This is my own little corner of the web. It mainly contains information about
my various hobbies as well as my academic pursuits. My hobbies include electronic
music, woodworking, photography, homebrewing, tea, and gaming.
If you are looking for my academic and professional CV/resume, or one of my papers
on Chinese history, look at the academic section of the site.
Information about my studio and music, the Serge Modular Planner, and Moog Tribute
Project can be found in the music section of the site.
Notes and information about my gaming group, our forum, and the games we play are
all found within the gaming section of the site.
Enjoy!
What's New
Due to the fact that Rex Probe over at Sound Transforms / Serge has discontinued
custom panels and has something new in the works, I *will not* be bringing the planner
back online at all at this point.
Make sure to check out the new woodends for my Xpander in the studio section.
I'm done for the season here (too cold to work in my shop) but I will be taking
orders again in Spring '08.
What's Up Lately
November 15, 2007 -
Way too long since an update here. I'm currently in graduate school at the
U of MN in Chinese History. I would not say that it is fun, but is enjoyable.
I've never read so much in my life. Most days I think that's all I do.
Look for some upcoming updates in the gaming sections and a new section on the arcade
cabinet I'm currently building.
August 2, 2006 -
I took an accelerated Chinese course this summer at the U of MN and it has been
dominating pretty much every spare moment I have so there really isn't anything
new to report! I have another couple of weeks and then things should settle
back into a more "normal" pace.
Also, Wittenberg University published my Robert Hart paper in their Asian Studies
Journal. You can find a PDF of the article in the academic section.
It's my second publication and I am quite pleased with it.
May 24, 2006 -
How the time flies. Currently, I am in the process of buying a new house,
gutting it and rebuilding it. Along side of this, I am also trying to sell
my current house and still get some music done. I've been away from writing
much music for the past couple of years and it is really nice to get going again.
May 10, 2006 -
Qwest has decided to make my life difficult. They no longer want my business
so I'm having to move the domain and email elsewhere. my old email address
that all of you have been using for over a decade is no more. From now on,
you can reach me at james@ticalun.net.
Jan 17, 2006 -
My laptop completely crapped out. Partly my fault, partly Andersen's but completely
inconvienent in any event. Andersen loves blinky lights so a couple of weeks
ago in a moment of unobserved freedom, he pushed the eject button for the DVD drive
on my laptop. Heidi turned around just in time to see him attempting to hang
from the DVD tray which by this point was hopelessly bent out of shape and broken.
I've been using it since without the drive but XP has been acting odd so I thought
it could do with a complete reinstall. I had been using an external DVD drive
via firewire and USB no problem so I tried using the Toshiba supplied image to do
a clean install. unfortunately, the restore image will *only* work with the
Toshiba internal DVD drive despite my spending the entire day to make it otherwise.
It looks like a $150 trip to eBay is in order. How do they get off charging
$150 - $200 for a refurbed laptop DVD drive? These things are like $40 for
a really good regular DVD drive! I hate laptops. Scratch that, I hate
computers. Makes me glad I'm a Chinese Historian these days.
Jan 13, 2006 -
My copy of Visual Studio 2005 finally arrived! Be looking for a complete site
overhaul as everything is given a facelift and moved to ASP.NET 2.0. Remember,
I'm a Chinese Historian, I only play a programmer on TV.