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A mental exercise site originally developed in Java. Currently dormant while effort is devoted to re-implementing it as a Web & Prolog operation, to be titled Mental Agility.

Strong Brain Blog

A companion to Strong Brain, providing articles culled from the media. Also currently dormant.

Books

  • Model Theory for Modal Logic, Springer Netherlands, 1978
  • Speaking Pascal, Hayden, 1981
  • Prolog and Expert Systems, McGraw-Hill, 1991
  • A novel (near completion) and several short stories in progress
  • In the Physical World

  • I volunteer weekly at More Than Words, a pair of bookstores providing paths forward for young people who have come from difficult situations.
  • I took up classes in modern dance (Modern 55+) in the fall of 2023 for the first time in my life. My body still tells me all about it. I've extended that to Folk Dance, Waltzing and Swing.
  • I'm in the process of recovering decades-old lost piano skills on an electronic keyboard. I can sort of play the Handel/Halvorsen Passacaglia, inspired by Gamazda's rendition.
  • I like walking in the city and hiking with friends in places in the Boston region like The Fells, Blue Hills, Worlds End, Walden Pond, and Fresh Pond.
  • I made a trip to Vienna at the end of summer 2024 and hope to travel to Germany, France and Japan next year.
  • I am a big fan of the pianists Gamazda and Jarrett.
  • Cool Stuff

  • Western line dancing
  • The Great Wave - Katsushika Hokusai
  • Breton line dancing
  • Gamazda piano cover of Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
  • Scottish Legend by Amy Beach
  • Casque d'Or Waltz Sequence
  • Pine Top's Boogie Woogie with dancers
  • Eugene Delacroix - Liberty Leading The People
  • Musikverein - Keith Jarrett [Extract from Vienna Concert, 1991]
  • To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This - Mandy Len Catron
    [Also: The 36 Questions That Lead to Love]
  • Keith Jarrett Solo Concert at Budokan 1978
  • Spirited Away - Hayao Miyazaki
  • Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - J.S. Bach
  • Two Rivers by Larry Unger, with Audrey Knuth
  • Deborah Henson-Conant - The Nightingale