Create a version where each of the reflected lines is slightly off. Introduce random tiny errors to break the symmetry.

My ongoing booklists.

Learning how to display a Google map, with the Google Maps API.

Another version of this looper, with more changes and improvements.

Symmetry Looper with varying line width.

I am tracking down information on this unusual screwdriver.

Like the other symmetry loopers, except the four panels start with the same initial data. The script behind each panel is slightly different, resulting in different drawings.

More experiments with the Symmetry Looper.

Large single-canvas Symmetry Looper.

Draws four canvases with two-fold rotational symmetry, in black and white, continuously.

Draws four canvases with horizontal bilateral symmetry, in black and white, continuously.

Draws four canvases with vertical bilateral symmetry, in black and white, continuously.

A little test of some ideas regarding the javascript Date object.

Handling dates and times in javascript.

Using the Random Roadways script to build Random Racetracks.

Using the Random Roadways script to make mazes.

I adapted the Fittings script to draw random Roadways.

Side-by-side comparison of two kinds of symmetry.

Here is some information about how the Rotational Symmetry Looper works.

Draws four canvases with rotational symmetry, in four colors, continuously. From 2016.

Draws four canvases with rotational symmetry, in black, white, or gray, continuously. From 2016.

Draws four canvases with rotational symmetry, in one color, continuously. From 2016.

This randomly-curved line is the basis for many of my random art programs.

Counting tree species in our little woods.

Yvonne Craig was 78 years old.

Some good ideas need to spread person-to-person, slowing their diffusion. Interesting article from The New Yorker.

Down by the beaver pond.

Herded into homes, fireplaces and cairns everywhere.

I’m so over denominators.

Interesting article about Reading (and writing) difficult fiction.

I’ve been a climate alarmist for almost two decades.

Book 11 for the year.

Enjoyed this movie very much.

Great compilation.

Totally addictive song, I’ve played it over and over and over.

Workbooks that go with Basic Readers in elementary school.

Our cat controls us, too.

Set of pictures from our house and yard in Summer 2015.

He’s back again, munching our grass.

Mmmm mmmm good!

Mom, Ricky and Jimmy just finished a 1000 piece puzzle this week.

Images from 4.6 billion miles away.

Beautiful work.

I’m a climate “alarmist” and it is good to see reputable scientists agree with me.

I was cutting the backyard grass and there it was, hiding in the tall weeds.

A version of Conway’s LIFE program in JavaScript, with a wrap-around world topology.

Why is someone posting Kurt Vonnegut graffiti around Richmond?

Before and after pictures of Ricky’s latest haircut.

An important day in American history.

You won’t see this in the big city!

Rev. Charles Moore, a retired United Methodist minister from Grand Saline, Texas, set himself on fire and died to protest continuing racism in America.

Comet lander gets some sun!

At the Flying Squirrels baseball game, with the RVA Aphasia Group.

Where some of our spellings and pronunciations come from.

Scenes in our little woods and swamp.

This is not the first time, either!

Scenes in our woods and swamp.

Scenes around our house and yard

Cows are pretty playful and bright!

Article from The Nation details Anthony Russo’s role in exposing CIA torture programs and the misuse of intelligence in the Vietnam War era.

Second set of pictures from our house and yard in Spring 2015. Mostly flowers.

Rumble.

Mathematician in A Beautiful Mind.

Mom, Ricky, and I went to the Virginia Museum exhibit on flower painting.

I wrote a version of Conway’s LIFE program in JavaScript in May, 2015.

A larger version of my script that randomly joins pipe fittings, with a slightly different algorithm.

A collection of short stories by the writer from UVa who committed suicide in 1979.

Scenes in our woods and swamp.

A script that randomly joins pipe fittings.

No wonder the fossil fuel companies are so profitable.

Highlights the new way of doing science.

We picked up a few boxes of books for Mom’s bookstore.

Excellent dialogue on Natural Philosophy from about 1770.

Mom, Mary Ann Allen, back when she and Dad were dating.

Another random number art program based on the Reflective Symmetry Looper.

Fuligo septica, also called “dog vomit slime mold.”

Ricky and I went walking this morning at Belle Island.

It’s just a bad dream, Descartes.

Scenes in our woods and swamp.

Same people can be counted on every time to spew hate. Wonder why?

“When suddenly, the big monster lifted our brick from its place…”

Ricky bought all five years of it.

Must go soon!

Ricky and I walked at Pole Green Park on May 3, 2015.

Slideshow from Ricky and I walking in Pole Green Park April 1 and 12, and May 3, 2015.

Pictures taken around our house and yard, during Spring 2015.

Scenes in our woods and swamp.

Boy, ain’t that the truth!

Pareidolia is the visual form of apophenia, which is the perception of patterns within random data.

Scenes in our little woods and swamp.

