TheOneCubed

My latest read (besides the Bible) is a good one. J.I. Packer’s Knowing God is an amazing book! Thanks go to Chip for suggesting a book with such powerful conviction for what it means to be a Christian.

Today I had the awesome pleasure of watching my beloved Wolfpack whoop up on the Tarheels. On top of it, my good buddy Joel drove up from Charlotte to join me for the game. Now it was a close game and it was fought until the bitter end. However, my boys pulled out a win and at the end of the day, a tick in the W column is all that matters.

I’ve posted a few photos of today’s awesome festivities in the gallery. Below are a few of my favorites!

Last weekend I had the awesome opportunity to work with some very talented folks from my church on filming for this year’s Christmas program, Lost in the Mountains Rescue. Last Saturday we rented out one of the SAS studios for 10 hrs and setup and filmed non-stop for most of the day.

We then continued the round of excitement by visiting New Hope Fire Station in Wendell, NC (just north of Raleigh) where one of our tech team guys, Phil, is a fire fighter. He and some of his boys pulled out some fire trucks, suited up and let us film to add even more realism to our shoot. Not to mention the fact that Phil fed us before we got to filming ;-).

My only regret is not getting in on this last photo but someone had to take the picture, right? Maybe some creative Photoshop work can be employed . . .

After my return from Milwaukee on Saturday, I decided what better way to spend a beautiful Sunday afternoon then at the NC State Fair! The Burton and Miller families always go together for the fair and they invited me to tag along. We had an absolute blast! There was lots of good food, good conversation, fun exhibits, and good food . . . did I mention the good food? Of course “good” is a relative term not to be confused with healthy or beneficial for ones body. More photos are available over in the gallery.

I’m heading out of good ‘ole North Carolina for a few days to head to the Frontiers in Education conference hosted in Milwaukee this year. The conference focuses on education, training, and globalization of engineering disciplines especially those focused on technology such as electrical engineering and computer science.

A paper that I co-authored with some other way smarter people at the university was chosen to be in the conference proceedings and I get to go present the paper! I’m excited and a little nervous all at the same time. This will be the farthest north I’ve traveled, sad I know, and the first time I really get to “travel on business”. I as a lecturer usually don’t travel too much for the university.

I will return Saturday hopefully with some new friends as well as some new ideas for teaching computer science.