time reversal

Professor Richard Yamamoto died on October 16th. The MIT news office has a brief article here and a memorial site can be found here. I suggest that those from MIT read the farewell comments from family and friends.
Of all the people I knew as an undergraduate, I learned the most from Yamamoto. I admired [...]

There was a point a few years ago when I scoured the internet trying to find an old IBM Ultranav keyboard — the kind with the nipple mouse, USB connector, and hub. The only American English versions I could find were several hundred dollars, and I would up purchasing one with French-Canadian layout for a [...]

Apparently my dad is going to continue writing for Bassmaster. Check out the newest article here; it is even better than the last one.

Did I ever mention my dad is pretty awesome? Check out this article he wrote about frog fishing here.

I never finished posting about the rest of my trip to Zion. It has been a while, so I will just post a picture and give a brief summary. After spending a few wonderful days in Hopp Valley, Matthias and I crashed for a night in the Southwest Desert area of the park. There [...]

Well the end of the semester has arrived and I just have to finish a take home final, make a MOT, and finish my poster for DAMOP before shipping out on the 18th. So, in typical William fashion, I eschewed work and made something beautiful instead. Above is one of the graphics I made to [...]

Since Spring Break and my trip to Zion (from which I will finish posting pictures sometime), I have dropped completely off the map in a mad rush to build a set of hi-fi speakers and a vacuum tube amp. Well, actually my friend Matthias and I have been trying to build two sets of each. [...]

After a morning in the snow, Matthias and I decided it was time to see a different part of the park. In this vein we headed to the rangers station and got advice on the southwest desert area. We only had a few hours of daylight by the time we left the rangers station, so [...]

On our drive into Zion, we stopped at the rangers station to get advice on trails and weather conditions. Initially, we had planned to do a 40 mile trip from Lee’s Pass in the northwest part of the park to Angels’s Landing, but the middle region of the hike was covered in three feet of [...]

Over the past few months, I had developed my first case of cabin fever and desperately needed to go somewhere beautiful. I originally planned to go hiking somewhere in Appalachia but decided that more drastic measures were required. My friend Matthias (exchange student from Germany here for a year to get a Masters and finish [...]