Change Log, 1997/05/01 through 2002/07/16

Alan P. Scott

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This ain't nowhere near complete, ya know.

More recent changes

7/16/2002
Updated bookmarks and added two poems resurrected from the depths of Google's Usenet archive: "The next potted plant" and "A Resolution to Condemn."
7/3/2002
Miller's Fork, a reminiscence.
5/17/2002, 6/19/2002
Updates to my Dashboard Saviors page per drummer John Crist.
5/7/2002
A bookmark file update.
4/27/2002
An older filksong, The Spacer (for Rhysling), plus another update for "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."
4/11/2002
Fiction: Cloudhunting.
4/5/2002
Added "There was an old lady from Ghent..." and did a little more on verse copyrights.
4/4/2002
Fiction: Small Prayers, Not Often Granted. Plus a minor bookmark update.
4/2/2002
About a year's worth of Stuff I've Said.
3/27/2002
Added quotes from authors Patrick O'Leary and Candas Jane Dorsey.
2/21/2002
Updated bookmarks again.
2/9/2002
Me: Brand New Key. Dream Log: State of the Union.
1/21/2002 and 1/29/2002
Updated my résumé.
1/14/2002
New information about one of my pictures of LA graffiti. Plus minor updates to my pages on "Why Man Creates" and Lenny's (and others') Names for Bands.
12/22/2001
Massive updates to quotes (from Ballard, Carroll, Crowley, Fowler, Heinlein, Huxley, Kidman, Lepley, Munroe and Simon); also uploaded new set of bookmarks.
12/3/2001
Corrected Dartmouth from University to College in a quote from Eisenhower.
11/18/2001
Corrected a misspelling (of "Thelonius" Monk - ack!) on my page on "Writing about music..."
9/12/2001
Verse: Archimedes' Club.
8/3/2001
Added a solid cite for "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture," contributed by alert reader Mark Turner.
6/17/2001
Up to the 'f's in my desultory ongoing project of adding actual copyright dates to my poems.
6/16/2001
Added a couple of haiku - "Columns" and "Haiku Memorial Haiku."
6/15/2001
Updated bookmarks again. Corrected typo in my review of George R.R. Martin's The Armageddon Rag.
6/11/2001
Updated my reviews of James Halperin's The Truth Machine and the band No Evil Star.
5/23-25/2001
Thoroughly updated and pruned bookmarks; consolidated internal Links to reduce redundancy and add several neat self-referential links.
5/20/2001
Added not one, not two, but three Dream Logs - In the Clique, Planet of the Kind (the Optfield) and Radio Shack.
5/11/2001
Updated the "Talking about Music..." page with new information from an email correspondent. Added quotes from Iain Banks and Mildred Clingerman.
4/11/2001
Corrected attribution on a quote by Bob Dylan when prompted by reader Gregory Brian Johnson.
4/7/2001
Added a short-short story, Escalation, and fixed a half-dozen broken mailto links (oops!).
3/28/2001
Updated my bookmarks; added a bunch of weblogs since Barger dropped his list.
3/16/2001
New version of my bookmarks; minor additions to band names and miscellaneous quotes.
2/19/2001
Minimal updates to Stuff to Look For and Stuff I Found
2/7/2001
Mass fiction update: Alter[ed]natal History, Dog and Cat, and MS Found in a Spiral Groove. Pulled useless "Ring of Words" webring code from alpha fictions page.
1/26/2001
Pruned and updated my bookmarks.
1/21/2001
Corrected a Gore Vidal quote per email from one David McFadden.
12/28/2000
Updated links to No Evil Star's webpage, and Stuff I Found.
12/11/2000
A review of Heavy Metal 2000. Also updated Stuff to Look For.
12/6/2000
A poem, Marxism, a quote from Limp Bizkit(!), and a new quote of my own.
11/27/2000
Added a band name to Lenny's (and others') Names for Bands.
10/18/2000
A new Featured Photo - this one of my daughter.
09/09/2000
Updated Lenny's (and others') Names for Bands - hadn't done that since '98.
09/03/2000
Busy, busy. Added a Dream Log: Finding Della, and a Coffee Filter Rant, and updated an older piece, Semiotobiograph(e).
