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Personal Information (Miscellaneous)
- I repeat this zen saying
to myself every morning.
- When I start to lose my way in life
I turn to Hub.
- When I begin feeling disorganized
I turn to Henry.
- When I need research advice
I turn to Albert.
- When I get confused about what is going on politically
I turn to Noam.
- Here are some other notable quotes.
- I can apparently trace my academic lineage back fifteen generations
to Isaac Newton.
- My Erdös number
is currently 3,
my von Neumann number is 4, and my Einstein and Hilbert numbers are 5.
- I supervised 18 completed PhD students during 2001-2022;
we fit into the global academic family tree right
here.
- Some photos from various trips I have taken
can be found here.
- Some additional photos (mainly of my cats)
can be found here.
- Cat people (you know who you are)
should click here.
- Extreme sports videos (Parkour, wingsuit base jumping, etc)
can be found here.
- Some important new developments in science
can be found here.
- I love live music: flamenco guitar, violent acoustic guitar,
rock, metal, soul, jazz, bossa nova, sitar, international.
- I am an ordained minister (in the Universal Life Church),
and have performed wedding ceremonies in California.
- I have held my high school
discus record
for more than 40 years (since 1981).
- Here is some video of me
throwing the discus
(age 16/160 lbs, age 17/190 lbs, age 18/220 lbs).
- I have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do,
and train with my kids at
Church's
ATA Martial Arts in San Diego.
- I grew up in Colorado with my three brothers and my parents.
My dad was (and is) an outdoorsman and hunter, mainly a bow-hunter
(old-school recurve bows) for elk and deer, and a shotgun hunter for
waterfowl and upland game birds, but also a rifle hunter for
larger North American game.
It was a rite-of-passage for one or more of us to join him on his
yearly bow or rifle hunt (after a 10-mile hike into White River National
Forest in Western Colorado), and to be out at 5am some weekend mornings
freezing our butts off with him in his goose blind.
- Colorado Public Radio recently broadcast an interview with my brother Jon,
who works for the Colorado Division of Wildlife as an attorney and
wildlife biologist.
That interview can be found
[ here ].
- CCA performing Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" (with my child Maven on piano) can be found
[ here ]. (21 minutes, 1080p, approx 3.1gb)
- Lower resolution sample of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" can be found
[ here ]. (8 minutes, 720p, approx .75gb)
- A video of me describing a math problem I worked on for 20 years is [ here ]. (63 minutes, 360p, approx .96gb)
- A video of a CNC conversion I did on a mini-mill for precision manufacturing of metal parts for hobbies is [ here ]. (1 minute, 540p, approx 22mb)
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