Change Log, 2002/09/10-present
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This ain't nowhere near complete, ya know.
- 11/9/2023
- Bookmarks shuffling—promoted a couple of active sites to Frequent Flyers and demoted one moribund blog, pending a more thorough weeding.
- 9/23/2023
- A new Dream Log: Radar's Easter Eggs
- 9/10/2023
- Added Jewellike (originally written in November 2001, when the memory was still fresh).
- 9/7/2023
- Updated Bookmarks.
- 2/9/2023
- Swapped out a decade-old MAC address lookup for a shiny new one in my Bookmarks.
- 12/6/2022
- Updated bookmark for Jason Kottke back to Frequent Flyers upon his return from sabbatical on 12/1/2022.
- 11/2/2022
- Updated bookmark for Making Light back to active status, as of Hallowe'en.
- 10/16/2022
- Added some short fiction inspired by other fictions: NOMAI.
- 9/8/2022
- Updated bookmarks for the Futility Closet and the frozen-in-time Tigers & Strawberries, and shuffled the "Kinder" section around.
- 5/11/2022
- Housekeeping. Shuffled some bookmarks around: Jason Kottke is on sabbatical, and Dark Roasted Blend's become active again. Also: no more hit counter on my front page (the script at "http://www.pacifier.com/cgi-bin/Count.cgi?df=ascott" broke), which isn't nearly as sad as knowing I'd only garnered about 112,000 page hits (including my own) since 5/21/2003.
- 3/15/2022
- Added Futility Closet to my watchlist, and—with regret—deprecated the Nielsen Haydens' Making Light.
- 2/8/2022
- More Bookmark maintenance, including the addition of Dangerous Minds to my watchlist.
- 1/23/2022
- Added Radio Paradise to the Tunage section of my Bookmarks.
- 1/7/2022
- Not a full cleanup but I did fix and/or remove some links in my Bookmarks.
- 8/26/2021
- Changed my io9 link in Bookmarks to point to Gizmodo's Latest instead.
- 5/19/2021
- Added some notes about Daniel Hutchens (R.I.P.) to my memories of The Wreck.
- 4/18/2021
- Moved Follow Me Here from Frequent Flyers to my Watch List
- 4/2/2021
- Corrected a quote from Lucius Shepard
- 1/24/2021
- Added a quote from "The Magicians" (S5:E4), in The Visual Media (Movie and TV Quotes by Title)
- 1/6/2021
- A new Dream Log: Distortion and Revenge
- 11/14/2020
- Removed a link to an author who stopped being fun
- 8/21/2020
- Shuffled around some frequent and not-so-frequent flyers on my Bookmarks page
- 7/17/2020
- Scraped and updated every link on my Bookmarks page
- 3/1/2020
- Corrected my misspelling of 1960s student activist James Simon Kunen's name
- 1/30/2020
- Further (still minor) updates to Bookmarks
- 1/18/2020
- Minor updates to Bookmarks
- 10/26/2018
- Reached back even further to add Kafkaesque from 2012, my review in fictional form of John Kessel & James Patrick Kelly's anthology Kafkaesque: Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka
- 9/24/2018
- Reached back to add The Enigma Train from 2016, my review in fictional form of China Miéville's collection Three Moments of an Explosion
- 9/22/2018
- The Man Who Liked Murakami (A Brief Pastiche), my review in fictional form of Haruki Murakami's collection The Elephant Vanishes
- 9/21/2018
- Noticed and corrected a rather embarrassing chord mistake in Cool Reception
- 9/20/2018
- A few overdue updates to my Bookmarks
- 4/5-6, 4/13/2017
- Scoured my Bookmarks, top to bottom
- 2/2/2015
- One small change to my Bookmarks
- 6/7/2014
- Added Pareidolia
- 1/1/2013
- Corrected an attribution for a quote from Lawrence Durrell, that'd I'd originally seen associated with Stephen Stills
- 12/26/2012
- Scraped and cleaned Bookmarks
- 1/5/2012
- Perhaps a Butterfly
- 12/31/2011
- Scraped and cleaned Bookmarks
- 12/8/2011
- Alan S. Memorial Haiku
- 11/8/2011
- Updated Kabuki World, and addressed linkrot in "Some things about kabuki" in response to reader email
- 10/1/2011
- Escape (50 words) and Parking Lot (100 words)
- 9/21/2011
- WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU...