08/19/2000
A review of No Evil Star's second public performance.
08/11/2000
Two very short stories: "Safety in Numbers" and "Together, Apart: MS Found in a Klein Bottle."
08/01/2000
Prowled and pored over all of What I Like About You. In particular, added a link to the band No Evil Star for my buddy Tony.
07/27/2000
Admitted to myself that I wasn't going to get back to re-editing my Julian Jaynes review "Five by Five..." and pulled it off altogether.
07/26/2000
Updated Stuff to Look For and posted four reviews split off from Stuff I Found.
07/20/2000
Added a Featured Photo section. Just one shot so far.
07/02/2000
Updated my résumé.
06/19/2000
One more small revision - last one at least for awhile - to "J-E-NNI-C-A-M."
06/18/2000
Substantial revisions to "J-E-NNI-C-A-M."
06/16/2000
Added the evil song parody "J-E-NNI-C-A-M."
05/20/2000
Added short story "In Disguise" and removed extraneous webring information from my list of all fiction.
04/26/2000
Removed picture categories to free up space: Drawn (never implemented) and Tweaked (GIFs that took up too much space; never got any feedback on 'em anyway).
03/24/2000
Added a review of Pat Cadigan's Tea from an Empty Cup.
03/17/2000
Added two stories: "Mistake" (100 words) and "A Woman Left, Lonely." Also updated my quotes.
03/16/2000
Added a scurrilous limerick written years ago. Added quotes from John Crowley and quite a few from my son Daniel.
03/12/2000
Added a limerick called Limericks.
01/16/2000
Found out that my page on the quote "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture" was mentioned (though not by name) on NPR's Morning Edition, which prompted me to update that page. Also added two poems: Strange Days and an Ivan DeBlois Combe Memorial Haiku.
01/12/2000
Added the short story Ghost Factory
01/07/2000
Updated Stuff to Look For rather extensively in response to a prompt from email correspondent Christy L.
01/03/2000
Updated my Résumé and added a new Dream Log: My Dinner with Shrub. Breathed a big fat sigh of relief that Y2K hadn't wiped out all this effort.
12/31/1999
Added a review of Catherine Asaro's The Veiled Web.
12/29/1999
Added to my quotes.
12/28/1999
Changed attributions on some quotes.
12/16/1999
Added some links to What You Like About Me found while ego-surfing AltaVista.
11/1/1999
Added another fiction: MS Found in a Pneumatic Cylinder.
10/28/1999
More than a month... sad. Added new fiction: The Pocket, A Little Love Story.
9/26/1999
Added a link to a self-styled fool.
9/10/1999
Added a movie quote from the Dario Argento film Phenomena.
8/12/1999
Started trying to update some invalid HTML and add copyright dates... didn't get very far, I'm afraid.
8/11/1999
A short one: Final Conversation.
7/15/1999
Added quotes from Sam Kinison and Bruce Sterling to my quotes pages.
7/7/1999
Added Wealth, an anniversary satori.
7/4/1999
Updated Stuff to Look For and Stuff I Found
6/30/1999
Edited the First Amendment Self-Defense Kit™ slightly.
6/26/1999
Added the First Amendment Self-Defense Kit™, and located another link for What You Like About Me.
6/23/1999
Updated Bloodkin's link on What I Like About You.
6/10/1999
Substantial update to What I Like About You.
5/26/1999
Added the 100-word story "Got It In One" (oneirology recapitulates misogyny).
5/24/1999
Updated What I Like About You again - the memento mori was a little premature, and I found a couple of interesting links, including this flattering link to a song of mine.
5/12/1999
Updated What I Like About You a bit, mostly a memento mori.
4/15/1999
Revised my explanation of a Tori Amos quote, in response to an email query.
4/6/1999
Added some more of my quotes that've been sitting around in notebooks, some of 'em for years. Minor fixes to "Downsized!"
4/5/1999
Added some miscellaneous quotes, plus some specific quotes from Pat Hartley, Jet Black Factory, my wife, my son, and authors William Browning Spencer and David Foster Wallace.
4/1/1999
Added In Praise of Child Labor.
3/23/1999
Quick update to What I Like About You.
