About

All these posts are written by one person. They are not about me, or my life, or the funny thing my toddler said while we were driving to the grocery store this afternoon. There are plenty of other blogs that do that; I don’t want to read them and you probably don’t either. While you will sometimes learn a little about me by reading these pages, the emphasis is clearly on other topics. Who I am is not important.

My intent with these posts is to write something worthwhile, to write something you might want to read even if you knew nothing about me or this blog. Some of these posts are about deep issues that are fundamental to the human condition: http://alamanach.com/2008/07/16/the-dispensation-of-suffering/ . Others are comparatively lighthearted, and playfully explore miscellaneous facts in a (hopefully) entertaining way: http://alamanach.com/wrong-way-corrigan-and-the-ubiquitous-floyd-bennett/ . Some are highly technical:   http://alamanach.com/second-order-differential-equations-and-dark-adaptation-in-vertebrate-photoreceptors/ , and some are outright fiction: http://alamanach.com/untitled/ . All of them, hopefully, are worth the time it would take to read them. That, in the end, is my overriding goal.

I strive for accuracy, and I also want to document/ attribute others’ works properly. I do my best to observe the intellectual property rights of others out of respect both for them and for you; I want you to be able to rely on whatever you read in these pages, and to do that, you need to know where information comes from.  If I get something wrong, I hope you will call me on it. I encourage comments both positive and negative.