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Correspondence Index, 1999
In 1999, I corresponded a lot with a friend. Partly for fun, and partly to satisfy my inner demons, I created an index of topics that my letters to her covered.
1
- 100 Bones Examined
- benefits of cystic fibrosis, May 10
- frustrating sculpture, Oct 11
- idea for, May 7
- memory, May 16
- music, May 10
- perfect moments, May 11
- redundancy of watches, May 11
- sternum shape, Oct 11
- teeth, May 10
- wardrobe, May 10
9
- 9/9/99
- not likely to cause computer problems, Sep 15
A
- Abortion
- religious hypocrisy about, Sep 1
- Advertising
- Affect
- Agave
- current shortage of, Dec 27
- Ambigrams
- Anagrams
- Anderson, Laurie
- dream about, Aug 11
- source of song lyric, Sep 21
- Annoying people
- Ants
- discovery of formic acid in space, Jul 8
- Appetite
- doubling for no apparent reason, Jan 28
- no good stimulants for, Aug 3
- seeking stimulants for, Jul 31
- Arco, Bob
- Art
see Magritte, Rene
- body/mind/psyche, Jun 24
- face painting, Oct 30
- Giacometti, Alberto, Oct 11
- Rickey, George, Aug 28
- Astronomical events
- Austin, Debbie
- Author's Journal
- lipstick-stained condom, Nov 2
- A Void
- and the Oulipo, Jul 11
- delight in, Jul 5, 19; Dec 7
- dissatisfaction with cover art, Jul 4
- poems in, Jul 24
- purchase of, Apr 18
- Awards
- Inappropriate Music Appropriation, Apr 12
- Useless Product of the Season, Apr 17
B
- Babies, Brainie
- Resch sets record retiring, Jun 29
- Baker, Kyle
- I Die at Midnight, Dec 31
- Ballard, J.G.
- Barden, Paul
- introduction to, Jun 30
- Miss Sparkle Brickettes, Jul 4
- picture of, Jun 30
- Barry, Lynda
- Cruddy, Dec 1
- taping CD, Jul 16
- writing exercise and, Dec 1
- Batteries
- ill-fitting rechargeables, Jul 5
- Bears
- alienation from, Mar 10, 18
- bear and dog paw prints, Apr 23
- Cheap Trick's drummer, Sep 23
- degrees of separation, Jul 15
- effect of comparisons of self to, Aug 18
- evolution of, Mar 9; Sep 24
- Felix's beard conversation, Oct 31
- guitar shop bear, Jun 9
- list of identifying characteristics, Mar 9
- noticing local beards, Dec 3
- pondering Web page availability, Apr 12
- Purity Test, Aug 19, 24, 27; Sep 15, 22; Dec 15, 21
- and standards of beauty, Oct 6
- Berries
- Bicycling
- antitheft rules, Feb 4
- Corvallis public transport and, Aug 18; Dec 16
- cyclist rage, Feb 13
- difficulty aligning brake pads, May 23
- hand signals, Nov 17
- in Bald Hill park, Apr 11
- light theft, Feb 4
- losing lock, Dec 16
- minor accident, May 24
- shifters replaced, Sep 27-28
- Vigilante Bike Cop, Sep 24, 26
- Bill-bill
- Birthday
- age in days, Sep 20
- celebrating my, Sep 20
- Blotto
- on One Way Records, Feb 17
- Books
see A Void
- A for Anything, Jan 24
- American Bikers, Mar 10
- Cities in Flight, May 7
- Clock of the Long Now, The, Sep 21; Dec 2
- Complete Idiot's Guide to Being Psychic, The, Sep 19
- Cruddy, Dec 1
- Dancing Wu Li Masters, The, Dec 3
- Dark Sun, Mar 6-7
- Design Patterns, Dec 2
- Deep Time, Sep 23-24
- Diaspora, May 7, 18
- Dune & Herbert's works, Mar 26
- Elements of Typographic Style 2nd Edition, The, Nov 3, 11, 16
- Evolution of Cooperation, The, Dec 26
- How Buildings Learn, Dec 18
- Ingathering, Nov 24
- Inmates are Running the Asylum, The, Nov 16, 18-19
- J.G. Ballard, Jan 19-20
- Kirinyaga, Dec 14
- Le Ton beau de Marot, Jan 18, 30
- Little Knowledge, A, Jun 14
- Love & Sleep, May 15
- Lyre of Opheus, The, Nov 18
- making, Nov 2
- Mother of Storms, Oct 24
- Motion of Light in Water, The, Dec 3
- Not Wanted on the Voyage, Sep 14
- Oregon Experiment, The, Dec 2
- Pattern Language, A, Dec 2
- Queen of Angels, Nov 19; Dec 21, 25, 29
- Re/Search series, Jan 19
- Rebel Angels, The, Nov 18; Dec 7
- Running Wild, May 25
- Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure, Oct 4
- Starlight 2, Oct 5
- odor of cigarettes, Aug 3
- Teranesia, Nov 16-17
- Teeth, Oct 2
- Transparent Society, The, Jan 31; Feb 1-3
- Unlimited Dream Company, The, Oct 30
- Year's Best SF, Jun 12, 15, 20
- Bookstores
- Blackberry's closing, Jan 19, 21-23
- Book Bin's cat being cute, Sep 20
- dangers of browsing, May 23, 25
- Powell's, Apr 18-19
- Boredom
- difference from ennui, Nov 17
