Holy Crap!

Holy Crap is right... I haven't posted on this thing in ages. As you all know, I have been at home for the Holiday's and plan to return to Morgantown soon given that the shower is fixed at my place of residence.
With that out of the way; I'll start with my grades from last semester as well as the classes I will be taking when I return to school. I realize that I've probably told you the grades or indicated that they were good, but you can put them in perspective for yourself.

Fall 2007 Term Grades:
Intro Digital Logic Design (CPE 271): B+
Digital Logic Laboratory (CPE 272): A
File and Data Structures (CS 210): A
Intro Electrical Engineering (EE 221): W (This is the one I dropped.)
Intro Electrical Engineering Laboratory (EE 222): A
Multivariable Calculus (MATH 251): B
General Physics (PHYS 112): B

Attempted Hours: 20
Completed Hours: 17
Resultant GPA: 3.35
Overall GPA: 3.42

Spring 2008 Schedule:
Multiprocessor Systems (CPE 310)
Multiprocessor Systems Laboratory (CPE 311)
Principle Programming Languages (CS 210)
Intro Electrical Engineering (EE 221)
Elementary Differential Equations (MATH 261)
Introduction to Anthropology (SOCA 105)

Apart from all of that mumbo jumbo, you know I went to St. Albans several times during break; Once for Christmas with Erin's family the other time to just be lazy -- Something I have no problems doing. Both visits were awesome -- Her family is hilarious, all 25+ people that were there, and I don't think they hate me which is really awesome.

I've just finished reading The Legend of the Syndicate. Which was a pretty interesting look at the history of online gaming through the eyes of an online guild. I thought it was cool, although there were probably 10+ spelling errors in the book and some of the ideas repeated a lot in a short period of time. Otherwise, good read.

I also finished reading Free Software, Free Society. It contains a bunch of essays written by a "hacker" that got his start at MIT that has really revolutionary ideas regarding proprietary laws and software. Sounds boring, I know. But I'm a hoss. You knew that, to be sure.

AURGH!

June is almost done with now also. Lots of 4-H went down and I just got a job this week working in a computer lab at WVU. So, here are some highlights from camp:


Three of eight.


Man love.






Mad dancing. Mad.


Angry bubble blowing.

May Didn't Have a Post

I've covered all the other months since I made this Insider, so heres to covering May before it's gone. Not much to report on; all I've been doing is running around.

So here is a picture of my signature move, the Manatee.



I'll probably be doing a lot more of that...

Senior Design Fair

Here are some pictures from our booth at the Senior Design fair. My advisor and a couple other professors took pics and I asked Klink if he could email them to me. Klink is our professor; the short guy... We got a lot of attention at the fair, apparently Klink has a reputation for that.


Tim working the crowd.





An older version of the maze



This is the entire class.

Now that the fair is out of the way, we're responsible for writing a comprehensive report on the maze-bot :: covering hardware and software(my section). I'll definitely throw it up on here.

We also had another program due last week, but it really didn't do anything terribly interesting. It just created a circular data structure (A list, but that's not exciting enough), that ordered items either alphabetically or numerically depending on your templated parameter. It doesn't sound complicated but each item in the list has to point to a unique predecessor and successor (since the list is basically a circle -- it has no end) and you have to be able to cut those ties and re-point them to be able to insert or remove items. And it has to be so general that it can loop and work in every case necessary. Saavy?

Current Tasks

This is the follow-up to the previous post. So, in Robotics we've kind of been taking a break from the maze-bots since Tim and I have been done with it for the past 3 or so weeks. Instead, we've been doing simulated wiring and programming with labview. It's kind of cool, because you can actually pull information from hardware in the class and use the data in the programs you write and it throws it all together with an interface. Last week and seemingly this week, we're making dashboards for a car. Mine's a tank, it only gets about 2 miles to the gallon. But it's a groovy pimp tank - notice the coloring.





It's not quite done yet, but whatever.

I told you guys a little bit about the bank program that we're working on in CS. It's actually 10 programs that all work together to simulate the bank - not too complicated but very thick. It has to have several different types of accounts, and customer types based on age, all with different interest values that we're responsible for making up... you know the spiel. That's gonna consume my weekend.

WOLFMOZA!!!1

I know I already told you guys about Cleveland and the Wolfmother concerto but...
Here's some more crap to enjoy:

Erin and I at the concert.

We couldn't have cameras but we took this with her phone.




This is a picture of the venue which was really small. We were here:
(Hope you can see the enlightening circle)



Close up of the MASHPIT:



Bangin' fun... You guys should probably make Sam play some of their music for you. Expect more soon about the different things I'm working on at the moment.

Engineering Formal Shots

Here's some shots from t3h Engineering formal and the subsequent IHOP visit (I know this is high quality photographic material):