- 8/24/2011
- A new Dream Log: Projector Technique
- 6/14/2011
- The Mermaid Who Could Not Swim
- 4/21/2011
- Updated SF Like Milk with an illustration
- 4/17/2011
- The Happiness of Bees
- 4/16/2011
- SF Like Milk
- 4/7/2011
- Added two poems: one, Observer Effect Memorial Burma Shave, that's been kicking around since November 2010, and then Bee Milk, composed in March during a trip on Amtrak.
- 3/3/2011
- Seriously scraped and cleaned Bookmarks, including deletion of several redundant sections
- 12/31/2010
- Finally, a source for "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."
- 9/11/2010
- A couple of poems: "if a frantic shadow loved me most" and Days' End
- 5/29/2010
- Updated and substantially reformatted Lenny's (and others') Names for Bands
- 5/25/2010
- "a gorgeous goddess girl"
- 5/6/2010
- Updated Bookmarks
- 2/17/2010
- Quietly took my Résumé offline, after 15 years
- 1/28/2010
- The Rectilians (100 words)
- 12/29/2009
- Updated Bookmarks
- 10/23/2009
- Ghost Server (100 words)
- 10/15/2009
- Lady Godiva (100 words; this one longer in the making)
- 10/8/2009
- The Host (100 words)
- 10/6/2009
- Red Planet (100 words)
- 9/27/2009
- Added Harry the Hardboiled Hypnotist in: Sweet Cessation.
- 8/19/2009
- Updated info on The Marshall University Science Fiction Society (MUSFS), Huntington WV.
- 7/17/2009
- Made a small correction to A Girl Enough, and Time.
- 7/6/2009
- Updated what i like about what you like about me upon receiving word of some very kind words.
- 7/4/2009
- A major update with solid new information about "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."
- 6/17/2009
- Updated My Definitions
- 5/15/2009
- Updated Bookmarks after several months
- 5/8/2009
- A new band name, Army of Nutria, for Lenny's (and others') Names for Bands
- 5/4/2009
- A couple of new quotes from "peacethruignorance" and John Rogers, both from the Net
- 3/30/2009
- A brief new poem, "how lonely lies the grain of sand"
- 3/28/2009
- Updated My Quotes
- 3/14/2009
- Updated The Evolution of Everything with a quote from Iain M. Banks
- 3/5/2009
- Came up with a new band name, Noisemaking Faces, for my list of Lenny's (and others') Names for Bands
- 2/14/2009
- Could not resist updating my Bookmarks again
- 2/7/2009
- Added a review of Jack O'Connell, Word Made Flesh (sf novel) and updated structure of Rants, Grunts and Squeaks
- 1/28/2009
- Cleared link rot from "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."
- 1/25/2009
- A new filter for La Crème - the ones I love
- 1/22/2009
- My fiction gets listed in the Web Fiction Guide (online novels, reviews)
- 12/27, 12/29/2008, 1/1/2009
- Added (and subsequently tweaked) a short story, C-Anchor
- 11/16/2008
- Added an older dream, Atomic Cakes
- 11/8/2008
- Updated my little rant about a line in the Tori Amos song "Precious Things"
- 7/9/2008
- Bookmarks updated.
- 6/7/2008
- Review: Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union (sf novel)
- 5/14, 5/29/2008
- A Girl Enough, and Time.
- 5/2/2008
- The Meretricious Sun.
- 3/15/2008
- Updated offsite podcast links for three 100-word stories: Arachne, Feng Shui and Hallowed.
- 3/14/2008
- Bookmarks updated.
- 2/18-19/2008
- Updated Stuff to Look For (and Stuff I Found).