- extreme, Oct 1
- Bow Wow Wow
- on One Way Records, Feb 17
- Bowl
- Brady Bunch, The
- similarity of decor to Glacier's parents' house, Jul 15
- Britcoms
- reappearing actors in, Oct 23
- Bumper stickers
C
- Cairn
- mysterious appearance of, Feb 19
- Calligraphy
- Car Talk
- bad answer to puzzle, Feb 13
- Cary (the Faerie)
- picture of, Jun 30
- introduction to, Jun 30
- visit, Jun 29
- Card, Orson Scott
- Catalogs
- Levenger's vs. stationery, Nov 16
- CDs
- database, Oct 11
- inserts for, Dec 3
- pondering "Words and Music 2", Jun 23
- "The Look of Lurv" song list, Mar 25
- Censorship
- Cereals
- Charity
- Children
- entering age of, Sep 20
- forbidden topic, Sep 22
- Gray, Spalding, on, Sep 22
- Hicks, Bill, on, Aug 31
- Lucas, George, on, Jun 8
- reason for having considered, Nov 17
- Christmas
- deflating Santa & reindeer, Dec 21
- depression during, Dec 22
- hideous foam and pasta decoration, Jul 15
- Holiday Charity Stalker, Nov 20, 26, 29; Dec 7, 10, 16
- prematurely decorated stores, Sep 16
- scary santas, Sep 16
- Cleaning
- as a way of avoiding other work, Jan 17
- organizing computer data, Nov 28-29; Dec 1, 9
- unexpected benefits of, Jan 17
- Comics
- Baby Sue: economy, Apr 29
- Beanworld, Tales of the, Oct 11
- Bloom County vs. Doonesbury, Mar 28
- Cynicalman: real cynicalmans, May 27
- Doonesbury: Archie award, Apr 2
- Hepcats cancellation, Jan 22
- Leonard and Larry, Jul 22; Oct 22
- manga, Aug 6
- reaction to The Boondocks, Jul 11
- Sylvia: anthrax, Feb 27
- Zippy the Pinhead: Symbol-minded, Nov 28
- Coming out
- Computers
see Technology; Cooper, Alan
- Concentration
- Cooking
see Grabbers, pickle
- bought pressure cooker cookbook, Sep 16
- egg custard, Dec 30
- lemon pudding, Oct 2
- missing pressure cooker rack, Jun 16; Oct 2, 28
- pressure cooker blowout, Jun 14
- search for dessert cups, Sep 27-28
- search for pressure cooker plug, Jun 15
- search for pressure cooker rack, Sep 28; Oct 2
- trying new pressure cooker recipes, Jun 16
- Cooper, Alan
- About Face, Dec 25
- hunt for article by, Nov 19-20, 22
- Inmates are Running the Asylum, The, Nov 16, 18-19, 27
- on data entry, Dec 26
- on design, Nov 19; Dec 25
- revised File menu, Dec 26
- Coöperation
- building community, Dec 7
- and computer interaction, Dec 26
- gypsies and, Dec 7
- in relationships, Dec 26
- Internet and, Dec 7
- Correspondence
- alphabetic letter, Nov 11-23
- anagrams, Nov 17
- Bigg Letterr, Dec 3
- converting to Word Pro, Jun 14
- Dingleberry, Sep 30
- enough to make a book, Oct 8
- experiments in, May 16; Jul 11, 17, 19; Sep 26; Nov 16
- filing, Jan 17
- flexagons, Jul 11; Aug 25
- guide to Star Wars cards, Dec 13
- inconsiderateness in, Sep 7
- indexed, May 16
- indexing this year's, Dec 3, 9-11
- joys of, Apr 6
- lessons learned from Dec 30
- letter-writing as marathon, Oct 2
- mailing, Sep 27
- meaning of handwritten, Jun 29
- outgrows folder, May 17
- poor proofreading, Dec 11
- postage due, Jul 11
- printing, Jan 9, 20; Feb 4-5, 16; Mar 31; Jun 26; Aug 16, 22, 28; Sep 15, 23
- redesign considered, Dec 29
- ruining lighters, Dec 13
- superiority of your, Jun 29; Aug 29; Nov 16
- Corvallis
- murder in, Oct 20
- population passes 50K, Aug 31
- Court, U.S. Supreme
- Cows
- Cuttler, Brian
- Cystic fibrosis
D
- Dali, Salvador
- paranoiac-critical method, Jul 5; Oct 9
- Dan & Matthew
- CDs from, Nov 26
- picture of, Nov 26
- visit, Jan 31
- Dangerous visions
- "The Day Charlie Brown Got Cancer", Dec 16
- "Freebie", Sep 20
- on writing, Sep 20; Nov 18
- Databases
- unusual behavior of, Dec 21
- Dating
- lack of local opportunity, Feb 9; Apr 22
- Davies, Robertson
- Cornish trilogy, Nov 16, 18; Dec 7
- Death & dying
- Deeds
- Depression
- around Christmas, Dec 22
- concern about Bob's, Dec 3
- reasons for, Oct 3, 14
- strategies for coping, Feb 10
- Design
see Cooper, Alan
- examples of poor, Sep 28; Oct 6
- subculture of, Nov 27; Dec 2
- DEVO
- alleged origin of song lyrics, Jan 26
- Diabetes
- anagrammatic grooks, Apr 26
- blood sugar numbers, Apr 25
- other's misperceptions of, Apr 15-16
- unexpected consequences of, Apr 25
- worries about, Apr 13
- Diary
- definition of, Mar 28
- entries, May 18; Sep 24; Oct 3
- Dick, Philip K.
