The blog of Matthew A. Smith and Michael Chappell, on topics from A to Z

This is my Christmas Card

by Matthew Smith · December 21st, 2008 · 3 Comments

Merry Christmas from the Guys of the hQ from Matthew Smith on Vimeo.
Merry Christmas everyone! This is our video Christmas card, and hopefully it will bring you a smile and maybe a little laughter this holiday season. You can click through to Vimeo if you would like to watch the high-def version.
The Making Of
When my roommates [...]

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Categories: General

‘Tis the Season… to Blog?

by Matthew Smith · December 16th, 2008 · 7 Comments

Well it seems that here we are, stuck smack-dab in the center of the “holiday season,” for all its’ joy and consumerism. Of course, financially this is shaping up to be one of the worst holiday seasons in the past seven, twenty-five, or seventy-eight years, depending upon where and on what day you get your news. [...]

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Pictures of Wrecks

by Matthew Smith · November 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Random, I know, but I recently ran across a site with pictures of recent wrecks around New York. I really wish something like this existed for the local area.

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Categories: General

Workout Music

by Matthew Smith · October 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Life after college goes in a few directions depending on the person, examples of which I’ve witnessed through my fellow post-graduation friends. Some people take the marriage route, getting hitched a few months, weeks, or days after graduation. Others get jobs, move into apartments by themselves, and do the single life thing (or have girlfriends that [...]

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Related Rates

by Matthew Smith · October 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

A few days ago, a friend asked me a few questions about related rates problems. They are currently trying to get a better understanding of the concepts being taught in their calculus class, and knowing that I have a degree in engineering (automatically making me a math expert), they assumed that I would be able to [...]

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Categories: Journal

My Mom is on Facebook

by Matthew Smith · October 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

When I was a sophomore in college, Facebook was in its first iterations. I remember the day that Facebook added “Mercer University” to its list of supported colleges; everyone was talking about it and I had no idea what Facebook was – but I went and signed up. I can proudly say I was one [...]

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Congrats Dave!

by Matthew Smith · October 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Just a quick word of congratulations to my friend David on his recent acceptance of a job offer! Dave is a very talented engineer and will be graduating from LSU in December. It seems he had one of the best problems imaginable, especially given the current economy: he had too many job offers! At any [...]

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Halloween Decorations

by Matthew Smith · October 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment

We’ve decorated headquaters for Halloween. It’s about as ghetto as it gets, but it’s all in good fun.
Apparently we’ve disturbed a few neighbors, some of whom thought that it says “ho” as in “whore.” Not to fear, that’s a Q.
Watch it in HD here. This is my first edit with Final Cut Pro (thanks Dave, [...]

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