I’m a retired medical doctor having spent the majority of my career at a well-known medical center in the Midwest U.S. After leaving my practice, I ran a small iOS development firm during the early heyday of the iPhone and its App Store.

Apart from medicine and technology, music has been a huge focus over the years. I’m a pianist and focus almost exclusively on chamber music. Mostly I’ve cultivated the piano trio literature, but I have a few quartets and the occasional quintet in my repertoire.

I grew up in Louisiana, did my training in Baltimore, additional training in Minnesota and spent most of my career there. When my wife took a position at a medical center in London, Ontario, we migrated to Canada. It was right around the beginning of Trump 1.0. Friends thought we were prescient. It was just pure luck.

The writing here is all over the map. Music, philosophy, technology, politics. Whatever I feel like writing about. Although I don’t write so well, it does help me think about subjects.

Why “Ojisan Seiuchi”?

The name Ojisan Seiuchi comes from おじさんセイウチ, “Uncle Walrus” in Japanese. It is an old private joke involving the Russian names Дед Мороз (“Grandfather Frost”) and дядя морж (“Uncle Walrus”)—two phrases that sounded amusingly similar to me when I first encountered them in a childhood Russian class.

Elsewhere on the site

• Now records what currently occupies my attention.
• Toolkit - technology and related gear that I use
• Readings lists books and short fiction I have read.
• TIL collects things I have learned.
• To Learn is a list of subjects I hope to understand better.
• Gallery contains photographic collections.
• Colophon describes how this site is built and served.

Contact

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