Karl's Personal Web Site

Welcome to my web site. You can contact me here. Click here for some pictures, or a brief biography, or my time at MSU developing the first talking terminal.


Education is important, so please consider this Online High School. Or - earn a High School Diploma Online at Northgate Academy.

Complete Online Criminal Justice Certificate Training at Washington Online Learning Institute.


Select a topic of interest from the list below. Thanks for stopping by.

🔹 After programming for 40 years, I decided to try my hand at writing. Science For Everyone is a book for the curious, and for those who want to know how science affects current events. Within this book, the chapter on the subconscious mind is perhaps the most important. Please read and share if you can. Then there are two science fiction novels: A Gift from the Stars, and The Angry Sun.

🔹 Take a look at Wendy's doll collection; ethnic dolls from all over the world. Bali coin statue

🔹 Identify songs by emojis. It's a fun music trivia game. Songs span almost a centurie, and several genres.

🔹 What shapes can you make out of buckyballs? Archimedian solids, domes, spheres,flowers, and more. Starball
🔹 Solve and/or explore the Rubik's Cube, and other related permutation puzzles. It's not just about solving the cube, you can create many beautiful patterns, like these from the monochrome slanted cube. cube with 4 triangular hills around the top, a solid middle, and four feet below 8 vertical ridges around

🔹 An accessible version of wordle, based on characters, not colors and graphics.

🔹 Online solitaire, based on the game known as calculation, but with more features.

🔹 Explore the wonderful world of polyominoes. I was the first to establish tilings for several of these interesting shapes. ten copies of this polyomino make a rectangle
🔹 A collection of interesting problems and puzzles in mathematics and logic for gifted high school students. grid of hexagons using 7 colors in a periodic pattern

🔹 A resource for scrapbook designers, maintained by my wife Wendy. Contains titles, quotations, song lyrics, famous speeches - everything you need to put your page together - except the pictures of course, you supply those.

🔹 The MathReference project presents 1,400 pages of advanced mathematics in a manner that is accessible to both blind and sighted users.

🔹 My own speech software for Linux, and a text based editor browser called edbrowse. Both these packages promote a command line philosophy, yet my speech software can also run in screen review mode if you prefer.

🔹 Some stories and audio recordings of my grandparents and other relatives. 🎤

🔹 Some stories and audio recordings of Wendy's grandparents and other relatives. 🎤