3/11/1999
Added a long-overdue review of Catherine Asaro's novel The Last Hawk, and updated reviews of her two previous books, Primary Inversion and Catch the Lightning. Also updated my rant called "Obscenities" a little based on some positive feedback.
3/9/1999
Came up with new fiction Lucky.
3/8/1999
The resurgence or reassertion of primacy (or so I gathered) of the talk.bizarre 'Web Directory caused me to change my link to the short-lived Talk.Bizarre Web Page Thing.
3/6/1999
Added my reminiscence about "The Cross in the Stairwell" to my memory page.
3/3/1999
Added a link to the Talk.Bizarre Web Page Thing to What I Like About You.
2/19/1999
Updated and verified all external links (even added a few!) on What I Like About You. Tweaked my reflection on Why Green on Black? and considered but rejected taking the time to turn it into a full-blown rant on web design.
2/14/1999
Added an old published review of George R.R. Martin's The Armageddon Rag from 1985, and more tweaks to the Dashboard Saviors' page.
2/1/1999
Updated Stuff to Look For, something I hadn't done in awhile, and did some more updating of my page on the Dashboard Saviors.
1/31/1999
Added a new 100-word Dream Log: Rumble to the Whimsies.
1/29/1999
Updated my page on the members of the Dashboard Saviors with new information supplied by email correspondent Jonathan W. Spencer.
12/30/1998
Created a new filter called "Marketing Genius" for my humorous fictional product announcements; this filter subsumes the old JPCA filter and links within it.
12/21/1998
Opened up my Pacific Northwest Picture Pack, a gallery of 66 photographs of the Pacific Northwest culled from four years of residence.
11/30/1998
Added a review of J. Gregory Keyes' Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps (sf novel; Babylon 5 media tie-in)
11/21/1998
Updated some links in "What You Like About Me" per email received.
11/19/1998
Located some interesting information about the basis of my page called "Ping Pong," and added it to a subsidiary page.
11/1/1998
Added some humor: "Deep Discounts on Selected Children's Books"
10/26/1998
Added new short fiction: "Word Power."
10/15/1998
Added quotes from a variety of people - John Crowley, Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, et al.
10/14/1998
Updated graphics directory structure and my Tweaked graphics page to match.
10/5/1998
Found a Web citation for my page on the quote "Talking about music..." at The Austin Chronicle, and took the opportunity to update my links page.
09/30/1998
Some Stuff I Found. Also added a picture to my main, mostly unseen index page.
09/24/1998
More Stuff to Look For
09/23/1998
Added the Alternative Jehovahs story Downsized!, my loose sequel to The Day Begins at Midnight
09/20/1998
Updated Stuff to Look For.
08/29/1998
The Ring of Words, of which I'm a member, has changed owners; updated my alphabetical list of fiction with links to it and verified that they functioned.
08/28/1998
Pulled my article "Five By Five: Mathematical Mechanisms for Consciousness" off for revision after reading Tor Nørretranders' The User Illusion.
08/14/1998
New fiction: Elegy, stylistically inspired by the talk.bizarre regular billbill.
07/08/1998
Found the official page for Bloodkin, and added it to my page on The Wreck and to What I Like About You.
07/07/1998
Updated my page on the band The Wreck with scanned graphics and new information regarding its members' current projects. Updated What I Like About You, too.
06/19/1998
Updated my page about the quote "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.".
06/18/1998
Added lyrics to Children Again and I Walk Away. Updated Stuff to Look For, and added a whole new section.
06/17/1998
Updated guitar tablatures and format of Suicidal Dawg and Sword of Damocles. Added a line to Lenny's Names for Bands.
06/05/1998
Did some tweaking to pretty up yesterday's work (below); added some items to my quotes and Lenny's Names for Bands.
06/04/1998
Added a page for Miscellaneous, Unattributed and Inadequately-Attributed Quotes to my quotes section, "Yeah, What She Said", and updated the rest of that section with links to it. Mostly this was in response to new attribution information about the quote "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture." And, in response to feedback about "Five by Five," my review of Julian Jaynes' The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind and several other books, I added a link to and acknowledgement of opposing viewpoints.
05/13/1998
Added this site to the Writers' Realm webring; updated Fictions page with links to that ring.
