Old News

(May 22) I've updated the Japan itinerary with the new flight information.  There are two versions posted.  One is the group itinerary, one is my personal itinerary.

(May 19) I saw the midnight showing of Episode III: Revenge of the Sith this morning.  While waiting for the movie to start, a fellow Rose student asked for all the Rose students to raise their hands (this included most of people in the theater I was in), and then asked, "Do you know who becomes Emperor at the end of the movie?"  The answer: Jack Midgley, Rose-Hulman's beleaguered President.  The movie itself was great.  I particularly liked the orbital battle at the beginning; I only wish it hadn't been so fast paced, so I could have gotten a better view of everything. That seemed to be a theme for the whole movie, as it tends to switch between scenes very rapidly, as if Lucas didn't have enough time to show everything. 

The movie also introduces some major issues with the Star Wars timeline.  At the end of the movie there is a scene with Vader and the Emperor looking at a partially completed Death Star.  If this scene does take place within a few months of Palpatine becoming Emperor, as the movie suggests, then it means that the first Death Star took 20 years to be built, while the second one was well over half-done within three years, a difference in time that is quite implausible.  It also flat out contradicts the information about the developement and construction of the Death Star given in the books Darksaber and the Jedi Academy Trilogy.  According to those books, the plans for the Death Star were finalized at the Maw Installation, a facility that only Grand Moff Tarkin knew about.  This facility was established between 5 and 10 years before the Battle of Yavin (Episode IV), and was also the home of the skeletal Death Star Prototype.  I wonder what explanation Lucas has for this.

(May 16) I've posted a final version of the group itinerary for Japan.

(May 13) The power system around here needs some major repairs.  We had some thunderstorms today and several times the lights flickered or even went out completely for a few seconds.  I hope we don't have a repeat of the infamous 10th week Blackout of last year (look through my Old News for a detailed description of that day).

        Fedex made an interesting screw-up yesterday.  A package I had ordered from a company in Argentina left Buenos Aires, presumably was flown to the US, and 37 hours later showed up back in BA (according to the online package tracker).  Note to Fedex: you're supposed to unload the plane first before sending it back.

(May 11) I've added photos of the GATX tour.  Go to the Trains page and click on GATX. I've also added some photos of Rose-hulman's ducks and a few weird things I've seen to the Life at Rose-Hulman and Random pages.

(May 10) Today the Student Government Association voted no confidence in Dr. Midgley.  Between the SGA's almost unanimous vote and the faculty's 2-to-1 vote last week, it is clear that most people on campus want Midgley out of here.  The question now is when the board of trustees will have their own vote of no confidence, and whether they will agree with the majority of people on campus.  A for me, I'm currently neutral on the whole matter, as I don't know enough about Midgley and what he's like to come to an informed conclusion about him.  Also, nothing he has done has affected me personally, so I have no reason to complain.

        I dropped off two rolls of film to be developed today, so I should be adding new photos starting tomorrow, covering the trip to the GATX yard and some stuff on campus.

(May 5) Today's ECE250 lecture was on the use of electrolytic capacitors as explosives.  We had an amusing time watching Dr. Herniter deliberately connect capacitors to a power supply backwards, causing them to explode.  Most of them provided just small pops, but the last one outright exploded, sending pieces of itself halfway across the room.  Dr. Chambers was heard to say "Cool" when he saw Dr. Herniter doing this.  After all, who doesn't enjoy watching stuff blow up?

(May 4) I bought the Japanese version of Talking Panda's iLingo translation software for my iPod today.  It has several hundred generic phrases that the average tourist might need.  The 'notecard' for each phrase has four different versions of the phrase: one in English, one in Japanese with Roman characters, one in Japanese with Japanese characters, and an audio file of the phrase being spoken, this last one being the whole point of the software. Most of the phrases are of the sort that you would find in any tourist phrasebook, but there are a few which are quite ridiculous.  Among other things, the software includes pick-up lines, how to ask for directions to the nearest Apple Computer store or 'love hotel', and how to say "Ouch!".  I am curious though as to why they think a tourist needs to know how to ask someone to marry him/her.

(May 3) The faculty voted today that they had no confidence in Dr. Midgley's ability to lead Rose-Hulman.  It will be interesting to see if the board of trustees decides to sack Midgley and look for a new president.  Having 3 presidents during my time here will be almost as odd as when my elementary school went through 5 or 6 music teachers when I was in 5th grade (while I have a low opinion of most of my classmates from that year, even I don't think we were that bad).