see Babies, Brainie
- hypergraphia, Sep 26
- referred to in eXistenZ, Jun 4
- referred to in Dr. Adder and Teranesia, Nov 17
- Ubik and a dream, Jun 25
- Dis···land
- mixed feelings about trip, Oct 4, 25
- Dogs
- mandatory ownership in Missoula, Jul 15
- thoughts on, Aug 10
- Doubletalk
see Phrase of the Day
- "human resource endowments", Apr 25
- "passed", May 11
- Dream journal
- abandoned seduction, Sep 23
- ALASAKA criminals, Oct 12
- alien slugs, Dec 9
- Anderson, Laurie, on Saturday Night Live, Aug 11
- apartment robbed, May 18
- avoiding zombies, Dec 1
- Ballardish crystallization, Nov 3
- bank and mashed winged lizard, Jun 16
- basement gay bar, Dec 31
- big bunny, Sep 27
- bridge over marsh, Nov 27
- British royalty, Dec 18
- burial on a gas giant's moon, Jun 25
- coed college dorm, Nov 16
- conducting "Harmonielehre", May 2
- crossing Albany by car, Aug 26
- crossing Albany on foot, Aug 12
- cruising at a pot luck, Sep 24
- "Deluthon", Dec 14
- Dewar flask, Apr 27
- DiFranco, Ani, kissed by, Oct 24
- Dunnahoo, Wesley, discussing film script, Dec 5
- dream within a dream, Apr 11
- east coast visit with camouflage cats, Oct 27
- Eno, Brian, Dec 28
- faux postal worker punks, Dec 28
- fighting everyone, Oct 25
- fired from MS tech support, Feb 22
- first day at community college, Aug 27
- flattening metal hand, Dec 10
- fragments, Aug 25
- frustrating grade school, Dec 12
- gallant kiss, Aug 14
- gas leak, Dec 29
- gay Southern farmer, Sep 8
- Glacier's flattop, Jun 8
- Goat as mayor, Mar 5
- handgun?, Aug 29
- high school classmate, Jun 25
- horrifying animate objects, Jun 13
- house of the dead, Feb 7
- intimate Residents concert, Sep 14
- Jedi knight in training, Dec 13
- Karen's party, Oct 30
- Kelly & Steve at my grandmother's, Sep 9
- large lizards, Aug 30
- lesbians, Feb 5
- Le Guin mystic, Mar 7
- Leonard and Larry, Jul 22
- Little House on the Mall, Sep 22
- Love and Rockets cartoons, Mar 1
- manga editor, Aug 28
- manifesting deer, Sep 11
- moon falling, Aug 15; Sep 27
- multiple replay film noir, Feb 24
- music for Post Bros., Nov 17
- naked on first day of job, Feb 22
- Nazi vitamins, Nov 19
- nursing home resident, Jun 25
- parent's house sea-bound, May 23
- Pope, seeing the, Nov 17
- pre-WWII European servant, Apr 27
- psychedelic stickers, Aug 26
- Randi -- Love and Rockets/Christmas, Dec 5
- Ravin, Ed, in Boston, Dec 14
- reading Cordwainer Smith, Sep 1
- renovated basement, Jun 25
- returning a book, Sep 24
- Reynolds, Burt, Dec 13
- ride disappears, Dec 28
- ride from Scott Thompson, Oct 18
- sabretooth sponge, May 10
- Scotland movie, Sep 6
- scuba diving with Idi Amin, Apr 13
- selling Titanic videos, May 10
- sharing a bed, Jun 25
- skull with tiny teeth, Dec 31
- sloth, Feb 5
- Spalding Gray story, Dec 3
- spraying skunk, Jun 19
- standardized tests, Dec 22
- Star Wars: Death Star III, May 20
- Star Wars: bazaar ship, Dec 9
- state worker birthday, Sep 6
- stuck in the Soviet Union, Apr 22
- talk with Prof. Garvin, Nov 21
- taking pothos cuttings, Oct 3
- teal dog retrofuture, Aug 2
- terrorist wedding, Nov 24
- tiger, Feb 5
- TOPS80, Jul 23
- travel dreams, Sep 27
- trying to get home, Dec 24
- Vegas with family, Oct 30
- visiting HS calculus teacher, Nov 2
- volcano blocking road, Dec 30
- waiting in airport, Aug 14
- Westchester sights, Sep 6
- "What Sucks in El Paso", Aug 2
- work: NSA crossed with DSS, Jun 14
- woodchuck with salmon, May 18
- xenoanthropologist, Mar 24-25
- xenocultural triumph, Jul 24
- Drug testing
- Dunnahoo, Wesley
- film script dream, Dec 5
- email from, Apr 20; May 2
- picture of, Apr 20
- Dykes, Ken
- Web site update scripts, Dec 11
E
- Easter eggs
- Email
- Eno, Brian
see Music
- Enthusiasm
- long-term waning of, Nov 1
- Environment
- overpackaging, Jan 12, 20
- Envy
- of Drum & his boyfriend, Feb 9
- Erotic accouterments
- must fit the person, Nov 17
- Etymology of the Day
- "Frankenstein", Aug 13, 15, 17
- "mosquito", Jun 1
- "short sharp shock", Dec 26
- Euthanasia, voluntary
F
- Fainting
- in movie theaters, Jun 4; Sep 27
- possible connection with illness, Jun 30
- unexpectedly, Jan 29; Apr 15; Dec 26
