Holy awesome! Went and saw this movie yesterday, and I already want to go and see it again! Just to give you perspective, I don't do that with movies. The only one I have done that with in recent memory was maybe Transformers 1, and if you know me, you know how excited I was about that movie ( Read more... )

You know something I find a little funny with C/C++? You take these classes on the language where they show you this nice, structured programming language that has classes and all kinds of nice little features, and it all follows a set paradigm ( Read more... )

I've made some awesome progress on my simulator for my thesis. I think I'm ready to move on to the hardware implementation (the hard part).

I put the simulator together using MASON, a platform which facilitates multi-robot simulator creation. I've included a few screenshots for you guys to see a bit of what I'm doing. The basic idea is I'm ( Read more... )

Back from the Networked Robotics workshop, and it was pretty good. (See here for more info: http://control.mines.edu/netrob09/) Got my paper presented, it'll be officially published soon, and I made some really good contacts for the job hunt. For any of you who weren't already ( Read more... )

If you are running any of the most recent versions of Vista as of this posting or one of the Windows 7 betas/release candidates, your operating system is vulnerable to a new hack. See this link for a work around until a patch is released by Microsoft and for additional details ( Read more... )

When people put ellipses after every single sentence.

"I'm always trailing off...

I don't ever finish a sentence...

Does it make sense for ellipses to be here... ?

This is incredibly annoying..."

Used occasionally to indicate uncertainty or something is fine. But please people! Use them intelligently!


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That'll teach him to break into people's homes ( Read more... )

Indeed it is. That is all.


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Dropped my laptop on Sunday before we headed home to Logan. Yeah... *headdesk* That was bad. Anyway, I thought it was fine for a while, until I noticed a problem that wasn't going away. Every time I boot the laptop up, it reverts the screen resolution back to 800x600. Yeah-- not so cool. But! Fix found already! Turns out that the display ( Read more... )

Well, I discovered the other day that I have access to Windows 7 via the MSDNAA program here at USU. I wasn't expecting to be able to get it so soon. So I'm looking at upgrading probably over the 3 day weekend (labor day) so that I can have time to fix things if I mess anything up ( Read more... )