About Me

I am a Lead Software Engineer at Leidos, primarily writing Rust to build mission-critical systems. I have a deep love of small-scale farming. My wife Brooklyn & I previously ran a 13-acre hog and sheep farm in east Texas, doing direct-to-consumer meat sales. I enjoy playing crosswords and other daily word games. I love to read, learn new things, and am an avid chess player (although I'm rather poor at the game). Hunting and the outdoors hold a huge place in my heart. I am also a Third Degree Knight in the Knights of Columbus emblem Knights of Columbus (Council 9794) . I am a proud father and husband.

Recent Writing

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Signals, Saints, and Superman

My first ham radio net on the SWIARC KØUSA repeater, finding a parish in Omaha, a comics haul at Legend, and questing through MMOs with my daughters.

 [Amateur Radio] [Faith] [Family]

Prime Hunting in the Spare Cycles

Notes from between the moving boxes: a finished 321 Prime Search challenge, spare-cycle runs at AP27, Compositorial, and Cullen/Woodall primes, and looking ahead to the Perseids.

 [Mathematics] [Distributed Computing] [Astronomy]

Solving Vertex Cover Problems with Grove

A Go-first walkthrough of vertex cover modeling, LP relaxation, in-page D3 figures, and a Graphviz plotting helper—all with Grove.

 [Software] [Development] [Mathematics]

A Step Forward in Brotherhood

A meaningful night of rosaries, ceremony, fellowship, and family as I took my Third Degree exemplification with the Knights of Columbus.

 [Faith] [Knights of Columbus] [Family]

Neon Cowboys & Radio Ghosts

On Cowboix Hevvven, mid-century radio dramas, and heading back into the beautiful strangeness of Meow Wolf's Radio Tave.

 [Culture]

NOVA: s53e1 - Asteroids: Spark of Life?

On the detective work behind reconstructing early Earth-ancient rocks, zircon time capsules, impact spherule layers, hydrothermal habitats, and what a returned asteroid sample tells us about the ingredients for life.

 [Geology] [Astrobiology] [Paleontology]

NOVA: s52e19 - Operation Space Station: High-Risk Build

 [Science]
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