Last week, I was interviewed for a public access cable news show, talking about my experiences going on tour in Asia with the UWRF Concert Choir.  Link to the show below:

blip.tv/file/2600641

The segment with me starts at around the 13-minute mark.  I mainly talk about what it was like sharing music in an international setting, so far from home.  ( Read more... )

I read Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson recently, and in honor of that literary masterpiece, I've set up a bit of a challenge for all of my nerd friends out there. See if you can decrypt the following message ( Read more... )

It's been 76 weeks since my last entry. Strange to think that I've left this journal alone that long. I won't burden it with recounting everything that's happened in the past 76 weeks; I only opened it up again because I wanted to get a thought down that's rolled around in my head many times over the past several years.

Like most people, I wrestle ( Read more... )

Just for everyone's information, I'm still alive and well, and the choir tour I'm on is now in Korea. We already finished the Beijing leg of our trip, which was just incredible. We saw all kinds of cultural landmarks, met cool people, had great Chinese food and tea basically every day, and made a lot of really cool memories. We got to Seoul, ( Read more... )

It's been a long time since I posted last, which is usually the case nowadays. I keep forgetting to keep this thing up to date. At any rate, I have some exciting news! For the next nearly two weeks, I will be on tour with the UW River Falls Concert Choir - in East Asia! We'll be travelling to Beijing, leaving tomorrow and staying there till ( Read more... )

Just stayed up till 3:30am working on an Astronomy assignment at the U of M...old habits die hard.  Why, oh why did I do it in LaTeX?... Oh well, it looks pretty cool after all my hard work.  I go home now.

Hey everyone!  It's been a while since my last entry, so I think I might just save some time and fill in what's been happening in the past few weeks, as it's really the most interesting stuff.

This past weekend I was back at Lawrence for the Trivia weekend, which is this incredibly awesome, 50-hour trivia contest run by the WLFM radio station on ( Read more... )

Think of 13 random people off the top of your head. No cheating and looking at the questions below.

1. Erik
2. Erica
3. John
4. Grandma A
5. Amber
6. Mike
7 A
8. Laura
9. Dad
10. Mom
11. Leah
12. Layne
13. Duncan

How did you meet 10?
Well, I needed 23 more chromosomes and a place to stay for about 9 months, and we just hit it off from there...

What would you do if ( Read more... )

Okay, so I know it's a cliche, but I still want to wish everyone on here a Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukkah, New Year, and all that stuff. Here's hoping that you enjoy everything in this span of time called the "Holiday Season" to the utmost, and that you get whatever presents you wanted!

Here at my house, we've had a Christmas Eve: Our church had ( Read more... )

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