Category: Carnegie Mellon University
71 posts
- 1/24/2015How I forgot to meditate after sixty days in a row of remembering and what that means
- 1/19/2015For Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: some black American voices that spoke to me recently
- 9/17/2014Observing Constitution Day with "The Supreme Court and Privacy: The Fourth Amendment in the Digital Age"
- 5/30/2014Sometimes the best speech is the one you didn't have time to prepare
- 5/29/2014Copland's Appalachian Spring danced by the orchestra musicians: confronting my memories of boredom four years ago
- 5/22/2014How a homemade ice cream cookie sandwich touched my heart seven years ago
- 5/14/2014Is 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
- 12/3/2013Geeking out at the annual CMU psychology holiday party: beauty and selling out
- 11/26/2013A fine trumpet recital by Erin Yanacek
- 11/20/2013Chamber music concert at CMU featured Bach's Goldberg Variations arranged for string trio
- 10/11/2013Finally learning about Carnatic music
- 10/4/20139 things you could be doing in Pittsburgh on Saturday, October 5
- 9/27/2013First rehearsal for my first ukulele gig: dealing with anxiety
- 9/17/2013On not celebrating Constitution Day this year, 2013
- 9/15/2013Saying No: on not playing in the Pittsburgh Chess League this season for the CMU Tartans
- 9/7/2013Was it worth sprinting to a terrible fall to finish 25th in the CMU Pretty Good Race 5K?
- 8/3/2013Pittsburgh Ruby/Python social and some observations about our polyglot world
- 5/7/20132013 Pittsburgh Marathon: my 135th race was the worst I finished, but I did!
- 4/30/2013Celebrating the victory of the CMU Tartans in the 2012-13 Pittsburgh Chess League season
- 4/21/2013On overtraining and feeling injured two weeks before the Pittsburgh Marathon
- 4/20/2013Going out too fast yet again in my third Random Distance Run
- 4/20/2013Commuting on foot during CMU Carnival week as cross-training for the Pittsburgh Marathon
- 4/10/2013My first interval workout before the Pittsburgh Marathon
- 4/5/2013Attending a fascinating Robert Dick flute lecture and master class
- 3/26/2013Flute master class: becoming a great ensemble player
- 2/26/2013Stepping it up at the French and blues jam
- 1/31/2013Why and how I am going to run the 2013 Pittsburgh Marathon
- 11/18/2012Report on CMU Baroque Ensemble concert, with Stephen Schultz on Baroque flute
- 10/18/2012Learning about Parasail: a new parallel programming language
- 10/7/2012My first contra dance workshop: unexpected fun!
- 10/4/2012Chatham Baroque: thoughts on playing new non-Baroque music on Baroque instruments
- 9/28/2012Another French music jam; also, announcing CATS Dance
- 9/27/2012Why I missed the CMU intramural XC race this year
- 9/18/2012Is Constitution Day Constitutional?
- 9/7/2012Running my 8th Pretty Good Race 5K: dealing with disappointment
- 8/27/2012My second French music jam: playing my Irish flute in public for the first time
- 8/26/2012Latin jazz in Pittsburgh: Puro Queso
- 8/21/2012Returning to chess, a lifetime sport: playing in the Pittsburgh Chess League
- 8/17/2012The inaugural Liberty Mile: a review of Pittsburgh's first road mile race, a great community event
- 8/2/2012The paradox of practice: it's harder to go slow than go fast
- 7/6/2012Obama is speaking outside my office window, so why did I stay home?
- 6/18/2012Walking the scenic route through Schenley Park to work
- 6/6/2012I celebrated National Running Day in Schenley Park: remembering how I began to run 13 years ago
- 5/6/2012International Barefoot Running Day 2012: my second year of celebration and my first barefoot trail run
- 4/29/2012Attending my first CMU Baroque Ensemble concert: enjoying Bach's Brandenburg 2
- 4/27/2012Baroque jam session at CMU: first time my parents ever watched me perform music
- 4/16/2012One week of commuting on foot because of CMU Carnival
- 3/12/2012Quitting the CMU All-University Orchestra: one of the hardest decisions in my life
- 3/10/2012Flute: loving it again, remembering why I dance, and how I met my wife!
- 3/7/2012Flute: taking a break while clarifying my goals
- 2/27/2012Flute practice: dealing with burnout and injury
- 2/23/2012Saying No in order to say Yes
- 2/22/2012Flute progress after one month in orchestra: still hanging in there
- 2/20/2012Enjoying more French dancing in Pittsburgh
- 2/14/2012Flute progress report: day of reckoning approaches
- 2/8/2012Public shame: a great way to maintain a habit
- 2/2/20122 new daily habits of mine in a distracting world
- 2/1/2012Joining an orchestra: learning in the face of terror
- 1/20/2012CMU Fitness Challenge keynote lecture by Vonda Wright: Stay strong at any age
- 1/12/2012Experiment in learning: completing Stanford online course: Machine Learning
- 1/11/2012Experiment in learning: completing Stanford online course: Introduction to Databases
- 12/31/2011Reflections on 2011
- 12/2/2011Exploring creativity
- 12/1/2011I'm going to perform music much sooner than I expected: Monday
- 11/10/2011Seeing the inventor of the abstract data type
- 11/2/2011I don't know whether to get a flu shot
- 10/11/2011Communicating Through Dialogue
- 9/28/2011Staring at the Wall With Nowhere to Go
- 9/23/2011Happiness Is: Finishing 39th of 43 Men in a Race!
- 9/22/2011Byron Janis on Overcoming Adversity