Lots of Uploading

Well, there hasn't been a whole lot going on in Cedar Rapids, IA for a while. Just work, work, work. Soccer is pretty fun, but I was out of the game for a week because of a sprained knee (very painful, barely walk-able) and was playing through still a bit crippled last week. Our team is doing very badly, but the games are a lot of fun and we put up a good fight.

I've been trying to get old videos uploaded to the web today. One of the things I did a couple weeks ago was go to Ames for a day to see the Freshman Aerospace class launch their rockets. The class this year is huge (bigger than my year) and when they're each trying to launch their team's rocket 3-4 times, that adds up fast (200+ students/4-5 team * 3-4 launches = a lot). Most of it was a success and I shot some video of the launches, but the quality suffered a little because I got enlisted to help time the rockets' time-to-deploy [their parachutes], so I was trying to film with my left hand and time with my right.



I've also been trying to set stuff up for SpaceVision 2009 next month. Hopefully (fingers crossed) SpaceVidcast will help me out with the live streaming etc and kind of count it as a remote conference broadcast to save me the trouble of setting up SEDS accounts on UStream etc. Should be a fun time though. Check out the latest episode of SpaceVidcast if you're any kind of Apollo space fan because they got Cy Liebergot on and like many people of that awesome era, he has more to say than youtube can hold (thus the lower quality).



Edit: Oh, and by the way, I figured out finally how to do some cool stuff with my domain so now http://rickhanton.com comes to this site and http://twitter.rickhanton.com, http://facebook.rickhanton.com, http://flickr.rickhanton.com, and http://youtube.rickhanton.com send you to the proper places.