Rather than spend the weekend alone in the house while my parents are away at my great uncle's funeral, I decided that I would make a visit to Chad's in College Station. I pointed out that I have easy access to a local Spec's store, giving me the ability to procure some harder to find beers that would be difficult or impossible to find in College ( Read more... )

This is the first time that I've voted in a primary, and only the second time I've voted since I became eligible. It was too much trouble to vote from CS, but here I am a ~5 minute walk from the nearest polling place so it's really easy. I didn't really care about any of the races, but I did get to do what millions of people in the country would ( Read more... )

Recently at work I started on a project that makes use of a tool that creates executable UML. Having never worked with UML before, I visited the Object Management Group's site to read a little about it. The project also requires that we interface with a number of systems using CORBA, which is also maintained by OMG. Every other thing on their site ( Read more... )

Also, known as Filipino stick fighting, actually incorporates fighting with sticks (or machetes), knives, and bare hands. My dad convinced me to start doing it with him a while ago. I've only been doing it for four sessions and I already know several ways to break elbows, knees, etc. It's kind of weird coming from fencing for so long since I have ( Read more... )

I've known for a while that my tires were a little low. When this most recent cold front came through, it made it very obvious that I should do something about this. So today when I got home from work I decided I would fill them up using my bike pump. This procedure is not recommended. My arms are really tired now. Filling 10 psi into four large ( Read more... )

Yesterday I got back from a week-long ski trip. The original plan was to go to this place in New Mexico (Red River) and meet up with a larger group. However, the snow in New Mexico has been pretty much non-existent, so the plan changed. We (Chad, his girlfriend Jessica, and I) still went to NM first, but found the conditions there terrible. After ( Read more... )

For the last time, I get to post my grades. This time, they are exactly what I expected ( Read more... )

I received confirmation today that the "reasonable supporting documentation" I gave the ME office is good enough and I'll definitely receive my diploma on December 16th.

I heard from the faculty today. They decided that I would be allowed to make the substitution, but I have to do some sort of paperwork. I'll graduate as planned assuming that they like my paperwork, though they didn't really tell me what I have to do exactly.

TAMUFC's yearly tournament was this weekend. Unlike last year (well, February), where I was primarily responsible for just about everything getting the tournament started, I was instructed that I should tell our new tournament rep officer what to do. I sent her a detailed email and got her pointed in the right direction. It was quite nice to not ( Read more... )