Rocketships, Inc.

Writing about what I’ve learned

How to Stay Warm on a Motorbike for Cheap

I've had my bike insured and running since January, and damn if today wasn't the first decent weather we've had in all that time. Step 1: Gloves. If you're a responsible adult, get some that have nice, plush lining, carbon knuckles, leather shells with no...

What is going on in my community?

What is going on in my community?

I don't know, but I'd like to. I've got a team gathered, and we're going to spend the next three months trying to answer that question. We're making a website for people who care about Victoria. We want to know what decisions are being talked about right now, and...

Goats are cool

Today I found a blog written by a seven year old named Yefet. It's pretty good.   What makes it good: His posts are very short. He writes about stuff he does and enjoys, like raising his goats (he lives on a farm). He is very lucky to have parents that take him...

Awkward. …Pause.

Have you ever been ignored? People are chatting about something, you interject. In a loud clear voice, a comment that you think is funny, or smart, or at least worthy of acknowledgement. Just a grunt. Just a glance. But they ignore you. No? Just me, huh? (Don't mind...

Weekly Report #2

107 days remain til June 25. Not that I'm counting. But that's the day I'm leaving for Australia, and anything that doesn't fit in my carry on luggage ain't coming. Today's a day of purging. I just went through my clothes and found 35 lbs of stuff I don't care enough...

A different kind of college course

A different kind of college course

  Bluetooth is not an easy thing to deal with, my instructor tells me. I didn't believe him, and spent several fruitless weeks trying to get the Morse code Bluetooth chat app to work correctly. The nature of application development, especially when it's for a...

Signals, Pulses, and Messages in C

Further studies in pulses...messages... AND SIGNALS! Sorry. Signals don't rate capslock, tbh. But I shall attempt to teach you about them. The usual includes. msg.h is my teachers' concoction, and may be found here. [crayon-660559ce3dc22947105987/]   Gonna need...

How to write a message logger in C

You are probably here because some demanding professor has ordered you to produce an example of a program that recieves messages and pulses and logs stuff about them. Here I will provide  the answer to all your questions. Well, some of your questions. I can't, for...

Weekly report

I don't know what anyone else does with their time, but here's what I'm on this week. Homework, Constantly In Data Warehousing, I'm 3 labs behind. The lab period coincides with another, harder, more interesting class, so I often let it slide a bit. I'm studying the...