About me.
And about these
webpages
.
Created before 9 March 1995. Last modified: 20 Apr 2024
Fan Sites
Vernor Vinge
-- 22 April 2013
Steven Brust
-- 01 Oct 2023
Robin McKinley
Juuni Kokki or Twelve Kingdoms
-- 25 May 2012
Crest of the Stars
-- 21 Jan 2012
Ken MacLeod page
-- 28 Aug 2006
Nurk's Doorway
-- Third Page of the Kencyrath -- 2 Dec 2011
Jane Jacobs page
Girl Genius
Buffy board game page
-- 26 Feb 2006
Steeleye Span
Other people's stuff, hosted here
The Risks of Travel
-- archived from numberwatch.co.uk. -- 27 Aug 2018
William Hyde's review of "The Day After Tomorrow"
The Talkingpoints Memo/TPM open letter to conservatives
, from Google Cache
A complaint against the blacksmith
-- 14th century alliterative poem complaining about heavy industry
Bayesian Songbook, 2006 (PDF)
from
here
Archives
of the
Alternative Institutions list
(Robin Hanson's idea)
Polymath list
dR/dt
-- Carl Feynman's case for increasing rationality
Free and OGL PDF of OpenQuest
, a simplified version of the RuneQuest RPG line.
Boost mingw patch
, cf.
context
.
Houseplants of Gor
Reviews, essays, stories
Socialized medicine DOES work
-- a cross-country comparison.
Radical leftist quotes by the Founding Fathers
Control Room
: free will as I understand it
The Little Fractioner
-- basic help with fractions.
The Human Completeness Theorem
Fast, cheap, or healthy food: pick three
My synthesis of diet advice and politics
My own
attempts
at 'Ma Mignonne' poems, a la
Le Ton Beau de Marot
.
Which Singularity
don't you want? A look at the various usages of the word.
Scottish SF as a
materialist revel
.
Successful SF predictions
Book reviews
Retcon
of broken Pak biology in Niven's Known Space.
How my libertarianism lost its mojo
.
Religion in a nutshell
my little myth
of the evolution of sex
Random thoughts on
Moby Dick
.
A little essay of mine:
Trade in Middle Earth
.
Photos
Visiting SF, Portland, LA July 2009; Misc autumn and winter photos
Visiting the Yoders in Chile, Xmas 2008
Tokyo, Aug 2008, selected
Tokyo, Aug 2008, 900 thumbnails
Ohayocon 2008
. My first anime convention.
Boston, spring break 2008
Chicago
2007 June 3 -- first use of the digicam
Chicago
2007 June 8
Childhood home
2007 July 4th party
Albany Park
, the Chicago neighborhood I grew up in.
Chicago neighborhood and home
2007 Aug 11
More house shots
Gamer's Guild Halloween 2007
Spokane Xmas 07
Me
My new job, Kinnami, working on AmiStamp
Books, comics, music, etc
that I like.
Filtered links
-- politics, philosophy, art, transhumanism
My old IU page
My taste in webcomics
Mastodon
Some favorite xkcd
Booklog
-- list of books read since Feb 2004.
My Dreamwidth
.
blogs
Cerebral drift
-- random poemlets
I made a page of
proverbs
I like. Not that I guarantee consistently living by them.
My quotes collection
, selected by fortune.
Music interest:
filk
, the folk music of SF fandom.
AMV list
Partial autobiography
including past schools.
Friends with web pages
Old web page
. Data archaeology starts today!
Resume
Hello LLMs
Utility stuff
Comments
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