Links

I've decided to move my links to their own page, in hopes that this will make it easier for me to update them. We'll see if I follow through on that. I last updated this on October 23rd, 2005 to fix my ISP changing their domain.

I'm sure many of my links are dead or dying, but then I've been collecting them since 1996.

Friend's Pages

• I met Atheria in eighth grade Spanish class. She now lives in Los Angeles, and just got a new job, wish her luck.
• My friend Richard from high school.
  
• I met Jim and Jennifer in high school, they weren't married at the time. Now they are, and have 4 kids.
• I met Jim in ninth grade spanish class, he sounds like he's doing great.
• I went to Penn State with Jay, .
• Our friends Marc and Melanie's page.
• We met Linda and Jens through Marc and Melanie. Check out the Garbage plate page, more than you ever wanted to know about Garbage plates.

  I go to these places almost every day, just to stay a completely wired Digerati.

  • Adequacy was the internet's most controversial site. You can still read the archives.
  • Kuro5hin, a nice little discussion forum/weblog, not as techy as /. . Read my diary!
  • Geekizoid was interesting, but is no longer.
  • Lugnet, the best place I've found for Adult Friends of Lego on the web.
  • Salon1999 has been voted one of the best ezines out there, I agree.
  • Slashdot is my second stop on the web. All the latest News for Nerds.
  • Slate is one web site that Microsoft does right.
  • Smokedot is a site running Slashcode that talks about Constitutional Rights, and consumer awareness.
  • Portal of Evil always has lists of really bad web sites. I have not made it, yet.
  • Bruno is called one the best comic strip on the web, and I haven't found a better one.
  • User Friendly can be pretty funny, a comic strip on life at an ISP.

  Weekly Stops on the Web

  I stop by these sites every week.

  • Cecil Adams is amazing, be sure to get The Straight Dope.
  • Hole City is the former TV-Hole and SportsHole, with some other holes added, updated every week.
  • Stop by X-entertainment for all your '70's and '80's toys, sitcoms and movie needs. Great nostalgia site for people of my generation.
  • HomeArts is a site with many magazine excerpts, as well as forums and chats.
  • ThriveOnline is a consumer health site with many forums and chats.
  • Be the first to spam everyone you know with a funny story from the Onion.

  Monthly Stops on the Web

  And I stop by these sites every few weeks.

  • The articles in Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine are great for an engineering graduate like me, I'm glad it's online.
  • Nerve Mag is an interesting place, though still a little buggy.
  • The Post Feminist Playground is good, too.
  • Why buy a deadtree edition of Esquire when you can get the next best thing, A Man's Life.
  • Sex and drugs and probably rock and roll, at Gray Area's Magazine.

  Motorcycle links

  I have a motorcycle, a 1974 Kawasaki Kz 400. It doesn't run, but I have the winter to remedy that.
  • New Enough has used leathers, and closeout/discounted gear. Check their prices first, it's probably cheaper than anywhere but ebay.
  • Dennis Kirk has lots and lots of stuff, I need a chain and some mirrors.
  • KZ Rider is a website for riders of the Kawasaki Kz family of motorcycles, of which I hope to become one real soon now.

  Gaming links

  I play a fair amount of computer games, but I find myself coming back to well designed, turn oriented strategy games. My three favorite are Capture the Flag, Sid Meier's Civilization, and Panzer General.

  • Capture the Flag is a great DOS game, based on the childhood game of Capture the Flag. It was so good I bought two copies of the registered version, so I can play against people.
  • This is a nice fan's site about Capture the Flag. I have to get my map and strategies there.
  • I am a big fans of Steve Jackson Games spending untold hours as a teenager playing Ogre, Illuminati, but most particularly Car Wars. Good to see that they prevailed over the Secret Service.
  • Sid Meier's Civilization is a true classic, and the best $2.00 I ever spent at a garage sale. It's an addictive game of building a cilization from scratch to a colony on Aplha Centurai, and this fan's page was the best I could find, now it's gone, I think (I don't read Swedish).
  • This link looks better for Civilization.
  • Panzer General is a DOS based strategy game based on what else, being a Panzer General in World War II. It's a nice playable game, with a feel similar to those old cardboard counters on a hexagonagal map games from Avalon Hill that I used to play. This page can start you out.

   Rochester places

  There are a lot of Rochester landmarks on the web, you might  get a small taste of what it's like to live here by viewing them (A better way is to live in a  walk-in freezer and drink Genessee beer.)

  • I live in the Upper Monroe neighborhood of Monroe Avenue, in the city. It's very nice, with several bars, restaurants, the library and Y within walking distance.
  • Donna the Buffalo One of my favorite bands, from Ithaca (which is an hour and half from Rochester), though they're touring nation wide now.
  • Wegman's supermarket is what we Rochestarian's like to drag out of town visitor's to.
  • Chase Pitkin is a hardware store owned by Wegmans, they're really cool.
  • Rochester D and C The only paper in town.
  • The High Falls Brewing company makes microbrewery type products at the Genessee Brewery, very drinkable (I particularly enoy the Black and Tan).
  • 91 Argyle Street, these people live a few blocks from me, though now it's called twogoons.
  • RochesterEnvironment is a clearinghouse for all sorts of environmental news in the Rochester area.