- Family
see Genealogy
- future of, Sep 7
- informed about health worries, Nov 20
- surprise at mother's reading, Aug 31
- Farm, the
- effects on dreams, Nov 16
- grazing on, Sep 27
- Fear
- dealing with, Mar 18
- mantras against, Mar 26
- Fertility
- Festival, Scandinavian
- and Fudge Puppies, Aug 14
- Film noir
- The Case of the Big Letter, Jun 26; Jul 15
- Fish
- Fireworks
- compared with stars, Jul 4
- spinning demons, Jul 4
- Folk music
- Fonts
- dnomaraG typeface, Aug 23
- halfhand typeface, Mar 28, 30-31
- on the Web, May 8
- Forbidden topics
- children, Sep 22
- printing correspondence, Sep 23
- Fountain pens
- generic holiday greeting from Levengers, Jan 11
- Lamy replacement, Apr 2, 27
- missing, Apr 19
- Friends
- lack of shared interests, Jan 28, 30; Mar 9; Jun 19
- Moon Unit Zappa as peer group, Apr 2
- moving away, Jun 26
- talking late with Craig & Karen, May 23
- From Oregon
- complaint about, Jul 17
- dedication of vol. 4 #1, Jul 5
- inspiration of, Jul 5
- posted to friends, Jul 6
- posted to Web, Jul 5
- proofreading Web version, Jul 6
- writing vol. 4 #1, Jun 23; Jul 4-5
G
- Games
- computer pinball, Dec 2, 8
- Grim Fandango, Feb 24; Nov 24; Dec 3, 8
- improving strategy, Dec 5
- karmic messages about, Dec 2
- Neverhood, The, Oct 22-23; Nov 20; Dec 7
- recommendations for computer, Dec 3
- removed from computer, Jan 22; Jun 29; Dec 8
- Gaming
- meeting the gaming group, Jan 9
- playing, Apr 4; Nov 21; Dec 12, 18
- with the Zuckermans, Feb 15
- Gay
see Coming Out
- conflicting gaydar, Oct 3
- "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", Dec 13
- illicit thrills from Omni, Nov 17
- legalization of marriage, Jun 30; Dec 13, 20
- stereotypes in fiction, Oct 4
- "straightening up", Jul 8, 15
- Genealogy
- and my father, Jan 25-6, 29
- Generation W
- chart, Jun 22; Nov 1
- definition of, Jun 22
- GIS
- Glacier
- almost fausted by, Jul 30-31
- cat paints, Nov 21
- kindness of, Jul 30
- opinion of bears, Aug 27
- pH of, Aug 13
- Glass, Philip
- Goat
- and Bill-bill, Dec 24
- changing feelings for, Mar 10; Sep 30; Dec 8
- cynicism about, Dec 13
- difficulty contacting, Jul 30
- health problems, Apr 19; Jun 22-23; Jul 8
- informed about health worries, Nov 20
- and high school reunion, Jun 26
- and Lang Havey, Dec 5, 8-9, 13-14, 18-24, 26, 28
- meaning of satyr necklace, Dec 18
- relationship to Gwyddon, Jul 15; Sep 23, 30; Oct 14
- relation web, Dec 24
- and Short Mt. Sanctuary, Aug 30
- similarity to guy in The Book of Buckskinning, Aug 28
- visit, Feb 17, 27; Mar 1
- worries about, Jan 19, 27; Jul 8
- Goats
- Grabber, pickle
- acquisition of, Jul 15
- uselessness of, May 18
- Grammar peeves
- "hear back from", Jun 29
- "react" as a verb that takes a direct object, Oct 25
- Grandfather
- calligraphy, Jun 30
- wondering about, Dec 18
- Gray, Spalding
- Gremlins
- possible infestation of, May 24
- Grooks
- Gwyddon
- and Goat, Sep 30; Oct 14
- images of, Jul 16
- possibility of meeting, Jun 23, 29
- visit, Jul 8, 11, 15-16
- Gutter
- picture of, Jun 30
- struggle to get fixed, Feb 17; Apr 1; May 3; Jun 26, 30; Jul 1, 6, 11, 15
H
- Hats
- in Jane Siberry's lyrics, Nov 17
- list of, Dec 10
- trying on various, May 13
- Havey, Lang
- and Goat, Dec 5, 8-9
- awkwardness speaking to, Dec 9
- meeting, Jun 20-22
- picture of, Jun 30
- place in beardom's history, Sep 24
- Health
see Appetite, Cystic fibrosis, Fainting, Illness
- auditory oddity, Aug 5; Sep 20
- blood testing, Aug 18
- Catalog of Coughs, A, Nov 17
- COBRA expires, Oct 28
- compressor, Aug 18-19
- considering going on disability, Nov 16
- effects of overdose, Aug 26
- Go Lightly, Aug 18
- good days and bad days, Apr 20; Aug 3
- HIV testing, Jun 14, 29; Jul 22
- hospitalization for intestinal pain, Mar 17, 20
- informed people about worries, Nov 16, 20
- neutron gut-bomb, Mar 18
- Oregon Health Plan, Oct 30
- problems with clean-out, Nov 16
- worries about, Nov 11, 16
- Hicks, Bill
- on advertising, Apr 15
- on children, Aug 31
- on guns, Oct 6
- Hoaxes
- annoyance with email, Aug 24
- Hobbies
- natural radio, Mar 26
- personal train cars, Sep 3
- Hofstadter, Douglas R.
