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A lot of the materials I formerly had on the main web site have now moved to the blog.

Writings

About my writings

Serious stuff:

  • Population Growth and Sprawl
  • Libraries and Community

Silly stuff:

  • My favorite answering machine message
  • Another answering machine message (332K MP3)
  • Paved With Gold
  • Icons, Unite!
  • She Really Loves QuarkXPress
  • A question, to the Usenet Oracle, about the FidoNet Oracle
  • What should you do when you get play money as a gift?
  • "The 72-San Pablo bus," a poem about transit and change in the East Bay

From when I worked at ClariNet:

  • ClariNet News and Time
    "If this proposal is an April Fools joke, it's quite well done." -- Don Woods (co-creator of ADVENT and INTERCAL)

From when I was a student at U.C. Santa Cruz:

  • My introduction to the 1990 Course Review
  • Praxis of Interior Decoration: Dormitories. A course review published in 1990.
  • Some UCSC narrative evaluations
  • Indecisive Studies

From when I was a student at Hillsdale High School, San Mateo, CA:

  • "Stopping by the Typewriter on a Sultry Evening"
  • "Red Pen"
  • "Isadore and Its Man"
  • "What's a Definition": a non-chemistry story

Song lyrics

  • About my song lyrics
  • "The Times they are a-changing," a song about typography
  • Aaron Spirituals
  • "Big Slug" (a U.C. Santa Cruz school spirit song)
  • "Talking Education Blues"
  • "The Intellectual's Azures"
  • "Gonna E-Mail Myself to You"
  • "Headhunter, Headhunter"
  • "Ikea Lament"
  • Incomplete fragments of songs
  • "Roger Sage and the New York Times"