Essays

§1: Books, Music, and Movies

My Favorite Books Here I list, describe, and critique my favorite books (both fiction and nonfiction) and authors.
JRR Tolkien A short essay on how the works of writer JRR Tolkien have effected my life.
H. P. Lovecraft This is a biography and bibliography of my favorite writer of weird and dark fantasy.
My Favorite Music My comments on my favorite music, as well as a few digs on music I don't like.
My Favorite Movies Here I describe some of my favorite movies.

Children Here I speak out about the care and upbringing of children.
Slaughter Of The Innocents About a very disturbing news article I read on 9/5/98

My Personal Philosophy Here I speak out about the things that are the most important to me
Love Here I expound on this most important of all human emotions.

Personality Types An essay on the psychology of personality types. Updated 9-6-2000.
Organized Religion In this essay I expound on the insidious form of mental illness known as "organized religion".
Smoke Sucking All about the most horrible drug problem the human race has ever faced.
Television Television was originally invented as an educational tool and a news source. But it is mostly used as a drug, instead.

The Mandelbrot Set and Julia Sets A brief essay on these fascinating highly-complex mathematical objects.

Public Key Cryptography All about how to exchange secret messages with people! Includes my PGP public key. (Updated: I changed my key early July 2005.)
A Brief History of the Internet The Internet has been around a lot longer than you probably think. Here I present its fascinating history.
A Guide To Web-Site Building Pointers on writing your own web site. Updated January 28, 2003.
Some Tips For Avoiding Email Disasters A guide on using Internet email. It especially covers what not to do.
Internet Relationships This is about Internet-based interpersonal relationships. It covers the joys and opportunities, as well as the dangers and pitfalls. I believe that the Internet is not only a good place to meet people, but a good place to form real, lifelong friendships. Too bad most people don't agree with me on this.

Toontown Guide A guide document for playing Disney's ultra-addictive MMORPG, "Toontown Online".