Open Source Software:

• Traverso - Traverso is a Multitrack Audio Editor / Digital Audio Workstation. It allows non-destructive editing and mixing of audio files in different formats, on all major desktop platforms. So far, I have added many UI tweaks and improvements, and expanded read and write support to work with many audio formats, along with the initial support for mixing files of different samplerates.
• cheech - cheech is a portable, multiplayer, networked Chinese Checkers game. It lets you play chinese checkers over a network against any combination of other people or computer players. It currently runs on GNU/Linux, Windows, and probably OS X. (If you compile it on OS X, please send me a copy. :] )
• daoism - daoism is a cd writing program that lets you visually set up cd layouts for burning. It makes it easy to place track breaks in the middle of long tracks, add silences, and add partial songs. It's all WYHIWYG, so you can hear exactly what the cd will sound like before you burn it. It uses cdrdao to actually write the cds, and runs on Windows, Linux, and probably OS X.
• MythTV - MythTV is open source video recording software. Combined with a TV tuner card, it becomes something like a TiVo, but you can modify the code and there are no service fee. :] (I've contributed user interface tweaks and features to the myth frontend and web interface.)
• Gobby - Gobby is a collaborative text editor in the spirit of Hydra/SubEthaEdit, but with open source and multiplatform. It allows multiple people to edit a set of text files simultaneously. Each person can see everyone else's edits in realtime. (I've contributed small patches to this project, watch it closely, and use it a lot.)
• Collaborative VNC - I've put together a variant of TightVNC that allows for better desktop sharing. It lets everyone see everyone else's mouse pointers, and mediates control of the shared desktop.
• libnjb/gnomad - I'm one of the developers working on building an open implementation of the protocol used by the Creative Nomad Jukebox mp3 player. It's now a pretty stable project, and works very well.
• Software for the PalmOS:
  • Ben's Menus - Improves the usability of the menus on a PalmOS device.
  • BeatMatch - A dynamic metronome for the palm. Lets you measure the rate of a beat (heartbeat, music, etc.) by tapping it out.
• For lack of a better place, here are the random games and math utilities that I built for my friends and myself during high school. (A couple of them worked best on my homebrewed, tricked-out, extra-fast TI-85. Awwwwww yeah. :] )

Flying RC Planes

The Game:

I've played in 6 games:

• Amnesia
• Willy Wonka
• Megahard
• Phobik
• Overnightmare
• Justice Unlimited

And run two:

• The Zelda Game.
• The Goonies Game.

Research Interests:

• Root causes of chronic pain

  After enduring, and finally overcoming my own problems with chronic pain, I want to study the psychological pathways that keep people in chronic pain.

• Multimodal User Interfaces

  I've been playing with designing multimodal interfaces for years, and hope to help, or at least see more multimodality appear in everyday technology.

• Collaborative software/ desktop sharing

  I've been wanting for years to build a desktop system that allows multiple users to share a single desktop, such that each user has her own mouse and text cursors. This would let people truly share a single working environment. (Imagine a shared whiteboard, but expanded so that word processors, web browsers, and many other applications all allow multiple people to work on the same file at the same time.) (See Gobby and Hydra/SubEthaEdit for similar ideas on a smaller scale.)

  I've put together a patch to VNC (applies to tightvnc 1.2.9 unix source) that allows people to share multiple desktops between multiple users. It improves management of who's in control of each desktop (floor passing), and lets everyone see where everyone else's mouse pointers are.

  This is really just a prototype of a stop-gap measure, but it's fun to play with, and sort of useful on fast networks. To fully implement my grand vision of multi-user desktops, every application will need to be rewritten into something like Hydra. But in the meantime, I think that a tool similar to my VNC patch could allow for pretty decent application and desktop sharing. I envision something like this being used by a group of people so that everyone can see all the open applications, and can see what is being done in each one in real-time, and the limitation that only one user at a time can control each application is minimized with smooth control-passing.

Other Projects:

• Building this website. (Ceci n'est pas une website?)
• Keeping the MythTV box happy and shiny, and trying to improve its UI.
• Figuring out how to build an audio line-in jack into a stock Subaru stereo. Hint: it seems to involve 5 of the pins of the proprietary CD jack on the back of the stereo box.
• Building a multicolored ultrabright LED grid that undulates and flashes to the beat of whatever music you feed to it. Then shine the whole thing at a mirror-ball to show off at parties.
• Designing and building Homer the shadow-fearing, fridge-loving Robot.
• Building a little indoor fountain.