Category: Carnegie Mellon University

71 posts

1/24/2015 How I forgot to meditate after sixty days in a row of remembering and what that means
1/19/2015 For Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: some black American voices that spoke to me recently
9/17/2014 Observing Constitution Day with "The Supreme Court and Privacy: The Fourth Amendment in the Digital Age"
5/30/2014 Sometimes the best speech is the one you didn't have time to prepare
5/29/2014 Copland's Appalachian Spring danced by the orchestra musicians: confronting my memories of boredom four years ago
5/22/2014 How a homemade ice cream cookie sandwich touched my heart seven years ago
5/14/2014 Is there a grounding problem in empirical computational linguistics?
3/22/2014 "Time to Taste the World": thoughts on expanding my food tastes as an adult
12/3/2013 Geeking out at the annual CMU psychology holiday party: beauty and selling out
11/26/2013 A fine trumpet recital by Erin Yanacek
11/20/2013 Chamber music concert at CMU featured Bach's Goldberg Variations arranged for string trio
10/11/2013 Finally learning about Carnatic music
10/4/2013 9 things you could be doing in Pittsburgh on Saturday, October 5
9/27/2013 First rehearsal for my first ukulele gig: dealing with anxiety
9/17/2013 On not celebrating Constitution Day this year, 2013
9/15/2013 Saying No: on not playing in the Pittsburgh Chess League this season for the CMU Tartans
9/7/2013 Was it worth sprinting to a terrible fall to finish 25th in the CMU Pretty Good Race 5K?
8/3/2013 Pittsburgh Ruby/Python social and some observations about our polyglot world
5/7/2013 2013 Pittsburgh Marathon: my 135th race was the worst I finished, but I did!
4/30/2013 Celebrating the victory of the CMU Tartans in the 2012-13 Pittsburgh Chess League season
4/21/2013 On overtraining and feeling injured two weeks before the Pittsburgh Marathon
4/20/2013 Going out too fast yet again in my third Random Distance Run
4/20/2013 Commuting on foot during CMU Carnival week as cross-training for the Pittsburgh Marathon
4/10/2013 My first interval workout before the Pittsburgh Marathon
4/5/2013 Attending a fascinating Robert Dick flute lecture and master class
3/26/2013 Flute master class: becoming a great ensemble player
2/26/2013 Stepping it up at the French and blues jam
1/31/2013 Why and how I am going to run the 2013 Pittsburgh Marathon
11/18/2012 Report on CMU Baroque Ensemble concert, with Stephen Schultz on Baroque flute
10/18/2012 Learning about Parasail: a new parallel programming language
10/7/2012 My first contra dance workshop: unexpected fun!
10/4/2012 Chatham Baroque: thoughts on playing new non-Baroque music on Baroque instruments
9/28/2012 Another French music jam; also, announcing CATS Dance
9/27/2012 Why I missed the CMU intramural XC race this year
9/18/2012 Is Constitution Day Constitutional?
9/7/2012 Running my 8th Pretty Good Race 5K: dealing with disappointment
8/27/2012 My second French music jam: playing my Irish flute in public for the first time
8/26/2012 Latin jazz in Pittsburgh: Puro Queso
8/21/2012 Returning to chess, a lifetime sport: playing in the Pittsburgh Chess League
8/17/2012 The inaugural Liberty Mile: a review of Pittsburgh's first road mile race, a great community event
8/2/2012 The paradox of practice: it's harder to go slow than go fast
7/6/2012 Obama is speaking outside my office window, so why did I stay home?
6/18/2012 Walking the scenic route through Schenley Park to work
6/6/2012 I celebrated National Running Day in Schenley Park: remembering how I began to run 13 years ago
5/6/2012 International Barefoot Running Day 2012: my second year of celebration and my first barefoot trail run
4/29/2012 Attending my first CMU Baroque Ensemble concert: enjoying Bach's Brandenburg 2
4/27/2012 Baroque jam session at CMU: first time my parents ever watched me perform music
4/16/2012 One week of commuting on foot because of CMU Carnival
3/12/2012 Quitting the CMU All-University Orchestra: one of the hardest decisions in my life
3/10/2012 Flute: loving it again, remembering why I dance, and how I met my wife!
3/7/2012 Flute: taking a break while clarifying my goals
2/27/2012 Flute practice: dealing with burnout and injury
2/23/2012 Saying No in order to say Yes
2/22/2012 Flute progress after one month in orchestra: still hanging in there
2/20/2012 Enjoying more French dancing in Pittsburgh
2/14/2012 Flute progress report: day of reckoning approaches
2/8/2012 Public shame: a great way to maintain a habit
2/2/2012 2 new daily habits of mine in a distracting world
2/1/2012 Joining an orchestra: learning in the face of terror
1/20/2012 CMU Fitness Challenge keynote lecture by Vonda Wright: Stay strong at any age
1/12/2012 Experiment in learning: completing Stanford online course: Machine Learning
1/11/2012 Experiment in learning: completing Stanford online course: Introduction to Databases
12/31/2011 Reflections on 2011
12/2/2011 Exploring creativity
12/1/2011 I'm going to perform music much sooner than I expected: Monday
11/10/2011 Seeing the inventor of the abstract data type
11/2/2011 I don't know whether to get a flu shot
10/11/2011 Communicating Through Dialogue
9/28/2011 Staring at the Wall With Nowhere to Go
9/23/2011 Happiness Is: Finishing 39th of 43 Men in a Race!
9/22/2011 Byron Janis on Overcoming Adversity