- 2/7/2008
- Several new poems: Leeches, Locomotive Fireplace, My Poem Is a Club, Note in an Orange Envelope on Civilization's Breakfast Table and The Quiet House.
- 1/25/2008
- War Guilt.
- 1/24/2008
- Paul Scott, Jr. (November 6, 1926-January 3, 2008): A Eulogy.
- 1/1/2008
- Bookmarks scraped and cleaned.
- 12/16/2007
- Added a quote from author Hal Duncan.
- 12/4/2007
- Added a definition for "underpause" to my quotes.
- 11/29/2007
- Updated my lyrics page with pointers to the aforementioned YouTuberation.
- 11/26/2007
- My first fumbling forays into YouTubery, for Children Again, Cool Reception and Suicidal Dawg.
- 10/4/2007
- Reflections on the Film Blade Runner: A False Claim and a True One.
- 8/23/2007
- HEHS. WVU. MU. - a message to old classmates.
- 6/6/2007
- Updated Stuff I've Said (and Might Believe).
- 5/23/2007
- Updated the article on the Marshall University Science Fiction Society (MUSFS).
- 4/7/2007
- Updated bookmarks.
- 2/4/2007
- Updated notes on the "untitled" cycle and added three 100-word stories: Arachne, Feng Shui and Hallowed.
- 1/28/2007
- Prompted by email correspondent Randall B., added some juvenilia: my "untitled" cycle from 1980 - untitled, untitled reprise, and untitled iii.
- 1/17-18/2007
- Added and updated links to Laurence Simon's 100 Word Stories Podcast site, on which you can see - and hear - some stories of mine, as well as many others.
- 1/14/2007
- Found Sloan Simpson's online resource for Athens bands at Southern Shelter and updated my pages on The Wreck and the Dashboard Saviors accordingly.
- 11/19/2006
- A short update to my Coffee Filter Rant, prompted by email.
- 9/23/2006
- A short-short story, Gravity Field.
- 8/31/2006
- Still more quotes, from Brian Aldiss, Marvin Minsky, Ander Monson, Chris Moriarty, Adlai Stevenson and Andy Warhol.
- 8/29/2006
- Added more quotes, from Jack Cady, Graham Greene, Pat Hartley again and Mark Kurlansky.
- 8/28/2006
- Added quotes by Lewis Carroll, Constance Collier, Peter Gabriel, Pat Hartley and Philip Roth. Updated What You Like About Me.
- 8/27/2006
- Reworked all 26 Quotes pages (and Quotes by Source), correcting a couple of attributions in accordance with The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and When, by Ralph Keyes.
- 8/25/2006
- Updated bookmarks, and "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.".
- 8/3/2006
- Busy day. Added reviews of the film Over the Hedge and Alastair Reynolds' sf novel Century Rain. Updated "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture." Added an article salvaged from Wikipedia's deletion process, about the erstwhile Marshall University Science Fiction Society (MUSFS) in Huntington, WV.
- 7/31/2006
- Updated bookmarks.
- 7/3/2006
- Prompted by a correpondent who wishes to remain anonymous, updated "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."
- 6/3/2006
- Updated The Wreck, adding a pointer to a new Wikipedia article on the Marshall University Science Fiction Society both there and to Withdrawals from the Memory Bank.
- 5/5/2006
- Added a couple of stories: Esprit d'Escalier and Dream Log: Initiation, the latter triggering my first alteration of Dream Logs Explained since 1997.
- 4/27/2006
- Updated bookmarks, made progress on figuring out regular expressions, and corrected a longstanding typo from Sara to Sarah Einstein - I can't believe it took me this long to notice!
- 3/19/2006
- Added a list of Unpublished Work to Fictions.
- 3/18/2006
- A minor update to Stuff to Look For (and Stuff I Found).
- 3/17/2006
- Added a bit to Paternal.
- 3/4/2006
- Updated bookmarks again.
- 2/21/2006
- Added a rant on The Evolution of Everything, tied in with the Eno review below.
