I spent the past Memorial Day weekend with my girlfriend’s family in the lovely town of Burlington, Vermont. One of the highlights was a trip to the Shelburne Museum, an outdoor museum nestled amongst the Adirondack Mountains that highlights Vermont history and American Folk Art from the late 19th century. It’s a sprawling campus that […]

So earlier this week I moved from the friendly confines of Richmond, Va. up to Buffalo, New York. Just in time as the humidity of Virginia summers can be horribly unproductive for me; something I’ll try and remember when winter rolls around and I’m buried in 10 feet of “lake effect” snow. Actually the two […]

I’ve been playing around with Mathematica 6 and really enjoy it’s notebook interface, but unfortunately it’s my natural inclination to navigate using Emacs keybindings. This can be a bit frustrating because the system is complex enough without trying to undo years of habit.
Evidently this was an option in older releases but googling around didn’t yield any […]