Design Plans for a Convenience Store Transporter
In the midst of designing and building a real aircraft for my final project at WPI, I decided to have some fun with this conceptual project for my Aircraft Design course. The Boeing 7117 (“Seven-Eleventy-Seven”) Caffeine-Liner is an amphibian aircraft capable of transporting a modified, full-size 7-Eleven convenience store within the fuselage for flights between land and water, so that customers can enjoy the familiarity and convenience of a 7-Eleven store on land, in the air, and at sea.
For the first time ever, off-shore customers will be able to enjoy such items as the Slurpee drink that can only be found at 7-Eleven, while frugal airborne customers will find great deals like freshly-brewed coffee for just $1 on Wednesdays. By taking the idea of a convenience store and putting it on an aircraft for the first time, the Boeing 7117 will take 7-Eleven to new heights, and beyond.
Here’s the project presentation…
Some tidbits from the report:
By bringing a 7-Eleven convenience store within the confines of a transport aircraft for the first time, the Boeing 7117 allows passengers and crew to get very high while consuming caffeine, up to a flight ceiling of approximately 40,000 ft.
The Boeing 7117 “Caffeine-Liner” is an ambitious aircraft that proves convenience is possible at any altitude, and gives a new meaning to mid-air refuel for customers.
…the high placement of the engines prevents the turbines from dipping into the water and accidentally becoming the second Slurpee machine on this aircraft.
One of the deficiencies of the design is that it is economically risky. While 7-Eleven has been enormously successful with their land-based stores, the demand for a convenience store in the sky is unknown. The store can serve many customers while at sea, but the design is only specifies that two customers can be in the store while it is in the air. This may prove inconvenient for two reasons. First, the customers who happened to be in the store when the aircraft takes off are forced to remain inside the store for the remainder of the flight, unable to enjoy the cigarette products that 7-Eleven has to offer. Second, there is no way for new customers to enter the store while it is in the air.
Check out the full report to see the actual calculations and engineering behind the design.
Battling Forum Spammers
I was wondering why my server’s disk IO was going crazy. Apparently, spammers found an old forum installation and went to town. Fixed it!
Introducing Fuckugram.com
Introducing Fuckugram.com! Just a few clicks ’til those dicks know what is up.
Inspired by this KILROY sketch…
Reflecting on WPI’s Software Engineering course
Our project team spent the past seven weeks developing web-based software that lets the user save and share examples of code. Very early in the process, we had created a desktop application, but it wasn’t long until we experimented with using the web as our platform. After only one iteration of developing for both platforms, we quickly scrapped the desktop application in favor of the website. To maximize team performance, we divided into sub-teams that took advantage of our individual skills. The database team took on back-end responsibilities, while the web team worked on front-end logic and UI. We also had individuals responsible for testing and quality assurance. Despite this division, we all attended almost every meeting together and communicated regularly to make all the pieces of this giant software puzzle fit together.
Because of my experience with website development, I found myself consistently working on the web team. My biggest strength is in UI design and implementation, so the majority of my responsibilities involved deciding what the website should look like, how the user should interact with the website, and how to go from mockup to reality using well-structured HTML, Javascript, and CSS.
The team won the best team award, and the course’s professor said that the final presentation I helped create and deliver for “was one of the best, if not the best, presentations that I have seen in ten years.”
Dial Up Sound Popularity
Looks like dialupsound.com might finally overtake mabuhaynet.com as my most visited website!
UPDATE: Another update on dialupsound.com‘s recent popularity!
Introducing Display of Wealth
“Groundbreaking” announcement: I’ve just finished my latest website!
Dial Up Sound Rises to #1 on Google
The first result when you Google “dialup sound” is now dialupsound.com!
Dial Up Sound got mentioned by KFOX 95
Back in the 90’s and even the early 2000’s to get onto the internet, you had to physically connect to get access through an internet provider. We still pay for internet today, but gone is the strange noises that my computer made to get to the nets. Click here to get a virtual experience of what getting on the internet used to be like.
See the original post on KFOX 95.
ImaVeePee Records
Ben Folds Five needed a logo for their de facto record label, ImaVeePee Records. They held a logo contest for those who’ve preordered their album, and gave us only 2 hours to design it! Here’s my submission…
Icon I designed for the Venice Water Bus app
