Author Archives: Nathan

I grew up in North Carolina as an only child (read: lonely). After an unremarkable childhood I went to Appalachian State University where I studied Physics, Astronomy, and other people. Shortly after graduating in 2006 I moved to Portland Ore. for no particular reason. Ever since I have been working as a consultant and living it up on the internet. I enjoy a large number of hobbies from working on advanced amateur rockets to blogging and designing websites. I love meeting new people and try to attend as many tech events as I can. If you live in the Portland come hang out and look for me.

Fun with Real Time Data

By Nathan | August 7, 2010

I’ve been working on bits and pieces of a project to be able to record and view data in near real time for the last few months. It’s one of those things where each layer has its own set of challenges and is written in its own language. But I finally put all the pieces [...]

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Successful Launch!

By Nathan | July 3, 2010

In my last post I talked about building a rocket. This past weekend I actually flew it! I went out to the middle of nowhere in Eastern Oregon for Oregon Rocketry’s “Summer Skies” launch. My plan was to launch with an H motor and then a J to get my level 1 and level 2 [...]

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Rocket Build Log

By Nathan | May 21, 2010

Until the weather turned ugly I was planning on flying a rocket big enough to get level 1 and level 2 TRA certification this weekend. While it looks like I will have to hold off until next month, I can at least share a short build log. The rocket is a kit from Giant-leap rocketry. [...]

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Open Source Bridge

By Nathan | May 15, 2010

This year I’m lucky enough to be speaking at Open Source Bridge. OSBridge started in 2009 when the popular OSCON conference was held in San Jose instead of Portland. A bunch of local programmer types wanted something local to fill the gap left by OSCON. So, thus, OSBridge was formed. It’s run entirely by volunteers, [...]

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Drawing Stream Graphs

By Nathan | May 12, 2010

The concept of “stream graphs” were widely popularized by the New York Times when they published a now famous graphic of box office numbers over time using a stream graph, which is a stacked area graph that is displaced around the x-axis to make an organic flowing shape. I think I first saw a stream [...]

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