- 1/14/2006
- Added a review of Brian Eno's A Year, with Swollen Appendices, and a long-overdue update to Stuff to Look For (and Stuff I Found)
- 12/23/2005
- Scraped and cleaned bookmarks.
- 11/30/2005
- Updated bookmarks again, finally.
- 11/18/2005
- Corrected attribution for a quote by, it turns out, Rich Rosen (from Usenet in 1985), rather than either Tom Potter or Andrea Lynn Leistra.
- 11/1/2005
- More - much more, though nothing definitive as yet - about "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."
- 10/15/2005
- Added I Am From...
- 8/29/2005
- Added a quote from author John Burdett.
- 8/27/2005
- Yellow.
- 8/18/2005
- Added attribution for a quote by Tom Potter (see also Andrea Lynn Leistra) from reader input.
- 5/23/2005
- Linked to an article talking about "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture." Consequently, updated What You Like about Me.
- 5/21/2005
- New band name: Neutron Wranglers.
- 4/6/2005
- Scraped and cleaned bookmarks.
- 3/18/2005
- Added Schizzmatic, a Burroughsian thing.
- 1/15-16/2005
- Updated bookmarks, added a review of Ann Charters' anthology, The Portable Sixties Reader and updated Stuff to Look For (and Stuff I Found).
- 1/14/2005
- Added uncertain sky and quotes from singer Greg Dulli, author Samuel Johnson and filmmaker John Waters.
- 1/5/2005
- My letter mentioning and defining bangorrhea was published in the Portland Oregonian's "Back Fence" column on 1/5/2005, page E2.
- 1/4/2005
- Fixed a missing word in If People Treated Cars the Way They Do Computers.
- 1/3/2005
- Updated information on Daniel Hutchens of The Wreck.
- 12/9/2004
- Added a new definition: bangorrhea.
- 11/30/2004
- Added Moving Sidewalks and Mistranslated.
- 11/28/2004
- Corrected a typo in "In Praise of Child Labor."
- 9/30/2004
- New band names: Choir Zero and Flunkmonkey.
- 9/26/2004
- Review: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (film)
- 7/16/2004
- Updated bookmarks. Added quotes from Joe Haldeman, James Howard Kunstler, C.S. Lewis, Bob MacDonald, Geoff Nicholson, Kent Rojan and William Butler Yeats.
- 6/21/2004
- Correctly corrected spelling in "In the Clique," and added a quote from Philip K. Dick.
- 6/20/2004
- Corrected spelling and tense in "In the Clique".
- 5/19/2004
- The Next Exit. Added two quotes from Robert A. Heinlein's For Us, The Living. Updated Stuff to Look For...
- 4/30/2004
- Last Gasp of the Silverfish
- 4/23/2004
- Added a quote from - it turns out - Michael Parenti.
- 4/6/2004
- Updated bookmarks.
- 3/13/2004
- Another new band name and an update for an existing one.
- 3/5/2004
- Updated my review of Matt Ruff's Set This House in Order after seeing him speak at Powell's. Some minor updates (no new info) to "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."
- 3/4/2004
- A new band name: Make Mine Kalashnikov!
- 2/26/2004
- Review: Will Ferguson, Happiness (novel) - and updated Why green on black?, incorporating a quote from the novel.
- 2/20/2004
- Updated What You Like about Me: My poem "Decoding Hammurabi" is the Grand Prize winner in William Shears' First Annual Legal Poetry Contest. Also resurrected a poem I wrote 20 years ago, "To Jan Hardy."
- 2/4/2004
- Added lyrics for Real World Blues, and a vignette, noses pressed up against the fence.
- 1/24/2004
- Bob Keeshan Memorial Haiku
- 12/30/2003
- Updated bookmarks.
- 12/10/2003
- A review of John Shirley, Crawlers (sf/horror novel)
- 11/26/2003
- Limits, a story off-the-cuff, and a small update to "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."
- 11/22/2003
- Added: Tummy Rub. Edited: Defusing the Dictator, and "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."
