Yes, I still like playing with them. Here’s a sneak peak quick blog.

Gundam has a new play buddy.

Well… this place has been very very very dead lately, just like its webmaster lol.

I feel like I’ve been up to my ears in stuff when in all reality I haven’t, just a lot of stress. I’ve had a few days to kick back and cool it a little. Played a little SD Gundam Online, which rocks. Had some time with the family and saw grandpa, skated a little, had lots of Jo time
And now it’s back to school in another 2 days. Oh well, yay life. Hopefully the fast pace will keep my mind from turning into total mush, but we’ll see… it may turn it into total mush. I still feel like I need a little more time off. But maybe I should quit being a baby.
May have new job prospects soon, which is exciting. Not gonna get my hopes up just yet so I’ll stay quiet for now. That’s all the updates right now, I’ll be back in a few days to complain about school.

-Dan

Well after hours and hours of work on this thing it looks neat. This is a stirling engine that my group is doing for a computer design project. The engine is nearly fully assembled including fasteners, but needs a little more work. The end goal is to animate it and display it moving.

Lots of work on that thing. I have a test Tuesday, and then about a week left of school, then finals. Very busy guy right now. I’ll blog again later when it’s not 1 AM. Class in the morning, then work, then work on the 3d project in the lab tomorrow. Later folks.

Dan

So…

I won a toy for my sweetheart.

He’s so cute lol. I hope you enjoy him Jo.
Got him first try on a claw machine, cause I’m that awesome.

So anyway I haven’t blogged for a little while. I guess that was my excuse up there. This week has been pretty good so far, I got in lots of hours at work and I’m excited it’s Friday so I can relax a little. Have a lot of homework to do this weekend though, and it’s getting towards the end of the semester. Gonna be a busy guy.

No more progress on the arcade or anything, I’m still thinking a lot about what I want to do with it. It’s kinda come to a standstill as I’m pretty much out of money again. But I’ll think of something later.

Not much else going on right now… so I guess I’ll see you guys in a bit.

Dan

Enjoy.

Hi.

I made a model.

lol I haven’t made one of these in years. It was so much fun. This is the 30th Anniversary “Super Deformed” RX-78-2 Gundam, number BB329. It took maybe half an hour of assembly plus a few hours of painting all jumbled up total. I’m not done painting yet, I’d like to get some white and red paint to touch up some parts, but it works for now. Here are a few pictures. I like the one with the quarter showing just how small it is and the gigantic box it comes in lol.

I’m really pleased with the model. It’s articulated very well for being so small, and I think it came out looking great.

Anyway that’s enough rambling for now. Class in the morning then off to see my family this weekend. More later.

-Dan

Hi folks.  Been a while.

I haven’t been up to much.  School is tough the way everything kinda hits you at once.  Thankfully I’m on spring break right now chilling.  I’ve been working a ton on my MAME arcade project that will probably never be realized, but I’ve mapped a lot of stuff out.  I’ve compiled one myself without nag screens and such and have configured it to run without direct 3d scaling and low resolution which looks really sharp.  Today I tried to see if I could design a cabinet.  Here’s what I came up with.  (Gonna try out the wordpress photo upload feature here for the first time instead of doing it manually)

Wowee that’s looking good.  Needs art and stuff but you get the idea.  And I SHOULD be able to fit everything nicely in there.  Gotta always double check though.  That’s all for now I guess, more later.

Dan

It’s amazing how people don’t realize how good things are until things change. Even if you count your blessings daily and know how lucky you are, sometimes you will be surprised to find that some things will wring more feelings out of you than you would have thought possible. Hindsight is 20/20. It’s inevitable to wish you knew then what you know now, wish you could be better, but in the end all you can do is your best. Life is too short to take things for granted, to be constrained by worries and pressures internal and external. It needs to be lived like it won’t be there tomorrow. And you should always let the people you care about know how much they mean to you as often as you can. I love you Jo.

It snowed in Auburn this Friday. It made for a very somber yet peaceful day. Too cold for my tastes but it was relaxing enough to go and take some pictures outside.

-Dan

Right now I’m plugging away at Matlab stuff for my computer aided design class and I need something to do for a minute so I don’t go insane.

I thought I’d show something I’ve been working on for the past few days. It’s essentially done, I just need to get it ready to distribute. This is my first repaint of an aircraft for Microsoft Flight Simulator and it’s for the Cessna 172 in FSX.

It is based on a real aircraft used for the Auburn University flight school.  I thought it would be neat to have it in the game and to see if I can give it to some of the Auburn pilots who fly on their PCs.

I think I’m going to get back to Matlab now so I can get to bed before 3AM.  Class at 8 tomorrow, yippee.

Later folks,

Dan

So… first week of school went surprisingly well. It seems like this semester will be much more manageable than last one, which is shocking. But maybe I shouldn’t say that just yet…

It looks like I might be able to graduate by Spring of next year if I book it, which I’m going to see about doing. I’m excited. It’s about time I get out of here and work on those empty pockets of mine.

I’ve been playing flight sim a lot lately… it’s been good stress relief.  I’ve had a lot of fun lately flying the Piper J-3 Cub around Alaska.  These are from Anchorage.  I’d also like to comment on how these new screenshots were taken with my new 9600GT GPU I got from eVGA in exchange for my broken 7900.   Performance increased a bit from before, but I’m still CPU limited on a lot of stuff in this game.

I never really looked into the price of these and other small aircraft like them before, turns out they can be fairly inexpensive.  Who knows, maybe I’ll wanna try out being a private pilot someday when I’m old.

No more news on galleries.  I haven’t thought about it much.  I’ve been trying to get into gear for school, and it seems to be working out pretty well this time.  Back later.

-Dan