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January 2008 - Posts

Saturday, January 26, 2008 8:47 PM

Billy Joel and The Beatles

There were two shows this week at Ball State. Thursday at Emens Auditorium was the musical "Movin' Out," based entirely on Billy Joel songs. Friday night, at Pruis, was a showing of "Across the Universe," a musical based entirely on music by The Beatles.
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Sunday, January 20, 2008 7:48 PM

Past Projects: The Crossbow

My first year at Ball State, I took a special Honors symposium. It was a sort of combined humanities/history class, and spanned two semesters. It was a total of four classes, two each semester. The first semester was Honors 199/201 and the second was
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 1:59 PM

The Nerdkit

One day over break, I was browsing Slashdot and saw a link in a comment to nerdkits.com . I did a bit of reading on the site, and it turns out that a "Nerdkit" is a set of all the components needed to make simple integrated devices. It's aimed at people
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Friday, January 11, 2008 10:28 PM

Test Animation - Dr. Frankenstein's Lab

The test animation I posted about last week has a long and interesting history. Some classes in the Honors College require a final creative project rather than a test. A friend of mine, Josh, was in such a class in the Fall semester of 2006. For his creative
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Saturday, January 05, 2008 11:08 PM

Winter Break

Well, break is almost over. I had every intention of posting two or three times, but I ended up getting busy and sidetracked. Oh well...I got a lot done. I don't know that I'm ready to go back to school, though. My schedule is still all messed up. My
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