I started working on my third bass duet album back over my giant summer break. I bought a new microphone and got some recording/mixing advice from my friend James. It took me about 6 months to wrap up recording but I finally did. I have some excellent cover art from my friend Kristian. I’m finally […]
Read more "{In, Re} Flection"Phew, last writing was in the summer. Things have been going great since then. I’ve started my new gig at Shoreline Community College, I’m underway with the tenure process. So far I’ve taught some algebra and some pre-calculus and some calculus with varying degrees of success and enjoy-ability. Our Europub gig is holding steady, and […]
Read more "Beyond Infinite Summer"Long time, no write. Some big news since the last post, I’ve accepted a Tenure-Track teaching spot at Shoreline Community College, starting in the fall. Woo! Also, Sugar got accepted into UW Mechanical Engineering! Woo! Some big new starts for both of us. The Spring term ended up nicely. At the end of April, I […]
Read more "Sierpinski Gaskets and Infinite Summer"Adventure: For Spring Break, Sugar and I car-boated over to Orcas Island for the week. We took a gamble on early spring weather and totally hit the jackpot with clear skies and warm days all week. We employed our M-F strategy to ensure we had Moran State Park Campground to ourselves. Our trip was pretty […]
Read more "Orca, Orcae, Orcam, Orcae, Orcaram, Orcas"The term is almost over. I am giving finals next week, then I get spring break. Woo! This term has gone really really great, maybe my best yet. I’m not sure whether my classes were particularly good or whether I am getting the hang of this, or whether I just happen to do a great […]
Read more "Viking Meetings"Fall 2015: Crazy Schedule, Math for Poets, Zooming Mandelbrot, Little Sunflower
Read more "I think that I shall never see / a poem lovely as a^2+b^2 equals the square of c"::Quarto:: is a game that was introduced to me when I lived in Florida by my roommate Steven. It was challenging and hard and we never really got a handle on it. The idea is this: There is a 4×4 game board along with 16 pieces. There are four binary characteristics for each piece (tall/short, […]
Read more "Making Stuff pt. 2"So I’m on summer break right now, its been relaxing, or at least more relaxing than not summer break. Unlike the other four breaks Sugar and I have had in the past year, we’ve elected to not take any major adventures, but instead stay in Seattle and geocache (even though we’ve only found two so […]
Read more "Making Stuff pt. 1"So after my parents left, we did a short, but jam packed trip to Alaska for Neil’s Wedding. We flew into Anchorage on Thursday night and stayed awake long enough after getting to there to see that the sun stays out until about 11:30, and the light stays around for a few hours after that. […]
Read more "Enchanted"Oops, this has been sitting in my drafts folder for a few weeks. Pretend this is the beginning of August as you read this. Summer term is half over this week. My parents were in town for about two weeks. I think I got to show them pretty much everything in Seattle. They got to […]
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