Life
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.”
~Plato
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
~Albert Einstein
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
~Terry Pratchett
“The full cosmos consists of the physical stuff and consciousness. Take away consciousness and it’s only dust; add consciousness and you get things, ideas, and time.”
~Neal Stephenson
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Sometimes I write, too.
From LAMP to Python & TypeScript: My Journey into Modern Development
There was a time when I thought I had it all figured out. A website was a series of carefully stacked bricks—HTML, CSS, PHP, jQuery—arranged just so, and if the wall didn’t collapse under the [...]
Madison AI: The Governance AI Born Out of Pure Frustration
At the time Madison AI began, artificial intelligence was just emerging into the public conversation in a big way. While AI was being hailed as the future, government workflows were still stuck in the past—bogged [...]
Why You Won’t find me on FaceBook
Time to make a change Recently, I took a year off of Facebook. I would occasionally log in to make sure I wasn't missing any messages from loved ones, but otherwise I kept away. And [...]
Hallucigenia
I stood next to the GraniTight™-topped island in my kitchen, procrastinating over a cup of coffee by considering the spurious nature...
The Carafe
Alexandra was leaning up against balustrade for the laminated bamboo stairs...
…in the beginning
35 years… The first guitar I ever picked up belonged to my father. I can’t remember for certain, but I don’t think he even knew how to play a single chord on it, tune it, [...]
I recorded this video of a tune by Michael Hedges a few years ago. I hope you enjoy it.
