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PROMPT CRITICAL Series
Announcing the formal launch of the PROMPT CRITICAL music series and the release of its second collection.
UW Madison Guest Lecture
My good friend and former [Sonar Mellowship](https://archive.org/details/SonarMellowship) bandmate [Dr. David Ehrlich](https://ntp.neuroscience.wisc.edu/staff/e
Piles of Rags to Love and Cherish
[I released an album today that I've worked on for a year and a half, off-and-on.](https://holisticwellness.bandcamp.com/album/piles-of-rags-to-love-and-cherish
Anthopogenic Methane Considered More Harmful; Total Methane Budget Considered More Manageable
I'm beaming with pride today. [My brother, Benjamin, published his first first-authored peer-reviewed journal article in Nature](https://www.nature.com/articles
Pyedgeon news
Pyedgeon, my first pip package, was recently featured in a [Recurse Center Joy of Computing blog post](https://joy.recurse.com/posts/338-pyedgeon)
2017 and me
2017 was a watershed year for me. Roughly in chronological order, I:
Areas in which I'd like to explore during my career
When I was entering into graduate school in nanoscale science, I did not have very many clear career goals besides, "I'd like to perform cutting-edge research i
What I did at RC
An inexhaustive list of things I've done during my retreat at the Recurse Center: (explanatory links will be added when summary posts are finished)
Periwinkle
Sheila used a ~1:1 dilution of the Arctic Fox "Periwinkle" hair dye with conditioner to achieve this effect. I love it! My hair was so dark that it required 3 b
What Time Does the Shock Arrive at the Top of the Pipe?
During my first few days of unemployment, I wrote/mixed/mastered a quick 3-song release with 1 original (Melt Glass) and two covers (Mehmet Ali Ağca by Self Def
Recurse Center Admission!
Good news, everyone! My admission application to The Recurse Center has been accepted and I will be moving to New York City in early May to attend the Summer I
Langton's Ant in Python
I started [a new repo on github that computes the Langton's Ant cellular automata in python](https://github.com/abehmiel/Langton). For more information on Langt
Look Into the Void and See
When I made this 9-tile multimedia project a year and a half ago I never linked to it here. I used a tinkered version of Google's Deep Dream to create some medi
Optical Illusion Buttons in Python
I wrote a short python script to generate optical illusion buttons that can't be read very well unless you tilt the screen or image to a very low angle, almost
Holistic Wellness: Dispatches from the land of Wheat and Divorce
A new full-length album by Holistic Wellness is out on bandcamp. I've been working on it in fits and starts since April. Listen and grok, 7 songs of ecstatic bl
Research Update - May 2016
Hey all, I'd like to give a quick research update on things I've been working on in my professional life. I've got two papers published this year. Their abstrac
Watch "Holistic Wellness - I'm Having a Hard Time Getting Excited About Graphene Nowadays - 4/16/2016" on YouTube
Played at the bayou last Saturday and Sheila Fitzgerald captured a rad video of the last song in my set:
Paeans to Extrema
Newest 4-song EP, "Paeans to Extrema" is out now on bandcamp!
Holistic Wellness is on Spotify
Word.
Hierophanies for Goblins
I'm very pleased to announce a new four-song Holistic Wellness EP today, "Hierophanies for Goblins." For those who like hearing the same thing over and over aga
Here's a clear sign that I follow Self Defense Family a little TOO closely
I just realized this now. Compare: [This upcoming SDF 7"](https://ironpier.bandcamp.com/album/when-the-barn-caves-in-b-w-alan) and [the EP I made last month.](h
I'm Having a Great Deal of Difficulty Processing the Cruelties of our History
I wrote a new album (well, an EP, really) earlier this month, my first since Tensor Tympani in late 2012. I feel good about having proper music production tools
#DeepDream Tests: Parameters and Layers
I know this is all coming out about a week after I started seeing some of these parameter and layer tests, but I wanted to make my own, both for easy reference
I am a bad human for not updating this more often
Wow, I'm embarassed. I need to update this more, especially if I'm paying for the domain.
Honoring Marta's Memory
In 2011, my friends Marta and Dan embarked on a colossal bike tour that spanned the entirety of Asia Minor, from Turkey to Central China to raise awareness abou
Crafting a Personal Brand for Academic Professionals
Yesterday I gave a talk on UAlbany's main campus regarding an overview of personal branding strategies for academic professionals through the UAlbany FFLC (Futu
Second-to-last WCDB show Kratrock Spectacular
Wow, it has been quite some time since I've updated. I've got a lot of stuff in the works, but for now I wanted to post my penultimate Condensed Matter Order of
Tensor Tympani on Bandcamp!
CD release is coming in a few weeks! Until then, enjoy it for free online!
Communicating your research to colleagues and beyond
(Here's a blog post I wrote for the Future Faculty Leadership Council of UAlbany -- [http://uafuturefaculty.blogspot.com](http://uafuturefaculty.blogspot.com/)
Vegan Post-Hardcore Cashew Cheese
Salutations, everyone!
Tensor Tympani
Greetings all! 11:34 brings some good news your way:
New Yellow Bike
Got this puppy from the Troy Bike Rescue. A lovely ten-speed road bike with swell aluminum tires. IVERSON model. They hooked me up! One thing, though... it need
Condensed Matter Order of Magnitude Higher Power Hour 12/11/2012 & 12/18/2012
These two playlists were good ones. The first is more or less "normal-themed" and the second contains somewhat of a best-of-the-year-wrap-up and then an "apoca
Condensed Matter Order of Magnitude Higher Power Hour 12/4/2012
Here's my radio show from this past Tuesday. I called it twofer-Tuesday becasue I played some good shit in sets of two. I got a little lazy with it though. You'
Place Position in the Publication Process Powerpoint
Today I gave a seminar at CNSE at UAlbany about some basic information useful to graduate students about peer-reviewed science publication and the various tools
Grant-Writing for Graduate Students: A Recap of the FFLC's Fall Event
By Abraham Hmiel
Condensed Matter Order of Magnitude Higher Power Hour 11/27/2012
Here's my last radio show where I played DIOS by DIOS (Argentina, 2000) in its entirety and most of "The Odds" by The Evens
Condensed Matter Order of Magnitude Higher Power Hour Shows June-November
Here's a selection of some of my recorded radio shows off the WCDB archive. They're each two hours long. Have at:
Screams of Joy
Here's a link to a live Lungfish song I found on the internet today. It's "Screams of Joy" which was released on A.C.R. 1999 earlier this spring. The live versi
Crack Elbow, Confront Ableism
Last Friday, on my way to do errands and my produce-room shift at the co-op, I had a totally uncharacteristic accident on my bike and went over the handlebars a