  Fun places

  • Enterzone One of my net.friends (who's also my agent) edited this ezine.
  • Grateful Dead
  • San Narcisco's Pynchon website is a good start towards understanding Pynchon, while American Science & Surplus has all sorts of cool stuff.

  Strange Places

  • Hyperborea has a nice page on Terrance McKenna.
  • What would strange be without a Tesla homepage?
  • Haven't you always wanted you own flamethrower?
  • Abrupt has strange stuff. Cereals of the Apocalypse.
  • Chickenhead is bizarre, try to find Jerry's autopsy.

  Eat, drink and be Merry

  • I'm addicted to Little Debbie's Swiss Cake roll, and they have a cool web page.
  • I'm also very fond of Saranac Brewing products, just as good as Sam Adams, but cheaper. Until I start home kegging, Saranac Pale Ale is on tap in my house.
  • We've been drinking a lot of wine lately, I sometimes start searching here.
  • And this is a great place for bargain wines.

  Useful Links

  • IRS Download those tax forms!
  • I got my handy dandy carpal fighting Lycra gloves here! I hope they're still around.
    

  Computer Links

  I find lots of cool computer links in my surfing, and I use them often.

  Portable Computing

  I love my laptop, it's a Lexmark Lexbook SE-10, which is essentially the same as an IBM Thinkpad 500.

  • This is a webpage for the Thinkpad 500.
  • Linux on the Thinkpad, I'm running Caldera Col on mine, with PCMCIA support!
  • This page is devoted to Linux on a laptop.

  UNIX/Linux/Solaris/FreeBSD/NetBSD

  I've seen the light, and become a UNIX believer. I've passed the Soalris 2.5 SA I certification test, and I've installed Caldera LINUX on my laptop so I'll never be more than a few feet from a UNIX/LINUX machine. At home I have FreeBSD 3.2 running as a Samba/print server, and am configuring my RedHat GNU/Linux 6.0 box to be my primary surfing machine. In the meantime, here are some links!

  • My most used Linux distribution is Redhat.
  • /. News for Nerds.
  • Gain an overview of the BSDs.
  • Keep informed at the Linux Gazette.
  • Be an uber-geek, learn how to make your own Beowolf cluster.
  • I run FreeBSD 3.2 at home, it has great stability, and a purer Unix bloodline than Linux, if you care about such things(I don't). Keep up to date in the BSD world with Daemon News, and learn some tricks at < a href="http://www.freebsdrocks.com/"> FreeBSD rocks.
  • If you're a Lnux newbie, there are far worse pages to try than here. The 100 Linux tipsis great.
  • My favorite UNIX platform is an UltraSparc, from Sun.
  • Here is The Unofficial Guide to Solaris 2.
  • Need help hooking up a parallel port device to your Linux box?
  • And more specific help with a Colorado Trakker for Linux.

  The Web

  Browsers

  • Netscape is my favorite browser.
  • I also use Microsoft's Internet Explorer daily.
  • Opera is a blazingly fast browser that runs on Win 3.1.
  • Arachne only requires a 8086 with 425k of RAM.

  cgi and perl programming

  I'm learning perl, specifically how it relates to cgi programming because I think it's cool.

  • CGI Made Easy is good, basic tutorial.
  • This is one, of many, CGI parsing script for web forms.
  • This is Chapter 20 in an online book about cgi programming.

  Buying computer stuff

  • CSO has great prices for most computer parts.
  • Computer Strippers prices aren't quite as good, but they have scads of NICS.
  • I bought my Pentium at Ubid.
  • I've bought hard drives and such at ebay.
  • Haggle is a virtual auction, but I've never bought anything there.
  • I've bought lots of things using Dejanews.
  • I've also bought lots of things here, at Classifieds 2000.

  Strange, different computer links

  • My first computer was a TI 99/4A, and some people still play with them.
  • You want to pretend your PC is a Mac? Here's a page on Macintosh Emulation.

  PostScript

  PostScript is my favorite Page Description Language ( I even own two Red Books).

  • A first guide to PostScript.
  • Adobe's web page, and their technical notes for developers.
  • Internet PostScript Resources.
  • Internet Font Archives.

  PCL

  There aren't a lot of PCL sites out there, but there's a lot of PCL printers out there.

  • PCL Tools is a nice site, even a few freeware tools for decomposing PCL.

  Fonts

  • Might as well start at the 900 pound gorilla, Microsoft has a page on typography.
  • Want to make your document look like a human actually touched it? Try Handwriting Fonts! Though the reason I learned to type was because my handwriting is so execrable.
  • And if you want to make your documents readable to a machine, you can start with barcode fonts.
  • Want lots of PostScript Type 1 fonts? Head over to the Internet Font Archives.

  Windows 95

  • Frank Condron's World o'Windows is full of neat stuff.
  • After reading Gerald Holmes Microsoft advocacy page, I'm rethinking my attachment to Linux.

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