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

Entries from October 2008

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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Categories: General

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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Categories: General

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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Categories: Journal

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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Categories: General

Eat Apes.

by Matthew Smith · October 17th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s late on a Friday afternoon and I’m watching the clock count down the last mintues of the day. Thankfully, I remembered my friends David and Jon keep their musings online (much like Chappie and myself, though Jon posts a lot more than Chappie). You should probably skip on over to this link and find [...]

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Categories: General

The Democratization of “Radio Broadcasting”

by Matthew Smith · October 17th, 2008 · No Comments

A couple of days ago, while eating at Zaxby’s with my roommates (a favorite dining location), conversation touched briefly the topic of “pirate radio.” The last time I discussed such things was in a series of conversations with Chappie last summer. We contrived a concept for a distributed radio transmission network using small, distributable, network connected [...]

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Categories: Musings · Technology · iPhone

If any links don’t work…

by Matthew Smith · October 14th, 2008 · No Comments

If you are browsing the site and find a link that is broken, be sure and let me know (just leave a comment) and I will attempt to rectify the issue. Over the past few days I came under a little scrutiny from my webhosting provider to remove some media content (mostly streaming MP3s) from [...]

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Categories: Site Updates