Progressive Odyssey

As part of keeping my Dominion box organized, I print off dividers that a wonderful soul has freely published onto cardstock via FedEx Offi...

The general publication of the professional society I belong to, IEEE, is their Spectrum  magazine.  To make my life easier and less paper-...

Paper clips have been commandeered for a long time to be misshapen and turned into semi-sharp, pointy, pokey tools.  One of the most common...

I've been spending quite a bit of time thinking about the hardware floor problem my father-in-law handed to me .  At first the problem s...

I was in to visit the doctor yesterday to take a look at my heel and was given great news!  The bone and incision wound are healing wonderf...

Thankfully, this is not a story about one of my home improvement projects.  This is a story about programming. To deal with a termite prob...

During the daily walk this morning, Basil made the sidewalk-find of his life: The package of pork sausage must have been sealed becau...

I forgot to get this posted back in August when it was relevant but I'm going to go with the "better late than never" approach...

As the textbooks say, the following is an exercise left to the reader (which probably means you won't find the answer anywhere in the te...

In my last post on this topic , I explained what I had learned about collision and personal injury protection insurance.  The other two pol...

As part of trying to get this whole mess worked out with the insurance companies (mine and theirs), we've decided to hire a lawyer. Und...

Its Thanksgiving week here in the US and that means its time for cranberry sauce.   As I've previously written , making your own cranber...

Just in today...

In the few weeks since I last wrote about my motorcycle accident, my life has been very predictable.  I lay on the couch all day, sleep in ...

If all goes according to plan, I will be having surgery in one week (September 30th) to stabilize/repair my right heel bone.  My foot was in...

The professional electrical engineering society I'm a member of ( IEEE ) recently published an article looking into the alleged lack of ...

I was recently commissioned to purchase a starting set of board games to make available to our church's college group for use after our ...

Here are some photos from my recent trip to the Pacific Northwest.  The first week or so was spent up in Vancouver BC where I attended a con...

As I mentioned previously , an error in my implementation of the Runge-Kutta algorithm on the Arduino left me convinced that I needed someth...

We left off last  last time  with my successful efforts to implement a fourth-order Runge-Kutta algorithm to solve the Lorenz system of diff...