Educator. Engineer. Experimenter.
This year for Halloween, a few of us attempted the popular Pumpktris instructable. Pumpktris is a version of Tetris playable in a pumpkin 🙂 Nathan Pryor (HaHaBird) created it. Here is his version in all its glory. It got a lot of interest, from other instructables to local news coverage to BoingBoing. Nathan also made…
For Halloween this year, I donned a Final Fantasy White Mage costume, one that I crafted myself. FYI a WHM looks like this. As a longtime fan of the series, and devout WHM, this was something I’ve always wanted to do. The colored water bottles are potions, and the feathers are phoenix downs. My…
Disclaimer: I am OS Agnostic. Please don’t send me hate mail about operating systems. So for the last 4 years I’ve been using this MacBook Pro as my main laptop (OSX Mountain Lion through macOS Sierra). I’ve also run Parallels Desktop for various flavors of Windows, Android, and Fedora. I can honestly say I’ve thoroughly…
Heard Brown Bag Brass Band tonight at Tibby’s New Orleans Kitchen off Aloma. They are an informal sideline band with a rotating lineup, and they play around town at various places such as Tibby’s, Muddy Waters, Will’s, The Social, and private events like weddings, etc. They are fun and funky, and have that classic New…
On a UNIX system (using bash, though this probably applies to other shells too), the history command not only displays your shell history for you, but it also comes with a suite of options for manipulating it. Though I’ve used UNIX systems here and there for years, I never really knew about this command, and…
If you’ve used Python quite a bit, you know that sometimes the module you want to use is not supported in the version of Python you have installed. Sometimes you can get around this by using a different module. Other times you are forced to install and maintain a completely different version of Python. At…
I saw Chris Hiatt playing in New Smyrna tonight. In the US he tends to stick around the Florida east coast (Daytona, Flagler, New Smyrna, etc.). Overseas he frequents Scandinavia, especially Sweden, having done 20+ tours. He seems to mostly be known as a Stevie Ray Vaughn cover act, having done SRV shows for many…
Just wanted to post something about Eugene Snowden, our patron saint of feel good music here in Orlando. He’s been playing in and around Central Florida for well over 20 years now, probably longer. Anyone who’s semi-knowledgeable of the Central Florida music scene, or has even gone to various local shows over the years, knows…
Last week I finally sailed on a tall ship, something I’ve been yearning to do for 10 years now. My god it was fantastic!! So authentic, romantic, and exciting all at the same time, nothing compares to it. Except perhaps sailing on an even bigger, older tall ship (something I intend to do). The creaking…
How to get 30 years out of a t-shirt? Simply lose it in a series of closets and attics for a very long time… then remove, wash, and put it on your child. This little league Padres jersey is going on 32 years now. Pictured: me wearing it in 1985 and my son wearing it…