DS Campus Poster

My work on the cantilevered roller coaster is being featured on a new promotional poster for the DS Campus website. The poster will be sent to teachers to hang in their classrooms as well as the November issue of PRISM magazine. Pretty cool! Hopefully something awesome will come of it. I'm ready for a new challenge. (Check out the video of the cantilevered coaster).

Rockets Own the Big Twelve in the Glass Bowl

Since I began classes at the University of Toledo I have witnessed the Rocket's football team win a big game every year.

2004: MAC Championship over Miami.
2005: GMAC Bowl Champions over UTEP 45-13
2006: Beat Kansas 37-31 in the Glass Bowl
2007: Beat Iowa State 36-35 in the Glass Bowl
2008: Beat Michigan in the Big House 13-10
2009: Beat Colorado 54-38 in the Glass Bowl

The Colorado game was awesome. Did anyone catch me on ESPN Friday night? I was standing to the right of the clowns, behind the painted, shirtless people, and to the left of Jim Tressel and Santa Claus. Sounds more like a Halloween party than a football game, I know, but it sure was good times.

I'm calling it right now: Toledo will upset Ohio State in Cleveland this Saturday. You heard it here first! Aaron Opelt is on fire with NINE total touchdowns in two games. The defense is still suspect but the offense can score points. I've never seen a hurry up offense operate as fast as the Rockets. Coach Beckman has been just what this program needed and I have high expectations for the future.

I decided if OSU beat USC I would root for them against Toledo, but because they disappointed me again I cheer for my alma mater as it would be a huge win for them. My favorite Brent Musburger quote from the OSU-USC games: "Barkley needs a blow."

Toilet Seat Scale Video

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XCqlgLASrX8

Toilet Seat Scale Site Online

Check it out: http://www.mime.eng.utoledo.edu/design/clinics/2008/Fall/sites/2008-04-01/

Books for Sale

I'm selling some of my old textbooks that the bookstore wouldn't buy back. Please let me know if you are interested.


Scriptures of the Worlds Religions -2nd edition by James Fieser, John Powers

Engineering Fluid Mechanics - 8th Edition by Crowe, Elger, Roberson

Probability and Statistics 6th Edition

FE Review Manual 2nd Edition Lindeburg

Talking Toilet Seat Scale Complete

Senior Design Project

Toledo ROCKS-IT at Da Big House

http://promo.espn.go.com/espn/contests/pontiacgcp/?cmp=ponredirect, Vote for Toledo! What a game, Toledo upsets Michigan in the Big House and I was there. More pictures here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2129562&l=0351e&id=30102517

A Day of Volunteering

This past Saturday was a long day. I woke up at 6:45 to do Clean Your Streams at 7:30. Clean Your Streams is where a bunch of organizations get together and clean up the Ottawa River that runs through campus. The entire time we were outside it poured down rain and we got soaked. It was for a good cause though plus we got a free lunch, breakfast, and t-shirts and Sarah won a $25 gift card for gas!

Saturday night from midnight to 6am I got to help out with the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition house! It was a lot of fun. I helped move furniture inside and set things up. It'll be cool when they finally air the show and can say "You see that plant on that end table? Yea, I put that there." And if you don't like the way the great room is set up you can blame it on me as it was my suggestion. We saw all three designers on set the day before (Paul DiMeo, Rib, and Didi), but when I was inside Didi was the only one there and actually doing stuff.



The show on TV is kind of deceiving. They make it look like Ty and the designers are really important, but from what I saw they don't really do anything. Ty was only around for maybe 4 days, basically to get the shots they needed of him at the beginning and end and the rest of the time he was gone. Like I said, Didi was the only designer I saw actually doing something. All the contractors and volunteers do the majority of the work. Amazing accomplishment to get it all together in a few days. I am proud and happy I got to be part of it.

And no I am not going to be on TV, there were no camera crews out when I was working at house, but I'm pretty sure Sarah and I were on the Toledo news.





Pictures here:
http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2126036&l=42c81&id=30102517

Books for Sale

Scriptures of the Worlds Religions -2nd edition by James Fieser, John Powers

Engineering Fluid Mechanics - 8th Edition by Crowe, Elger, Roberson

Probability and Statistics 6th Edition

Introduction to Heat Transfer 5th edition Incropera DeWitt Bergman Lavine

Managing for Quality and Performance Excellence 7th Edition Evans Lindsay