Dave's Web Page

(Or an insight into the existence of life outside 111 Church St.)

Well, I see you've found my web page, pilgrim. As you may be able to tell, it's under varying degrees of construction at the time as most web pages usually are. You can click my name to see the face that matches this page if you don't know me. Now, for the curious among you...

     On with the normal stuff. I'm currently a graduate student at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. I am in the Mechanical Engineering department working on my master's degree. I've been a TA for a few courses at the U including ME 1010/1012, ME 3201 (the kids love that class!!!), ME 3205, ME 5260, and ME 8250. My area of interest is biomechanics and my research involves device design for reconstructive knee surgery. Hope you've eaten.

     My undergraduate degrees in Chemical Engineering and German were earned at the University of Kansas. I also spent a school year abroad at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. It was a fantastic experience, both culturally and educationally.

As some people know, I dig breakfast a lot. Literally, I'm outside scrounging for grubs like a bear when the spring thaw comes. All kidding ignored, I'm known to eat cereal any time of the day and lots of it. I can make a pretty mean omelette and french toast if need be, too. Click here for a great pancake recipe my mom's uncle got from a greasy spoon many years ago.

While on the topic, I present to you a list of some of my favorite locales for breaking a fast.

• Al's Breakfast, Dinkytown. An institution and be bothered that you might shove a seated patron's face into their 'Spike on an oval' as you try to make it to the end of the narrow walkway to get at the open seat at the end of the place.
• Joe's Doughnuts, Lawrence, KS. Another college institution. Is it any wonder the girls in GSP-Corbin seemed to put on the Freshman Fifteen? I mean, all they have to do is step out the door of the dorm and let gravity take them down the hill to reap the bounty of Joe's raised, glazed manna from heaven, nightly during the school year from about 7-11.
• Grandview Grille, St. Paul. Less homey than Al's but nice atmosphere and great eggs.
• Highland Grille and Cafe, St. Paul. Smaller, like Al's, but has some seating out-of-doors for the 2 months of the year you can sit outside (okay...so I'm bitter about the cold we're having, no pun intended). "Andrew's Killer Waffle" is more of a deluxe insulin sponge than your traditional waffle. Think of it as a dessert waffle rich enough to make one person nauseous. Mmmmmm....yummy.

Here are some links I'm known to follow every now and then:

• The University of Kansas web site. It's my alma mater and a great place to go to school. Rock Chalk, Jayhawk, KU!
• 's web page. A great place to catch up on all the sports. Decent soccer news, too.
• Links to both Rush and King's X websites, two of my favorite groups.
• The large guitar music tablature site. I've been playing guitar for a little over 4 years and I've downloaded many, many pages of music.
• Now, I don't shop from J. Crew that much, although I have a few things from them, but I get email from them in html form, so here's where I'll be putting the most recent J. Crew page.
• We here in the department, from time to time, get a little goofy. You can see some evidence of this by reading about the Mechagate scandal that rocked our office for about 2 hours one late Friday afternoon.

There may always be more stuff coming. Depends on my mood and spare time (so, basically, my mood). Ciao.

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