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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
  • The Buffy Becoming Fanfic Archive
  • 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

    -xx- Damien R. Sullivan X-) phoenix at ugcs.caltech dot edu

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