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Welcome to this ever-growing collection of things both silly and serious I feel a need to show and say to you. Explore at will till you find something you like or don't.

If you missed it, here's the first place I offer you a dollar.

Who I am, and why this Web site is

I'm a 65-year old science student located somewhere within reach of you. My hobbies include grump-baiting, frottage and echolalia, and I'm the emergency backup president of Albania of Albania.

~~Catchphrase: "My only flaw is modesty."~~ Catchphrase: "A bad person makes a worse U.S. president."

But none of that matters. What matters is that the purpose of this Web site is to entertain or engage or maybe even momentarily entrance you one way or another, no matter how hard I have to try. After reading how natural it is to navigate this site, at right, you might want to see what else is on this Home page, then branch off into whatever interests you. If I'm doing this right you can't go wrong.

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Guestbook

The guestbook turned out to be more interesting than I would have thought when I instituted it in late 1996. To be sure, many of the entries are banal and some are inscrutable. Some are complimentary and many are, well, not. And a few are worth reading.

As of July of 2006 the guestbook is no longer accepting new entries because of spam-bots, but all the entries till then are still available.

Pay me
four dollars
and I'll put your
message here.
(Make it five
and I'll put it in italics.)

Do
not
click
here.

You're not going to believe this,
but you are visitor number
0000017
to this exact page,
which means you win!
Congratulations.

Here is a list of some of the pages of this site you can expect will be updated.

Crossword Cute Clues
Free speech headlines
Beat the lottery
Words
Claims adjuster
Crossword errors
North of Canada
and of course, Fun Pix.

Here are two unpaid ads that are worthwhile if you want what they offer.

techinterpreter.com (sister-in-law)
O'Riada Manning Academy of Irish Dance (friend)

Projects

Most of the pages on this Web site are fairly short, such as so many of the ones listed on the Fun Pix page. But over the years I have taken on a few projects that I've published here, long pieces involving dozens of hours in some cases and many hundreds in others. Below is a list of some of those projects.

Notably missing is the collection of my many spreadsheets, which is a project I'm still working on presenting to you.

● Droid smartphone
If you own a 2012-era Droid smart phone -- and who does anymore? -- here's a lot of information I'll bet you wish you knew.

● Microsoft FSX
If you own Microsoft's Flight Simulator version X (FSX) -- as many hundreds of thousands of people happily still do -- here's a lot of information I'll bet you wish you knew.

● Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity is a worthwhile not-for-profit that strives to provide decent housing at a low cost to deserving families. You can read a little more about it as well as my own take on construction site philosophy here.

If you are scheduled to or might ever want to be a volunteer on a Habitat for Humanity construction site, or if you ever just wanted to know how to use a circular saw or set a ladder safely, the How-To Articles contain a lot of information I'll bet you wish you knew.

These hundred pages took about 1,500 hours to create. Each page is designed to be perfectly viewable online and perfectly printable to paper.

● States north of Canada
If you are unsure how many U.S. states are at least partly north of the southernmost point of Canada, here's a lot of information I'll bet you wish you knew.

This one long page with its many outside links has taken me maybe a hundred hours so far to create, and it contains useful information, including a mathematically perfect (and free) spreadsheet that converts various distances, even if you don't care that it also pretty much makes me the world's foremost expert on the subject.

● Mark Manning
If you know who Mark Manning is, here's a lot of information I'll bet you wish you knew.

If you don't, you might be interested to know that this project has taken maybe a couple hundred hours since June 1, 2010, so it's not like I haven't been trying.

● Spreadsheets -- Not yet.

Statement of Y2K Compliance, Privacy Policy

This page was last updated on March 30, 2019,
although other pages are being added or updated constantly.

How to navigate
this site

This Web site consists of only four main pages,

with branches from them.

Some of the branches have twigs, and some of them have twiglets, and some of them intertwine, and they all count. I recommend you click pretty much everything in site, although if you try to experience all of it you'll be here quite awhile, so if you want to set a bookmark, this is where to.

At the top and bottom of almost every page is a navigation bar to those four main pages.

Go here (or click the ? at the top left of any page) to learn everything there is to know about navigating this site, including how to

search this site and
see the site map.

Outline of
Web Site

Home
   E-mail
     Search entire site
   Guest Book
     Habitat for Humanity
   Mark Manning
   Y2K, privacy policy
Stuff
   Three noises, etc.
   Dan Quayle's flag
   IRC
       20 Questions
         Charades
     Words
   Unfair Mensa test
   Beat the lottery
   Odd Poem
     Claims adjuster
     Logical fallacies
   Web sites I like
     North of Canada, etc.
Crossword essay
Fun Pix

Go here for a full-page version of the site map.

Tip: If you aren't enjoying yourself and relaxing here, you aren't doing it right.

Mail Me

If you think you've seen enough (there are over 330 pages so far counting the hundred How-To Articles pages), if you have any comments or questions, or if you want to make any positive, supportive, constructive suggestions (a popular one so far has been "You're site sucks"), .

● Amazon reviews
A few bits of a few of the reviews I've submitted to Amazon are somewhat worthwhile, or so a few readers have said (March 24, 2015: "I actually follow your reviews because you CRACK ME UP!!!!"). But much more interesting are the comments made by the many people who positively hate them.

● YouTube
If you want to see the videos I've uploaded to YouTube, which you really don't, you may. Mostly I was testing how YouTube works, and this will almost certainly be a waste of your time.

● Facebook
FWIW, here's my Facebook page, I think, although so far I still don't understand exactly how to use it and thus don't.

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