Another Southern Odyssey
Exhausted, sore, and half-asleep, I stare into the read-view mirror of our van. While I wait for Jeremy to appear on the horizon behind me, I strike up a conversation with a much younger version of myself. “We enjoy this?” “Hell yes!” The young me grins from ear to ear, gripping a roll of quarters [...]
Is it Avant Jazz Industrial Noise? No, It’s STFUnity.
Its not jazz. It’s not fusion. It’s not electronic. It’s not industrial. I don’t have a word to describe what happened when musicians of very different backgrounds got together virtually to create music. I can only call it STFUnity. Finished while I was on holiday in India, STFUnity is what happens when an anarchist saxophonist [...]
In Defense of Shoes
Go to your favorite hiking trail. Walk down the path, then sit down for a moment and take off your shoes and socks. Keep walking. Notice where your eyes go. If you’re anything like me, or the people I’ve watched perform this same exercise, your eyes go directly to the path in front of you. [...]
The RPM Challenge and The Power of Constrained Creativity
It seems like there is a time-boxed challenge for everything out there on the internet. For writers there is NaNoWriMo, for moustache growers there is Movember. Game programmers have Dream.Build.Play. If you do it, there is a challenge for it, and if there isn’t, you can create one. I’ve always wanted to get involved with [...]
GOLSequencer, HarmonicTable, and MidiReference on GitHub
With just a little trepidation I have checked in the code for all of my free software goodies into GitHub. I was getting several requests to provide access to the source for several of my old projects, so rather than emailing code around on a case by case basis, I have simply checked everything in [...]
Growing a Moustache May Cure Prostate Cancer
Indirectly of course. During the month of November men across the world will be embracing the practice of doing ridiculous things to raise money and awareness for a cause. Breast Cancer has Barbells for Boobs and pink ribbons, Prostate Cancer has Movember, which is kind of like wearing a pink ribbon, only it’s the same [...]
An Evolving Experiment in Fitness
My lungs are raw from gasping for 7 minutes solid. My vision has only now returned from the blurry and wild eyed stupor I was in just a few hours ago, when I crashed on the gym mat in an effort to get my heart rate down to a safe level. I still haven’t fully [...]
An Experiment in Fitness
Let me start by saying that this article shouldn’t be considered an endorsement of a training methodology. First of all I don’t have the expertise to endorse or recommend anything. Also there is a reason that the word ‘personal’ often appears before training, it’s different for everyone and you need to make your own decisions [...]
Back for the Winter
With Summer over I’ll be back behind the keyboard for longer periods of time, which should give me more opportunities to post. Here are a few things I have planned: Experiments in personal fitness, aimed primarily at testing extremely high-intensity workouts for endurance purposes New features for the GOLSequencer Bank and Harmonic Table Arduino and [...]
A Trend You May Notice
For all those paying attention, you may notice that I’m posting with less frequency. This is normal. The fact is, its getting warm again. When that happens, I spend more time outdoors, getting my triathlon on, reading in a hammock, or making my yard happen than hanging out on my computer. When the cold happens [...]
