Well, Patrick sent me an update on the website situation. The other project he works on is the HokieSat, which has a website here, but he's not the webmaster. Oh well, you can still check it out. If you're too lazy to read it, here's the summary:
Bunch of college kids design a satellite to fly in formation with other satellites from other Universities. They throw these satellites out of the space shuddle. The satellites plunge to the earth and burn up. There is much rejoicing.
Actually, the satellites aren't supposed to plunge to the earth in a ball of flame. They're supposed to sit in orbit and do cool stuff. But I don't really know much about aerospace engineering, so the falling to the earth and burning up bit makes more sense to me.
It's pretty funny, I used to walk up to Pat while he was working on some AOE thing and ask him what he was doing. About three words into the explaination I'd realize that I didn't understand 80% of what he was saying, so I'd just sit there and nod until he stopped talking. The only comforting part about that is that I can do the same thing to him with computers.
