November 1st, 2008. I woke up at about 4 in the morning and joined my friends in line at “RaiderVille,” camping out for the TTU vs. UT game. We waited the whole day in line with thousands of other students, got into the stadium around 4pm, then watched the epic match where we won right …
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About seven years ago I started another major fan fiction series, unrelated (at least in my mind) to Star Trek. This one has gone through a lot of stages, starting with fantasies inspired by the game “Stargunner” combined with my own delusions of grandeur and ideas for epic sci-fi story arcs. This slightly more mature …
Now that’s actually a semi-interesting story. Back about 10 years ago I started a Star Trek fan fiction called “Star Trek: The Elite,” and in this story the main character was Captain Smith. His ship was the USS Valor. Now, when it came time for me to pick a better handle than my first Internet …
Flickr Album. A photo diary of all the classrooms I could access where I had courses over my time at Texas Tech University.
This article ran as on Op-Ed in The Daily Toreador on May 5, 2010 I came to Texas Tech in the fall of 2006. Four years, 89 papers, 96 tests, hundreds of quizzes, dozens of professors, thousands of study hours, thousands of reading pages, two sleepless nights, three laptop batteries, dozens of parties, thousands of …
Usually getting it so stuck in my head that I can’t get it out. Making it into a video ensures that I never get it stuck in my head again. Ask me anything
(This post also ran as an Op-Ed in the Daily Toreador.) Imagine a world without the Internet. Scary, right? Even though it was a mere 30 years ago that we lived in a world virtually devoid of large-scale computer networks, it is almost impossible to imagine living a comfortable modern life without the Internet. Networked …
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Summer of last year (2009) I spent about an hour standing on the roof of a 7-story building in Lubbock as a massive thunderstorm engulfed the city. There was lightning all around and I played a mix of Nightwish and Explosions in the Sky on my iPod. When the pouring rain finally came I sprinted …
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(This post also ran as an Op-Ed in the Daily Toreador on April 21st, 2010) Apple got a chink in its brushed aluminum armor this week. First, a brief summary of the story as it stands (according to Gizmodo.com). On March 18th, Apple software designer Gray Powell decided to have some drinks at a local …
“He doubted they’d seen the last of Sergei Veshkev…” — Last written line of the two-part pilot to Star Trek: The Elite, a fanfic I wrote about 10 years ago. I had the whole first season planned out in my head, along with a sufficiently epic story arc for the first three seasons. It’s humorously …
