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what d&d character are you?

It occurred to me the other day to figure out what’s the deal with dungeons & dragons. Sounds like a kind of nerdy thing that I would have been into, if I had been a little younger. I was completely… Continue Reading →

new machines

here’s some of the new machines I have had a hand in building: TIADD – an electron beam recorder system that could etch images in film with a resolution of 2048×2048 @ 1mil in about a second. I did all… Continue Reading →

Getting Your Head Screwed On Straight

From time to time, I like to take a bike ride at lunch. Two years ago this month, in the midst of a death march through the holidays, my buddy Charles Ramsay pointed out to me that there were some… Continue Reading →

The Battle of Britain

Today is January 1, 2011. We had a fine Christmas with the kids around us, and we’re really feeling the love. My pretty little wife is as cute and lovely as the day we met. We’re as much in love… Continue Reading →

Right on brother, Right on for the darkness

This post is probably not going to be about what you expected. For reasons that don’t matter, I got myself thinking about Curtis Mayfield, who died on this day, December 26, 1999. Sometimes I’m just overcome when I think about… Continue Reading →

view from my window

This is the view from my office window. In the distance, across the intervening Barton Creek Greenbelt and Colorado River, you can see the skyline of downtown Austin, including the Capital. We like to joke, you can only see the… Continue Reading →

Cutural Embeddedness

re: http://unheard78.blogspot.com/2010/06/billy-joel-rarities-and-slept-on-gems.html unheard music wrote: > I’ve never understood the cultural bashing Billy Joel gets. Thanks for your post. I came here searching for an answer to the question: of which civil-war era folk song is “And So It Goes”… Continue Reading →

the map and the territory

I’ve recently become more and more interested in economics. for a variety of reasons. its fascinating, like a mandala. everyone sees what they want to in it. there’s psychology, and sociology, and it matters, like food and jobs, and mom… Continue Reading →

banging on the bones

once, someone asked me what inspired me to take up the piano. first of all, its more like a possession. I can’t live without it for long. but I don’t know. maybe its a family tradition. I never took lesssons,… Continue Reading →

the deeper nature of time

through years researching the deeper nature of time, I explored every imaginable path. down in the damp, musty tunnels of experimental physics, I gazed at the curious traces of particles passing through our dimension, sometimes forward, sometimes backward, sometimes in… Continue Reading →

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