Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
dive into mark asks his wife to let him replace his car with nothing. Hilarious, yet interesting how hard it can be to simplify.
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Sunday, January 10th, 2010
I’d like to congratulate my sister, Jessica, on winning Best of Show in the Madden Arts Center Art Show. Read all about it in the Herald and Review. Well done, sis!
Sunday, February 1st, 2009
Future me, your head is 22 5/8 inches around, making you a hat size 7 1/4. You will thank present me for that information one day.
Sunday, September 14th, 2008
Amanda’s Marathon Training Video
Amanda and I are running the Chicago Marathon this year. We’re hoping our friends will want to come watch us run on Sunday, October 12!
We are running as part of a fundraising group that supports the Chicago Children’s Memorial Hospital. So, Amanda made a fun video showing her unique Rocky Balboa training methods.
Anyway, hope you enjoy the video. If you like it and want to sponsor us, head to Amanda’s donation site and make a pledge to support her. Or, you can pledge to support me here.
Watch below, or check it out in HD on YouTube.
Monday, April 28th, 2008
Amanda, Shayna, Mark, and I ran the 10-mile Universal Sole race in Lincoln Park yesterday. Here’s an excerpt with our times (full results):
O'All No. Name Div/Tot Rank 5 Mile Pace Finish Pace
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788 369 MARK 103/120 960 49:11 9:51 1:33:00.4 9:19
883 155 ALAN 57/66 961 49:12 9:51 1:35:53.2 9:36
1148 370 SHAYNA 119/130 1181 1:00:52 12:11 1:56:42.8 11:41
1149 156 AMANDA 120/130 1182 1:00:53 12:11 1:56:44.4 11:41
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Steve vs. Alan on Hearing High Stuff
I can hear up to 17.1kHz. Steve can only hear up to 14.7kHz. So I win this round. Although maybe that means he can save more disc space and compress his MP3s a little more?
If you want to perform your own test, you can use Python on Windows as follows:
from winsound import Beep
Beep(14000, 1000)
14000 is the frequency 14kHz and 1000 is beep duration 1000ms (1 second). Crank up the frequency until you can’t hear it.
Update: alternate MATLAB one-liner for doing the same:
f=15000;fs=44100;sound(sin(f*2*pi*[0:fs-1]/fs),fs)
Update 2: Paul says he can hear up to 16.9kHz well but also claims to faintly hear 18-20kHz. I think that means he wins, because I cannot hear above 17.1kHz at all. He said he used headphones whereas I used crappy laptop speakers, so I consider that cheating a little.
Update 3: So apparently, the results are very dependent on the speakers being used. I tested Amanda at home using the Bose speakers and she can hear up to 17.5kHz. Funny thing: with these speakers, I can hear up to about 18.4kHz. Not sure what to make of that except that I’m winning again.
Saturday, May 12th, 2007
Arik posted some new photos of the twins. I, of course, prefer these especially goofy ones.
Saturday, May 12th, 2007
Last weekend, I gained another brother-in-law! The wedding was great fun — check out my photos.
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Millikin University’s Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award
Congrats on being honored, dad.
Monday, January 22nd, 2007
Last weekend, I became a proud double-uncle when my brother’s family grew from 2 to 4 overnight! Ashley Nicole and Lindsey Grace were born at 12:30 in St. Louis on January 12, 2006.
I posted some photos on flickr, Dad has photos on his website, and the hospital has pictures of Lindsey, Ashley, and both.
Congratulations, Arik and Laura!
Update: Arik has a great picture gallery up on his website now.
Sunday, November 5th, 2006
YouTube is extremely easy to upload video to. I’m impressed.
Sunday, November 5th, 2006
Too Much Time on Our Hands in High School
Chad, Tim, and I had too much time one day …
Sunday, September 10th, 2006
6-year Old’s Drawing of Sept 11th Terrorist Attack
See my little sister’s drawing along with my father’s haiku.
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
A Response to How to Write a Haiku
RSS alert
no five-seven-five
a brow furrows
(thanks, KC)
Monday, August 21st, 2006
More Notes on How to Write a Haiku
incomplete sentences
no syllable counting
learn from masters
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
A journalist goes undercover as a salesman at 2 car dealerships. Read it if you’re considering buying a car (or at least look at the recommendations at the end).
(via Kris)
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
Green Hybrid has a very nice database of actual mileage recorded by hybrid car owners. HybridCARS.com lists current and expected hybrid models.
Sunday, March 19th, 2006
Fun Putt Putt game that runs in your browser. (requires the Flash plugin)
Sunday, March 19th, 2006
A transcript of Robert F. Kennedy’s amazing speech about the some of the horrific things that we are doing to our environment. It touches on everything from coal-burning power plants to mercury in the water to strip mining to cultural values to draft dodging. Long, but well worth the read.
(via Wil Shipley)
Friday, December 23rd, 2005
If you need to use LaTeX on Mac OS X, start by following the most simple beginner’s guide to get things installed. Then, you might want to read Getting Started With TeX on Mac OS X and look at the Mac OS X TeX/LaTeX Web Site for a good set of related links. More details about the i-Installer and some links from a LaTeX course are also available. Finally, there is a nice visual equation editor that makes complicated equations easier to edit.
