Theoretical Ken

WOW! I can actually ride a unicycle fairly well, but watching this video of Kris Holm scared the CRAP out me!

I started riding unicycles in about 1978. My next door neighbor Cliff’s friends all rode unicycles, and he got his own unicycle that summer. Cliff’s sister Stephanie and I would practice riding his “wheel” when he was wasn’t using it. She then got her own unicycle, and I bought it off of her at some point. By the next summer, all of our friends either had or could ride a unicycle. Cliff and I both got really good, learning many tricks; riding backwards, riding with one foot only, spinning, up curbs, down stairs, hopping up and down, and even riding the tall “giraffe” unicycle. We all rode for years, but life goes on and there were new (career-type) skills to learn. …read more →

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My wife Michelle Dortignac, an Aerial Acrobatic Performer, debuted her newest piece titled “Buttobi” yesterday at the Zipper Factory Theater in NYC.

The show, called Above The Belt at the Zipper, is an evening of mixed aerial performances produced by aerialists Carla Cantrelle and Britt Nhi Sarah. Held several times a year at the Zipper Factory Theater on 37th street, Above the Belt always presents a diverse set of aerial performances and styles. The shows feature both veterans of the New York aerialist community as well as newcomers to the Aerial Arts.

I took a few pictures of Michelle’s performance (during her dress/tech rehearsal) which can be seen following: …read more →

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For the last year, I’ve been using a great little application to make safety back-ups of my entire hard drive. It’s called SuperDuper by Shirt-Pocket.com. If you’ve got an Apple computer, SuperDuper is a super easy way to safeguard all of your data in case of a failure of your main hard drive.

SuperDuper makes an exact copy of your entire hard drive onto another hard drive; usually an external drive connected by Firewire. (Since my computer has room for 2 hard drives, I copy to the second internal drive.) But this back up method is different than an archival back up in one important way. …read more →

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In May of 2006, my parents moved out of the house they lived in since 1974. They’ve moved to a wonderful new place called Glenn Arden in upstate NY. This picture was taken on the day that we closed on the old house, and had just left the keys in the mailbox for the new owners.

This house took good care of us all for many years. I’m sure that it will do a great job sheltering its new family.

Thank you 1380 Jonathan Lane.

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No really, Hello World. My name is Kenneth Feldman and I’d like to introduce myself.

Instead of emailing my friends and family each time I see something interesting out here on the Internet, I figured I should just make a blog.

I’ll have pictures to look at, links to interesting and useful things, answers to life’s easier questions, and news about what’s going on for Michelle and me.

It’s nice to meet you.

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