Educator. Engineer. Experimenter.
Just a few outings of us playing Pokemon Go this year. Most of these people are either on the Orlando Raids Pokemon Go Discord, or the Pokemon Go-UCF Discord, or both. Both servers are highly active in the Central Florida area. Here’s a video of people playing around Lake Eola at night when Pokemon…
My cubical in the Design Lab at IST at UCF… because, as General Sherman said, PhDs are hell. I decorated it with abandoned materials found in the hall from a previous project with PEO STRI by Dr. Charlie Hughes and his SREAL Lab.
Crooked Road, a traditional Irish music band around Orlando plays at the Harp & Celt every other Wednesday and various other events around town. They been playing in the area for over 15 years. Vicki Gish and Scott Vocca will also be re-opening the new Claddagh Cottage on Curry Ford Rd this year. I’ve heard…
Tuba Christmas is a national annual concert originally organized by Dr. Harvey Phillips, a legendary tuba player, composer, advocate, and professor, as a tribute to his teacher, William Bell. The first Tuba Christmas concert took place at Rockefeller Center in 1974. Since then concerts have taken place all over the United States (and elsewhere), locally…
Triple Trip put out an update to spout: monochrome mission, the pixel flying/carving game. Music by yours truly. Arthur Guibert coded it all. Here is a link to the original spout game that this was based on.
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…
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…
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…