- email to, Apr 11, 18
- translation of Eugene Onegin, Sep 19, 30
- and whirly art, Aug 22
- Holidays
- Anti-Valentine's Day, Dec 18
- Buy Nothing Day, Nov 26
- Independence Day celebration, Jul 4
- National Masturbation Day, May 7
- National Tap Dance Day, May 24
- Homeless
- Horns
- at the Oregon Country Fair, Jul 15
- made of Fimo, Jul 5
- Horror
- natural vs. supernatural, Oct 4
- Horticulture
- Hubbard, Elbert
I
- Ideas
- accurate horoscopes, Nov 17
- ages of life, Oct 8
- alien responsibility for M&M color distribution, Jun 22
- Average Day, Apr 30
- brainwashing detergent, Feb 3
- candy dish of Creon, May 8
- cat Ouija boards, Oct 23
- children allowed to sue irresponsible parents, Oct 8
- God as an obscene phone caller, Sep 24
- Guardian Angle, Aug 18
- High Road/Low Road people, Dec 20
- humor in pornography, Sep 29
- "is that napkin sanitary?", Sep 14
- Jesus & Al Franken, Dec 26
- mandatory drug testing of parents, Oct 6
- moods and ages, Jan 17
- names for residents of different states, Jul 15
- "the other 50 states", Aug 7
- infertility treatment insurance gedankenexperiment, Mar 24
- radio cassette recorders, Aug 29
- religion vs. science, Dec 11
- replaying one's life, Sep 28
- reversible cerebral microlesions, Apr 19
- Sage's Day, Apr 30
- "save the electrons" campaign, Mar 22
- self-reading room, Mar 2
- "The LAX Files", Apr 26
- vibrating showers, Oct 11
- vida lo-cal, la, Dec 6
- video for Crash Test Dummies' "I'm a Dog", Aug 22
- women priests, Dec 11
- Y2K compliant friends and memories, Sep 19
- Y2K compliant guardian angel, Sep 21
- Identity
- essay on the basis of, Aug 23
- "Mark Half" Freudian slip, May 25
- Idioms
see Word of the Day
- "have a bowl", Apr 15
- "scruffian", Apr 22
- "spamanoia", Dec 7
- Illness
see Health
- recovering from, Jan 9; Nov 16
- sick, Nov 11, 17
- soreness from coughing, Nov 17
- Images
see Whirly Art
- 4-coloring puzzle, May 12
- American Bikers: Boss Hogg & Mong, Jun 25
- American Bikers: Mike Smith, Jun 23
- A Void cover art, Jul 4
- Baby Sue: economy, Apr 29
- Barden, Paul, Jun 30
- Beanworld flip-flop tool, Aug 30
- Bear Purity Test logos, Sep 15
- body/mind/psyche, Jun 24
- Buchanan, Jim, Oct 22
- Cary, Jun 30
- chub, Jan 18
- coming out anniversary logo, Mar 7
- Cynicalman: real cynicalmans, May 27
- Dan & Matthew, Nov 26
- dancing Kokopeli, Feb 11
- The Doctors plate, Jul 15
- Doonesbury: Archie award, Apr 2
- drop-down box, Dec 13
- Dunnahoo, Wesley, Apr 20
- flying kite, Mar 7
- Frank on Manhog, Jun 24; Dec 20
- freehand vs. precise knots, Apr 14
- gay/bi longhairs, Dec 11
- Generation W chart, Jun 22
- Goat-like buckskinner, Dec 11
- Goat's relation web, Dec 24
- grandfather's calligraphy, Jun 30
- Grossman, Steve, Oct 21
- gutter, Jun 30
- Gwyddon, Jul 16
- "Half" ambigram, Mar 9
- Half black and white mask, Nov 3
- Havey, Lang, Jun 30
- house of the dead, Feb 7
- "Joan, Come Kiss Me Now", May 29
- knotted ring, Aug 23
- letter printing diagram, large, Sep 23
- letter printing diagram, small, Sep 15
- M-for-Mardi graphic, Nov 3
- "Mardi" ambigrams, Mar 20, 22-23
- melted knot, Apr 19
- mole, Jan 18
- New Carissa bow, Mar 7
- psychedelic Half photo, May 5
- relation inclination triangle, Oct 19
- relation web, Oct 17
- revision history, linear, Dec 25
- revision history, tree, Dec 25
- Ryland's ring knot, Mar 31
- Schwartz, Paul, Sep 14
- simple tutorial knot, Mar 24
- spin and gravity, Nov 21
- Star Wars model builders, May 17
- Sylvia: anthrax, Feb 27
- timestamp, Aug 28
- triangle proof diagrams, Oct 27
- "Les Vacances de Hegel", Jun 5
- Voluntary Human Extinction Movement logo, Sep 24
- Will Work for Fools, Apr 13
- Infertility
- Internet
- as a danger to self-esteem, Aug 18
- New York Times' negative coverage of, Aug 29
- realization of non-addiction to, Jul 30
- Itch
J
- Jarry, Alfred
- "The Passion Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race", Feb 16
- Job hunting
- interviews, Sep 29; Nov 1, 22; Dec 7
- mental tricks for, Aug 28
- not moving for, Aug 31
- refusing drug test, Sep 16
- uselessness of résumés, Sep 7
- Journal writing
- and hypergraphia, Sep 26
- importance of, Sep 14
- miscellaneous life documentation, Sep 14
- related reading, Sep 14
- and the Web, Nov 17
- Journeys
- aborted Atlanta trip, Jun 29
- aborted Portland trip, Oct 18
- aborted Seattle trip, Oct 6-7, 18, 20-21
- Alsea Falls with Glacier, Paul, and Wulf, Aug 5
- Bend to rescue Glacier, Aug 10
- coast with Torsten, Mar 7
- Crater Lake with Torsten, Jun 1
- Montana with Glacier, Jul 11, 15
- Portland with Randi, Apr 2
- Junk mail
K
- Kites
- Bad Boy broken, May 24; Aug 15; Sep 7; Dec 26
- flying Cody, Aug 18
- flying Revolution, May 24