05/01/1998
Small changes to Lenny's Names for Bands and My Quotes. Added quote from Texas judge Larry Gist.
04/30/1998
Added another quote from author Mary Doria Russell after seeing her speak at Powell's City of Books.
04/25/1998
Added a link to Ace Lightning's home page to my external links. Added quote from author Mary Doria Russell.
04/23/1998
Added items to Lenny's Names for Bands and My Quotes
04/17/1998
Various and sundry changes and updates I've been meaning to make for awhile... too numerous to mention here.
04/16/1998
Added the humorous short story Defusing the Dictator
04/07/1998
Added a pithy saying to my quotes
04/03/1998
Ran across a surprising link to my musings on ping pong and added it to What You Like About Me.
04/01/1998
Verified and updated all the external links in What I Like About You.
03/30/1998
Added fiction, LEX, and a poem, DIXON TICONDEROGA 1388 - 2 SOFT
03/25/1998
Added a review of Jon Katz, Virtuous Reality: How America Surrendered Discussion of Moral Values to Opportunists, Nitwits, And Blockheads Like William Bennett (nonfiction)
03/15/1998
Cross-referenced the JPCA collection and Superheroes' Clothes, and linked Vice Grips with Duct Tape.
03/14/1998
Added humorous verse Superheroes' Clothes.
03/10/1998
Added credit to "Annie from Canetoad" to Duct Tape for the inspiration.
03/07/1998
Added lyrics: The Idiots' Ball
03/06/1998
Added new fiction: Duct Tape (short) and Gardening Tips.
03/05/1998
Updated my Résumé: removed dead link to the VNA-LA home page (R.I.P.) and updated current experience.
03/04/1998
Added short story Vice Grips.
02/27/1998
Added Microsoft Christmas97(tm) Error Codes. Performed a minor makeover of muh home page.
02/24/1998
Added this change log.
02/22/1998
Updated Stuff to Look For and my résumé
02/20/1998
Added poems Solaris and Like a Deer in Headlights; added quotes from Richards, Iqbal and Stewart.
02/05/1998
Checked What I Like About You for link rot.
01/30/1998
Updated my quotes and the L.A. Graffiti photo exhibit (made it more Lynx-friendly and cross-linked with the poem Paint It Out).
01/20/1998
Added a review of Catherine Asaro's Catch the Lightning and cross-referenced with my review of Primary Inversion; added a link to her home page.
12/17/1997
Added parody song Breast Friends, a response to responses to HBO's silicone-enhanced quasi-documentary Breast Men.
12/15/1997
Corrected errors on my Dashboard Saviors page.
12/06/1997
Added short fiction Strongman vs. the Intellicrats, Installment 48: Into the Ironosphere and Jack and Jill, and the poem Jack and Any Jill.
11/30/1997
Added the faux folktale How Raccoon Got His Coat.
11/25/1997
Added editorial Why I Object to "Drugs and Alcohol" and updated my quotes.
11/06/1997
Minor updates to quotes from myself and others; added my brief encounter with William Gibson at Powell's City of Books.
11/04/1997
Added the 100-word story, Super Sunday.
10/27/1997
Edited my page on the Dashboard Saviors; updated quotes.
10/25/1997
Added talk.bizarre in-joke, When the Cabal Ran It All.
10/10/1997
Added editorial piece Obscenities.
09/25/1997
Added Quest for Debugging Fire.
09/16/1997
Updated recently-added Housekeepers in the Palace of Memory.
09/10/1997
Added Rosaline's Lament.
07/25/1997
Added a review of Catherine Asaro's Catch the Lightning. Reformatted verse: Every Mother's Son and updated links on explanation pages for "The 0th Bardo" and the Dream Log Kabuki World.
07/23/1997
Added Stuff to Look For.
07/09/1997
Added verse: Paint It Out; Scream in Shallows; Offroad Passage; Captured by the Game of Objects; and Chariots of the Gods?
07/01/1997
Updated external quotes and links.
06/13/1997
Added verse: The Dog-Eared Boy; Technillogy; Every Mother's Son and Red Bride. Updated quotes.
05/01/1997
Started keeping some sketchy records of changes; added "Happiness is a Warm Boot," my résumé, and verse: Ozymandias and the Traveller.

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