by Daniel Vreeman | Mar 18, 2024 | digital life, Featured, musing
Dubbed “the ultimate instrument for the performing musician,” scores of reviews praise the Nord Stage lineup. When our family’s venerable Yamaha YDP-121 digital piano accumulated nearly as many stuck keys as working ones, I selected the Nord Stage 3...
by Daniel Vreeman | Jan 18, 2021 | digital life, Featured, musing
Many of us are working from home offices more than ever now. With a proper setup, your home office can stimulate your best work. Too often, our high tech digital lives create a tangled mess of cables, chargers, and adapters that distract and annoy. Plenty of other...
by Daniel Vreeman | Mar 23, 2019 | digital life, musing, writing
I have long professed my love of using Scrivener for writing scientific papers. Scrivener is a magnificent writing environment for academic papers once you get past the small initial learning curve. In other posts, I describe how I use a custom Scrivener template to...
by Daniel Vreeman | Feb 24, 2017 | digital life, musing, writing
It’s no secret that I have fallen in love with using Scrivener for writing scientific papers. Scrivener is a magnificent writing environment for academic papers once you get past the small initial learning curve. In my prior post, I described how I use a custom...
by Daniel Vreeman | Sep 25, 2016 | digital life, musing
After my beloved Lexus LS met an untimely death this summer, I got a new ride. Meet the gorgeous Audi A7 (Prestige Trim). Hello black beauty. The Audi is sweet, but there was one big problem. The bass from the 14-speaker Bose surround sound system is...
by Daniel Vreeman | Feb 26, 2015 | digital life, Featured, musing, writing
As an academic, I spend a lot of time writing. Switching to a Mac was one of the best productivity hacks of my life. But there has always been this one nagging problem: Microsoft Word. I loathe Microsoft Word. Especially the Mac version. Word has many flaws, but the...