- flying Skynasaur, Aug 18
- Knots
- Korzybski, Alfred
L
- Lamp, lava
- strange behavior, Apr 30; May 1-3
- Language
see Grammar peeves
- -ical words, Apr 12
- adding -able to words, Aug 28
- Christian Preposition Malformation Syndrome, Sep 14
- "killer" as a positive word, Sep 15
- mangling, Jan 17
- missing word, Dec 10
- pronouncing written words, Dec 3
- rhetoric, Oct 17
- use of doubled single quotes, Jan 28
- Leaks
- spontaneous development in cola cans, Mar 28
- Library
- appreciation of, Sep 22; Oct 1
- interlibrary loan books, Dec 22
- temporary closing of, Dec 13
- Lindbergh kidnapping
- discovery of files on, Jul 15
- Lists
- hats, Dec 10
- inspiring things, Jan 27
- overused advertising ideas, Nov 1
- things I like and dislike, Dec 7
- things to despise, May 23
- types of software, Nov 17
- unfinished tasks, Apr 13
- Literature
- children's, Sep 14
- "Cymbeline", Aug 31
- fantasy & world-building, Feb 7
- Greek playwright preference, Oct 25
- language in "Henry IV, Part 1", Sep 30
- "Lysistrata", Aug 30
- "Medea", Mar 20
- Theban trilogy, Apr 15
- Oresteian trilogy, Feb 7,8
- Long Now
- Los Angeles
- Lost
- picture of Goat, Dec 11
- Thrint gloves, Dec 8
- tie-dye hat, Dec 10
- Love
- bad handling of its end, Dec 31
- destructive, as a literary subject, Dec 30
- questioning search for, Jul 22
- rules for dealing with loss of, Dec 26
- Lucas, George
- on rearing children, Jun 8
M
- Magritte, Rene
- relation to The Body Project, Jul 5
- similarity of name to "Margrite", Mar 20
- Mardi
- Marketing
- lack of ethics in, Mar 25
- Mathematics
see Relation Inclination Triangle
- Media
- television compared to real life, Apr 6
- thoughts about Time, Feb 16
- Memory
- failures of, Dec 19, 21
- techniques for dealing with, Dec 23
- tricks of, Dec 3, 27
- Microsoft
- at last judgment, Jul 6
- findings in antitrust case, Nov 16
- Missing Persons
- anagrams of, Feb 23
- on One Way Records, Feb 17
- Movies
see Star Wars
- Army of Darkness, Jan 15
- Being John Malkovich, Nov 24, 27; Dec 1, 10, 15
- Bug's Life, A, Aug 22
- Deep Impact, Mar 6
- Election, Aug 4
- eXistenZ, Jun 4, 29
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Feb 6
- Groundhog Day, Feb 24
- Haunting, The, Nov 27
- horror in, Jun 29
- Matrix, The, May 23, 25; Jun 4, 29; Jul 11
- meaning of James Bond titles, Oct 7
- Natural Born Killers, Jul 1
- Plan 9 from Outer Space, Dec 2-3
- Reform School Girls, Sep 5
- Simple Plan, A, May 5
- Spike & Mike's Animation Celebration, Jun 23
- Starship Troopers, Sep 27-28
- South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut, Sep 27-28
- Tea with Mussolini, Nov 26
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Sep 8
- Thirteenth Warrior, The, Sep 14; Nov 19, 24
- Touch of Evil, Jan 13
- Tron, Mar 6
- Twelve Monkeys, Jan 9
- Waking Ned Devine, May 13
- Yellow Submarine, Sep 14
- Moving
- no plans to, Jan 17; Aug 31
- thoughts about, Jun 16
- Mnemonic
- for my phone number, May 2
- Music
- aging gracefully, Aug 16
- Bach, P.D.Q.'s "Prelude to Einstein on the Fritz", Oct 11
- Blotto on the Web, Sep 14
- buying classical music, Sep 5; Oct 25
- CDs from Dan & Matthew, Nov 26
- Costello, Elvis & The Brodsky Quartet's The Juliet Letters, Feb 16
- Cramps, The's Bad Music for Bad People, Jul 16
- Crash Test Dummies' A Worm's Life, Jun 30; Aug 20
- Doors, The's "Light My Fire", Sep 6; Dec 7
- Eno, Brian's, "The River", Nov 17
- Eno, Brian & Jon Hassell's Fourth World volume 1: Possible Musics, Mar 20
- King Missile, "The Commercial", Dec 13
- King Missile, "Detachable Penis", Dec 16
- Resident, The, "Shorty's Lament", Jan 18; Dec 30
- Riley, Terry's The Harp of New Albion, Oct 25
- rounds, May 29
- They Might Be Giants' surrealist imagery, Mar 23
- XTC's Apple Venus Volume 1, Mar 31; Jun 23
- Musicals
- Webber & Rice vs. Sondheim, Jan 17
N
- Names
- mistaken, Sep 27
- oddity of personal associations, Jun 17; Oct 18
- of days of the week, Sep 14; Nov 16
- Neighbors
- change of, Aug 8; Nov 16; Dec 31
- lady and cynicalman friend, May 27
- meeting new, Sep 23
- moving out, Aug 4; Dec 31
- mistaken names of, Sep 27
- radio interference from, Nov 17
- Neighborhood
- association, Sep 29
- condominium plans, Jul 17-18; Aug 13; Sep 29
- Mr. Bun, Apr 25; May 3
- mysteries of, Aug 24, 26
- on knowing people, Jun 26
- police, Dec 16
- railroad tracks, Jun 23
- similarity to River City, Jun 22
- street repair, Oct 22
- Nespeco, Tom
- NPR
- deception by, Oct 6
- pledge week, Oct 5
- Residents music heard on, Dec 10
- silliness of New Dimensions, Dec 3
- useless breaks during Fresh Air, Jul 31
O
- Objects
see Pack rat syndrome
- Old News
- Omni
- One Way Records
- rescues artists from oblivion, Feb 17
