So tonight, after an anxious spring wait, I finally saw the fireflies dance in the dusk. I went and unfocused my eyes to see their dance. It was gorgeous. I saw one firefly light up in front of me and dance up the sidewalk, lighting here and there, the dusk light just strong enough to [...]
A good friend just recently got married. **Sigh** Another one falls. But seriously, marriage is wonderful. At one point, somebody asked about advice for the groom. I joked that there should be no compromise. But as I have thought about it, I think it is actually a good idea. Let’s look at a compromise. Two [...]
Okay, so I have been living under a rock and just found out about the end of the world. It makes me sad to think that my lovely little daughter will not get to grow up. But if I believe, I get to go to heaven. Right? Sweet deal. My 6 week old daughter, she [...]
Yesterday , 5/1/2011, was a bad day to give up watching the news…
In my previous post, I wrote about projects I would still like to pursue. I did forget one, one from about age 6: create an interactive fiction game. Perhaps one could play Mord on his adventures? Every encounter and battle must start with “I am Mord. I serve my lord Kord with my greatsword.” or [...]
So I am a new father. I have a beautiful daughter. Both my wife and I are home, full-time taking care of her and it is exhausting. She does sleep quite a bit, but she also cries a lot and we do not know why. We have tried a variety of things, some help for [...]
So I just saw a blog blurb referencing an article suggesting that liberal education may do more for thinking than teaching in science and mathematics. I find this hard to believe. The issue is on the nature of the instruction. I just judged at a middle school science fair. Some of the projects were good, [...]
So the time has come where the nation unites under one educational standard: corestandards This is an exciting time to be contemplating creating math education software and texts. I just read that one of the reasons textbooks are so thick and incoherent is their attempt to meet all the different standards. Could tiny books be [...]
See a primitive working parser at http://mythiclogos.com/parsing/version01 Does arithmetic, does not handle ill-formed errors (missing “)” ) gracefully (does nothing actually–if you check in firebug, just gives warning). So I have spent the past week or so creating the foundations for a parser. And reacquainting myself with Javascript and jQuery. I love both the language [...]
I have finished my video lectures. They consist of ten weeks of videos with 2-4 hours of videos each week, probably 30 hours in total. It took me 2 months to accomplish that and I still have the encoding and uploading to do. But at least the recording is done. It is exhausting. An hour [...]