I use Facebook as my primary social networking tool, including status updates. I know it’s a concept they stole from Twitter, but I like the way Facebook has done it better. But I also have friends who use Twitter, and for a long time I had a Twitter account but it languished in inactivity. So [...]
<2009> Haven’t you ever wanted a Michael Scott statue in the town square of your island?
<2008> This is a refresh of my case mod that I call the DiamondBox and the components that go into it.
<2007> How’s the traffic on I-94 this time of year? After driving through it, I decided the speed limit signs were completely inaccurate, so I used Photoshop to express my annoyance.
<2004> What do you do when your workplace has over 80 empty computer boxes to dispose of? Okay, that’s not quite accurate. What do you do if you’re me?
<2007> This was just a quickie Photoshop, but I think the results are pretty entertaining. What if Gordon Freeman wrote a ‘For Dummies’ book?
<2006> This is a concept I had for a Phi Tau Rush shirt. People really seemed to like it, but we were unable to make it because it had too many colors. Maybe it will still get made someday.
<2006> This is one of my favorite Photoshops that I’ve done. It’s a Phi Tau medal I made as a mock-up for real medals I wanted to have made. It turned out great, and makes a good desktop background, too.
<2006> For this Photoshop, I incorporated a couple different screen captures to make a quick, funny image to “scare” Tom.
<2006> This is a composite image of me posing with “Buddy Christ” from the movie Dogma. The intended purpose was to be used as a Facebook profile picture.
<2005> This Photoshop is a quickie job depicting Tom as “Tomster” – A logo for a P2P file-sharing application named after him (and inspired by Napster).
<2003> This Photoshop was a fairly simple job, but had good results. The original credit goes to someone else, as my only contribution was to replace a face. But the effect was still quite profound.
<2003> This Photoshop project was an exercise to “transplant” one person’s head onto another person’s body. It turned out to be about as difficult as I’d imagined.
<2003> This Photoshop project took a good source image and added text that fit the theme to convey the message I wanted. It was essentially an exercise in matching styles.
<2003> I made three signs for a class in Photoshop, and later re-did one I had previously done with the same template I’d developed for the original three. Two are generally politically correct. Two are not so much.
<2003> Whenever you’re required to wear a “Hello, my name is…” name tag, it’s generally kind of an odd situation. So I conceived this name tag as a joke to relieve some of the awkwardness.
<2003> This is a Photoshop project to recreate a mock-up Department of Defense login screen to be used as a desktop background.
<2007> This is a Mini-Project log: Some time ago I noticed that facebook seemed to pass some images through without recompressing them. Could I use this to my advantage?
<2007> This is a Mini-Project log: I found an interesting nuance of facebook that I thought was particularly interesting: The Creator.
<2006> This is a project writeup for the speaker boxes Tom and I designed and built for his use. They’re 3-way sealed speakers connected to a classic tube amp.
<2004> This is the project write-up for the DiamondBox, in many ways the sequel to the Waterbox. After the Waterbox met its end at the hand of gravity, I resolved to make a much stronger case as my next project. The DiamondBox was born, utilizing aluminum-on-top-of-more-aluminum construction, it has the awesome looks of aluminum diamondplate, chrome, and flat black, with some blue accent lighting. It also features full watercooling support and in many areas utilizes the available space so well that there’s very little left over. This mod will eat most hoity-toity factory “mods” for breakfast.
<2004> This is the project write-up for the water-cooling accessory box I built for my acrylic case. I dubbed it the Waterbox. It was, for the most part, a self-contained water-cooling apparatus with the pump, radiator, fans, and reservoir. It was designed to sit below my case and integrate into the design as seamlessly as possible. Unfortunately, nearing the end of its development (and after many, many hours of work), the Waterbox met a tragic ending.
<2005> This is the project log for the Cantenna I built over the course of a couple years. It is used as a high-gain directional WiFi antenna for achieving better signal and range when connecting to access points.
<2006> This is the project writeup for the Spudgun made on Beaver Island with Tom, Jeff, and Reid in September of 2006. This particular Spudgun was designed to use pneumatic (air) pressure to shoot golf balls and achieved approximately 40m/s of muzzle velocity.
<2005-2006> CMUPhiTau.com was a web page I designed, created, implemented and maintained in 2005 as an answer to the problems we were having with our previous site. It was meant to be simple, elegant, and extremely easy to update. Another main requirement was that it needed to appeal to actives, alumni, and new members alike. It also provided a photo gallery which became popular as I populated it with thousands of pictures of members and friends.
<2006-2007> LiquidNitrogen.us is my second major web-design project. I’m utilizing many of the techniques I used in CMUPhiTau.com, and improving on them whenever possible. This site is meant to give me a way to share my experiences with friends, as well as potential employers. A main point of focus is my projects page, which I’m populating with old projects now, and will add new projects as I do them. It also gives me a place to host pictures of friends, in a password-protected photo gallery.