Pi Are Squared. I had a fun time trying to explain the concept of Pi to my daughter. Not sure it took. If she remembers 3.14 tomorrow I will consider it a success. Special thanks to Jennifer Hampton for the pun.

Another year comes to an end, but in many respects it is just another day. For all the resolutions that people make (lose weight, read more, spend more time with kids, have more fun, …) do our resolutions get in the way of the true resolution we need to make? Can we set aside these [...]

We managed to locate six candles in the drawer to celebrate Andrew’s 6th birthday. He was very excited, and especially liked the brontosaurus from Poppy. Camille made an awesome cake from scratch. We were all very impressed. The kids got an extra birthday surprise when the #snowpocalypse began. We got a total of about 22 [...]

At long last I am on another publication for the years of slave grad work I completed. TAG published A Universal Core Genetic Map for Rice last month in their online edition. Hopefully it will make it into a print copy at some point. I identified the 18k+ SSR loci and built a system for [...]

As the kids go off to acquire candy for me (due to the high candy tax) I decided to post a picture of the carvings for this year. You can probably guess who made each one.

On August 30, 2009 I had the privilege of giving the weekly sermon for CCPC. I used the book of Galatians, chapter 1 for my text to get across the point that, just like the believers in Galatia, we try to “augment” or “upgrade” the Gospel by inserting our own righteousness. Our friends, kids, and [...]

Drew lost his first tooth today. He is very pleased with himself. Make sure to ask him to smile for you!

I made a random plot/scenario generator based on an article over at IBM. I hope you have fun playing with it. If you wind up writing a book as a result make sure to name the protagonist after me.

Well, I had my first dermatologist appointment in over three years last week. He did not like what one of the moles on my hip looked like, so he shaved it off and sent it to the lab for analysis. It came back as a “3″ on a one (normal mole) to five (skin cancer). [...]

The sermon series right now at CCPC is on the Armor of God. I had the opportunity to not only give the sermon on the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit and how it relates to our union with Christ (listen: mp3) , but I also go to give a little children’s [...]