        I've posted a calendar of my upcoming trip to Japan.  I may update it from time to time as I get new information, so check it out once in a while.  I'll leave a notice in the course's ANGEL site if I update it, so other members of the class can get immediate notification.

(April 28) As if the Klingon pain stick wasn't enough, Dr. Herniter has also built a handheld "stun gun" version, using an inductor, a capacitor and a MOSFET, which puts out an even higher voltage!  We're all in deep trouble if he ever gets together with Dr. Sherman, my torture- and summary excecution-advocating statistics professor.

        Yesterday I signed up for a cheap ticket to the midnight showing of Star Wars Episode III when it premieres on May 19.  I'm going to hate having to get up for my morning classes afterwards, but what the hell.  80 people signed up for the 250 tickets that RHA has available in the first 22 seconds that they were being offered (sign-up was through the computer network).

        For the last month I've been listening to the world's first podcast novel, Earthcore by Scott Sigler.  It's a serialized audiobook being distributed as a podcast, and it's pretty good.  If you like sci-fi novels, you'll probably enjoy it.  Check it out here.

(April 26) Well I never got in to Star Wars Celebration III.  By the time I got there at 9:30 Saturday morning, all the tickets for Saturday had been sold out.  Phooey.  At the other end of the scale, the tour of the GATX yard went well.  We had mostly sunshine while we were there, in the middle of an otherwise cloudy and rainy day.  At some point I ought to have the photos from the tour developed and put up here. 

        There are several people who are always late for my ECE250 class, and some of the other students seem to have an informal betting pool to see who can guess how late they will be.  My friend Adam and the other guys in his suite in New Res have way too much time on their hands, as evidenced by their setting up a Bathroom Server that lets anyone in the world know if their bathroom is occupied or not.

(April 21) My electronics professor, Dr. Herniter, is officially insane.  He brought to class today a device he built which he calls a "Klingon pain stick".  What it is is a yardstick with a series of capacitors and diodes attached to it.  When connected to a power supply, the capacitors charge up and provide about 600 volts at the output leads.  I imagine that would hurt a lot if you were on the wrong end.  I wonder what the legal and moral implications of teaching students how to construct torture devices in class are?

        Tomorrow I'm going on a tour of the GATX Rail yard in Terre Haute, which should be fun.  On Saturday I'm heading to Indy for the Star Wars Celebration III convention.  If the Force is with me I'll be able to get in to one of the talks George Lucas is giving in the morning.  Even if I don't, it will be a fun time.

(April 18) I've added a few more pics to my Life at Rose-Hulman page.

(April 12) I'm moving all the pictures on my site into an images folder, with the goal of making it easier to find a page when editing my website (you won't believe how much lag there is in scrolling through the list of pages and images currently).  There shouldn't be any broken links or missing thumbnails, unless you look at the page while I'm moving the pictures.  If such is the case, go to another page and come back a few minutes later.  I also just sent in a roll of film to be developed, so expect some new pictures on the Life at Rose-Hulman page by the end of the weekend.

(March 17) Today in ECE250 (Electronic Device Modeling) we learned how to cook hot dogs and pickles.  You're probably wondering what cooking has to do with electronics.  Well, rather than cooking the hot dog and pickle on an electrically powered stove, he stuck a pair of electrodes into each one and sent a current through them!  The resistance of the food caused it to heat up.  It was pretty cool to watch, especially when one of the electrodes in the pickle started sparking. According to the professor, pickles also glow green when you do this, but the lab was to bright for us to see this.  There was no mention of how safe to eat the cooked food was.

(March 10) The other morning there was a swan on Speed Lake.  At some point I'll get a few pictures of it posted on here...whenever I get around to finishing that roll of film.  This afternoon it was hailing a bit.  The hailstones weren't big enough to hurt anything.  Other than that, there's nothing worth reporting around here for the moment.

(February 28) I've been home for break for a few days now.  Last night my family went to see The Producers at the Colonial Theater in Boston.  It was pretty funny.  According to the playbill, they are doing a remake of the original film.  That ought to be fun to see when it comes out near the end of the year or so.

      Today I have to go in to the dentist and have a cavity filled, oh joy.  Then I'm heading out to my grandfather's house to help him a bit with his computer.  I'm also probably going to be helping him plow the driveway, since it's supposed to snow this evening.

