The Basics

Advisor: Ralph Smith

Funding: NSF Grant, RTG Initiative

Research: Mathematical Modeling of Lignocellulosic Biofuel Synthesis

Immediate Interests: Finite Differences on Time Varying Domains, Modeling Conservation Laws, Parameter Optimization, Computational Fluid Dynamics

Contact Information

Email: NC State

Office: Laundry 208

Office Phone: (919) 513-4233

Work Cell: (919) 675-1734

Recent Activities

AMGSS Talk given on 31 October. A copy of the presentation is available here.

MA784 Presentation given on 28 April. A copy of the presentation is available here.

AMGSS Talk given on 11 April. A copy of the presentation is available here.

AMGSS Talk given on 30 August 2010. A copy of the presentation is available here.

NCSU REU Talk given June 2010. A copy of the presentation is available here. (It has no math.)

Information on this year's REU can be found here

Many things recent and research related can now be found on the Research page.

Schedule

A calendar containing my work-related activities. Work being defined as school and research.
A special thanks to Jim Rohal for showing me how to upload department events.

Quotes

A list of all-time favorite quotes, sayings and all other things spoken.
And, yes, Sam Ivy does deserve his own, ever expanding, section.

Miscellaneous
  • Bacon is worth eternal damnation.
  • "Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, by any means money." - Horace
  • I've been asked many times, "JC what are your swing thoughts as your swingin'? What is, you know, what'r what'r the secrets, what are the secrets of golf that pros know?" Well, I heard this one time and, uh, I remembered it and its really, if you write this down it really helped.
    What I try to do, I try to flat load my feet so I can snap load my power package that way I can amplify both lag and drag pressure through impact fix. As long as my number two power accumulator dun't break down I can reach maximum centripital force with minimum pivotal resistance. You see the pivot is utilization of multiple centers to produce a circular motion for generating centrifical force on an adjusted plane plus it makes the balance necessary to promote the two line delivery path.
    See, golf is geometrically oriented linear force. It involves a physical muscular thrust and the geometry of the circle. You can divide the golf swing into 24 basic components each having between 12 and 15 variations. Now when you think of all this, and you get it all set, hopefully you'll hit shots like this...
    -JC Anderson (Video Link)
  • "If you have it you don't need it.
    If you need it you don't have it.
    If you have it you need more of it.
    If you have more of it you don't need less of it.
    You need it to get it, and you certainly need it to get more of it.
    But if you don't already have any of it begin with you can't get any of it to get started,
    which means you really have no idea how to get it in the first place, do you?
    You can share it, sure.
    You can even stockpile it if you'd like.
    But you can't fake it.
    Wanting it, needing it, wishing for it.
    The point is, if you've never had any of it, ever
    people just seem to know" - Bruce Campbell
  • President Bartlet (Martin Sheen): I like how you call homosexuality an abombination.
    Jenna Jacobs: I don't say homosexuality is an abomination, Mr. President, the Bible does.
    President Bartlet: Yes, it does. Leviticus.
    Jenna Jacobs: 18:22.
    President Bartlet: Chapter and verse. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions while I have you here. I'm interested in selling my youngest daughter into slavery as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. She's a Georgetown sophmore, speaks fluent Italian, always cleared the table when it was her turn. What would a good price for her be? While thinking about that, can I ask another? My Chief of Staff Leo McGarry insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly says he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself or is it okay to call the police? Here's one that's really important because we've got a lot of sports fans in this town: touching the skin of a dead pig makes one unclean. Leviticus 11:7. If they promise to wear gloves, can the Washington Redskins still play football? Can Notre Dame? Can West Point? Does the whole town really have to be together to stone my brother John for planting different crops side by side? Can I burn my mother in a small family gathering for wearing garments made from two different threads?
    Think about that, will you? Oh, and one last thing. You may have mistaken this for your meeting of the ignorant tight-asses club but in this building, when the President stands, nobody sits.
Wisdom of Sun Tzu

Download Sun Tzu's The Art Of War here.

  • Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
  • Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
  • Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
  • Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
  • The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
  • The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
  • The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
  • There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
  • Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
  • All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
  • He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
  • He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.
Wisdom of Lao Tzu

Download Lau Tsu's Tao Te Ching here.

  • At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
  • Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
  • Be the chief but never the lord.
  • By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
  • He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
  • He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
  • He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
  • I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
  • If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
  • Let reality be reality.
  • People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed.
  • Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
  • The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
  • To lead people walk behind them.
  • When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
  • When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Wisdom of Charlie Sheen
  • ...we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes.
  • I'm tired of pretending like I'm not special. I'm tired of pretending like I'm not bitchin' a total frickin' rock star from Mars.
  • You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus.
  • Yeah I'm on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available, because if you try it once, you will die and your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body. Too much?
  • The fiction of AA. It's a silly book written by a broken down fool...who was a plagarist.
  • Well I'm not Thomas Jefferson; he was a pussy.
  • You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.
  • I've always had a plan and I've always executed it perfectly.
  • They owe me a big one (apology)...publicly...while licking my feet.
  • I have no interest in their retarded opinions, I really don't.
  • Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.
  • I'm tired of ignoring that I march to a different beat.
  • The only thing I'm addicted to is winning.
  • As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?
  • Boom, crush. Night, losers. Winning, duh.
  • I don't have a tuxedo that fits anymore because my chest and my biceps are too big.
  • I have to tell them that last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies.
  • I just didn't believe I was like everybody else. I thought I was unique.
  • I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point.
  • I still don't have all the answers. I'm more interested in what I can do next than what I did last.
  • I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.
  • I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.
  • I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.
  • I try to be known more for my work than for anything else.
  • I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.
  • I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.
  • I've got mad energy for days. That's what people can't get their minds around. They say, 'Oh, he's going to crash.' They try to apply all these common terms to a guy who is not common. I don't fit into their little box.
  • I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.
  • It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.
  • Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.
  • People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack.
  • Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab.
  • Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?
  • That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
  • The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it.
  • There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past.
  • There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.
  • Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.
  • Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.
  • We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.
  • What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.
  • What you come to discover is, it isn't how you get there, it's that you get there. If that's what it took to get me where I'm at today, so be it.
  • When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.
Wisdom of Winston Churchill
  • I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
  • We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
  • You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something in your life.
  • I like a man who grins when he fights.
  • Eating works has never given me indigestion.
  • If you're going through hell, keep going.
  • Successs is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
  • Never never never give up.
  • There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
  • A joke is a very serious thing.
  • Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
  • Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
  • Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
  • Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband I'd poison your tea.
    Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.
Wisdom of Sam Ivy
  • Now that'sa jive turkey.
  • You couldn't beat that with a stick and a whip.
  • Life changin'...I am not the same Sam that sat down a few minutes ago.
  • Is there gonna be food? *smack hands* Well let's go!
  • It's like this: Off Da Wham! > Off Da Chain! > Off Da Hook > Good > Okay.
Latin Phrases
  • Dolor temporarius. Gloria aeterna. - 'Pain is temporary. Glory is eternal.'
 

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