Thoughts

This quarter I wanted to get away from having pasta on the weekend. Don't get me wrong, I make a good pasta (in my humble opinion), but I realized at the end of this summer that I have never cooked fish before. I hadn't even eaten any fish that someone else cooked the whole time I've been at Cal Poly. So when I made my weekly menu, I turned regular ol' Friday into Fish Friday. Spicy Breaded & Baked Cod with Garlic & Butter Asparagus Let's get an opinion, shall we? Troy "Jesse, if there was one thing you could change about this meal, what would it be?" Jesse: "Hold on, I haven't tasted the fish yet. I'm still eating my asparagus." * Okay, so Jesse likes to eat things one at a time. We'll let him finish and then come back to him. In the meantime, let me discuss the recipes I worked from. Now, mind you, I don't follow a recipe 100%, especially not if I'm in experimentation mode. In fact, most of the time I coo...

There was a point this summer at which I decided to learn something a bit new. I had seen other people include animated GIFs in their email signatures, so I decided I wanted to animate Cal Poly's Mechanical Engineering Department Logo. Figure 1 shows the original image, taken from  http://me.calpoly.edu/openhouse/ . Figure 1: Original Mechanical Engineering (Cal Poly) Logo A gear in motion is a perfectly simple way to add a little "cool" factor to your email signature. This blog post aims to introduce you to some of the (free/open-source) tools I used to animate the logo. However, if you merely want to use the animated GIF in Figure 2 , skip to the Using The Animated GIF  section.