of… Con­tin­ue read­ing Out­look Hack

Happy Thanksgiving

Angela and I have my moth­er vis­it­ing us for a week this Thanks­giv­ing. The three of us went out to the Uni­ver­si­ty of Rich­mond for the annu­al Turkey Trot 10k this morn­ing. What a great way to kick off the hol­i­day. U of R is one of the most beau­ti­ful cam­pus­es in the coun­try and,… Con­tin­ue read­ing Hap­py Thanksgiving

Published
Categorized as General