Experimental Rockets

Allot is being done in the lab. Ok it is more like the garage and  in cellar, but there has been some serious improvement in rocket design and technology. I'm talking about custom made rockets, with fiberglass and carbon fiber parts. Also had a successfully stack test with a experimental motor and nozzle. Although there was no gage to measure the thrust out put, I was quite happy with the performance. It was a short, put powerful burn causing the motor to sink half of an inch in already compacted sand.

Hand dryers != save the world

I was in restroom last week and notice bellow the button, there was plate promoting the use of electric hot air hand dryers. The main point is that it is better for the environment, then paper towels since there is no trash and it is saving trees. I totally disagree, paper is allot more environmentally friendly. My main point is that tress are renewable resources that can be farmed and grown. While the electricity that powered the hot air dryer most likely comes from a coal burning power plant. It is similar out look on using ethanol as fuel in cars. It not that it produces less toxins when burned, but growing corn and other sugar plant materials that can be easily converted to alcohol, is good for the environment, because they lower the C02 in the atmosphere as they grow. Just something to think about....

Testing....

Seems like there might be a bug in my code. So I will be testing some things out.

hmm, embedded video screwed up the layout.

A post a day keep the pay collectors at bay

Good news, summer is here and class are over for the most part. This gives me time to post yet again. So except a daily blog once again. With that said, I think I will be adding some adds on the page. I doubt this blog will make enough for me to retire on, but any extra income will be nice. With this decision, I also came up with a solution to thank those who read my blog daily. With the money that does come in from the adds I will share. Most likely by having a contest, or the one who responds to my posts the most. Also if I realize that the adds are not generating income, annoying, or advertising junk. I will then pull it and stop it.

I wanted to generate a nicer looking blog, so it would stand out and not appear so generic, But I cant come up with any thing. Suggestions will be nice.

I will leave you this video.

so it goes.

It has been one month since my last post. Don't worry I'm still alive, if you cared :p
And don't think that I'm going to make up for all those missed posts. Your nuts if you think i would, I do have a life. Allot has happen, more rockets went off, even one blew up, there will be a you tube video soon. I been busy with school and i still want to post some of my homework, so you still can expect that. As for coding, i had no time, but it still something i want to do and post. I have a small program that is a proof of concept that i might show off. OK that summed up the pass month.

But the main reason i post today is in memory of one of the greatest writers. He died on this date last year. Kurt Vonnegut. At first i never was a big reader, but this author has changed my out look on reading. And in his memory i have read about 5 or so of his stories in the last two weeks. Kurt Vonnegut is a prolific writer with a quite a few of works with a range of themes and messages. Just because he has alot of works, does not mean they were put together in a rush. Keep in mind that most of his works are short stories and he had lived along successful life. From a scout in World War II, that got held as a POW during the Firebombing of Dresden, Writer, teacher and artist. Kurt Vonnegut is well... Kurt. Just like i have said before to truly understand a person read his works. Even though he disagress that Billy Pilgrem is not a represtive of him self in Slaughterhouse Five, obviously his fealings and what he saw is expresed though his writtings. Another event, that i think that shaped his life, was the lost of his mother, at a young age due to suiced.

He was a great writer
so it goes.