I’m Nathan Pralle \u2014 a husband, father, IT director, maker, musician, playwright, tuba player, organ builder, and devoted enthusiast of things that most people would describe as “a lot.” I live in north-central Iowa with my wife Yolanda (who hails from the other side of the planet and somehow ended up here, which is a story worth reading)<\/em>, our sons, and whatever foreign exchange student we’re hosting this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By day I run software systems for a global manufacturing company. By night \u2014 and on weekends, and on holidays, and during the fifteen minutes I carved out on a Tuesday \u2014 I build things. Right now that means a pipe organ. From scratch. Out of PVC pipe and 3D-printed parts and wood. Because nobody had done it that way before, which I took as an invitation rather than a warning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That’s probably the most important thing to understand about me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These pages are not exhaustive. A comprehensive account of my interests would be longer than anyone would want to read and would take me longer to write than I have left on this earth. Instead, think of this as a curated sampler \u2014 brief nibbles into the things I surround myself with, the people I love, and the projects that keep me from ever being bored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n I do not claim to be an expert in any of these fields. I claim to be deeply, stubbornly, enthusiastically interested<\/em> in them \u2014 which I’ve found is often more useful anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Welcome to the corner of the internet that is, improbably, me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So. You found me. I’m Nathan Pralle \u2014 a husband, father, IT director, maker, musician, playwright, tuba player, organ builder, and devoted enthusiast of things that most people would describe as “a lot.” I live in north-central Iowa with my wife Yolanda (who hails from the other side of the planet and somehow ended up…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanpralle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanpralle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanpralle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanpralle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanpralle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanpralle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanpralle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanpralle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\n\n\nWhat you’ll find here<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nA note on expertise<\/h2>\n\n\n\n