Other Works

First, a little piece that appeared in the Web Mystery Magazine in the Fall 2005 issue about historical research:

""Telling Details" at Ten-Thousand Feet
and a Century Past"

Second, for those who might be curious as to the sorts of things I write nine-to-five (and whether my claim of combining William Butler Yeats and fluid dynamics is real or ... well ... fiction), check out:

"Into the Vortex: New Insights into the Behavior of Dynamic Fluids"

... This also has a link to some very cool computer simulations that rather remind me of the movie "Vertigo."

Every once in a while, the stuff I write from nine-to-five makes its way into publications on the "outside." Here's a short article about how those graphics processors in your kids' Xboxes, Playstations, etc. might be used for general process computing that appeared in HPC (High Performance Computing) Wire:

Built for Speed, Graphics Processors for General-Purpose Computing

Some of the research and flights of fancy involved in decorating the interior of the Silver Queen Saloon made it into my essay for the Mystery Readers Journal "Art Mysteries I" issue (Spring 2005):

"Saturday Night Art and Other Ruminations at the Bar"

Murals, the "Face on the Barrom Floor," and a mounted buffalo head are featured in the essay (as well as some serious beer drinking with my cousin Dave, who takes all beer drinking seriously). I even managed to work Paradise Lost into the mix ....