Hou tu pranownse Inglish

There are rules for pronouncing American English given the spelling; there are just a lot of them, and they’re ugly.  No one’s going to get educated people to change how they spell–they’ve invested too much in learning it, and there’s too much legacy.  But the way people speak, their dialect, varies widely with geography.  So [...]

Ankylodoxy

I started a blog to record my Gospel Doctrine lessons.  It’s called ankylodoxy, as opposed to orthodoxy.

Grandpa

My grandfather, Jesse Stay, died this morning. My cousin, Jesse Stay III, wrote up a nice eulogy, as did my sister Karen.

Cool robot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww

Touch-sensitive plant

Mimosa pudica – this stuff was all over the place in Guatemala.  The tender leaves fold up, drop down, and expose lots of thorns.

I Got Another Journal Publication

“Bit Commitment Blues” has been published in Journal of Craptology!

Origami Tessellations

http://www.origamitessellations.com/

3D weaving, polyhedra, tensegrity, magnetostatics, & more

http://www.kennethsnelson.net/new_structure/structure1.htm

Singing dune movies

http://www.lps.ens.fr/~douady/SongofDunesIndex.html

Site that will be relevant to my thesis

http://thatlogicblog.blogspot.com/