our eventful summer

it's been a remarkable summer for my family. much of it would make you say the writers had gotten lazy and pulled out every cliffhanger cliché if it came to you on "days of our lives". i'll post it here so i can point people to it instead of emailing it twenty times. first, glenn,…

grandfathering data

as i've moved my computing life from a style based around one computer to one driven by online services, i've been moving from my own homebrew solutions to reliance on "opa" -- other people's apps. there are several clear advantages: sites with a narrow specialty make material more discoverable, and thereby more useful to someone…

multiple exposures

composer title lengthsize comments jeff covey multiple exposures 13:3512mb this is a piece of music i wrote in college. thanks to the fellow umbc students who played on it and mike cerri for the recording!

books

this is a list of good books. i hasten to define "good". good in this case means "useful". with one notable exception, these are not great works of literature. some of them are barely readable. if you want spiritually and mentally enriching works of great depth and beauty, there's a whole world of those waiting…

return of the car

[this is a ymoyl update.] after a few years of car freedom, i have reluctantly joined the car-owning public again. with the exception of a couple of trips to west virginia, i've used foot, bike, buses, and trains for my own use, but since glenn stopped driving, i've driven his car to take him on…