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Articles and Essays

HarvestDowntown Church Magazine

• An Insurmountable Assignment (Pentecost 2018)
• The Hardest Commandment (Fall 2018)
• Jesus’ Reincarnations (Advent 2018-2019)
• Decimated Donation (Lent 2019)
• Rube Goldberg Machines and Domino Displays (Pentecost 2019)
• Wooden Mirrors (Ordinary 2019)
• Science’s Perspective on the Trinity (Advent 2019-2020)
• Ten Years of 10,000 Hours (Lent 2020)
• Six Degrees (and Feet) of Separation (Pentecost 2020)
• Hindsight is 20/20 (Ordinary 2020)
• The Christianity Fandom (Advent 2020-2021)
• Sacrifice or Substitution? (Lent 2021)

National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) Blog

• 3 Tips from an Engineer to Help You Write Efficiently (Nov. 2018)

The Oredigger [Colorado School of Mines Newspaper]

• Shakespeare demands royalties* (Sept. 1, 2008)
• Orediggers host block party in Golden (Sept. 8, 2008)
• Physics Dept. arrested* (Sept. 8, 2008)
• Alternative Power: Methanol Power Packs (Sept. 15, 2008)
• Must See Movies: Boxing (Sept. 15, 2008)
• Movie Review: Burn After Reading (Sept. 15, 2008)
• Truth behind Genius Juice* (Sept. 15, 2008)
• Mines Improv Theater is scripted* (Sept. 22, 2008)
• Clicking for a Reason (Sept. 29, 2008)
• Let’s do the Time Warp again (Sept. 29, 2008)
• Homecoming canceled* (Sept. 29, 2008)
• Semiconductor spin (Oct. 6, 2008)
• Must See Movies: Fractured Storylines (Oct. 6, 2008)
• School to be renamed* (Oct. 6, 2008)
• Max Payne maxes out the action (Oct. 20, 2008)
• Must See Movies: Institutionalized (Oct. 20, 2008)
• Must See Movies: Men in drag (Oct. 27, 2008)
• Senior design project under fire* (Oct. 27, 2008)
• A Cool Way to Detect Neutrinos (Nov. 3, 2008)
• Must See Movies: Leaders to Emulate (Nov. 3, 2008)
• Assembling nanoparticles without oxides (Nov. 10, 2008)
• Must See Movies: Self-Aware (Nov. 10, 2008)
• Mines Little Theater to produce Cats* (Nov. 10, 2008)
• Movie Review: Quantum of Solace (Nov. 17, 2008)
• Must See Movies: War Camps (Nov. 17, 2008)
• Registrar successfully registers students* (Nov. 17, 2008)
• Campus Benefactors: George R. Brown (Dec. 1, 2008)
• Must See Movies: Director/Actor Pairs (Dec. 1, 2008)
• Are undergrads prepared for Grad School? (Dec. 1, 2008)
• Mines cancels Christmas* (Dec. 1, 2008)
• Must See Movies: Better Sequels (Jan. 19, 2009)
• Must See Movies: Racism (Jan. 26, 2009)
• Concert Review: The Swingle Singers, Bach to Beatles (Jan. 26, 2009)
• Telegram shows poor grammar* (Jan. 26, 2009)
• Must See Movies: Foreign Films (Feb. 2, 2009)
• Must See Movies: Romantic Comedies (Feb. 9, 2009)
• Career Fair to be the most funnest ever…est* (Feb. 9, 2009)
• Must See Movies: Better Remakes (Feb. 16, 2009)
• Geek of the Weak: Isaac Newton* (Feb. 16, 2009)
• Fighting global warming with lasers (Feb. 23, 2009)
• Must See Movies: Silent films (Feb. 23, 2009)
• Must See Movies: Behind the scenes (Mar. 2, 2009)
• Mysterious hit and run* (Mar. 2, 2009)
• Must See Movies: Detective (Mar. 16, 2009)
• Movie Review: Watchmen (Mar. 16, 2009)
• Faculty Spotlight: Dr. John Berger (Mar. 16, 2009)
• The deadly folding chair* (Mar. 16, 2009)
• Must See Movies: Mindbenders (Mar. 23, 2009)
• Hoodies cause emo* (Mar. 23, 2009)
• Student pays attention for an entire class* (Apr. 6, 2009)
• Bank robbers unemployed* (Apr. 6, 2009)
• Club Spotlight: Anime Club* (Apr. 6, 2009)
• Must See Movies: Best movies ever* (Apr. 6, 2009)
• Commercials to be exiled* (Apr. 6, 2009)
• Must See Movies: The Top Three (Apr. 13, 2009)
• Must See Movies: Westerns (Apr. 20, 2009)
• Must See Movies: School (Apr. 27, 2009)

*note: articles with this asterisk are satire.

Blogs

• AlabamAdventures – A personal blog detailing his life in Alabama from 2009 to 2011.

• Cinema Connections – The 400-post movie blog that eventually became the book of the same name.

Short Stories

The Right Hand – We all know the story of Jesus presented in the Bible, but do we ever think about the stories of the people who intersected with Him? What would cause the thief crucified with Him to rebuke the other criminal? This story attempts to fill in the gaps to paint a richer picture of a thief affected by Jesus’ ministry. Live reading of “The Right Hand” below (start at 1:09:00):

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• The Quotable Capering of Captain Random – The series of short stories written from 2004 to 2009 (hosted on the AlabamAdventures site).
  • Chapter I – A Mind is a terrible thing to, um . . . waste.
  • Chapter II – Blind is the Man with no Eyes
  • Chapter III – Commercial Breaks Need to be Broken
  • Chapter IV – Deletion of the Mind
  • Chapter V – Electric personality of Dr. Lighto
  • Chapter VI – Facts vs. Truth: A Fight to the Death
  • Chapter VII – G-R-A-T-U-I-T-O-U-S
  • Chapter VIII – Halve thee whirled own eh plait
  • Chapter IX – Internal Rhyme will come in Time
  • Chapter XII – Living in the 5th Dementia
  • Chapter XIII – Missing Sun
  • Chapter XX – Through the Door
  • Chapter XXII – Weapons of a Hidden Nature
• Rulers of the Waves – A forum-based Role-playing story set in the world of One Piece written in late 2006 (hosted on the AlabamAdventures site). This eventually became the base of the main character used for his first novel.
  • Chronicle 1
  • Chronicle 2
  • Chronicle 3
  • Chronicle 4
  • Chronicle 5
  • Chronicle 6
  • Chronicle 7

Poetry

PoeTidbits – a few poems written during college and shortly thereafter (hosted on the AlabamAdventures site).