Art in Progress

Rebecca and I have been in rather high gear applying to shows and spending money on postage and entry fees. Waiting to hear back from New American Paintings about whether we'll be in the next issue for our region, and we just applied for the Betty Bowen Award. We also have some shows coming up: Rebecca and I are going to be in an exhibition called pARTners at the Kirkland Arts Center in October. Both of us have a few works up now at Aron Packer Gallery in Chicago. Rebecca has her solo show at Pacini Lubel Gallery in October, and in November, I'll be in a 10-year retrospective exhibition of past members at SOIL Gallery. Busy! Oh, yes, and we're applying to the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery Competition. Submitting a "Monster" portrait - I wish I could be a fly on the wall when they see it.

VHDL for fun and humor

So... part out of following a uncertain new alter-career on the horizon, and part out of sheer need for challenge I have been taking up the programming sport of learning VHDL (known to those who are in the know as Very High-Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Definition Language). In short, a way to solve the complex problem of building the logic of integrated circuitry using a programming language. Reading a very dry text and drinking a lot of coffee. Thanks to the nice people at Symphony EDA I've been able to use a free programming environment and simulator for the language... More on VHDL for you masochists is right here

Is that a new job knocking?

You know that work has become routine when you are able to clear your desk in a few small hours then just to keep your brain awake find websites like Stuff on My Cat . It’s a bad sign. How low can I go...

Ah, the joys of a desk job.