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Craigslist Scammers

I’ve listed a couple of things on Craigslist recently. I generally prefer selling on Craigslist because its free, but you do have to deal with scammers. Generally my policy is to avoid them, but this week I decided to let the story play out just to see what happens. The “person” that wants to buy [...]

Gene Kranz

Image via Wikipedia Tonight Gene Kranz, the famed NASA mission controller played by Ed Harris in Apollo 13, came to speak at UT and I was able to make it. I went with low expectations because I didn’t know much about him other than what I had seen in the movie, and just wow. This [...]

Important Degree Candidate Information

From: UT Registrar’s Office To: Chris Leonard Date: Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:03pm Subject: Important Degree Candidate Information AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO SPRING 2009 DEGREE CANDIDATES Our records indicate that you are a degree candidate for graduation at the conclusion of this semester. Please review the following information that appears on your record and [...]

Unbelievable

Image via Wikipedia I wrapped up the fall semester a little over a week ago, and it was a great semester. My classes were challenging, I learned a ton, and I earned good grades. All that remains between me and this degree are two classes and one lab. I’m going to earn a degree in [...]

Space Elevator

In one of my classes I was assigned the task of writing a feasibility study of an engineering project with a team of students. My team chose to write our document on the space elevator. It was really fun, this project is ambitious, but after reading and writing on this subject for the past six [...]

Ham Radio

I’m now in the cool part of my degree plan where we get to start doing cool stuff with the knowledge that we’ve acquired. This semester I joined a team of students that are building a CubeSat satellite, it launches sometime next fall. I’m learning a lot and its totally fun to be working with [...]

Spring 2007

My spring semester starts in just a couple of days. The Christmas break has been a full month long, but sheesh has it gone by quickly! A week in Colorado, a week with family, a little bit of work and -poof-, the time is gone. This coming semester I’ll be taking 13 hours of coursework, [...]

Whew!

I’m happy to report that I made it through my week. I have to say that pretty tough, but I did it. Between Thursday night and Friday night, I had three exams. I haven’t gotten any scores back, but I feel really good about two of them, and not so good about one. I’m not [...]

Scholastic

The end of my semester is here, and its crunch time. I have a mountain of things to do, and my brain is tired. I’m having a hard time focusing, honestly. I have spent the past several days in the books, and my eyes just can’t take it anymore. Tonight’s task is a Linear Systems [...]

Welcome Back

I haven’t blogged in a while. Mostly I’ve been busy. I’m working as many hours as possible before school slams me, so that I have some cash through the rest of the year. I also haven’t really felt as much like blogging lately, though I can’t explain why. I still love my job. I work [...]