Five Decades of Drum Kits /29 Dec 2024

So much stuff. Why couldn't I have taken up the clarinet?

Speaking in Tongues /18 Jun 2023

Written in 2001 for a friend who had questions about this noncontroversial (!) topic.

Ernie Pyle and D-Day Plus One /6 Jun 2023

Following in his footsteps.

Normandie /6 Jun 2021

So moved by my visit to Omaha Beach in early June 1979 that I did the unthinkable and wrote a poem when I returned home.

Editing a C String In-Place /21 Feb 2020

In which I solve a whiteboard question two days after the interview. Do I still get the job?

Abrahamic Promises in the Pentateuch and Joshua /19 Apr 2018

A sprint through the Torah and the first book of the Nevi'im tracing the threefold Abrahamic promises of land, people, and blessing.

Bible Survey /19 Apr 2018

Written for a 2004 adult Sunday school class. (The title page may be found here.)

Encapsulating Xt Callback Functions in C++ /19 Apr 2018

Composed in 1991 whilst writing Xt-based GUI programs in C++.

Fun with Online Reformed Apologetics /19 Apr 2018

In 1998 an anonymous atheist emailed me out of the blue.

George Orwell and the Politics of Animal Farm /19 Apr 2018

Extracted from a longer essay I wrote in 1979 using a typewriter and a lot of Wite-Out™

Markov Chain Algorithm in Python /19 Apr 2018

In The Practice of Programming, Kernighan and Pike implemented the Markov chain algorithm in C, Java, C++, Awk, and Perl, so I decided to write one in Python.

Playing Percussion in the Musical Pit /19 Apr 2018

Stuff I learned as an amateur musical theatre percussionist, 2008-2016. I made mistakes (and lists) so you don't have to.

Review of The Historical Reliability of the Gospels /19 Apr 2018

This 2001 essay examined the 1987 (first) edition of Craig Blomberg's book. (The second edition, which I haven't read, was published in 2007.)