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I'm a computational physicist with a weakness for weiner dogs and a strong interest in astronomy, geology, and the history of the Second World War.

Geology

Geology of the Jemez Region. My notes on my numerous rockhounding trips in the vicinity of Los Alamos, which I am turning into a book. Still under construction.

Wanderlusting. Some road trips looking at local geology. Updated from time to time.

The Online Pacific War Encyclopedia

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

And so, from the depths of my heart, I offer: The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia! The Encyclopedia is really the main reason for the existence of this web site.

Essays

Fischer Random Chess Setup

My son is a huge chess fan. Lately he has taken an interest in Fisher random chess, in which the men are set up at random on the first rank, subject to the conditions that:

• The rooks must be on opposite sides of the king. This implies that the king cannot be set up in the a or h files.
• The bishops must be on different colors.

So, with a bit of PHP programming, I present two Fisher chess setups, one for black and one for white, below:

To get a new setup, simply refresh this page.

Contact Information

I can be contacted at trollingshallows@msn.com.

And we mustn't forget ...

Boasting about one's nerdiness is the surest sign that one is a serious nerd.

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