While browsing the Internet I found an interesting website on abstract mathematics by Professor Charles Wells. The site is organized into subsections like chapters in a book. I’m especially interested in the use of different fonts, sizes, and colors to illustrate important points. Perhaps the important points are emphasized because of the experience of the …
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Salome – Everything I Learned About Love I Learned from Salome
I had the pleasure of watching the opera Salome in Norfolk Virginia by the Virginia Opera. My seat was in the front row and off-set a few stage right from the center. Salome is an opera (drama) in one act after the poem of Oscar Wilde, music by Richard Strauss, first performed in 1905. As …
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Thoughts of Kolmogorov through Yakov Sinai
This months issue of Notices of the American Mathematical Society (Vol. 62, No. 2, Feb. 2015 pp. 152 – 160) contains an interview with Professor Yakov Sinai. The interview occurred because he won an award called the Abel prize. The interview contains a large number references to A. N. Kolmogorov! Here are a few interesting …
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Retirement Party
Mr. Marcolini, the branch head who hired me in at NASA, recently retired. I had the opportunity to attend his retirement party a few days ago. Highlights were many gifts, funny stories, and an amazing NASA cake! I certainly wish him a very happy retirement. I’ll miss his advice and conversation at NASA.
Happy New Year and New Years Day – 2015
I am very excited about the new year and what it might bring. I recall the words of a professor and friend who wrote, `don’t predict your future – create it.’ Wishing all my colleagues, friends, and family a happy future full of making their dreams become reality! I hope that I have some big …
Visit to the Richmond Museum of Fine Arts
On Christmas day I enjoyed traveling to nearby Richmond to check out the `Virginia Fine Arts Museum.’ Perhaps a bit presumptuous with its name, they showed a few select works worth seeing. I recommend visiting the museum only if you have extra free time while in the city. They do have an impressive collection of …
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Saya Woolfalk
I’m so impressed by the art of Saya Woolfalk (personal homepage link). She recently gave a talk in Norfolk that coincides with her new exhibition. The work involves the Empathics, whom are a possible future race. They seem to be a combination between plant and human biology. Each show building on the last has led …
Norfolk Fashion – Worn to be Wild
I was excited to sit in the first row by the photographers for the Worn to be Wild Fashion show in Norfolk Virginia. What a great time and so many fashionable and creative people! The theme was leather jackets that go along with the Chrysler’s current exhibit. Here are my highlights!
Kline, Franz, `Zinc Yellow’
I am not sure if it is a secret or not, but I love Franz Kline and all his work. One of my favorites resides at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk Virginia. Here, we see Kline’s work come out of the `black and white’ era with his experiments in color. These action paintings …