Educator. Engineer. Experimenter.
Saw a talk today at the Brown Center for Faculty Innovation and Excellence at Stetson by Assistant Professor of Voice, Chadley Ballantyne, titled What’s the Buzz? Auditory roughness and vibrotactile awareness. It was fantastic! I admit, I know very little music theory in general (and absolutely nothing about vocal theory!), but Chad’s talk was still…
— Update 07/2021: I wasn’t aware until recently of the Japanese show (Final Fantasy XIV: Dad of Light) and movie (Brave Father Online: Our Story of Final Fantasy XIV) that featured FFXIV as a plot vehicle. Pretty cool idea and very enjoyable for FFXIV fans. — As I wind down another 4 month mini-addiction of…
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…
I saw Terri Binion tonight at Imperial Wine Bar at Washburn Imports on North Orange. She plays folky Americana songs, and has a fantastic voice. She’s been in and Central Florida for a long time, but has also toured nationally and played with some greats. She knows what she’s doing. She handled the loud, chatty…
Khim Kelly, UCF College of Business professor, presented a talk today 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….
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!
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…
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,…
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…
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!