What would you say? Would you do things differently?

Calvin is not Calvin?

Short and amusing. Lessons on how best to mooch off of people.

Wish I’d taken lots more.

Our first snake of the year! Surprised to see it on the porch this morning!

Here is some information about how the Reflective Symmetry Looper works.

Ricky and Jimmy at Galaxy Diner in Carytown today.

Is this Leonard Nimoy in a 1979 bank ad? Or just a look-alike?

An eponymous term based on Hank Kimball on Green Acres.

Sliding Puzzle from 2006, written for Javascript Workbench.

I wrote a stopwatch program for Javascript Workbench back in 2001.

Draws four canvases with reflective symmetry, in four random colors, continuously. From 2012.

Draws four canvases with reflective symmetry, in black and white, continuously.

Draws four canvases with reflective symmetry, in one color, continuously. From 2012.

Using the computer to create random moiré patterns. From 2010.

Scenes in our little woods and swamp.

On the intro to Deep Space Nine, there is a face on the comet.

The tipping points on global warming – ocean acidification, permafrost methane, melting ice, temperature, all will be reached before the political tipping point for saving ourselves.

I liked some parts of the writing. Keep tissues handy.

Scenes in our woods and swamp. The blueberries are just blooming!

Imagination is the greatest tool humans have. Too bad so few adults practice using it.

Pictures of our woods and swamp.

Down to the final two – Mariya Muzychuk (Ukraine) and Natalia Pogonina (Russia) play four games for all the marbles.

The idea that Indiana’s Religious Freedom law is like the law in 19 other states is false.

Scenes from our little woods and swamp.

I remember this Valleydale TV advertisement from my childhood.

Ricky and I went to see Kirsten Hazler sing and play at Carytown Cupcakes this afternoon. Great!

News Flash! – A cute ad from Liberty Insurance. One of a series.

This plastic becomes soft enough to model at 160° F, in hot water, and solidifies at room temperature.

Ricky and I had lunch at Bandito’s again!

Scenes in our woods and swamp.

A pair of wood ducks were courting in a tree in our woods.

The water is better, too!

Slideshow of the new VMFA exhibit. I hope to go!

Scenes in our woods and swamp.

Things are happening every day!

Scenes in our little woods and swamp.

Scenes in our woods and swamp.

Scenes in our woods and swamp.

A special article at BBC News.

Scenes in our woods and swamp.

I brushed up against some bushes last night, got my first tick of the year.

The robots won’t be taking over anytime soon.

Books about bullies bring back bad memories.

Well-done optical illusions involving color.

Brilliant!

Excellent book, the second book by him that I’ve read this year.

We are all Spock.

This was always one of Dad’s favorite puzzles.

Scenes around our house, woods and swamp in the snow.

We have about 6 inches of snow.

Ricky and I walked up our street and back.

Climate change deniers are making it hell for everyone.

Let the book happen to you.

Another “puzzler” Dad gave us as kids.

Like the old Descartes joke.

Walking in the snow in our woods and by the swamp.

A six inch snow.

Seems like a scam!

Low-Rye-Duh.

They are calling for 10 inches – we will see!

Been singing this since I was 4 or 5 years old!

One can only hope his truth rings widely.

One of the most important and alarming science papers to come out in several years. I’ve tried to explain this point to friends for years, that the heat itself will challenge our ability to adapt to climate change; now science backs my position.

Didn’t last long enough to accumulate.

This is a movie I always enjoy, the tension and pacing is great!

All of this quickly sold on ebay!

A beautiful and interesting project, seen at an Etsy store.

Missy closes her eyes for the camera every time.

Scenes in our woods and swamp.

I first saw these at Dixon’s Auctions in the late 90s.

Book by Raymond E. Brown and John P. Meier.

Funny philosophical cartoon.

We went to Poe’s Pub to hear Dick Butt Kiss and the Tightends.

Scenes in our little woods and swamp.

Ricky and I walked up the street and back.

A walk in our little woods.

What an excellent book in every way – powerful, well written, deeply researched, provocative and passionate. And what a sad thing that 20 years since it was published, so little has changed!

A couple boxes from an estate sale which passed through several hands ended up in my hands. One box contained printed formal invitations to weddings, luncheons and dances. I typed some of the names into Wikipedia, and discovered the Baltimore, Maryland business, political and social elite, in the period from 1890 to 1920.

A guide for the ordinary person perplexed by affirmative exclamations beginning with Y.

A poem; yeah, tell me my English is non-standard…

I posted pictures of mushrooms and fungi that sprung up after the hurricane.

The generic war story is non-biographical. The psychology of PTSD is more familiar.

The Bavarian diminutive suffix still floats around in our family’s language.

Recently, a lost child was found after five days of searching by thousands of volunteers. In addition, thousands of people prayed and feel now that their prayers were answered, and they will never be convinced otherwise, by anything. Events like this have a nearly irresistible impact, skeptics be forewarned!

