This site is largely defunct and remains for historical purposes.
Once upon a time,
there was a girl who loved dogs
and wanted to fly.
That was me.
The end.
“Flight is freedom in its purest form,
To dance with the clouds which follow a storm;
To roll and glide, to wheel and spin,
To feel the joy that swells within;
To leave the earth with its troubles and fly,
And know the warmth of a clear spring sky;
Then back to earth at the end of a day,
Released from the tensions which melted away.
Should my end come while I am in flight,
Whether brightest day or darkest night;
Spare me your pity and shrug off the pain,
Secure in the knowledge that I’d do it again;
For each of us is created to die,
And within me I know,
I was born to fly.”
— Gary Claude Stoker
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Just a wishlist of different ukuleles I would like to own if money was no object
- Koaloha Red Label or Black Label Concert Ukulele w/Lr Baggs 5.0 pickup
- PIGEON TREE CUSTOM ADIRONDACK SPRUCE MACASSAR EBONY TENOR – this is a one of a kind, a real beauty
- Rebel Livingston Tenor Uke – either the spruce top or cedar top version, no longer in production, only available used
- Blackbird Clara eKoa Concert Ukulele with an Anuenue Air/Air pickup installed after the fact, strung high-G
- Asonu Tahitian Whale 4-String (tahitian stringing)
- aNueNue aNN-UC3K Bird Series Koa Concert Ukulele w/air air pickup
- Petros Custom – Cedar Top, Macasser Ebony body, with the usual polynesian inlays. Unlikely to ever own one, though. I saw one for sale at HMS once, and it was $6K. Neck and neck for most beautiful sounding and looking uke I have ever seen/heard alongside the Pigeon Tree mentioned above.
Delighted to see my recent IEEE conference paper finally show up in Google Scholar and the IEEE Digital Library. I truly believe that the next wave of innovative technology solutions will embrace Affective Computing, i.e. computing systems that understand and adapt to human emotion.
Successfully defended my dissertation: “An Experimental Design of a Foundational Framework for the Application of Affective Computing to Soaring Flight Simulation and Training”