OK, why does my Reed College alumni magazine always smell like rancid nuts? #publishing #printing #magazine #chemical #paper #reed #reedcollege #rancid #nuts #portland #oregon

This week I led two #jazz slow jam sessions for beginners at #ReedCollege as part of the college's community learning week called Paideia. A #SlowJam is just that, playing very slowly so that people who are new to a jam or to the tunes can get started. The first goal is listening to each other so that we can play *together*. The students were enthusiastic and successful. And my co-leader and I had an absolute blast.

#ReedCollege announces free tuition for eligible #Oregon, Washington and transfer students
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/education/reed-college-free-tuition-portland/283-5b5a565d-5e90-4b19-974b-d8dffef4e757

Lou Harrison: American composer who incorporated a lot of different world music into modern American classical. Also an early out gay man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Harrison
#reedcollege #composer #gamelan #music #lgbt #gay #+

I am foolishly considering giving a couple of talks on the basics of patent practice at my undergraduate alma mater.
#Reed #ReedCollege #Paideia

Today was the memorial for Joe Roberts who taught mathematics at #ReedCollege for 62 years. Joe died last month, 9 days short of his 100th birthday. I took first semester freshman math (algebraic basis for the real numbers) from Joe and decided to be a math major. Joe was also the first person to teach me how to juggle.

The memorial was very nice with family and friends reading poems that Joe loved and poems that Joe wrote, interspersed with a few details of his life well lived.
#mathstodon

Some more about me: #juggling. I learned to #juggle in my year off from college. When I returned to #ReedCollege , juggling was a PE class and I signed up. After I graduated I started teaching that juggling class. In 1992 I founded the #PortlandJugglingFestival with much help from my friends. Around that time, I was also tapped to staff a new juggling space at the #OregonCountryFair. I have taught thousands of people to juggle, or taught them a new trick, or a new prop. Juggling changed my life.