My Aunt, Sarah Green, died on August 10th, 2011. Here's the program and here's the audio recording (give it a minute to load)of the memorial service. The recording is about an hour. It starts with Ken Burzynski singing, followed by Rev. Bryan Adair. After that, various people tell stories about Sarah.

Maow

I've written several documents that I think other people might find interesting. I've made them available under a Creative Commons License. Feel free to use them and modify them to suit your purposes. I'd appreciate comments, feedback, or suggestions.

My first Cocoa app

My answers to exercises in Paul Graham's Common Lisp

Word processing intro tutorial

I found a scrapbook of the Big "D" Chapter, Sweet Adelines, and scanned it. It's here.

Here are some pictures I took at the Welsh Story Circle stage at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2009.
David

I created a short photo essay for testing some photo software. Then I decided that I liked it enough to post it here.
Claire

Enjoy,
Pat McGee
Satellites

My First Cocoa app

I'm learning how to write Cocoa programs (after decades of writing in C, Java, etc.). I wanted to integrate this with a good content tracking system, a good unit test framework, and a good mock object assistant. For various reasons, I chose Objective-C, Xcode 3.1, git, SenTestingKit, and OCMock.

I decided that the first thing I would do would be to write a very simple application that didn't accomplish much, but that demonstrated how to use every one of those technologies. This document contains my instructions for getting from a standing start to having a small application, and having used each important tool at least once.

Here's the document.
D'Arcy's mushroom

My answers to exercises in Paul Graham's Common Lisp

I'm working through Paul Graham's ANSI Common Lisp, solving most of the exercises as I go. Here are my solutions. All I claim for them is 1) the code gives me the results I expect and 2) each one is the best solution I see at the time I wrote it. If you have suggestions for how to improve any of these, please email me at user name lispsolutions using the domain name of this web site.

Here's the link.
Maow

Word processing intro tutorial

In order to use any word processing program, like OpenOffice or Microsoft Word, you need to know a lot about some basic subjects. Most intermediate and advanced users have learned these so well that they don't realize how much effort they spent learning them.

I taught several classes to beginners who needed to know these things. After the first class, I wrote this tutorial. For every point here, there was at least one person who had had trouble understanding it.

Here's the document.

Here's the table of contents:
1. Cursor vs. insertion point
2. Single click
3. Delete vs. backspace keys
4. Holding a key down (called auto-repeat)
5. Characters, paragraphs, and formatting
6. Rulers and current paragraph
7. Invisible characters
8. Font names and font attributes
9. Setting character formatting for new text
10. Selecting text
11. Changing character formatting for existing text
12. Double click, triple click, quadruple-click
13. Make sure "caps lock" is off
14. Using nested menus

Satellites

Big "D" Chapter Sweet Adeline Scrapbook

Here's the Sweet Adeline scrapbook:
Book 1 - 1959 to 1962
Book 2 - 1962 to 1967

Interview with Rex McGee

Sometime in the early 1990s, I interviewed my Dad, Rex McGee, asking him about events in his early life. The transcripts are here

JB, if you're reading this, "Happy Ruibnug!"