My beautiful wife, Natalia Roudakova, is from Kazan, Russia, and has just finished a magnificent dissertation on journalists and journalism in Russia after the end of socialism. Congratulations sweetie!
In Fall 2007 I joined the La Jolla Renaissance Singers. You can take a look at our winter concert schedule.
In more recent spare moments I try to break through my lifelong mental block to learning Spanish. I grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and unfortunately got very good at not understanding it. Trying to rectify the situation now.
Here's a recent thought on terrorism and the Bush administration.
I like to learn not only human languages but also computer languages. Currently, I'm learning Objective Caml, a functional programming language with unfortunately bizarre syntax but remarkably good semantics and implementation. You might be interested in my page on installing PCRE-Ocaml on Cygwin.
Wanna use DMDX with Cyrillic? Read how here. How about Cyrillic under the Windows GUI for R? Read how Read how here.
How to get rid of Mozilla Thunderbird's "new mail" notification under Windows XP.
Color xterm under OS X.
Personal how-to for some really basic queries on the CELEX database.
Getting the Command key to function as Meta under OS X X11: read here.
Using RefTeX's citation macros in OS X Carbon Emacs: read here.
Green and magenta colors in R: here.
Gabriel Aldaz is a mechanical engineer and president of SparkWorks Engineering.
Stephan Faris, my friend since third grade, is an international journalist. Over the last few years, he's reported from Nigeria, Turkey, Iraq, and most recently Liberia.
Terry Brncic is a postdoc at Oxford and studies the plant ecology of forests in Central Africa. Sometimes she even comes back to the US to visit!
Simon Chang is a successful IT consultant, focusing on e-commerce and web development. He is also a phenomenal musician and a great friend.
Mathew Davies has an appropriately eclectic past and is now a computer science Ph.D. student at the Agents Lab at Columbia.
Another close friend of mine from college, Zeb Hogan, is finishing his Ph.D. in ecology at UC Davis. He has done critical work in Southeast Asia on conservation of the Mekong Giant Catfish. You can get a sense of it by googling for Zeb Hogan Mekong Giant Catfish.
Gene Bukhman is a cardiology fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He's getting married this summer!
Chris Sinclair is finishing his math Ph.D. at UT Austin.
Matt Ricchetti is a graphic designer, translator, musician, and all-around great friend. He married me and Natalia!
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