- Oregon
- Oregon Country Fair
- description of, Jul 15
- upcoming, Jul 5
- Oregon Folk Life Festival
- Oulipo
- lipogrammatic writing, Jul 5, 19; Dec 2
- text manipulation methods, Jul 11
P
- Pac-man
- Pack rat syndrome
- and the deceased, Jul 15
- Martha Stewart and, Apr 15
- Party
- Halloween potluck, Oct 30
- Patience
- Phrase of the Day
see Doubletalk
- "chromatically enhanced", Sep 23
- "the highbrains, drybrains", Dec 7
- Phrases
- "Alice blue", Oct 3
- "that would be sad", Nov 18
- "The map is not the territory", Oct 3
- Physics
- Ping, the
- Pirates
- glamorization of, Nov 17
- and postmodernism, Nov 17
- Pizza
- Poetry
- "A Call to Gut", Mar 25
- anagrammatic diabetes grooks, Apr 26
- other's bad, Dec 23
- rhythm and rhyme in, Jun 29
- "To an Unborn Mole", Mar 31
- translations of "A une Damoyselle malade", Jan 18
- writing the mole poem, Jan 18, 28; Feb 11-12, 15; Mar 10, 20, 31
- Politics
- anti-flag-burning amendment, Jun 24
- called legislators about anti-flag-burning amendment, May 7
- cynicism about contradictions in Oregon legislature, May 18
- impeachment, Jan 19; Feb 8, 12
- mushroom bill, Jun 21
- Oregon definition of marriage, May 25
- Supreme Court strangeness, Jun 24
- Watergate memories, Apr 2
- Postmodernism
- incomprehensibility of, Jul 5
- and pirates, Nov 17
- satirized in Teranesia, Nov 17
- Programming
- annoyed with, Jul 20
- annoying Javascript redirect, May 17
- for Glacier, Dec 13
- interface design, Dec 13
- Java fortune cookie, Apr 4
- many approaches to, Oct 8
- shipping rate calculator, May 3-5
- WebCapture, Jul 1-2, 6; Oct 11, 14; Dec 11
- Projects
- scanning Hippie Dick!, Apr 27-30
- list of unfinished, Apr 13
- Protocols
- cryptographic, Aug 27
- key exchange, Aug 27
- timestamping, Aug 27-28; Sep 6, 8, 10
- Proverbs
- "Allah may love...", May 6
- "The best fighting...", Apr 22
- "Every knot...", May 12
- "Few desires...", Aug 23
- from Moon over Morocco, Apr 4
- "He who eats...", May 7
- "Often the best way...", Aug 18
- "A strainer is...", Jun 15
- Proustian madeleines
- Brian Eno's Before and after Science recalls ham radio interference, Mar 23
- Pudding
- am I missing, Jun 16
- appeal to, Jun 22
- code word for adventure, Jun 1
- Puzzles
Q
- Questions
- existence of exsulation, Oct 8
- most important event in last year, Jan 24; Nov 21
- noise during sex, Nov 16
- reason for brain convolutions, Jul 23
- soil of wit, Dec 16
R
- Reading
- giving up on boring books, Aug 6
- Heinlein and parentheses, Sep 14
- passing last year's amount of, Nov 20
- Shakespeare, Jan 14; Feb 12; Jul 28; Dec 1
- size of pending book queue, Jul 29
- trickiness of semi-autobiography, Sep 30
- Reagan, Ronald
- Receipt
- for test strips found, Aug 31
- Reflections
- on giving unwanted advice, Apr 19
- Relation web
- creation of, Oct 17
- incompleteness of, Oct 18
- Relation Inclination Triangle
- Residents, The
- concert in Portland, Apr 18
- heard on NPR, Dec 10
- ideal prop for concert, Jul 15
- intimate dream concert, Sep 14
- mole and chub, Jan 18
- Resolutions
- 1997's, Dec 31
- focus on reading, Dec 30
- for next year, Dec 30
- New Year's, Jan 11-12, 14, 18-19, Jul 17; Aug 25; Dec 22, 26
- year end evaluation, Dec 30-31
- Restaurants
- Revenge
- for delicata seeding, Feb 4
- practical joke escalation, Jun 3; Sep 16; Dec 11
- Riddles
- Roses
- petals in envelope, Jun 25
- Routine
S
- Santa
- Sap
- satisfactory luncheon, Dec 16
- Satisfaction
- Schwartz, Paul
- picture of, Sep 14
- trip to Alaska, May 25, 29; Sep 14
- Science fiction
- Scientific American
- Damasio's book reviewed, Nov 1
- future of intelligence, Nov 1
- Secrets
- problems keeping, Apr 30; Sep 30
- Separation, degrees of
- among gay longhairs, Jul 15
- from Tim Barela, Jul 22
- Sex
- definition of cruising, Jun 20
- mapping locations of, Dec 22
- three month cycle, May 16; Dec 28
- Shakespeare, William
see Reading
- Shoes
- Single
- friends who are happy being, Dec 18
- Sleep
- desire to shift schedule, Dec 10
- Slime mold
- disappointed by, Dec 23
- discovery of, Dec 15
- identification of, Dec 26-27
- Smith, Jim (a.k.a. Myth)
- relationship with, Jun 18
- scent of, Aug 5
- Software
- bloatware, Nov 19
- list of types, Nov 17
- restrictive license agreements, Nov 17
- surreptitious information leaks, Nov 2
- version control problems, Dec 25
- Sonnets
- Shakespeare's 51st, Jun 20, 26
- Speculations
- on creativity, Jul 15
- on cystic fibrosis and teeth, Dec 27
- on journal writing, Apr 26
- on my potential weirdness, Mar 10, 28
- random, Jan 17
- Spoonerisms
- numberals, Mar 2
- glandular intimacy, Apr 1
- Squeeze
- finally re-released on CD, Feb 18
- Stalking
- proposed guide for confused romantics, Feb 4