(February 20) Well, the first Pepsi+iTunes bottles started appearing on the back of store shelves here in Terre Haute on Friday, so my guess is that Terre Haute stores have a 3 week supply of Pepsi at normal rates of consumption - and they got their last shipment of non-iTunes bottles just before the contest started.

(February 16) I hate the week before finals.  It's just cram, cram, cram!  Ugh!  On a happier note, I got a copy of Toast 6 for my birthday, in addition to the stuff listed below.  I used it to make disc images of my Starcraft CDs, so I can play the game without the discs being in the computer.  It turns out that the game runs better with the disc images, especially with regard to cinematics.  It seems my computer doesn't keep the disc spinning all the time, so the first few seconds of a cinematic are pretty jerky as the computer spins up the disc. When I'm home for break I'll make disc images of my other computer games.  I'd do it here, except that I don't have the serial numbers so I can't install the games.

(February 11) Happy 20th Birthday to me!

(February 7) I just got some spam from Napster offering me a trial of its new Napster-To-Go service.  If you don't know what that is, it's a music subscription service that let's you have access to Napster's entire library of songs and transfer any you want to a compatible MP3 player for $15 a month.  Of course, if you cancel your subscription you lose all that music.  It also only works on Windows.  Clearly these guys are unaware that I use a Mac and am very happy with my iPod and paying $0.99 a track for my music (which I own outright).

      I also got an Airport Express wireless base station for my birthday (which isn't until Friday), so right now I'm listening to iTunes and surfing the web wirelessly in my dorm room.  I also got a 9-pin to 6-pin Firewire cable, so I can now use the Firewire 800 port on my Powerbook with my existing Firewire 400 devices.

(February 3) As of 12:10 PM today my Compaq craptop is in retirement.  I got and installed a copy of Maple 9.5 for my Mac, so the PC is no longer required for math, its last daily service.  Now the Mac handles all day-to-day functions, leaving the PC with almost nothing to do.  Up yours, Bill Gates!

(January 31) My website has been up for a year now!  On a sadder note, my Powerbook has lasted exactly a week before officially becoming obsolete.  Apple just announced new Powerbook models.  Nothing particularly interesting about them except for an accelleration sensor and a track pad that can be used for scrolling (obviously they have faster processors).

(January 25) My Powerbook arrived yesterday, so I've been spending most of my free time playing with it and loading programs onto it.  I've now figured out how to edit my website from my Mac, which is what I'm doing as I type this.  I've gone through trial versions of several editors, most of which can't either can't open up my existing web pages or can't display them properly.  I've settled on Contribute from Macromedia.  It can open up and properly display my existing pages, and I can add images and create thumbnails of them with a minimum of effort.  Interestingly, it's better than its big brother Dreamweaver at creating thumbnails.  It seems the only major thing left for me to do is figure out how to access the files stored on my external hard drive.

(January 21) Naturally, right after I posted the rant below, Apple shipped out my Powerbook.  According to the online tracking system, it's now sitting in FedEx's Memphis, TN sorting facility.  By Monday I should have my Powerbook...and there will be much rejoicing.  I just hope that they shipped it with iLife '05, because it would be kinda annoying to have to shell out $20 or whatever to get a copy of it when I got the Powerbook after iLife '05 is supposed to start shipping.

(January 20) I have the laptop bag, I have the Bluetooth mouse, now where's the laptop, Apple?  Apparently Apple is having some part supply issues, so they have yet to ship my Powerbook.  The bag is pretty good.  It has plenty of pockets for storing everything, provides plenty of protection, and actually has a defined shape.  My old bag had less of a defined shape than a cube of jello.  I have no idea how well the BT mouse works, but it looks good.

(January 12) I finally ordered myself a Powerbook, even though they still have yet to speedbump it.  I've given up on waiting for that to happen.  Best guess based on the current promotions at the online Apple Store, they won't speedbump the Powerbooks until mid-April.  It will be nice to finally have a laptop that works.  If everything gets here by next week, a week from Monday my PC will be an oversized paperweight.  Maybe I should bring out my back issues of Steel Wheels and use it to flatten them out.

(January 6, 2005) Happy late New Year!  Christmas was pretty good this year.  I got a microwave, some books and DVDs, and this really neat LED light stand along with a glass block with a steam locomotive etched inside it.  When you put the block on the stand the LEDs shine up through it and the light gets reflected all around.  It looks really cool.  Maybe I'll post a picture of it at some point.  I've also added a new pic to the random photos page. 

