Picture links to a photoset on Flickr of the Finals Competition this past weekend at Kings.
09 November 2009
09 September 2009
Yeah, its old...
- but I thought you'd enjoy it anyway. This is from the beginning of this year (2009):
22 August 2009
07 July 2009
Been a while, huh?
So, I guess my blog has fallen by the wayside a bit since I returned to UC. For the best I suppose; engineering school requires all my attention. Here's something I threw together for my Twitter profile, a UC ROTC themed background. If you want it, and/or want it to say something else, here is the GIMP .xcf file.
11 June 2009
23 May 2009
20 May 2009
19 May 2009
14 May 2009
11 May 2009
10 May 2009
Irony
I was filling out this application with Home Depot this evening and part of the process is this big survey with a bunch of questions like this one on it. This particular one stuck me as hilarious.
06 May 2009
05 May 2009
04 May 2009
03 May 2009
It's hard to take a picture when your nose won't stop running, and other tales.
Once upon two weeks ago, some tree species decided the time had finally come to reproduce and promptly began spewing pollen at a prodigious rate. Not wanting to out-done, thousands of other trees followed suit. As it happens, apparently I'm highly allergic to this particular tree's pollen. Consequently I've spent the past weeks with a tissue at my nose, which is continuing to run at rates that would drain a lake in short order. In a related matter, I'm also badly dehydrated, as all the water I drink seems to convert instantly to snot and then proceed to run out of my nostrils. So yeah, bad couple of weeks over all. There is a mountain of used Kleenexes surrounding my trash can in my room from me throwing 'em in that general direction at three in the morning. Blegh...stupid allergies.
/Insert snot Haiku here, when I can think straight again.
/Insert snot Haiku here, when I can think straight again.
02 May 2009
What needs fixin'?
I wrote an email to Blackfive, a military-themed blog widely read by military personnel, seeking ideas for my senior design project. Hopefully we'll get some good responses back:
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2009/05/ask-an-infantryman.html
Went for a ride on my Blast today. Good times. Didn't even fall over once!
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2009/05/ask-an-infantryman.html
Went for a ride on my Blast today. Good times. Didn't even fall over once!
30 April 2009
27 April 2009
26 April 2009
25 April 2009
24 April 2009
23 April 2009
And the latest victim of the recession is...
...me. I was laid off from my job at Midwest Connector Co. today, as the business has been struggling badly for the past few months. This is a sad thing, especially since I'm enrolled at UC at the moment, so my ability to find employment of a similar caliber and flexibility is somewhat limited.
If you want to hire me as a photographer, that would be awesome and I'm sure we can get something worked out. Leave a comment here letting me know what you have in mind (event, portrait, etc.), or send me an email: rogersj3 @ gmail.com (without the spaces, spam prevention measure).
Happy recession,
James
If you want to hire me as a photographer, that would be awesome and I'm sure we can get something worked out. Leave a comment here letting me know what you have in mind (event, portrait, etc.), or send me an email: rogersj3 @ gmail.com (without the spaces, spam prevention measure).
Happy recession,
James
22 April 2009
UC ROTC Mil Sci 103 09S
This is the Military Science 103 Spring 2009 class, outside on Lab day preparing to get oriented on using a compass. Bu dum chsh.
20 April 2009
Survivor? Really??
I just received this email from campus security. Usually these messages are to alert the UC community that someone got their stuff jacked or got mugged walking home, off campus, in the middle of the night - in short, for stupid and preventable things. This, however, takes the cake:
Can one really claim to have survived being "touched several times?" Is that really a life threatening situation? Not to mitigate the justified sense of violation, but to call someone a survivor who invited another back to their domicile only to discover that 'whoops! - he's a cad with no moral compass!' is a little ridiculous.
On April 14, University of Cincinnati Police received a report of an inappropriate touching incident that occurred on Friday, April 3. The survivor reports that she was sleeping in her bed when the suspect, an invited guest, inappropriately touched her several times. The police and the Sexual Assault Response Coordinator (SARC) are working with the survivor as she decides on the next steps to take.
The University of Cincinnati's Sexual Offense Response Team (SORT) regularly informs the community...yadda, yadda, yadda.
Can one really claim to have survived being "touched several times?" Is that really a life threatening situation? Not to mitigate the justified sense of violation, but to call someone a survivor who invited another back to their domicile only to discover that 'whoops! - he's a cad with no moral compass!' is a little ridiculous.
19 April 2009
18 April 2009
17 April 2009
13 April 2009
So I spent some more $$$ that I don't really have...
...but now I have this:
Bonus: the snazzy leather case it is in has these little magnets in the corners, so it stays closed and - consequently I hope - not scratched up.
Bonus: the snazzy leather case it is in has these little magnets in the corners, so it stays closed and - consequently I hope - not scratched up.
12 April 2009
11 April 2009
08 April 2009
07 April 2009
05 April 2009
04 April 2009
02 April 2009
01 April 2009
31 March 2009
Back in the Saddle
Monday was my first day back at the University of Cincinnati in a year. To say that my skills have grown rusty would be a vast understatement. I'm struggling to get through my Calc. II homework right now because it has been nearly 18 months since I last messed with any kind of serious, heavy-duty mathematics at all. This means I'm really going to have to work hard to keep up with, much less do well in, my Calc. class this quarter.
Before the quarter had started I told myself that there was no reason I couldn't earn straight A's this quarter. Two days in, I'm not so sure - time will tell.
edit: I have completed the aforementioned homework. Turns out that once your break those rusty gears loose, they start to turn a bit more freely. That's sure a relief, I can tell you!
Before the quarter had started I told myself that there was no reason I couldn't earn straight A's this quarter. Two days in, I'm not so sure - time will tell.
edit: I have completed the aforementioned homework. Turns out that once your break those rusty gears loose, they start to turn a bit more freely. That's sure a relief, I can tell you!
30 March 2009
29 March 2009
28 March 2009
A game-less LAN party?
What do you call a LAN party where no games are played? One guy's wife won't let him come out and play, some other guy's computer has decided to commit suicide and took his iPod with it. The other member of the crew has a functioning computer, but his video card is borked and awaiting RMA. Instead of playing games, we've spent the evening discussing five-year plans, armwrestling, and a variety of other non-21st century "fun" activities. Also, pizza.
27 March 2009
25 March 2009
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