- Star Trek
- new animated series proposal, Dec 18
- Star Wars
see Lucas, George
- affect on answering phone, Jul 6
- cards, Dec 13
- cynical thought about timing, May 2
- Death Star III dream, May 20
- growing disappointment with series, May 12; Jul 11
- Jedi knight dream, Dec 13
- Phantom Menace hoopla, May 12; Jun 15
- planets seen in, Aug 30
- thoughts on Phantom Menace, Jul 11
- royalty payments for dreams, May 20
- using stickers, Aug 29
- woofy men on trading card, May 17
- Statistics
- Stewart, Martha
- Sweeney, Julia
- God Said Ha!, Jul 2; Aug 7; Dec 25
- on Clinton impeachment, Feb 12
- Web site, Jul 2
T
- Tattoos
- ridiculousness on me, Sep 21
- rules for, Jul 5
- Taxes
- Technology
see Software
- benefits of Amishness, Nov 17
- dangers of, Mar 29
- delightful moments with, Sep 14
- inevitability of errors in, Oct 3
- lack of patience with, Aug 7
- new PC, Sep 20, 24
- problems with, Jul 24-5, 28-31; Aug 3-8, 11, 15-18, 20, 22, 26; Sep 2, 5; Oct 2, 6, 20-22, 26-27; Dec 2
- questionable reliability of time-shifted warnings, Aug 4
- transferring Windows screen savers, Nov 17
- virus, Apr 2
- Teeth
- Telephone
- answering with random greetings, Jul 6; Nov 2
- confusing surveyors, Sep 15
- crossed call, Sep 18
- interest in vintage, Jun 19
- Tequila
see Agave
- and songs about alcohol, Dec 27
- This American Life
- "Fatty Suit", May 12
- "Hands on a Hard Body", Sep 8
- Infiltration 'zine, Oct 3
- selling, Jun 30
- "The Test", Sep 8
- allegedly "very special" episode, Oct 6
- Thunder
- rarity in Willamette Valley, Feb 7
- Tiresias
- horror of being like, 21 Feb
- Translation
- Trespassing
V
- Vegetarianism
- lack of meat-based soy substitutes, Aug 6
- Vocabulary
- advantage of having a good, Dec 12
- "aporetic", Jul 23
- "blandishment", Nov 16
- "conduce", Nov 16
- "darling", May 16
- "detent", Mar 5
- "exiguous", Nov 16
- "fall", Jul 4
- "feculence", Mar 5
- "minatory", Nov 16
- "naif", Mar 5
- "palimpsest", Nov 17
- "parvenu", Mar 5
- "perfervid", Jun 14
- "picaresque", Nov 17
- "Pythic", Mar 6
- "sesquipedalian", Apr 22
- "slattern", Apr 1
- "ye", Nov 17
- Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
- agreement with goals of, Sep 24
W
- Waitress
- strange behavior of in truck stop, Jun 20
- Waters, Roger
- intense dislike for Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jan 17
- Web site
- automating updates, Dec 11
- creating a knotwork tutorial, Mar 24
- difficulty of updating, Dec 11
- finished BeanWeb, Jun 9
- flacking Beanworld, Nov 2
- gallery revision, Dec 14
- history of, Nov 17
- infertility rant fallout, Mar 21-23
- mole poem, Apr 4
- nature of, Nov 17
- number of hyperlinks, Dec 10
- recognized from, Apr 18
- size of, Feb 11
- Weight
see Appetite
- see Appetite
- reconciliation to, Aug 3
- Wharton, Edith
- disagreements with, Dec 27
- on Joyce & Eliot, Dec 27
- Whirly art
- examples of, Aug 19, 22-23, 28
- list of qualities, Aug 22
- Word Abuse of the Day
- "certificated", Dec 27
- "human capital", Dec 20
- "not best business practice", Dec 16
- "passifying", Aug 25
- "signalization", Dec 27
- "under-resourced", Dec 16
- Word of the Day
see Idioms, Questions, Spoonerisms, Vocabulary, Word Abuse of the Day, Ghost words, Questions
- "abjective", May 1
- "animus", Dec 13
- "begaconcert", Oct 11
- "brainworm", Oct 7
- "bureaucrap", May 20
- "decapritation", Dec 27
- "ecommunist", Aug 13
- "inaggeration", Oct 23
- "lootbeg", Jul 2
- "manic-aggressive", Jul 2
- "retroherence", Oct 9
- "retrohesive", Oct 9
- Word Pro
- divisions, Jun 23
- clipbook, Jun 3
- converting correspondence to, Jun 14
- creating flexagons in, Aug 25
- dictionaries, Dec 13
- em and en dashes, Feb 13
- frames, Sep 14; Oct 25
- macros, Jul 18; Dec 26
- power fields, Aug 31
- spell checker, Jul 4
- wrapping text around graphics, Aug 19
- Words, ghost
see Spoonerisms
- definition of, Oct 6
- "confectious disease", Oct 6
- Workshops
- music improv, Apr 2
- ontological, announcement of, Feb 20
- Writing
see 100 Bones Examined, Author's Journal
- difficulty of writing scientifically accurate SF, Jan 28
- exercise & Lynda Barry, Dec 1
- hypergraphia, Sep 26
- lipogrammatic, Jul 5, 19; Dec 2
- mole poem, see Poetry
- slash fiction, Oct 18
- story ideas, Jan 20, 22-23; Nov 17; Dec 16
- to fit constraints, Feb 16
- use of pocket notebook, Dec 3
X
- X-Files, The
- annoyance with Scully, Dec 5
Z
- ZBS
- listening to, Nov 11
- Mr. Majestic quoted, Sep 27
- new catalog, Dec 10
- Saratoga Springs unreleased, Jun 29
- Zodiac, Chinese
- Zuckerman
- confused by Mysterious SF Shirt, Sep 14
- visit, Feb 12-15
þ
- þ
- evolution of in the word "the", Nov 23
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