About the Author

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Résumé

I still haven’t much to say about myself except that “I am what I am”.  Lately, I have been asked about my background, therefore I provide this link to a  résumé from 1997.

Other

If you google on “Thomas L. Wayburn”, you might find a few postings to the physics teacher’s list server, Phys-L.  To find such contributions as I may or may not have made to music one must google “Tom Wayburn” or to find the record I made with Lennie Tristano google “Tom Weyburn”, a misspelling that is par for the course in the recording industry.  (You can download some MP3 if you are interested to hear how I play.  Lennie, of course, is a genius.)  To find references to one or two of my journal articles on computational techniques in chemical engineering try “Wayburn, T. L.” or “T. L. Wayburn”.  With one or two exceptions, to find my essays on political economy one must come to this website.

Model Railroad Photos:  http://dematerialism.net/railroad.htm

Thomas L Wayburn, PhD in Chemical Engineering

Houston, Texas

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This website was designed, written, and constructed by me, Thomas Wayburn of Houston, Texas. I am responsible for its contents. Please address all correspondence to wayburn@dematerialism.net. Corrections, suggestions, and constructive criticism will be appreciated. Vituperation is acceptable too. Born March 24, 1934, Detroit, Michigan. • Redford High School Detroit 1951. • BS chemical engineering Michigan 1956. • MS mathematics NYU 1968. • PhD chemical engineering Utah 1980. • Studied jazz drummig with Lennie Tristano, Joe Morello, Philly Joe Jones, Cozy Cole, Stanley Specter. • Here is an mp3 version of the record I made with Lennie Tristano and Peter Ind when I was 22 years old. If you are interested, copy https://dematerialism.net/tristano.mp3 and paste into browser. Hack engineering, chemical process design. • Teaching chemical engineering at various levels: thermodynamics, plant design, applied mathematics. • Writing and reviewing for the peer-reviewed scientific and engineering literature, principally numerical analysis. • Software development, computational chemical engineering. • Political activism, principally anti-war and anti-growth, preaching limits to growth and advent of Peak Oil. • Computational research in energy and economics. • Internet publishing: this website • Railroad modeling and model railroad photography: https://modrr.net/. View an earlier resume: https://www.dematerialism.net/Resume97.html I am trying to complete a few of the projects I began many years ago when I thought I would live forever. These projects are spread across (i) science and the limitations it places upon rational political economy, (ii) the great art of music - especially jazz music, and (iii) the world's greatest hobby, namely, model railroading, whereby the strange, deadly beauty created as a result of industrialization can be preserved in the only places where it can do no additional harm, namely, museums - if we may include among museums the private miniaturizations found in the homes of hobbyists. A short interval of my life around 1960 is described in “Jimmy and Me”, which enjoyed special editorial treatment without having to submit to the phony peer-review system. (“Jimmy” was Jimmy Stevenson, an aspiring bass player from Detroit, who was ready to play at any time.) https://www.jazzloftproject.org/blog/general/jimmy-and-me-by-tom-wayburn A number of people who take a special interest in Chet Baker, an interest that I do not share, have asked me to tell the story of the short period in which the deservedly famous musicians Chet Baker and Philly Joe Jones lived with me in my distinguished apartment on East Twenty-First Street. I am putting this together bit by bit in https://www.jazzandclassical.net/mystory and https://www.slimwiki.com/wayburn/mystory . Tom Wayburn, drummer, vibraphonist, recording engineer; computational chemical engineer, net energy analyst; political economist, philosopher; model railroad planner, builder, photographer; computer builder, programmer, operator, and technologist; document writer, essayist (That is, from time to time I have been some of these things. I no longer have the strength to keep up with much of anything. I shall be happy to edit my writing, finish my model railroad, write up some of my experiences with music and musicians, and edit a few dozen audio tapes. I have some interesting stories to tell – at least I have been asked to tell them. Also, I still have a great deal to say that I have not committed to paper – yet.