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Category: School

  • March Madness

    We are very proud of our Buckeye basektball team, winners of the Big Ten tournament winning three straight games over Michigan, Illinois, and Iowa in the title game. I still don’t know how the AP pollsters can rank Illinois higher than us, even after we man-handled them twice. The ESPN poll had been doing it, but they finally got it right. We definitely have the toughest bracket, but I think we can do ok, as long as we play how we’ve been playing lately. We have Davidson first, wherever that is.

    Progress is being made on the tunnel diode latch. I finally put a picture of a screen capture of the oscilloscope of my first breadboard latch. Go here (dead link) for the picture. Once I get some more time I will get more info up here. The next step is to use our own tunnel diodes built here at OSU to make a latch. Things are looking good.

  • Another day

    Winter quarter is almost over already. That is crazy. Right now I’m working on a couple papers for my two classes, EE735 and EE831. Both will be about tunnel diodes. Surprised? I think they will be a good way to get going on my thesis writing, though, so that is a good thing. I’m also starting on the layout of some masks that we will be using to make some Tunneling SRAM. That is cool. More on that as I get more done.

    I finally posted my resume on monster.com. After over a year of being told not to use monster.com by the Engineering Career Services, I took the dive anyway. Within two days i already had two contacts about possible openings. So far niether have panned out, but that is better than none. The job market is slow right now, so I’m up for anything that comes along.

    I finally got a picture of my new Jeep online. Check it out. (dead link)

  • Hello out there

    Things haven’t been updated here in a while. I’m getting lazy, not too mention busy. Lots of things have happened since I last wrote anything. Christmas has come and gone rather quickly. It’s been nice, though. Greta and I made out well this Christmas. We got a new 27 inch Sony flat screen TV (dead link) from Santa Rice, a JVC digital camcorder from Santa Betts, and a JVC DVD player that we bought for ourselves. Not too shabby.

    Along with that, we purchased a new car for me (a 2000 Jeep Cherokee Sport, pictures to come). we decided not to trade in my Chevy S-10, we’re gonna sell it ourselves. If your interested (or know someone who’s looking for a nice little pick-up truck) take a look here for all the details. I’ve been having a discussion with this guy from the cmh.forsale newsgroup about my asking price. He’s been haggling me over the Kelly Blue Book value. I think everything on my little page there is self explanatory, but he thinks I’m wrong. Whatever.

    School is going pretty good, I finally feel like i’m making progress on my Masters Thesis project. Classes are going good, too, so that is always promising. I even get to take a class with my esteemed advisor, Dr. Paul Berger. This is my first 800-level class. One down, one to go!

    I’ve found some new fun stuff online. At Launch you can make your own radio station. By rating music, you can filter out the crap and listen to what you like. Sometimes things get kinda warbled with heavy traffic, but for the most part it isn’t a problem. Techbargains.com and Slickdeals.net are two great sites for locating computer hardware/software sales. At half.com I got a 150$ textbook for 80$. Not bad, eh? And for your entertainment pleasure, check this site out. The third one and the last one are my faves. The gun game is fun, too. Sweet stuff!