The Comet's Flame

I discovered an incredible store in downtown Iowa City called Record Collector, Inc. They have an enormous selection of used and new CDs and vinyl records. The best part is that they specialize in independent music, so they have all of my favorite artists that nobody has heard of!!! Nice!! Here are my findings for [...]

I finished up the PCB layout for my senior project and sent the design files off to my favorite fab house, Advanced Circuits. It will take them about a week to get the board manufactured. Until then, I will be using my prototyping setup (click the picture for a larger view) to do performance testing [...]

I thought that perhaps people might be interested to know what I’m up to in school. At the moment, I’m focusing on finishing up my senior project, which is a low-power digital data logger. Today, I’m working on the PCB (Printed Circuit Board) layout for the hardware (click on the image to see a larger [...]

I have been boring myself with my writing lately. I can’t seem to think of anything interesting to talk about. Thus, I have decided to write a self-referential stream-of-consciousness essay in celebration of boring literature. There are many good things about boring essays such as this one. Firstly, they are easy to read and understand, [...]

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I dislike Bill O’Reilly. A lot. Check out this clip of him being a pompous jerk. Even though I would take O’Reilly’s side in this particular debate (O’Reilly defends belief in God, while his opponent Richard Dawkins defends atheism), I think that his attitude and choice of words make him look like a total idiot. [...]

“When… you can’t compose yourself, It’s best to compose a poem.” – Conor Oberst I think that’s what I’ll go do right now. Either that or get some sleep.

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So I guess I’ll tell you what I thought of Bee Movie. I thought that it was okay. Personally, I’m getting a little bit tired of all these bland high-action animated movies that are obviously designed to showcase all of the fancy new CG technology (could we please slow things down a bit and concentrate [...]

I recently attended (part of) a missions conference with my friends the Harpoles at their church. It was encouraging and challenging, and I really enjoyed it. The youth choir sang several songs about missions, and they also did some dramatic monologues and narratives from the lives of famous missionaries. Everything was very nicely done, and [...]