About Me

Left brain? Right brain? One brain! A certified rocket scientist, published fiction author, and musician. Analytical artistry is my game.

Spooky Classical Music for Halloween

Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in d minor is a great piece of music, and it deserves to be heard. It's become associated with Halloween as the ultimate example of spooky music mostly because it was used in all those old movies that feature...

"Musical" Wind Machines

The wind machine I'm writing about here is neither a fan nor a wind tunnel; in fact, it creates no wind at all! Instead, it is a mechanical device used as a percussion instrument in large orchestras to produce a facsimile sound of wind blowing. As we...

It's Only Rocket Science

I'm not really, really a rocket scientist, but I come close enough for most people. It should go without saying that there are some topics of math and physics (my main subjects) and other sciences that are pretty inscrutable, but it too often goes wi...

Jeff Shaumeyer

Scientist, author, & musician, I am an analytical ego living with a gestalt id. Here is a not-so-brief bio.