The Kosmala Blog

Here are 2 new family members:

This is Cassie at the top and

This is Timo at right

Aren’t they cute!!

Rest assured dear shoppers, your dreams are about to be fulfilled. Tesco is coming to town! WalMart is shaking in its boots at the prospect of the Brit grocery giant entering the US market, but hardened shoppers are seeing the horizons of supermarket purgatory brighten with a new promise. Visions of small stores, maneuverable carts, focussed selections, an emphasis on natural products, like sugar plums are dancing in heads. And all to happen within the month, in time for the Yuletide season. Don’t tell me you did not believe in Santa Claus. Shame on you!

So today’s Kosmala goes by the name of Peter Kosmala. Amazingly, he is related to us! OK, he’s our brother, so we kind of already know him, but he’s a Kosmala none the less!

Pete works in the interesting field of privacy, and recently he did an interview with a public radio station in California. You can give a listen here:

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They even said Kosmala correctly, and for some reason played some music from the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack.

Seeing as this blog is called Kosmala, and that we’re but one family of Kosmalas, I thought it might be nice to acknowledge all the other Kosmalas out there. Back in the olden days, before the advent of the Internet, we didn’t really know that there were any other Kosmalas out there. (It’s not a particularly common name; in fact it rates as the 37,623th most common name in the U.S. — not quite as common as Kotlowski, but a little more common than Kosky.)

One day, though, in the early 90’s, I came across a picture in a BMX magazine of a guy called Jeff Kosmala, which I thought was pretty cool. Hey, look, another Kosmala, I thought. I wonder how many are out there…

Then the Internet arrived.

Today’s Kosmala on the Web is Witold Kosmala, who is a professor of mathematics at Appalachian State University in North Carolina. Witold has the distinction of being the most highly Google-ranked individual Kosmala on the web (as of today, anyway). He teaches calculus and real analysis and apparently is a tough but generally well-liked professor. He has published several mathematics books that are used in courses at Iowa State University, Montana State University, and Wayne State University, among others. In addition to his mathematical pursuits, Witold is a professional ski instructor, and recently completed a workshop allowing him to train ski school instructors. And, being multi-talented (not unusual for Kosmalas, of course), he plays violin in local ensembles. He is married to Vanessa Kosmala and is son of Jerzy Kosmala.