(December 17) Christmas break is almost here!  Tomorrow I face the first day of the two-day drive home.

(December 1) I got a new stereo for my car today.  It's a pretty nice unit.  My favorite feature is the AUX input on the front, so I can plug my iPod directly in.  No more using a tape-deck adapter and setting the volume to max!  This will make driving home at Christmas much more pleasant, since I won't have to strain my ears to hear the iPod over the sound of the road.  On a different note, Apple still hasn't speedbumped the Powerbooks!  Based on the current special deals on its website, I'm now guessing that they won't do so until January 11.  Presumably the extra time between updates means their going to add some new technology to the Powerbooks- perhaps a dual-core G4 or maybe (though unlikely) a G5 processor.  I wish they'd hurry up and do the speedbump, because my PC (Piece of Crap) here is going to hell in a handbasket.

(November 18) At last, Thanksgiving Break! A whole week off from classes before the winter quarter starts!  Anyway, tomorrow when I get home I'll be immediately heading out to Acton to help set up the Norwegian Fair.  I've been doing this for several years now, helping my grandmother, who makes all the signs for the fair and used to run the raffle.  It's had work, but fun.  I'm also hoping that Apple will announce speedbumped Powerbooks on Tuesday.  I can't wait to get one.

(November 4) Bush is looking at another 4 years in the White House.  I'm looking at property in Canada.  Can you get broadband internet in the Northwest Territories?

You may have noticed that instead of posting a one-liner in the quote area I put a short dialog.  I hope you enjoy the expanded possibilities for humor this offers.

(October 16) I thought I had witnessed every way in which a college student could be a complete pain in the ass last year, but this just takes the cake.  I went to take a shower last night and discovered that every showerhead on my floor had been stolen.  This morning I bumped into Eric Hayes, the director of residence life, who informed me that every showerhead on campus had been stolen, and it might take maintenance until Monday to replace all of them.  I hope they dish out some serious punishment to whatever jerk(s) did this, because this definitely goes beyond the line separating pranks from vandalism.

In other news today, it's not even 10 in the morning as I write this.  On a Saturday morning.  I'm heading off to the Great American Train Show in Indy (do you seriously think that anything other than trains could get me up this early on the weekend?).

(October 7) I've finally added those pictures of the dorms.

(September 26) I've posted the photos from my September 4 railfanning trip, so check those out.  I'll be adding some photos of campus in a few days, so stay tuned.

(September 25) In preparation for a batch of new train photos from all over southwest Indiana, I'm reorganizing the navigation structure of my railroad pages.  Instead of being organized by city and then railroad, they will be organized by state and then railroad, with the various locations I've photographed each railroad at organized alphabetically.  Some pages will remain intact or mostly intact, while others will be lost entirely as the photos they contain get scattered to  several new pages.

(September 22) Sorry I haven't updated the homepage in a while.  I've been kinda busy with classes.  The only interesting thing I've done for a while is that on September 4 I went railfanning across southwestern Indiana with Dave Honan.  We saw nine trains, plus two derailments at Norfolk Southern's yard in Princeton, IN.  A pretty good day, except that I caught a cold and was miserable for the next three days.  At some point I'll get the photos from that trip posted, but first I have to finish off a roll of film.  Dave has suggested that I reorganize my train photos by railroad instead of location, to simplify the navigation.

(August 26) I added a new page for random photos, even though I have only one.  I've also added some photos to my Green Line page of the Atlantic Avenue El shuttle platform at North Station.

(August 10) All the photos from BET are up now, so check them out.

(August 9) I have some new pics of the Robotics Team from last spring up, as well as a picture of my fan duct-taped to the wall.  Also, some pictures of Boston Engine Terminal are up (with more on the way) and there's a new page for the Orange Line.

(August 5)  I got some film developed, so I'm beginning to scan in and post some new pictures.  I've already posted a few of the BNSF business cars, and I will be adding some photos of Boston Engine Terminal and some last-minute pics from school over the next few days.  Enjoy.

