What was new on my Web site, 1998-1999

October, 1999:

• Road: A Hymn to the Highway, that great web of pavement tying our continent together... in knots.

July-August, 1999:

• Con From Argo was voted second place in the theme filk contest ("Do It Yourself") at ConCertino '99. It's about the not quite real-life eccentricities of the ConComm (including your humble correspondent).

May 20, 1999:

The results of an overdose of Frank Hayes.
• Little Fuzzy Ancestors. Taking a long view of some short folks.
• Little Fuzzy Vegetables. The next time you hear something calling out to you from the fridge, it might not be that leftover cheesecake.

April 29, 1999:

• The Ballad of Lois Mangan: How I was Sucked into the Bottomless Pit of Filkdom.

April 23, 1999:

• Germs of the Earth. You can fight, but you can't run away.

March 31, 1999:

• For the Passover Seder, the Four Questions in Klingon

Jan. 30, 1999:

• various updates and cleanup on the home page, including convention involvement
• added "Made by Macintosh" graphic at the bottom

Nov. 24, 1998: New "Christmas pickles"

• Deck the Aisles
• Ophidian Carol (Not strictly a pickle, since it isn't sour; but my sister says "Eewww, yuck!" I think it's sweet, in a weird way. YMMV.)

Nov. 1, 1998

• A tune for the rowing song "East of Agamemnon" (Widsith's song) in John Myers Myers's Silverlock, and a fourth verse for it.

Oct. 19. 1998

• New songs:
  • Thinking-Brain Dog
  • The Darwin Awards (Those with delicate sensitivities may wish to avoid this one.)
  • The Wraggle-Taggle Filkers
  • Nobody's Handgun Now
• New stuff in Cracks and Shards

April 24, 1998

• Some changes and additions in Cracks and Shards

April 19, 1998

• My music to "The Hedgehog Song".
• An invitation to sponsor me in this year's Boston AIDS Walk.

March 30, 1998 (but not listed in this "New" file till April 14):

• An HTML version of my version of "The Hedgehog Song", with a separate file of annotations.

March 29, 1998

• A new filksong: "Smoffing the Filkers". Parents, don't let your children grow up to run the filking at conventions.

March 18, 1998

• An index to the major subareas.
• A new filksong, "Sevens". Pigs is pigs. Guinea pigs is even more so.

March 8, 1998

• A new filksong, "Dead Wizards' Houses". I suppose that title could be scary if you don't know Cheryl Wheeler's "Dead People's Houses", but the people who have heard this song think it's funny. That's good, because that's how I intended it.
• Some new odds and ends in Cracks and Shards.

March 1, 1998

I've reorganized my largest subareas:
• In Cracks and Shards, my fan area for Steven Brust's world of Dragaera, I've applied Christopher Davis's excellent organizational suggestions, which I hope will make the area easier to navigate.
• And I've applied some of the same principles to my filk music area, cleaning up the index of my filk songs and chaining the songs themselves together so you can move directly from one to another.

Feb. 25, 1998

• "ASCII-Stokoe Notation: A computer-writeable transliteration system for Stokoe Notation of American Sign Language".
  This is a system I developed in the late seventies so I could make a computer database of Stokoe, Casterline, & Croneberg's Dictionary of American Sign Language. The writeup needs improvement, but I somehow haven't gotten to doing it, and by the number of requests I've had, I think an imperfect presentation is better than none at all.

New Year's Day, 1998

• A whole new area, Cracks and Shards, devoted to Steven Brust's Dragaera. From the Welcome page:

  It is intended for the Brust reader who is interested in details. There are details about time and Houses and other institutions of Dragaera: shards of knowledge, some of which I have assembled into such imperfect wholes as their incomplete state and my incomplete knowledge allow. And there are (real or apparent) contradictions and inconsistencies within the texts: cracks, which I have tried to patch when possible, or expose as real otherwise.