Xamuel.com

In no particular order…
1. Having a great dream, and remembering it vividly after waking up.
2. Sharing a smile with a cute stranger.
3. Getting invited to a party.
4. Making new friends and hanging out with old ones.
5. Publishing a great article.
6. Solving a tough math exercise I’ve been stuck on.
7. Making passionate love.
8. Eating [...]

I think Glowing Face Man has long been due for a renaming; when I started the blog years ago, I had no idea how many articles I’d end up writing here, or how popular the blog would be. The new domain name is shorter, easier to remember, and a lot less likely to get [...]

Xamuel.com now has forums You can check them out here. It took a lot of work and I’m not even half finished yet. There are still a ton more features to add.
One of the main reasons for going to forums was, I was never quite satisfied with how blog comments [...]

Hello I am launching a free newsletter, in which I’ll publish some exclusive content once every month or two. I decided to do this as a way to reward my long-term readers, giving them an “inside scoop” beyond what the general public has access to, as well as providing a way [...]

I began programming when I was about nine years old, using GW-BASIC, an ancient dialect of BASIC which came with early versions of MS-DOS. One evening, my family, having never owned a computer before, found a TANDY 1000 by the dumpsters at UCSD student housing. We hauled the mystical device into our living [...]

I got my BS in mathematics from the University of Arizona, in the beautiful city of Tucson. I didn’t always think education was important, in fact when I grew up, I joined the military instead of going directly to school. I thought that a degree was just a piece of paper. Then [...]

When I was seventeen, I signed up for the U.S. Air Force. Actually, I talked to the army recruiters first. I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do with my life, but I knew I needed to fly out of the nest, and I wasn’t into university back then. When I [...]

I just finished moving the blog from Blogspot to Wordpress. I am leaving the safety of the Google sandbox for the wild world of private hosting Now, I finally have full control of the website, and I’m gonna put a lot more content on it than just articles! But don’t [...]

A few years ago, I was pathetically afraid of what other people thought about me. My biggest phobia was the fear of scrutiny. That’s why if you had walked into my office while I was watching an episode of “Urusei Yatsura”, “Great Teacher Onizuka”, “School Rumble”, or any other in a long list of anime, [...]

I haven’t written any articles for quite awhile. According to my “calendar of accomplishments”, the last article was written on the 9th. That would be my newest article, entitled “Privileged Information.” I wrote that on my girlfriend’s laptop, and the reason was that my own computer had its backlamp burn out. Thatmeans that the screen [...]