- 11/15/2003
- Minor update to my review of Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls, and some other little stuff
- 11/7/2003
- Updated the link for "Two-Fisted Jesus Tales," a Matt Marchese/Alan Scott joint, in What You Like About Me
- 11/3/2003
- Updated Stuff to Look For (and Stuff I Found)
- 11/1/2003
- Travelers' Advisory
- 10/25/2003
- The River High
- 9/15/2003
- A Dream Log in verse: Sympathy
- 9/11/2003
- "Dry Your Eyes, My Little Friend" (2003), a meditation on the occasion of Warren Zevon's untimely departure
- 9/2/2003
- Updated Stuff to Look For (and Stuff I Found)
- 8/14/2003
- Added a short, humorous verse: Senescence.
- 8/13/2003
- Added a couple of my own quotes.
- 8/6/2003
- Added short story The Dreaming (Masters of Morpheus).
- 7/17/2003
- Added If People Treated Cars the Way They Do Computers, an imaginary but all-too-real conversation.
- 7/16/2003
- A complete sweep through bookmarks and Stuff to Look For (and Stuff I Found).
- 7/9/2003
- Major update to Undercover Aces, with new info from one who was there.
- 5/31/2003
- Updated bookmarks.
- 5/23/2003
- A followup to a limerick of mine, "There was an old lady from Maine..."
- 5/21/2003
- Updates to my Dashboard Saviors page from one Sloan Simpson.
- 5/17/2003
- Updated résumé. Huh? No, no reason...
- 4/25/2003
- Updated bookmarks again - things keep changing.
- 4/21/2003
- Added the band name Zen Vendetta, which I really like. Added a round dozen quotes to What They Said.
- 4/12/2003
- Added Star-Spangled Bus and updated bookmarks.
- 4/2/2003
- Belated additions: a review of the movie Dark City and a Dream Log fragment, Catch the Crow, both from 2001.
- 3/29/2003
- More on "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."
- 3/15/2003
- Added a new Dream Log, Mother Zinn.
- 3/11/2003
- Added a quote from Lee Glickstein.
- 3/7/2003
- Updates to my page on The Wreck, prompted by a package from Daniel Hutchens.
- 2/24/2003
- Updated band names page entry on "Skullbrew" after email from a band in Carthage, Tennessee says they wanna use it.
- 2/23/2003
- Eminem's Career Memorial Haiku
- 2/22/2003
- Added reviews of Christopher Baldwin's comic strip "Bruno." and Matt Ruff's novel Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls, updated bookmarks and Stuff to Look For (and Stuff I Found).
- 2/17/2003
- Updated bookmarks.
- 2/16/2003
- Added quotes from Bill Bill, Berkeley Breathed, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, James "Kibo" Parry, and myself.
- 2/8/2003
- Updated Stuff to Look For...
- 2/5/2003
- Newly, and sadly, relevant: Footprints on the Moon.
- 1/26/2003
- Updated band names page entry on "God's Sequel" after email from a band in Perth, Scotland says they wanna use it.
- 1/23/2003
- Finally something creative again - added "Teenaged House Hackers" to fiction.
- 1/21/2003
- All I seem to do these days; updated bookmarks again... and Stuff to Look For (and Stuff I Found).
- 1/16/2003
- Removed outdated Poetry Ring (webring) links from Verse.
- 1/13/2003
- Updated bookmarks.
- 12/2/2002
- Another update to "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."
- 11/28/2002
- Updated bookmarks again.
- 11/20/2002
- Updated Stuff to Look For (and Stuff I Found).
- 10/18/2002
- Updated bookmarks.
- 10/10/2002
- Fiction: Shooting Stars, with Alien Glossary
- 9/16/2002
- Added Olivia's poem "O Night."
- 9/10/2002
- A bad pun: Don't Worry, He's With the Band. Also updated What You Like About Me with a link to the Massachusetts Society of Medical Assistants, who used (with permission) a couple of photos of mine to promote their October 2002 national convention.
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