About

Hello, my name is James L. Bantz, III.  I am a “thirty-something”, full-time electrical engineering student at The University of Texas-Pan American now just a mere 24 credit hours shy of graduating with my BSEE (as of the writing of this page).  I have also been already accepted to the graduate school of the same university to pursue my MSE with a concentration in electrical control systems engineering.  I am also one of two members of this years’ robotics team, The Fighting Mongooses, representing the University in the upcoming IEEE Conference Region 5 Robotics Competition to be held in Tulsa, Oklahoma in April of 2012.  Occasionally I have also been known to be seen around the halls of Metro Electric, Inc. where I serve as their sole IT/MIS custodian, although these days this is rare due to the fact I did my job too well about a year back and am now rarely ever needed  .

I was born and raised in Hartford City, Indiana in the late 70′s to my father, James L. Bantz, II (a.k.a. JB2), and my mother, Kim Bantz.  I have one sibling, my younger sister, Kendra Storer, who in March of this year (2011) blessed me with my new niece, Kinley.  My life is also blessed with my three four-legged companions Dixie, Mason, and the red-headed stepchild, Scarlet.  Lastly, and certainly not least, I have for the last eight years shared my life with my partner and soulmate, Jerry; without whose dedication and strength I would not be so close to my goal of finally graduating with my undergraduate degree.

This site and its content owes its existence to my parents putting that first computer in my hands some 25 years ago; my father, JB2, and my good friend Claire Willis for helping me discover and find the passion to seek and capture the fleeting moments and places in each of our short journeys through Life and commit them to the permanence of paper or the pervasiveness of the Internet so that others may share in that journey, now and maybe more importantly after its conclusion.

Wielding My Favorite Weapon In My Hand (JB3, 03/06/2011)

With that said, the intent, or should I hazard to even say the goal, of this small site is to shed a little light on myself and the things I most enjoy: engineering, photography, and computers.  If those things interest you as well, I invite you further to kick back and hopefully enjoy what you find within.  I gladly welcome your comments and opinions, however, be aware I do monitor and audit all who post on this site.  Should this in any way infringe on your fragile sensibilities or your misguided belief that you should be allowed to freely post within, then…, well… (you get the picture.)

Mason Lee's Opinion of Generally Most Anything!

Sincerely,
JB3 (Extremely-proud Uncle )
12/24/2011

This site is proudly cloud-hosted at Rackspace on Ubuntu LTS 10.04 using Apache webserver, PHP, and WordPress using the Linen Pro theme by Theme Foundry .  All photography within, unless otherwise noted, is the original work of myself, and was shot on a Nikon D7000 dSLR using an AF-S NIKKOR 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR lens for most shots.  Digital darkroom processing was performed using Adobe Lightroom 3 augmented with the powerful Nik Software image processing suite, and post-processed with Adobe Photoshop CS5 on simply the greatest hardware and OS on Earth: Apple MacBook Pro and iMac and Mac OS X Lion.  All text, photography, and other copy within is copyright its respective year by James L. Bantz, III, unless otherwise noted, and may not be printed, reproduced, and/or circulated in any manner or mode of media without the expressed written approval from said author.