(July 23) Today the Norfolk Southern and Burlington Northern Santa Fe business car fleets were parked outside the Boston Engine Terminal (where I work) while they waited to be transferred to North Station this evening for the Democratic National Convention.  The BNSF cars are stainless-steel streamlined cars (built by Budd?) and are probably either ex-Chicago, Burlington & Quincy or ex-Santa Fe.  The NS cars looked like they might have been rebuilt heavyweights.  I wish I had had my camera with me.  Speaking of the DNC, this site has a really funny song about the traffic jams expected during the convention.  Anyone familiar with the Boston area will appreciate it.

(June 23) I added a page for Commuter Rail to the Boston section of the site.  I'll be adding more photos to it when I've scanned them in. 
I spent all of two days working at the Highland Lodge.  This was probably best for both me and the Lodge.  I got a summer job working for Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad Co. instead.  I work in the Commuter Rail Maintenance Facility (also known as the Boston Engine Terminal) in Somerville.  I get to see what locomotives are in the yards when I walk in every morning and watch the trains arriving at and leaving from North Station whenever I get a chance to look out a window for a few minutes.

(June 12) I've added some new information to my Green Line page.  Also, the first slides I plan to scan in and eventually add to the site will be of the AVE, trolleys in Lisbon, subway and main line trains in London, and commuter rail trains around Boston. 

(June 5) Ah, summer vacation!  It looks like I'm going to be working in the kitchen at the Highland Lodge in Greensboro, VT this summer.  The nice thing is that my parents have a summer house less than a mile from the lodge, so I don't have to worry about accommodations.  I can even bicycle to the lodge.  My other plans for the summer include re-importing my CD's into iTunes using AAC encoding instead of MP3 and scanning in some of my older slides and photos.

(May 24) My brother sent me some interesting information concerning my question above (Have you ever wondered what the other 98% of 2% milk is made of?): he says that the other 98% of 2% milk is made of the same stuff that McDonald's used in its chicken McNuggets before they switched to real white meat.  He also sent me the truth about the Star Wars problems in my physics book: the government made the changes in accordance with its plot to take over the world, made by Ben Franklin 230 years ago.  The Japanese discovered this plot in the 1950's and immediately went to work on their own scheme for world domination which involves robot dogs and a monopoly on TV so they can beam their subliminal propaganda directly into your brain.  Unfortunately for both the U.S. and Japan, they are just pawns in the Illuminati's well-advanced plan for world domination, which will come to fruition when they take control of the stock market when it crashes in 2027.  Can anybody put me in contact with them?

(May 22) Yesterday was interesting.  Around 1 pm we had a brownout, apparently caused by the A/C in Myers breaking down.  About 20 minutes after that the now-overloaded transformer that supplies power to the entire campus died as well, resulting in a complete campus-wide blackout.  I was waiting in the hall outside O205 for my 8th hour Physics III prof to show up and unlock the room when somebody passed me with a caving lamp strapped to his forehead!  After that I concluded that nothing serious was going to be done for the rest of the day.  Shortly thereafter (around 2:30) the emergency lights started going out in Olin and and Crapo, leaving the hallways in complete darkness except where there was a classroom door with a window in it, allowing a bit of sunlight from the room's windows to enter the hall (provided of course the room had windows).  In physics all we did was one quick problem before ending class.  My 9th hour Calc III class was more interesting.  Not even a loss of power can prevent Prof. Rickert from teaching his math classes!  So we sat in the room as usual as he did some review problems on the board, using a candle and 3 laptops to provide some light in the windowless room in Crapo. 
        After my classes were finished, and seeing that the power was unlikely to return anytime soon (the original estimate was that it would take 6 hours to 3 days), I decided to go in town to take care of some business (and enjoy some A/C!).  First I went to Walmart to get a lock and some boxes for packing my stuff in over the summer.  I came back to see if there was any power yet (nope), dropped off the stuff I got at Walmart, and since a sign on the door said that dinner would be a salad and deli bar, went back in town to eat at McDonald's.  After dinner I went to see Troy.  In case you didn't know, this is a remake of the 1956 movie Helen of Troy (itself apparently a  remake of a silent, b+w 1927 film of the same name that's now lost), which is based on Homer's Illiad and Book I of Virgil's Aeneid, with some parts taken from a few other closely related myths.  Troy is a pretty good movie, and is much better than USA's 2003 remake of Helen of Troy. 
        When I got back from the movie, I wandered down towards the Union to see if it actually had power or just had the emergency lights on (it turned out to be the latter).  On the way back I stopped on the bridge over the spillway from Scum Pond into Speed Lake and started talking to Andrew Geiger, who was just hanging out there waiting to watch the campus power up again.  We talked about how it was weird to see the lake in complete darkness, with no lights to see except for the emergency lights in the Union, a glow from Terre Haute, and the occasional flashlight or pair of headlights.  with the lights out, we were actually able to see the stars, something that can't normally be done on campus because of all the light pollution.  Andrew informed me that the replacement part for the transformer had been airlifted in 45 minutes ago (this was at 10:45 pm) and that power should come back by 11pm.  I decided to try and get a picture of the lake in complete darkness while I could, but my camera refused to take the picture.  Finally, between midnight and 1am the power began coming on in stages, starting on the east side of campus.  Overall it was a pretty good day, and a fun way to end the quarter.

