Welcome to Karl's web site.
You can contact me
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some pictures,
or a brief biography.
If you knew me in the past, high school or college or whatever,
please drop me a line; I'd love to hear from you.
Select a topic of interest from the list below.
Thanks for stopping by.
Read a
detailed account
of our experiences raising two special needs children
that we adopted from Missouri.
At the outset we thought our biggest obstacle was his persistant ADHD,
disrupting any semblance of a normal childhood or school experience,
but the real trouble began when he started to drive.
Along with 15 years of history,
there is a
daily blog,
as we try to bring these children into adulthood.
A resource for scrapbook designers.
Contains titles, quotations, song lyrics, famous speeches -
everything you need to put your page together -
except the pictures of course, you supply those.
Not what you expect from a blind guy?
Well it's my wife's website; I just manage it for her.
Explore the wonderful world of
polyominoes.
I was the first to establish tilings for several of these interesting shapes.
The
MathReference project
presents 1,400 pages of advanced mathematics in a manner that is
accessible to both blind and sighted users.
I am compiling much of this material into
a book,
which should be easier to follow than the aforementioned sea of disconnected web pages.
My thoughts on Chicago Math,
as it is being taught in our local school district.
This is merely one aspect of a
troubling trend
in elementary education.
Solve and/or explore the Rubik's Cube,
and other related permutation puzzles.