Archive for September, 2008

Rock Climbing

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Thought I would make a quick post on an update. I am busy with School and research and Nichole is busy with work. I had time this weekend to go rock climbing and rappelling with the scouts over near Horsetooth Reservoir. It was a great time and a good way to spend the weekend. I am also in the process of writing a horse management and recipe management software for Nichole and will post versions as I get them done.  Hope everyone is well

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Oceans 2008

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

Thought I would just post the abstract, paper, and slides of my current research that were preseneted at IEEE/MTS Oceans in Quebec City. The paper highlights a fusion of the algorigithm that I developed in the paper that was presented at  SPIE 08. I basically implements two two-sesnor detectors and gets pretty good results.

Oceans 2008 Abstract

Oceans 2008 Paper

Oceans 2008 Slides

Derek

A weekend of firsts

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Howdy-

Well this was weekend of firsts, beyond that we were able to finish the dressing room on our trailer, we were able to go to the Rocky Mountain Showdown. For those of you who do not know this is the first game of the CSU football season and it is the CSU vs CU football game. This year it was played at Mile High Stadium and Nichole for one has never been insisde the stadium and second has never been to this football game. We were blessed to go with our friends Joe and Tiffany and Joe’s dad was able to get us club level seats in the United Club Section. They were awesome seats and the club level is really cool. The expierence of Invesco from this angle was cool, but the game was pretty bad as we lost as it didn’t seem our offense showed up to play. But it was great to spend time with friends. On the second note we had our first trail ride with our horses today and they did awesome. We took them up to a friend’s ranch north of town and took them out on the range around the area. They did great for their fourth ride and it was fun to actually ride our own horses for the first time. Also school has started again and this is Derek’s first official semester as a PhD student and already the week has been busy with classes, homework, and grading as he is a TA for an undergrauate course. So our lives are back to the normal school schedule and these next two semesters will be Derek’s final semesters for classes. Hope everyone is doing well and had a great weekend.

Love,

Derek and Nichole

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