Pi Day 2024

Posted on Thu 14 March 2024 in Math

Happy Pi Day 2024! Here's the video of my project to have a Raspberry Pi calculate Pi and show the digits on a scrolling LED clock display.

Watch the video here: Scrolling Pi display

I used the Spigot algorithm to generate the digits of Pi and here's more about how Spigot works

This …


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Which Side Are You On?

Posted on Thu 09 September 2021 in Preaching

The Revised Common Lectionary for Proper 19B assigns the reading Mark 8:27-38, referred to as the Confession of Peter:

Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” And they answered …


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Worship that Harms

Posted on Sat 16 May 2020 in Worship

Today protestors will gather at the NH State House for a Christian service and demand to return to large, in-person worship gatherings in their churches. Churches that closed too slowly or opened too quickly soon showed new COVID cases.

If your worship service is harming people, then God does not …


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Tracking COVID-19 with Gnuplot

Posted on Sat 11 April 2020 in Programming

See this on GitHub with data updates!

I've been wanting to visualize how cases of COVID-19 in New Hampshire are progressing. The State of New Hampshire puts out a daily updates with this information, but it's in narrative form and scattered across PDF files uploaded daily.

So, I decided to …


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Maundy Thursday Reflection

Posted on Thu 09 April 2020 in Worship

Picture: Garden of Gethsemane, 2020

Picture: Communion service with New England United Methodist Conference, Garden of Gethsemane, February 2020

"Those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint" (Isaiah 40:31).

As many …


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