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.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
Working, Working ...
Well, these days I'm just working away. I've been spending time working with some engineers who are designing systems for Polish airplanes, which is kind of cool because I was in Poland just last year. When I'm not doing that, I spend time playing soccer, working with SEDS-USA, or helping out the Rockoon group at ISU or SpaceVidcast.
Keeps me busy at least. I'm pretty proud of where SEDS is at these days, with much credit going to the current chairs, Joshua and Ryan. We're beginning to get a stable source of funding (should be working in the next 2-3 years) and we're slowly getting more chapters interested and more projects off the ground. I just with Obama would finish a bit with health care and the banks and give NASA a second of his time so he can dictate their path for the next 20 or so years.
Anyways, another thing I have been doing with SEDS is playing with a website called "Spreadshirt" that let me setup a T-shirt store for SEDS that sells reasonably-priced shirts with the SEDS logo etc. I bought a few to try them out and have made some adjustments to the store, but my favorite item I bought was a T-shirt with this old 1989 SEDS conference design on it.
Pretty sweet!
Keeps me busy at least. I'm pretty proud of where SEDS is at these days, with much credit going to the current chairs, Joshua and Ryan. We're beginning to get a stable source of funding (should be working in the next 2-3 years) and we're slowly getting more chapters interested and more projects off the ground. I just with Obama would finish a bit with health care and the banks and give NASA a second of his time so he can dictate their path for the next 20 or so years.
Anyways, another thing I have been doing with SEDS is playing with a website called "Spreadshirt" that let me setup a T-shirt store for SEDS that sells reasonably-priced shirts with the SEDS logo etc. I bought a few to try them out and have made some adjustments to the store, but my favorite item I bought was a T-shirt with this old 1989 SEDS conference design on it.
Pretty sweet!
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