Welcome!

What can one do with their own domain? Publish irrelevant and useless information, of course! So, in this spirit, I present:

Fashion:

• How to Dress Without Looking Like a Nerd. The concept of "one non-black" enables one to dress effortlessly and yet always look presentable.
• Setting the Rolex GMT Master II. There is only one correct convention to set any watch with a twenty-four hour hand.
• Color Matching in a Nutshell. Sadly, most people have no training in color matching, and this shame is visible to the whole world---but easily rectified!

Nerd stuff:

• Keyboard Choices: Reducing Wrist Pain, and QWERTY vs. Dvorak. The Dvorak keyboard requires only 58% of the planar finger movement of a QWERTY keybord!
• Baccarat Odds. The casino odds of the Baccarat game are computed.
• Keno Odds. The casino odds of the Keno game are computed.
• Spirographs in Adobe PostScript. Spirographs provide a wonderful excuse to program in Adobe PostScript, a language that can prove surprisingly useful if you must generate graphics.
• Illuminated Fraction of the Moon. My simple Java applet shows the current phase of the Earth's moon.
• Threads in Java.Using threads in the Java programming language is easy and fun.

Automotive:

• Steering a Car or Truck. While everybody thinks that they know how to steer, it took Bobby Ore to properly extend "shuffle steering" into what is undoubtedly the best steering technique known.
• The Double-Declutching Gas-Blipping Downshift. If you're looking for something new to learn while driving, and your car or truck has a manual gearbox, then double-declutching and gas-blipping might be just the ticket (pun intended), particularly for those who are interested in racing.

Target Archery:

The archery section looks at shooting techniques, the assembly of arrows, tries to correlate scores to actual accuracy (by means of mathematical models [that are hopefully correct]), and even provides free targets that you can print.

Music:

• Understanding Musical Notes and their Notation. Musical notation is rich in historical legacy, and sometimes it's nice to pause and try to put it into simple context: We look at octave numbers, semitones, and frets on a guitar neck.

Upcoming content might include....

• Tuning a guitar (EADGCF) to minimize gratuitous memorization of chords and scales.
• Electronics for "electric" guitars.
• Choosing foods to reach a total caloric goal given a particular composition (carbohydrates/protein/fat) for weight training or other purposes.

Kleanthes Koniaris, email.