Bicycling across America - September, 1993 - Most of my twenty-third summer was spent pedaling from New Jersey to Arizona. I had a blast!
It's the Drug War, stupid - April, 2000 - Brent Baccala's article in the Washington City Paper condemned the War on Drugs, illustrated his personal experiences, and called for an anti-Drug War campaign. See also his explanation.
Personal Robotics - July 2000 - Brent Baccala expounds the possibility of a Personal Robotics revolution, paralleling the Personal Computer revolution, and it's potential to liberate mankind.
Smart Cars - August 2000 - The car of the future may run Linux.
Guardian Alert: How it works - August 2000 - Design of a simple microwave radar.
Wireless Internet - September 2000 - Decentralization should be the buzzword of freedom.
Capitalism and Christianity - October 2000 - Is capitalism an un-Christian philosophy?
On Napster - January 2001 - Napster represents a real technological advance
Christianity and democracy in Les Misérables - March 2001 - Can the majority be trusted to lead society?
Isearch Internals - August 2001 - A short technical paper with an algorithm for binary search of an index containing invalid entries
The Spirit at Thirty - Fall 2001 - Brent reflects on his recent spiritual trials
Guardian Alert - Part 2 - January 2002 - further explores the design of microwave devices
Future directions in Web Architecture - June 2002 - alternatives to HTML; caching of dynamic web sites
Philosophy of Christian Education - July 2013 - Brent applied for a teaching job, and laid out briefly what Christian education should entail
Testimony 43 - Jult 2013 - My forty-third year was plagued by failure, rejection, and a suicide attempt, but I remain on my knees begging daily for God's grace and mercy.
Conics and Quartics - solving the general fourth-order equation (920 KB)
Calculus ...and Archimedes' quadrature of the parabola (1424 KB)