Look! I made my own beanie while watching the BYU bowl game. How lame am I? Here's some more pics.

It's been a while since the CO2 race car races, but I can't remember ever posting pics of my car (which won by the way!!!). Cool enjoy.

Last week we held our SUMO BOT (robot wars) competition and these are pictures of my teams bot. We had too much fun with the paint job, but we finished in second place. Although that's not bad considering we did beat the 1st place team in one round, but because of the way the rounds were set up they got another chance to battle us and won. Darn. Enjoy.

Well the semester is finally over, and I can finally take some time to update this blog of mine. Here are some pics that everyone should find interesting.

This was a pewter chess set that I designed and built for the final project in my Material Properties class and finished it just last week. Enjoy.

TTE 125 Files

My roommates and I have decided to join a bowling league next semester and were in need of a team logo. This design was borrowed from the Simpsons 'Pin Pals' episode and modified to our liking (no pun intended).

TEXAS LOST !!! Nooooooooooooooo...
I think i'm going to go find somewhere to die now.

Here's something for those with a taste for Harry Potter. One of the hot topics for debate surrounding JK Rowling's 7th HP book is severus snape's loyalties. Just thought it would make a fun podcast. Here's the link. Oh, and by the way. It's yours truly.

damon's podcasts

here are a couple of pics of a pumpkin i carved yesterday afternoon. it took me almost 5 hrs to complete it. i created the design using several filters in photoshop to get the desired shadow effects needed to create a usable cutting pattern.

can you guess what TV character this is???

Yesterday was very interesting. I went to Mountain Ridge Junior High to teach students taking a flash animation class how to make stop motion animations. They used modling clay or legos. The group of kids I worked with created a short film using some of my star wars lego figurines. Because of the time constraints they were unable to finish compiling their photos or adding their audio effects (which they all created themselves). I'm not sure how our actual teaching was, but I think everyone, myself included, had a lot of fun working together. The kids were 8th grade students and were suprisingly focused on their task at hand. We plan on having their videos compiled for thursday when other students from the TTE major go to the same school, so we can have them take the students videos back to the junior high for them to see the final products.

I've been enjoying myself more this semester than I think I've ever had here at BYU. I think it has something to do with finally finding a major focusing on things that I enjoy and things I want others to enjoy with me. Teaching should be a lot of fun, and I hope I can do well enough now so I can be an effective teacher.

By the way, the picture of the Koi fish here was created in Adobe Photoshop in combination with Adobe illustrator. I think that it's awsome. What do ya'll think?

I enjoy these posters so much, but the picture is probably too small to read. They are called demotivators. I think they are sold somewhere called despair.com or something like that. Here's what it says:

"genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration, which is why engineers sometimes smell really bad."

these are so funy. there are some great ones out there. maybe i will post more for all ya'lls enjoyment in the future.

Here is the tank under construction while plants where still not entirely planted in the soil, but is also a good shot of some of my other fish. You can see a buenos aire tetra, my gold sunset gourami, some celebes rainbow fish, and even a pair of bala sharks. The tank has malaysian driftwood with attatched java moss/ferns. The foreground includes baby tearns and micro amazon swords. There is also corcscrew grass in the midground and some more assorted ferns. The back drop is quite simple, including nothing but amazon swords and mondo grass (which isn't aquatic and will probably die off. but it looks good for now). Looks great to me, but i don't have a completed picture of the tank yet.

Here's the newest additions to my fish tank. The one on the bottom is an algae eater commonly known as a pleco. He's almost 2 times the size he was when i bought him at the petstore. The 2 fish above him are called blue paradise gourami's. They get really colorful as they mature. These ones are just babies. You can also see some live plants that are called baby tears. They will hopefully cover the entire forground of the tank floor soon and look really nice. They are inside a 29 gallon aquarium, but hopefully when i get done with school here and finish my student teaching i will be able to get a larger tank.

i almost forgot. the parts of teaching that i'd like to place my emphasis into.

i'm not sure exactly what to categorize them under tho.
here they are: animation, web, drafting, 3danimation,flash, and other similar multimedia
pre engineering looks promising too.

a li'l 'bout me

I'm from Austin, Texas. I started school here back in summer of 2002. I only recently decided on a major to declare. I am truely interested and hope to be able to push for the best. I've tought primary children for church from time to time and I just love the way they see the world. It seems like i learn something from them every time I go to teach them a lesson. You can truely feel how these kids become attatched to you and therein lies the trust.

I really enjoy reading books. However, I'm not a fast reader.
Harry Potter is on the top of my book list. I can't wait for the last book.

There are 5 people in my family, including me. My parents, 1 sister, and 1 brother. All of which have/are attending BYU except my brother who's at BYU Idaho working.

I love animals. Fish have become my speciality. I'm even learning to create aquariums that incorporate live plants with fish. A challenge to try something new, but i enjoy that.

My favorite pet that I've had was a fish. That sounds wierd, but he was a Pacu fish. If you aren't familiar with this species, they get extremely large and are closely related to pirahnas. He had great personality, loved veggies, and was always excited to see people enter the room. Sadly he died earlier this year after a good 2+ yrs.

I'll post some more 'bout me later.

trying to figure out how to rss this (if possible) to thunderbird so i can see any posts live.

It's my 1st blog. Yay.