Personal Projects & Interests is my sandbox for life outside the office—where spreadsheets, sensors, and code tackle real-world chores and passions. Here you’ll see data models guiding gear buys, DIY automations that make the house (and gate) smarter, endurance training logged like an experiment, and reflections that tie it all together.
The challenge is how to get ERSI shapefiles into a full json format. I had MATLAB fired up and was going to generate this originally. It turns out a lot of the data are already there. Experience matters *a lot*. It took me two weeks to do this before. This time it took about 5 […] read more
Yes, pretty much a full day driving, but a great chance to catch up and enjoy each other as a family. read more
If you walk up our attic steps, you will be surrounded by this: The problem is that it takes forever to find and store things, so we don’t store them there or we buy duplicates of things we already have. I am often prevented from getting things done because I want them done perfectly. However, […] read more
Goal: characterize the winds available around the world. First we need to construct our grid: The horizontal, latitude-longitude grid ranges from +70 to -70 deg in latitude and from 0 to 357.5E deg in longitude, producing a grid that has dimensions of 57 x 144 points. In matlab, this is: [cells/degree northern_latitude_limit western_longitude_limit] zerom( These […] read more
My summer/fall 20 week training plan which is all focused around the Marine Corps Marathon. All long runs will be done with the DC Road Runners. Details on the long runs are at DC Road Runners’ page. CF stands for crossfit workouts found at CrossFit Adaptation. Track workouts done with DC Road Runners Track Workouts […] read more
I often see parallels between interscholastic athletics and life – sometimes I win and sometimes I lose. And the losses are always more instructive than the wins (though the wins are more enjoyable.) Over the years I have won much – and lost much, but the basic love I have to compete has never changed. […] read more
Wir wohnen in einer Welt, die viele Religionen hat. Wir wohnen aber auch in einer Welt, die viele Kulturen hat. Natürlich gibt es viele andere Ansichten über die Beziehung zwischen Reli gion und Kultur. Sehr viele Leute denken, dass die Beziehung zwischen Religion und Kultur ganz ähnlich wie die Beziehung zwischen Kultur und Musik oder […] read more
In the political mire of our day, the word “truth” is slung around like a worn-out baseball. Every politician, religious leader, self-improvement author and educator seems to know what will solve all our problems. Truth is thrown at us from every direction. Why then does mankind face the same problems today that it has faced […] read more
Our world is large. Billions of others are living as you read these words. Each one of them, though from remarkably different backgrounds, is strangely similar. They all have hopes and dreams, fears and desires. They all live-and they all die. They all laugh-and they all suffer. Yet out of these experiences suffering is the […] read more
http://www.recessedlightinglayout.com/ First, some terms: A Watt is the amount of power consumed by a bulb per hour Lumens are a raw measure of light output Kelvin is color temperature – 2,700K (indoor soft white) to 5,600K is bright white like a fluorescent. this paper might solve our cutting stock problem: http://ac.els-cdn.com/0377221793E02775/1-s2.0-0377221793E02775-main.pdf?_tid=c30e007a-43ec-11e6-a368-00000aab0f27&acdnat=1467859664_ff7d7101ac220ca7831f48410693a63c http://www.homedepot.com/catalog/productImages/400/29/297fa046-d7f9-405b-b52d-107b4c115a3f_400.jpg these lights: http://www.homedepot.com/p/Halo-5-in-and-6-in-3000K-Matte-White-Recessed-LED-Retrofit-Baffle-Trim-Module-80-CRI-RL560WH-R/203310667 […] read more