My family seems to like my chicken salad, so I made this photo-essay to show how it’s done. Enjoy!

I’ve designed and coded another website developed for mobile phones.

I’ve designed and coded my first website developed for mobile phones.

Advice for a friend.

The novel Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf was an excellent read.

I’ve been attending the Lee-Davis High School home football games, and making videos for Facebook and Youtube.

This book is ethnic, racial and sexual stereotyping from beginning to end. If you like your comedy that way, go for it. I didn’t care for it.

I coded a large new website, NC Engineer, designed by Brian Hase, with overall project management by Richard Carden, for IIr Associates Inc.

I posted a set of three videos from round 4.

I coded a new website, The Sandstonian Restaurant, a website designed and managed by IIr Associates.

A chess friend announced (in 2009) that his wife was expecting a boy. We teased him about his son being exposed to chess from birth, like some sports star fathers who put balls and bats in their son’s cribs. I wrote this poem about it, December 17, 2009.

Here are limericks I wrote for the 2001 Linares chess tournament.

What else can one do but move with time’s arrow? Poem from 2006.

Poem from 2002. Transform your world with grammar!
With practice, this poem could be presented as performance art; recited with reference-fixing finger-pointing and other appropriate gestures.

A certain Dutch formula one driver was very fast, but wrecked often. As a result, he was relegated to one of the slower cars, an Arrows, when this poem was written in 2001. His son is a star today.

I’ve made hundreds of tiny animals with Fimo polymer modeling clay.

I caught a baby rat snake on our porch on Monday morning.

My fan art dedicated to Svetlana Boginskaya, from 1992.

I spent about three hours hiking around Pole Green Park yesterday, and took lots of pictures.

Seen killed on the roadside in eastern Hanover County, Virginia.

Here is an essay from 2006, written in HTML!

Some poems, rescued from obscurity to see the light of day.

A fun little bit of wordplay, for those so inclined.

Poem from 2010.

Poetry from 2007.

Poetry from 2007, dedicated to Stephen Hawking. If QED is independent of time’s direction, or time-symmetrical, then we should see black holes being undone, too. Read those Feynman diagrams going in either direction!

A notecard thought about the Renault Formula One drivers, Robert Kubica of Poland and his younger teammate, Vitaly Petrov.

A poem about our important but often overlooked inheritances.

I coded a new website, the Danville – Pittsylvania County Corridor Studies, a website designed and managed by IIr Associates.

James Schuyler is the new Virginia Chess Champion for 2011.

We lost electricity for 118 hours after hurricane Irene.

We expect heavy rain and high winds from Hurricane Irene.

We had an earthquake here yesterday, which I compare to the California quakes I have felt.

A wasp examines out Crape Myrtle blossoms.

I saved a Garter Snake who was foolishly sunning in the middle of the road.

Pictures from our visit to Pole Green Produce, including Hanover Tomatoes!

This is a list of the Philosophy courses I taught at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, 1990-91.

I’ve never seen such a pattern of squares pecked or eaten into tree bark.

Mom and I saw the Picasso exhibit at the Virginia Museum for my birthday.

A few pics of this once common local snake, now rarely seen.

Interior views. See the altar, stained glass windows, and statues.

Police procedural and psychological mystery set in contemporary Ireland, with police investigator Cassie Maddox.

Novel of late 1940s South Africa, with apartheid in the near background of a doubled fathers-and-sons tragedy, and recovery.

Resistance is futile.

Bring me more Jane Austen!

Pictures from the Father’s Day Cookout at Bill and Joseph’s house.

After five-plus years of inactivity, I am updating and modernizing my web sites. I am redesigning the look-and-feel, and re-coding almost everything.

Reposting of my online eye test from 2002.

Reposting of my online reaction time test from 2002.

Repost of an essay written for The Plantation News on November 18, 2001.

Repost of an essay written for The Plantation News.

Repost of an essay written for The Plantation News.

Repost of an essay written for The Plantation News.

Repost of an essay written for The Plantation News.

Repost of an essay written for The Plantation News.

Repost of an essay written for The Plantation News.

Repost of an essay written for The Plantation News, November 1992.

Repost of an essay written for The Plantation News on January 28, 1992.

Repost of an essay written for The Plantation News.

Repost of an essay written for The Plantation News.

Repost of an essay written for The Plantation News.

Reposted from 2002, for fans of the under-rated collarbone.

All about scratchbuilt slot cars.

I began this poem back in the ’70s; I still haven’t completed it.

A list of the web site design, scripting and coding links I use often.

Titles, links, and brief author’s comments for my poetry collections.

Links to the web sites I visit often.

Alphabetical index of content on gywh.com and related web sites.

Homepage welcome message.