Posted on August 30, 2019
I needed to illustrate a radiometry concept recently, but I didn’t want to draw it manually with Adobe Illustrator or whatever. I was afraid that parts of the diagram wouldn’t look to-scale, and I was especially worried that if I had to show the diagram from multiple angles, that proportions wouldn’t line up exactly. I’m […]
Posted on August 6, 2019
Every first Monday of the month, The Public House near UCF hosts a jazz jam. Some great local musicians come out! Last night they even had some flute and vibraphone! Definitely worth checking out if you’re in the area, not only for good free music, but also for networking with other musicians. Harry Ong from […]
Posted on August 4, 2019
Happened upon Brutus the Band at Fiddler’s Green tonight. Mostly (if not all) covers, but they were tight. Pretty fun band 🙂 They got a few people dancin! Great job, guys! One More Time (Joe Jackson version) Superstition (Stevie version) Melissa (Allman Brothers version)
Posted on August 2, 2019
Khim Kelly, UCF College of Business professor, presented on perfomance based rewards at our Summer Lecture Series at IST, School of Modeling, Simulation, and Training. Kelly, K., Presslee, A., & Webb. A. 2017. The effects of tangible rewards versus cash rewards in consecutive sales tournaments: A field experiment. The Accounting Review, 92(6): 165-185. Kelly, K., […]
Posted on July 31, 2019
Volunteered at our local National Center for Simulation (NCS)’s 2019 Hall of Fame Induction. This year they inducted: Dr. Peter Hancock, Dr. Randall Shumaker, and Michael Tschanz. In previous years, they have inducted the following modsim leaders. It was refreshing to see so many people from so many industries supporting the modeling and simulation community!
Posted on June 26, 2019
Built a modern-looking wall-mounted trellis over a recent break. I mounted it to our outside garage wall, along the walkway to our front door. I wanted something both ornamental and natural in that space, and this is what I came up with… It took only 3 days of part time work, and most of that […]
Posted on June 6, 2019
Mike Wallace of Ten10 Brewing Company and Jeff Matz of Lure Design host a local rock and blues jam session every Wednesday at 7pm at Ten10 Brewing on Virginia Dr. near Mills (and have been doing so for several years now). It’s very laid back and friendly. We’ve had many musicians come out, including guitarists, […]
Posted on May 13, 2019
Just got back from watching the DS9 documentary at the theater. LOVED IT! A big thank you to Ira Stephen Behr for taking the time and effort to put it together. A big thank you to all the fine actors, writers and filmmakers for their work on this show! And a final thank you to […]
Posted on April 12, 2019
Honored to be The Parke House Academy Volunteer of the Year 2019! Every teacher in the school prepared a special dish for the volunteers luncheon. It was really nice (and delicious). Love this school!
Posted on April 10, 2019
Won a best poster award at UCF IST School of Modeling, Simulation & Training‘s first research+industry forum, dubbed SMST Day. If interested, here is the poster I presented. Congratulations also to Arash Zarmehr for both his posters! He’s done some fantastic work in the building performance space. You can see I’m always promoting Cacti Council […]