(May 18) The Sith have taken control of the company that publishes my physics textbook!  No, really!  At the end of the chapter on relativity there are 3 problems based on Star Wars, one on Dune, and a couple others which I'm sure are based on some other science fiction works I'm not familiar with.  Weird, huh?

(May 16) I posted the latest photos from the MRRC and the Robotics Team, so check them out.

(May 10) I finished off a roll of film today, so expect some new photos of the Robotics Team and the MRRC by the end of the week.

(May 10) My room has been invaded by crickets, and they're making a racket!

(May 6) I have discovered that Orcad makes Windows look as well-designed as Mac OS X.  Seriously, the first time you use it you have to look at a manual or ask someone which part of the program to open first.  I don't think even Microsoft would hire the idiots who programmed it.

(Apr. 30) I got back from my grandmother's funeral at about 1:00 AM this morning, and only got 6 hours of sleep before getting up for breakfast before my first class.  Thank goodness Indiana doesn't switch to Daylight Savings Time, or it would have been only 5 hours! Nevertheless, I did not enjoy driving from the airport in Indy.  It was quite a struggle for me to keep my eyes open during the last half hour of the trip.  And yet I slept badly anyway.

I also got my website's URL published in the May issue of Steel Wheels, the monthly publication of the National Railway Historical Society's Boston Chapter.

(Apr. 16) I've finished adding my Green Line photos.

(Apr. 13) I've added some new photos of the Red Line and Green Line to my Boston trains page.  I'll be adding some more photos of the Green Line later when I've scanned them in.

(Apr. 11) After driving for 17 hours over the course of two days, covering 1100 miles and listening to a sizable percentage of my music collection, I've returned to campus.  When's bedtime?

I'll be posting some new photos this week as I scan them in.  To be included: some stuff happening here at Rose-Hulman, the Green Line's West End El between North Station and Science Park, and the Red Line at Capen Street.

(Mar. 26) I got an iTrip radio transmitter for my iPod today.  Initial installation of the station playlist was a bit troublesome, because I had to download and install MusicMatch (what a piece of junk!) first, install the station files into MusicMatch, and then transfer them into iTunes before syncing them to my iPod.  Apparently Griffin hasn't updated the installer CD since before iTunes for Windows came out last October.  Hard to tell how actual operation is.  Setting the station works fine, except for the fact that you have to completely reselect whatever you were playing before changing the station.  My radio's reception of the signal ranges from great to nonexistent, but that may just be the antenna.  Hopefully the iTrip should work better in my car.
Why is it that every jukebox program for Windows that I've seen except for iTunes has a crappy interface?  Navigating the software is anything but intuitive.

(Mar. 9) I've posted some new photos of railroad activity in Terre Haute.  Enjoy.

(Mar. 7) March break is over.  I hate having to go back to work tomorrow.  Worse, the printer is out of paper so I can't print my schedule!

(Feb. 8) I've moved my Model Railroad Club page over to the MRRC website.  It is now under the "MRRC Layout Construction Photos" link.  The "Rose-Hulman Model Railroad Club" link will take you to the MRRC homepage.

(Feb. 5, 2004) I've been appointed the new webmaster for the Rose-Hulman Model Railroad Club's (MRRC) website.  I'll be moving my MRRC pages over to the club's website when I get a chance.  Don't worry, though- I'll keep the link so people can still view my photos of the new layout being built.

(Feb. 4, 2004) I've added a new page to the Model Railroad Club part of this site to provide weekly updates.  Since it takes me a while to get my film developed, I'll just post weekly updates and add the photos later when they get developed.  I might add a similar page to the Aerial Robotics Club section.